Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection Is Getting Delisted In Japan This Month

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection Is Getting Delisted In Japan This Month

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection is getting delisted on Steam in Japan later this month. That’s according to a new “Notice of End of Sales” post on the game’s Steam page. From Friday, March 29, 2024, onward, the game will no longer be available for purchase in Japan on the storefront. 

However, online play will remain available after the game’s delisting, and purchased copies of the collection will remain available for re-download from the Steam store. 

Released less than two years ago on August 30, 2022, on PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, and PC, The Cowabunga Collection getting delisted so soon comes as a shock. However, it’s seemingly only affecting TMNT players in Japan. Game Informer reached out to publisher Konami to ask if there are plans to delist the game outside of Japan and was told it will not be removed from any other store outside of Japan. 

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TMNT: The Cowabunga Collection features the following classic turtles games: 

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Arcade)
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (Arcade)
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES)
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game (NES)
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project (NES)
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (NES)
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles In Time (SNES)
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (SNES)
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist (Sega Genesis)
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (Sega Genesis)
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of The Foot Clan (Game Boy)
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back From The Sewers (Game Boy)
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue (Game Boy)

We loved this roster of games in the collection back in 2022 as it’s nostalgia done right. It also got an excellent nostalgia-packed Collector’s Set that same year, too. If you haven’t jumped into the collection yet, it’s even better now than it was at launch thanks to a post-launch patch that added online co-op to the SNES Turtles in Time game, which is easily one of the best in the turtles’ history. 

TMNT: The Cowabunga Collection will get delisted from Steam in Japan on March 29, 2024. 

For more about everyone’s favorite turtles, check out Game Informer’s exclusive details and screenshots about the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleased, which is a game that continues the story of the animated film, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. 

Have you played Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection? Let us know what you think of it in the comments below!

Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection Is Off To A Rough Star On PC

Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection Is Off To A Rough Star On PC

We learned last month that Aspyr Media was developing Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection, a remastered port combo of Star Wars: Battlefront and Star Wars: Battlefront II, first released in 2004 and 2005 respectively. This collection is now live but it seems the game is having a rough start at launch, especially for PC players. 

The viral tweet below posted to X (formerly Twitter) early this morning is indicative of many of the problems PC players are experiencing with the game: 

Replies to that tweet highlight some of the other issues players are apparently running into: zero options to party up with friends and a lack of expected quality-of-life improvements (@damnitbobbywhy), rubberbanding (@SoCalZork), and more. However, some players are saying the biggest issues, like a low amount of servers and an inability to actually get into matches, were fixed within two hours of launch. 

Over on the Star Wars Battlefront subreddit, dozens of users are posting memes about the game’s launch, discussions about connectivity issues, and more. One user posted a screenshot of them downloading the original Star Wars Battlefront games on Xbox (through backward compatibility) to play instead of this collection, while another says this re-release is “hands down the word video game I have ever paid money for.” It’s clear players on that subreddit are not happy with Aspyr’s Battlefront collection. 

On Steam, the game, which has a price tag of $35.01, has a “mostly negative” rating after 1,407 reviews – 21 percent of the reviews for the game are positive.

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Now, players absolutely have the right to be upset about a $35 game they paid for and are seemingly unable to play at launch, which is doubly unfortunate when it’s clear a lot of these players were excited to jump in right at launch. But, there’s a good chance Aspyr is already working on fixes for the collection and ideally, a week from now, nobody is running into the issues Day One players are experiencing. That’s still not fair to Day One players but if you’re a fan of online games like this, you know rough launches aren’t all that unusual, as unfortunate as they can be. 

Are you experiencing issues in Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection? Let us know in the comments below!