A500 Turrican - Intro
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- Having and Amiga and never playing this is criminal. The first of one of the most famous games by Factor 5 ever made, brought arcade quality platform shooting action to my home. Legendary OST by childhood reference, Chris Hüelsbeck, that used is own TMFX format to make the Amiga output 7* sound channels, instead of the regular 4.
*UPDATE: It has been pointed out to me that only "Turrican II" uses 7 channels, "Turrican" uses TMFX but all songs are 4 channel only.
This music uses a format made by Christ Huelsbeck himself, TMFX which allowed to have 7 separate channels instead of MODs 4 channels. This is why his compositions always sound far richer when compared to other games.
WHAT?! And this is the first time I heard about it?!
Unforgettable era for computer's game and music history
Well said.
played through the whole amiga 500 to a1200 era as a kid back in the day. Had never heard of the Turrican series though until like, 5 years ago. true story.
Ah the memories. Thanks for posting. Amiga forever!!!
My pleasure. The computer that made me the man I am today. ^_^
US pop culture is alright, but once you get a taste of the awesome gravel scraped Berlin Wall, Soviet Union, C64 and the space program, you remember there was a wind going through Europe during the late 80's. Hearing this music, I can close my eyes and still feel the cold breeze from back then. How it searched its way from the green grass and my worn Nike shoes, all the way up to my grey hoodie. Only to make a sudden turn and reach for the sky - leaving me with that everlasting air in my lungs.
Goosebumps everytime I listen to this ... great memories, got home from school and played Turrican, so much fun :D
Amiga 500 games were legendary cause of their music - best sound chip back then.
Immortal masterpieces, both the game and this timeless music...
The intro to this intro is amazing.
I was the C64 guy xD But my cousin had an Amiga, I loved both. I miss that time so much :( Sometimes I just loaded the game JUST to listen to epic tracks like in Turrican. I love chiptune and download keygens just for the epic tunes. The last Ninja Intro is also awesome, listen to it too :)
I too used to load the games just to listen to music while studying.
Classic track from a game that would become legendary.
Good old times.... Chris Huelsbeck was one of the best musicians at this time.... and maybe still he is...... Memories came back.... of a good childhood.....
DAS war absoluter Kult. Wie habe ich dieses Spiel geliebt.. Da ging die ein oder andere Nacht bei drauf :-))
THAT was an absolute cult :-) Damn, how I've loved this game.. Spent some nights playing.. :-))
Best intro music EVER!!!
Good old days...
ABSOLUTELY!! There was so much in these games!! Its mind boggling to think how they did it!
Turrican was one of my favourite games :)
The older i get, the angrier i get that i didn't know what Amiga was and i feel like a missed a lot of cool stuff.
But i can at least enjoy the music, thanks for the upload
It's never too late to go back.
So many games so little time !
One day i'll get to it !
That's the spirit. =)
I love that slow part of the intro before the drums come in...
One of my best peferate Amiga game with Turrican 2 of course !
OMG,this is like a trip into the past!Best Times of Video gaming, new games can't reach ever....best music !!!!
One of the first games I ever bought for my A500. I used to boot this up just to listen to the title screen music. All these decades on, I still remember the joy when I got my 1st Amiga and carried it home with pride from the shop. Commodore, you messed up on something that should've really taken over the computing world.
Same here.
Did Turrican II use software mixing or something? The AMIGA only had 4 physical sound channels.
I'm Happy :) I found a Complette A500 with Many Original Games and a Monitor, last week in my Basement :) I complettely forgot that a Chick in 2001give it to me as present :)
The geniuses from Germany who went on to make the excellent Gamecube Rogue Squadron games. :)
Thank God the Amiga had phono out on the back of it so the machine could be hooked up to a hi fi to record this. PC speakers at the time looked pathetic, especially when we took the Amiga to my sisters house to hook it up to her Kenwood system. First Kenwood system I ever saw too. I though they only made blenders and food processors.
i LOVED this game, i remember playing this as a little kid and the WELCOME TO TURRICAN part always scared me lol
i still remember the cheat for this game on the amiga 500,entering your name as "ten pints" on the hi score table to get 99 lives,classic game with awesome music.
Awesome intro. I preferred Turrican 2 personally, but they were an awesome pair of games. I never played the third game.
It really is a series which needs a new-gen update.
I'm sorry to disappoint, but I just looked it up. It's a general mistake. The musicians from the C64 version of Turrican 2 were Markus Siebold and Stefan Hartwig. I know some German sources that state so and also Chris Hülsbeck is not credited in the game itself.
GOOSE BUMPS!! Oh childhood :] Now seeing this after 15 years, it brought all back to my head! Oh joy!
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AMAZING Turrican! 5/5
this song is qonderful, especially the mystic passage @ 2:36
Thanks 4 sharing this with us
regards ;)
All time best game. The famous Hacker Guild rulez! :-)
this is the best... im 31 years old now. have seen a lot of games... this is the best!! by the fucking far!
Definetly one of the best videogame soundtracks ever! Loved the game!!! (although the alien levels had faulty collision detection and you'd end up getting trapped as a result).
Only the title tracks of Turrican II use the 7 channel routine, because the 68k is not fast enough to do both the game and the sound mixing. It's even barely enough to to the title screen. Listen carefully to the drums and snares after Turrican has passed the title screen, when the highscores are faded in. This is when the routine changes its mixing rate from 11kHz to 16kHz, because there is less going on on-screen.
So, most of Chris' music is done with 4 channels.
Another tear in mi eye... :,( Beautiful.... Childhood... No worries... Just plain fun and awesome GAMING!!!!
The information in the description is not correct. Although Turrican has an amazing soundtrack, it uses only 4 channels. Turrican II is the first game, which uses 7 channels.
I so like this theme. Amiga 500 games had some of the best musics of the time and they're still good. Lotus Turbo III theme is prove of that.
I know SNK Playmore releases tons of anthologies for PS2. I wish they would follow suit with the Turrican series. You could easily have every Turrican game ever made on a compilation disk. I'd buy it immediately.
I remember this game forever because of the most awesome soundtrack ever made. Sonic the Hedgehog 1 & 2 as a good second place =)
The C64 version of Turrican 1 I know didn't have ingame music except for the jetpack level and there it was exactly the same melody as on the Amiga... and I don't recall any music in the C64 version of Turrican 2 except for the Main Theme which was by Markus Siebold.
I should also add that for Turrican II, Chris used the Atari ST 4 channel digi playback routine to play 4 voices on one Amiga channel. 4 + 3 = 7 channels. This is why Jochen Hippel is credited in the Amiga version of Turrican II.
Never forget it - i was a kid
"And remember shoot or die" Ahhhh so that's why I was crap at it. Too busy geeking out to the music methinks.
Yeah, I know. ^^ Some months ago I noticed that the first metroid actually IS older and that Manfred Trenz even used it as an inspiration for Turrican.
@Colspex
Wow Colspex that was pretty deep man!
+1
I think, this game being such a legend, none of the nowadays developers even dare to come close of touching it to make an HD version or followup.
AAARRRRGGGHHH! Still Turricane inside!!! Great!!
Who made the music, was is chris hulsbeck ?
*LOL*
When i hear first Time (1991) that Torch Sound and the Voice, it scared the Shit out of me xD
I Love the T1 Music, in my oppinion it´s as good as in T2.
Yeah my English sucks xD
Absolutely true!
I love the music of this game!!!!!!! Huh, i need my amigaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa :pp
Chris Huelsbeck.....Cool... minor detail though: Turrican 1 didn't have the 7 voice sample player at the time... this is really just plain 4 voice Amiga.
And if there are motifs from the Amiga version being used in the C64 version, then they're probably copies of Hülsbeck's compositions but not done by himself (don't forget that the C64 version of Turrican 2 is newer than the one from Amiga, so it's quite possible that the C64 soundtrack was inspired by Hülsbecks work).
Still from what I know Hülsbeck didn't make the music for the C64 version auf Turrican 2 and he was only one of three composers working on Turrican 1..
Some of the best music in Amiga history. Only music from Bitmap Brothers and some megademos compares. Turrican 1 had the best music of all 3.
Ahhhhhhhh epic game i loved that time hail to the 90s games hail to dos games hail to Amiga hail to the inventor of the computer hail to floppy disc hail to Ibm 386 and 387 hail to the glory time of soundblaste midi music adlim and 200 coloures lol
The title screen is very simalar to Manowar's 'Kings of Metal' album cover..
but hey, I never noticed when I was a kid so its no biggie, top game though.
It was on purpose, a tribute to that album's cover art.
ShiryuGL ha really?. guess you learn something new every day.
It kinda makes sense as the game creator was German, and Manowar being a German power metal band..
Phill Newton Manowar are from the US.
thanx for you great job !
So, yes, its Software Mixing. The hardware itself only has 4 channels.
i stand corrected,too many amiga memories,lol.I meant to say type in "bluesmobil" on the hi score table to get 99 lives.
AAAAwesome!!!
Turrican was wierd, in the sense that pretty much all the in-game music is better than the theme. Just go listen to the first level music ... why not that tune? It rocks!
Piango......Fantastico!!!
I want a sequel on next gen consoles by Manfred Trenz and Chris Hülsbeck.
Chris Huelsbeck rules!
As good as Turrican II's music is, I'll always prefer the first games.
memories
:-)
awesome
awesome game
great
Mine too, and still is... :D
fixed, thanks.
The 90's... when TV and video games were still epic.
And remember shoot or die! O_O Loveeee
shoot or die!!!
We all played it...we are turrican boys for life
Nah, forget the C64 version. The Amiga versions of Turrican 1 & 2 are the best - they are basically massively improved versions of the C64 games. I do regularly play them via WinUAE, an excellent Amiga Emulator. Also Turrican 3 is very good, but its style is more comparable to the console versions. You can get Amiga Disk images of all three Turrican games from the Factor 5 homepage - they are perfectly compatible with WinUAE. Give it a try. ;)
One place the C64 version has the amiga version beat is the opening MORGUL Jabber:
"Welcome to turrican, wahahaha..." on the amiga, "WELCOME TO TURRICAN, BE MY GUEST; ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER TRY, BUT REMEMBER: SHOOT! OR! DIE!" on the C64
...Of course, you can't say the C64 version has a full soundtrack.
I finally got a Amiga 1200 and got to play Turrican 2, still have top beat it. After that I'll beat Turrican 1. Turrican 3 is out of the question.....I hope you know why.
"AND REMEMBER ...
SHOOT OR DIE !" xD
PRESS FIRE TO START
They've been out of business for a while. :(
Welcome to turricaaaannn aaaa haaa haa ahaaa haaaaa!
.... Webung haben müsen . So macht du kein geld sondern nur antisyphati. Davon mal ab Turrican rockt! ;)
the guy laughing reminds me of ncs
Let's be honest: The C64 has the better soundtrack and intro.
oi tyo all the turrican fans out there that get a hardon over this (and I know you do!) find the remake Hurrican by POKE53280 its Killer hours of fun!
da kann mozart einpacken ;)