Cowabunga! The Premium edition of Stern’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, designed by John Borg in 2020, gives the heroes in a half-shell their fullest stage — adding a player-controlled Glider deflector and a multiball that swells all the way to eight balls. The whirling centerpiece is a bidirectional spinning disc with a magnet that flings the ball in gloriously chaotic ways, fed by an upper-left lock mechanism and a roster of standup and bar targets across a three-flipper layout that supports cooperative and competitive play.

The brilliant hook is turtle selection. Pick your hero at the start and it reshapes your game: choose Donatello and a single right-ramp shot starts Turtle Power Multiball, where other characters need four; Michelangelo hands you five pizza slices off the bat; Raphael starts with an episode lit. The signature mode is Pizza Multiball, where you lock in toppings as you lock balls — and savvy players angle for octopus so they can rip the spinner all game long once Ninja Pizza Multiball begins. Clearing four modes lights Team Up multiball, collected at the right ramp.

Depth abounds, from spelling LAIR to start Training (which permanently boosts all scoring) to the Final Battle that pays out your accumulated episode values in one lump. Backhands are very viable, and a generous “Target Time” setting can hand newcomers up to three minutes on their first ball. With its extra toys and eight-ball ceiling, the TMNT Premium is Borg at his most fun and feature-rich — a frantic cartoon party that’s deep enough to obsess the pros. Turtle power!