Cowabunga! Stern’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, released in 2020 under designer John Borg, channels the heroes in a half-shell into a fast, pizza-fueled romp anchored by a unidirectional spinning disc with a magnet — a whirling centerpiece that flings the ball in delightfully chaotic ways. Three flippers, a stack of standup targets, and a clever upper-left lock mechanism feed a layout that supports everything from solo play to cooperative and competitive multiplayer modes.
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. That choice makes the table endlessly re-playable. 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.
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 to learn the table. Bright, frantic, and bursting with cartoon energy, the TMNT Pro is Borg at his most fun — a machine that’s a party for beginners and a deep grind for the pros.