Turrican

[Ryu the Grappler]

I finished Super Turrican the other day and like I wrote in another thread, I found the game to be a bit underwhelming. I checked out Factor 5's official website and funny enough, it turns out that they had to cut out quite a bit of the game. Apparently they programmed over 6 Megabits of data for the game, but were forced to cut out at least one stage and a feature of the freeze beam, along with several enemies. The commentary on the site is an interesting read.
www.factor5.de/secrets_super_turrican.shtml

They also have a commentary for Mega Turrican, which was actually the original version of Turrican III.
www.factor5.de/secrets_mega_turrican.shtml

[munchy]

Turrican is cool. I need to play it more.

There was a fan-made freeware one... Hurrican I think? It was similarly neato.

[beach1]

I love the first stage's music in Super Turrican. It's so catchy.

[Deleted]

Super Turrican was pretty butchered. The first two levels are excellent, but the third level sucks and the last level is just, pound for pound, the fourth level of Turrican 3/Mega Turrican. Quite the ripoff if you ask me. Super Turrican 2, even though less Turrican-like than all previous installments, is a game I like more because all of its content is at least original.

[Ryu the Grappler]

Yeah, but Super Turrican was made at the same time as Mega Turrican according to the links posted on my original post. In fact, the Super NES version came out first in 1993, while the Mega Drive one came out in 1994. For all we know, the level might have as well been designed for the Super NES version in mind. I'm willing to try out the other games in the series, at least Super Turrican 2 (seeing how I don't have an Amiga or a Genesis, and the NES version was PAL only). The original Super Turrican wasn't bad, but it was obviously released incomplete, and I'm hoping Super Turrican 2 will be a lot better.

Is there any difference between completing Super Turrican normally and completing it with all the diamonds and 1-ups collected?

[susanismyalias]

Quit bein such a puritan, I'm mega turrican, wakin up and it's all a blur again if I'm alive. I love Del.


Anyways, I've never played any of these games, but they definitely seem pretty bad ass. Definitely will be keeping an eye out for them.

[thefunkyredcaboose]

I'll never forget picking up Super Turrican and Mega Turrican for 30 cents a piece when Gamestop bought out Rhino. Probably the best purchase I have ever made.

[megatronbison]

Universal Soldier on the Megadrive and the Gameboy Turrican have probably put me off the series for life

[Ryu the Grappler]

Yeah, but Universal Soldier on the Genesis was made by Accolade, the same people that made that horrible Genesis port of Double Dragon. Mega Turrican was made by Factor 5, the developers of the Amiga games. Super Turrican is underwhelming, but not too bad.

[megatronbison]

Nov 30, 2010 14:37:03 GMT -5 Ryu the Grappler said:

Yeah, but Universal Soldier on the Genesis was made by Accolade

Ah, so it was more of a lousy port than anything else then? I'm pretty sure it used the exact same level layouts though?

[Ryu the Grappler]

I'm not certain to be honest, since I've never played any of the other Turrican games yet, but judging by my experience with other Accolade releases, they were a pretty lousy company.

EDIT: I played around both, Mega Turrican and Universal Soldier, a bit, and yeah, the former is such an improvement over the latter that it's not even funny.

[retr0gamer]

I much much prefer the C64 version of Turrican 2 to the god awful butchered version Universal Soldier on the Megadrive and that's saying something.

[muteKi]

Mega Turrican's pretty solid, though. Plays similarly to, say, Ranger X. I recommend it.

[Namakubi]

Yeah, you really can't go wrong with Mega Turrican and Super Turrican 2. Super Turrican is good, but with the caveats mentioned above. And avoid the Genesis / Megadrive port of Turrican 1 at all costs, a horrible hack-job.

[muteKi]

I tried it, thinking it would be ok-but-not-as-good compared to Mega Turrican.

It was not. Definitely not worth any of your all time, I'd say.