Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection just received its first title update. The free update adds a number of new features, including new Game Boy filters for the Game Boy TMNT games, more joystick support for PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X, and best of all, the long-awaited online multiplayer co-op functionality for the best game in the collection, TMNT 4: Turtles In Time.
Besides leaping from the couch to the worldwide interweb, Turtles In Time also received a number of smaller enhancements. New settings let the host player change the number of lives given per virtual coin inserted between one to eight, there are new difficulty options to make things easier to harder depending on how experienced the players are with classic beat 'em ups, and there's a new "special" button assignment that combines the attack and jump buttons (making it easier to pull off certain attacks), and the host can set online multiplayer lobbies to have a maximum number of players (between two and four).
There are a number of other enhancements being given to other titles in the Cowabunga Collection, such as new difficulty options for the OG Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game on the NES, more pages added to the TMNT: Tournament Fighters strategy guides, and a new "automatic" setting that adjusts input lag according to the number of players. There are also a bunch of bug fixes, but for the full breakdown, you'll have to watch developer Digital Eclipse's presentation here.
If you're looking for a more modern take on the Turtles' classic arcade action, might I suggest Shredder's Revenge, now available on Game Pass? And for even more Turtles, expect to receive a new game from Nickelodeon and Paramount coming sometime in 2023. It'll be a "brand-new triple-A" TMNT game, according to previously-released info, but we're still waiting to see what sort of triple-A game it'll be.