History VideoGame / TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTournamentFighters

A fighting game series by Creator/{{Konami}} based on ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles''. It's a series, not a MultiPlatform release, because even though there are three games with the same name on the UsefulNotes/{{NES}}, UsefulNotes/{{Super NES}}, and UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis, each one is a ReformulatedGame. All were released in 1993.

* AscendedExtra: Various minor characters are actual fighters in games. This goes for April O'Neil and Casey Jones, especially the former in the Genesis version (who was a DistressedDamsel in all the other Turtles games up to this point).

* DemotedToExtra: Rocksteady, Bebop and Baxter Stockman are simple background NPCs when they were main characters in the cartoon.

* DraconicHumanoid[=/=]OurDragonsAreDifferent: Hothead, whom originated from the Archie comics, though his nickname originated from the toyline.

* {{Bowdlerize}}: Funnily enough, the Japanese came out later making this an InvertedTrope!
Aska wears a thong leotard in the aforementioned later Japanese version unlike the full one in the other earlier releases. Her victory animation in the Japanese version also has her breasts jiggling while she raises her arm in victory, whereas in the overseas versions, she uses the same animation pattern as Kunai Spin Attack.
** As a result stemming from an aversion, ''The Cowabunga Collection'' is rated T for "suggestive themes" from the inclusion of the later Japanese release alone[[note]]in comparison, [[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTheArcadeGame the first arcade game]] and ''[[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTurtlesInTime Turtles in Time]]'', also in the collection, were both rated E10+ standalone in their past rereleases[[/note]], making it the fifth ''TMNT'' game, and the fifth Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} video game with the rating following ''[[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 Battle Nexus]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 Mutant Melee]]'' for the Mirage era, and ''[[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesOutOfTheShadows Out of the Shadows]]'', ''[[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMutantsInManhattan Mutants in Manhattan]]'' and [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfKorra the tie-in games of]] ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' and the live-action ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' for Nick (all of which were for their more realistic violence rather than fanservice).

* PromotedToPlayable: In ''Cowabunga Collection'' version, you can set the game to let you play as Triceraton, Krang's Android and Karai. In the original three were formerly unplayable without hacking the game despite early screenshots of the game showing them as playable.

* PromotedToPlayable: In ''Cowabunga Collection'' version, you can set the game to let you play as Triceraton, Krang's Android and Karai. All three were formerly unplayable unless you hack the game.

* ActionGirl: Aska and Karai.

* AscendedExtra: War was just a VillainOfTheWeek whom only appeared in four issues within TMNT Adventures as one of the four HorsemenOfTheApocalypse. War wasn't even the leader of the group, which was [[TheGrimReaper Death]], had little characterization and simply disappeared when the puppet Death [[EvilPuppeteer used to control him]] was destroyed. In this game, War appears as a main character in a ten character roster, with the other Horseman nowhere in sight

* {{Bowdlerize}}: Aska wears a thong leotard in the Japanese version, and a full one in the other releases. Her victory animation in the Japanese version also has her breasts jiggling while she raises her arm in victory, whereas in the overseas versions, she uses the same animation pattern as Kunai Spin Attack. Funnily enough, the Japanese came out later making this an InvertedTrope!
** As a result stemming from an aversion, ''The Cowabunga Collection'' is rated T for "suggestive themes" from the inclusion of the uncensored Japanese release alone[[note]]in comparison, [[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTheArcadeGame the first arcade game]] and ''[[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTurtlesInTime Turtles in Time]]'', also in the collection, were both rated E10+ standalone in their past rereleases[[/note]], making it the fifth ''TMNT'' game, and the fifth Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} video game with the rating following ''[[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 Battle Nexus]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 Mutant Melee]]'' for the Mirage era, and ''[[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesOutOfTheShadows Out of the Shadows]]'', ''[[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMutantsInManhattan Mutants in Manhattan]]'' and [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfKorra the tie-in games of]] ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' and the live-action ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' for Nick (all of which were for their more realistic violence rather than fanservice).

* SharkMan: Armaggon.

* TookALevelInBadass: The Rat King in the 1987 cartoon enacted his evil schemes by mind-controlling rats. Here, he's a straight-up brawler and professional wrestler.

* CanonForeigner: Aska (SNES) and Sisyphus (Genesis) are Konami-created original characters for the games, though Aska was based on from ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIII''.

* AscendedExtra: War was just a VillainOfTheWeek whom only appeared in four issues within TMNT Adventures as one of the four HorsemenOfTheApocalypse. War wasn't even the leader of the group, which was [[TheGrimReaper Death]], had little characterization and simply disappeared when the puppet Death [[EvilPuppetMaster used to control him]] was destroyed. In this game, War appears as a main character in a with the Horseman nowhere in sight

The three games were included in ''[[CompilationRerelease Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection]]'', which was released for all platforms in August 2022.

* CanonForeigner: Aska (SNES), Sisyphus (Genesis) and Hothead (NES) are Konami-created original characters for the games.

* CanonForeigner: Sisyphus the mutant beetle.

* {{Bowdlerize}}: Aska wears a thong leotard in the Japanese version, and a full one in the other releases. Her victory animation in the Japanese version also has her breasts jiggling while she raises her arm in victory, whereas in the overseas versions, she uses the same animation pattern as Kunai Spin Attack.

* FinalBoss: Karai.

* PromotedToPlayable: Just like in case with Sega Genesis version, ''Cowabunga Collection'' allows to unlock Rat King and Karai for SNES version.

* TookALevelInBadass: The Rat King in the 1987 cartoon enacted his evil schemes by mind-controlling rats. Here, he's a straight-up brawler.

* AscendedExtra: Hothead was famous enough to get his own action figure in the 1989 TMNT figure releases (based on his cover appearance).

* CanonForeigner: Hothead, the new character from the game, although he's based on a character from the Archie Comics ''{{ComicBook/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures}}'' series and uses the same yellow color scheme.

* DraconicHumanoid[=/=]OurDragonsAreDifferent: Hothead.
* FinalBoss: Shredder.
* InconsistentColoring: A type of CoversAlwaysLie. Hothead in-game has yellow skin, but the cover art (and the action figure) gives him red skin.

* RoundhouseKick: All the turtles have the same standing HK.

** Ever wonder where Cyber Shredder gets his name? It's a holdover from the Game Boy game ''Radical Rescue''.

** The MirrorMatch in this game's story mode is actually a throwback to a boss fight in the first ''[[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles TMNT]]'' game on the UsefulNotes/{{NES}}.

* ActionGirl: April O'Neil is based more on her TookALevelInBadass self from the comics than the cartoon version. She wears [[BareYourMidriff a sports bra]] and [[MiniDressOfPower miniskirt]] (an outfit very similar to her "Ninja Newscaster" action figure, or to Blaze from ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRage'') and hands out [[WrestlerInAllOfUs flying German suplexes]].

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: It's widely assumed by fans that there was a localization screw-up with Aska's name, which should have been spelled "Asuka"... except that it really is spelled "Aska" in the Japanese version.
* SpinAttack: Many of the moves.

** Asuka's "Hayakuzan" (''"Quick Slash"'') is a multi-hitting, safer, version of Leo's Endless Screw. Like him, she spin attacks using her kunai.

** Leonardo's [[RapidFireFisticuffs Millennium Wave]] is basically [[Manga/SaintSeiya Pegasus Seiya's Pegasus Meteor Fist]] with another name.