I spent so many hours playing turrican 2 as a kid I loved it, especially the music. So when you mented you where working on a complete history I was really looking forwards to it. Must say the video did not disappoint, there are a few verisons in there I've not played that you mentioned. I must admit I didn't know about any of the failed attempts todo a 3d turrican games. I think you're probably right about it being better for the legacy of turrican that they did not come out, it would be hard to recapture turrican in 3d.
i eat ramen because i'm poor and it's cheap and tasty. 40$ for 6 packs? are they putting diamonds in the seasoning packs or what? nah thanks, i'm good with the "bad" ones, at least i can afford those.
FINALLY. I've been saying that Turrican was based on Oscar for decades. I worked in an arcade in Whitechapel in the late 80's and they had an Oscar cabinet there and I loved that game. Then adored Turrican 1 & 2 on the Amiga. This is the first time I've heard it acknowledged that Oscar influenced Turrican.
Amiga is my go-to system for Turrican, but the original C64 versions are astonishing. I'm sure if you showed them to the folks who designed the C64 they'd have a hard time believing they were running on the original hardware.
When i sold my Amiga 500 i still kept my Turrican 2 game. Because it was so great i just couldn't let go. I also had a hand signed cd from Chris Hülsbeck called shades.
You done it again mate! As a Turrican fan since the Amiga days , this was great ! Turrican II on Amiga is in my opinion one of the best platformers I have ever played. The incredible levels, tight controls, variety of enemies, the incredible sound and the absolutely kickass music... just AWESOME. Two thumbs up!
I played on the Atari St 520fm my uncle was a computer engineer and upgraded it as well for me. So good playing Turrican 2 on it and the bitmap bros games. The Amiga was cool as well.
I finally got to play Turrican 2 when the Flashback collection released after being a fan of Mega Turrican since I was young and I was kind of blown away. There's nothing else quite like it except for of course Gunlord which is incredible.
Turrican 2 is imo one of the best,if not the best, platformers I have ever played. Amazing levels and soundtrack. The bosses were freaking great. Remember that underwater level and its music or when you got in the starfighter and it became a totally different game for a level? I played this game a lot as a kid. When the collection released on PS4 i bought it immediately.
@@eval_is_evil wow, sorry you didn't play better games. Turrican is a fine game, but if you'll notice it has never been in any list of best 16 bit platformers, simply because there are far, far better
I like The Cutting Room Floor's blurb for the Genesis Universal Soldier: "Universal Soldier is the bastardized port of Turrican II that everyone loves to hate." And I tend to agree.
Amusing enough I got a copy of Universal Soldier from a thrift shop and having never played Turrican (but being aware of it) I loved it. After hearing how much better the original series was I of course had to try it and absolutely loved every second.
"Do you hear me?" Jingles ears lol. Yes as a kid (now 40) I remember thinking "this is Turrican" but had seen pubs change games before. Here in Australia we had a cartoon puppet show called "Agro". Not sure what the original game was but a Game Boy game got a reskin to become an Agro game.
I can't harbor bad feelings towards Universal Soldier. It was how I was introduced to the Turrican series in the first place. It was the same story for many people in North America.
Activision: "How dare you make a near-clone of one of our most well-known flight shooters! As punishment, we want you to make an actual clone of that flight shooter-but you only get a month and a half. Sucks to suck!" Six weeks later: *game complete* Activision: *shocked Pikachu face*
According to Julian Eggebrecht from Factor 5, they knew the risk with Katakis and were happy with that solution. The R-type Version on Amiga put them on the map, the C64 Version of Manfred Trenz as well.
I've only played Super Turrican 1&2 and Mega Turrican and I loved all of them. The music was so good! I would like to see a new Turrican game if done right.
There's also a Turrican Anthology series that is supposed to be almost every version of Turrican I think in 2 collections that I don't know if its out now or not, but I've seen people complaining how its a huge cash grab due to them being sold at high prices.
Excellent video! There are two things regarding Manfred Trenz and Turrican I'd like to add: - The last game Manfred Trenz made for the Commodore 64 was Enforcer (aka. Katakis 2), a side-scrolling Shoot 'em Up. It was released on Golden Disk 64 in 1992. Golden Disk 64 and Magic Disk 64 were disk magazines for the C64 by the German publisher Computec (aka. CP). Manfred referred to himself as 'the Master' in the credits of Enforcer. I bought that issue of Golden Disk back in the days and found out many years later that it was a game by Manfred. - Manfred Trenz made a heavily Turrican inspired game for the Super Famicom / Super Nintendo. Rendering Ranger R² (working title: Targa), which was released only in Japan. (I did a playthrough 16 years ago, the clips and the playlist are still on my yt-channel. Quality is of course by far not up to date and back in the days there was this 15 minute max. duration for videos on yt. Therefore I did 1 clip per stage. Of course there are much better playthroughs of R² on yt now, anyway mine was the first and was captured from the original hardware and not using emulation.) My favourite Turrican is still Turrican II for the Amiga. If You like the music Chris Huelsbeck made on C64, I highly recommend You to check out Thomas Detert. It's kinda sad that Manfred Trenz has disappeared.
Superb retrospective. We are in a kind of golden age for Turrican lovers, what with Flashback, Gunlord X, Valfaris and Ultracore all out on console. Good things do come to those who wait. Now if they’d only add the C64 versions to Flashback, I won’t moan about a new Turrican.
Slight correction: The NES Super Turrican was only released in Europe, and the US release which was going to be by Seika was cancelled. Slight Trivia: Mega Turrican was supposedly going to be published by Konami at one point according to a prototype. Do you also know about the weird Java mobile game by THQ Wireless and the supposed cancelled Gameboy Color game with the soundtrack being available on Soundcloud?
i literally only knew of this game because of the java thq game and i spent the longest time searching for it :') and i'm so happy that i found its name now hahaha
Turrican Flashback is basically the highlights of Turrican, the upcoming Turrican Anthology from Strictly Limited will have pretty much all 16 bit games (excluding Universal Soldier) plus new modes and features (including Super's Director's Cut!). Personally I'm most excited about the map feature that's being added to the games!
Turrican II was easily my favourite Amiga 500 game. I relive the nostalgia whenever anyone calls me with the remix of Final Fight done by Volkor X as my ringtone. Highly recommend people check it out.
Thank you for this great entry! I loved the Turrican games so much. The incredible music right from the first second and a load of upgrades you could never run out of even if you tried! A great game on my always number one system... The Amiga
All I had was a demo of Turrican 2 on a Commodore Format power tape, which mesmerised me at the time as it was incredibly good fun. Then a while later I remember watching my cousin playing Universal Soldier on his Mega Drive and thinking "hey, wait a minute...".
What a trip down memory lane . Played first on c64,then amiga before moving onto the megadrive and snes versions The music was just stunning on the first 2 amiga games
Great vid, appreciate it 👍☺ ️I'm always amazed at how the early bedroom coders of the Speccy, C64 days knocked out games so quickly and at the same time being just kids in a lot of cases. The C64 versions you showed were super impressive. Like you said, so many 2d game franchaises were ruined in the move to 3d - Lemmings, Fade to black (Another world, Flashback) etc etc. I'd even add in Sonic T.Hedgehog to that too ;) They didn't realise that the 2d nature/constraints of these games were WHY they were so good to start with..Thanks again..
Fun fact, the music used in Turrican (on the C64 only) was the music from Transformer the Movie (The Autobot Decepticon battle during the intro and the Death of Optimus Prime as the End Theme)
Dude, you have no idea how ecstatic I am that you mentioned psychotics Oscar. Apologies for the spelling as I'm doing voice to text. It is actually one of my most beloved arcade titles and as a side note, I'm trying to find a Mr. Project developer willing to work on a core of the game for it because I have too many fond memories! It really is a great game. I was concerned that you were going to miss that tie-in. However, as you usually do with your thorough research, you managed to dig up the information!
Interesting to note that the Megadrive, TurboGrafx-16 & Gameboy versions were actually almost line by line conversions of the original C64 source code. That source code was a work of genius and learned a lot. In addition, Turrican 2 was only "converted" into Universal Soldier after 85% of it was complete.
I had a ton of copies of C64 games as a kid but I never played Turrican. I hadn’t even heard of it until it was out on consoles. I have certainly heard of Chris Hülsbeck- I really did enjoy SID chip music.
Mr.DJ awesome! THIS is exactly the game I asked you very meagerly in a comment thread for another YT video about 2yrs back now! Some reason I'm 5 days late..oh well! Thanks for all the work you do to ensure a quality video each and every time for all of us sir..I mean that! ✊😎💯 PS-i do believe it's time I offer you my Patronage as well😉👍
It was always a series no one heard of when I talked about it, and all these years later you see the games selling for a lot when I had them at pawn shop prices in the 90s. 😂I didn't know there's was a NES PAL version! I need to find it. Excellent video
Oh sweet! I had Super Terrica on the SNES and the game was kinda memorable for me mainly cos of the first stage music (1-1) and also learning that one of the Transformers: The Movie was used in the first game 8bits style!
I’ve always been put off by the difficulty level of the Turrican games. You’ve nearly inspired me to go and give maybe Super Turrican another go. Almost!
Turrican games are indeed hard (maybe even unfair sometimes), but only if you are counting on reflexes alone. Once you start memorizing the levels, gameplay becomes much easier, and extra lives are always abundant (especially in the Amiga versions).
Turrican and Turrican II are excellent on the Commodore C64. I used Turrican during testing of THEC64 Mini NTSC release, by doing so I found a sound drift issue that no one had noticed yet.
Still to this day my favorite game franchise. Great work but you just missed the Turrican 2008 prototype videos uploaded by Matthias Worsch who worked on Mafia 3 after working with Factor 5.
My first exposure to this series was though the unmentioned here J2ME version of the game (that was pre-installed on the Siemens M65 phones). It was frankly amazing for a phone game in early 2000s.
This game is definitely metal as heck. Every game just screams cyborgs shooting evil robots in a apocalyptic world where no one lives. I really wanna see a complete history of Manhunt.
Great video, just one thing missing. Turrican on siemens m65 "gaming"phone. As far as i know, it is an official release and it is pretty damn good too. I remember having the phone back in the day and you can imagine my shock finding Turrican game pre-installed on it. It runs on Java so might be worth checking it out if you have time and enough interest in it
Irem: "You copied our R-Type game! So either you do our job and port R-Type to C64 within 6 weeks for us or we'll take you to court!" Manfred: "Uhmm ... deal!"
Universal Soldier is a game I have fond memories of because we only had two games here- Sonic Compilation and that 6 in one title with columns, SOR etc... But my cousin had a Sonic and Knuckles, Rocket Knight Adventures, Lion King, Aladdin, and Universal Soldier to name a few and we used to borrow them! So it was only later in life that I discovered thanks to the net in the early 00s that Turrican 2 was the REAL game and US was the port- I didnt even know anything about the shooting stages, the system it was on... ...But if you have doubts just play the damn games- Mega Turrican is a trip with insane music, Turrican 2 is hugely fun and has aged well- and the even if you just check out the music... my god...Huelsbeck was, and still is a master of his game... and you can't go wrong here.
For me the Turrican 2 on Amiga 500 is the high point of the series. Back then benchmark was "arcade like experience in home" and with Turrican 2 you can drop the "like". It's butter smooth perfection from start to finish including just right balance with the retro style pixel art from late 80's polished to 16 bit glory. As a game music fan the Turrican 2 title song has made most lasting impression of any game I've ever played. Only downside is that up until advent of variable refresh rate Amiga 500 emulation experience was due to the game being PAL only a shadow of itself compared to running on a real hardware. Another downside is that the controller mapping was really wonky at the time due to limited number of joystick buttons (how I hate the up equals jump control scheme) and the need to use keyboard to activate some features.
Still waiting for my physical switch release from SLG. As an old Amiga fan it’s been a hard wait. Especially with Turrican Flashback having 50% off on the eshop constantly. But the SLG version adds some extra features including full maps for all the games. And let’s face it even the Turrican cover art is worth the wait.
Hope you've now received it. I finally received mine a couple of days back after a 2+ year wait, but having an awesome time with it. The Turrican games have aged like a fine wine, and the soundtracks are still amazing.
I bought myself the Anthology collection for the Switch to relive the brutal 90's gameplay but mostly for the brilliant soundtrack. I might be spending some more time on it again this year to see if I can complete Turrican 2.
I have always been interested in trying a Turrican game but have always been a bit confused about which games were which. Maybe I'll check out Mega Turrican or Super Turrican on the SNES. Also sucks that Lair killed Factor5. They were IMO a talented developer. Would have actually liked to see what they could've done with a 3d Turrican.
I really liked Turrican 2 for the Commodore Amiga, so much fun and such a well put together game. Having said that, my first love will always be Turrican 3. Even though I only had about 4 levels of that game it to this day remains my single favourite game. Even though I will never be able to play it again I will always love the levels, music and the grappling hook. The whole series deserves more credit than it gets but I suppose that is the way of things. You are not big in Japan or the US then you don't count.
I had a demo of Turrican II on my Atari ST as a kid, and played the hell out of it. I could barely complete the demo level, but hey, it was awesome, and so much to explore. Never got the full game disappointingly. 😢
Turricane was indeed a fantastic series. Besides the graphice, the music within those games was top notch back that time. Always loved the Atari/Amiga versions most ;). Rainbow Arts was also a great company with so many wonderful game releases back those days ... Really wonder why not any "remaster collections" are going to be released on the Switch now-a-days ...
This reminded me of a gaming magazine Headline!! I****think***it was Crash magazine article And it said "kicking up a hurricane with Turican II".. I remember sitting on floor in my Nan's spare bedroom opening the magazine and reading it thinking the game looked amazing and photo real on Amiga (bearing in mind I owned a ZX Speccy128k at the time)
I recall in some German interview it was mentioned that early in development of Turrican 3 they hit a technical limitation which seemed impossible to pass on Amiga, which was part of the reason behind switch to Mega Drive. However the work on Mega Turrican actually led to solution for the Amiga issue and so the Amiga version was back, and the development of it was so fast and smooth it actually overtook the Mega Turrican. It is perhaps also worth mentioning Gunlord and Gunlord X since they are kind of ripoffs :P
Awaiting anxiously my Strictly Limited Games Collectors edition. To be honest, i never really got into the series deeply. I only tried the A500 versions and the ones up to SNES. It bothered me there was no diagonal shooting. I gotta change my mindset on these games, cause it was like that at the time….Thanks for the great overview!
17:17 Actually for me everything Turrican was destryoed in T3: a) that stupid hook, much better was the surround flash, it was an essential weapon of the game... now gone with an action-destroying hook. b) The whole point of Turrican was exploration and finding secret areas (and lots of extras there)
There is a patch for Super Turrican NES, called Super Turrican PLUS. It completely upgrades the game, making it a top tier Turrican, as well as a top NES game. You must play it!
The Turrican Anthology really needs a PC-Release. I own it on PS5, already but I'd buy it instantly if it was released on PC (preferably Steam). Also would be nice if a new game would be developed.
I was wondering when someone might publish a as-good-as-can-be complete history of Turrican! Bravo Slopes. P.s. I think a 2D/3D implementation would have worked if it was done right.
Picked up the flashback collection and loving playing it on PS4 but its a shame they didnt include the C64 version. The C64 version was my first experience of this phenomenal series with one of THE best soundtracks in gaming history across a whole series, especially with Turrican 2 on Amiga.
in an interview with the magazine asm(aktueller Softwaremarkt Magazin) Manfred Trenz said that he got the name (Turrican) from the phone book.probably a greek name.. At that time I had the demo version of turrican 2 (press copy?) where you could play level 1 in a loop with 99 lives..
There was an unofficial version of Turrican made by fans, Hurrican. It was pretty good way back in the days of yore, roughly 2007ish. The music is pretty kick'in.
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I love this channel but there's no way in hell I would ever spend 40 bucks on 6 packs of ramen
Chris Hueselbeck I think ?
Did the soundtrack to Turrican and the best Puzzle RPG :
Doctor Who : Legacy !!!
I spent so many hours playing turrican 2 as a kid I loved it, especially the music. So when you mented you where working on a complete history I was really looking forwards to it. Must say the video did not disappoint, there are a few verisons in there I've not played that you mentioned. I must admit I didn't know about any of the failed attempts todo a 3d turrican games. I think you're probably right about it being better for the legacy of turrican that they did not come out, it would be hard to recapture turrican in 3d.
@@RetroBytesUK Chris Hueselbeck I think ?
Did the soundtrack to Turrican and the best Puzzle RPG :
Doctor Who : Legacy !!!
i eat ramen because i'm poor and it's cheap and tasty. 40$ for 6 packs? are they putting diamonds in the seasoning packs or what? nah thanks, i'm good with the "bad" ones, at least i can afford those.
FINALLY.
I've been saying that Turrican was based on Oscar for decades.
I worked in an arcade in Whitechapel in the late 80's and they had an Oscar cabinet there and I loved that game. Then adored Turrican 1 & 2 on the Amiga.
This is the first time I've heard it acknowledged that Oscar influenced Turrican.
Amiga is my go-to system for Turrican, but the original C64 versions are astonishing. I'm sure if you showed them to the folks who designed the C64 they'd have a hard time believing they were running on the original hardware.
When i sold my Amiga 500 i still kept my Turrican 2 game. Because it was so great i just couldn't let go. I also had a hand signed cd from Chris Hülsbeck called shades.
Turrican II still the best game ever, i really cannot say how many times i completed it, best soundtrack and awesome gameplay
You done it again mate! As a Turrican fan since the Amiga days , this was great !
Turrican II on Amiga is in my opinion one of the best platformers I have ever played.
The incredible levels, tight controls, variety of enemies, the incredible sound and the absolutely kickass music... just AWESOME.
Two thumbs up!
I played on the Atari St 520fm my uncle was a computer engineer and upgraded it as well for me. So good playing Turrican 2 on it and the bitmap bros games. The Amiga was cool as well.
I'm still to this day listening to the amazing soundtrack from time to time. It's Hülsbeck at his best!
I finally got to play Turrican 2 when the Flashback collection released after being a fan of Mega Turrican since I was young and I was kind of blown away. There's nothing else quite like it except for of course Gunlord which is incredible.
Turrican 2 is imo one of the best,if not the best, platformers I have ever played. Amazing levels and soundtrack. The bosses were freaking great.
Remember that underwater level and its music or when you got in the starfighter and it became a totally different game for a level? I played this game a lot as a kid.
When the collection released on PS4 i bought it immediately.
Turrican II: The Final Fight is by far the best game in the series, in every aspect. Music, lvl design, gameplay.
Still waiting and hoping for a US release of the second collection just to legitimately play the third main game.
@@eval_is_evil wow, sorry you didn't play better games. Turrican is a fine game, but if you'll notice it has never been in any list of best 16 bit platformers, simply because there are far, far better
Nothing goes over Rayman, a great game^^ Nice seeing it plant based now :P
LoL, I always thought it was pronounced ram men.
@@-Steven- I love ramming men...
Why would you want to eat Rayman?
@@Elyseon Why wouldn't you? Just look at him!
@@Elyseon would it be cannibalism if we had to resort to eating Ray-Man?
I like The Cutting Room Floor's blurb for the Genesis Universal Soldier: "Universal Soldier is the bastardized port of Turrican II that everyone loves to hate."
And I tend to agree.
Yes unfortunately the game was 85% before they got the Universal Soldier license and forced us to change the game. Was not happy...
Amusing enough I got a copy of Universal Soldier from a thrift shop and having never played Turrican (but being aware of it) I loved it. After hearing how much better the original series was I of course had to try it and absolutely loved every second.
"Do you hear me?" Jingles ears lol.
Yes as a kid (now 40) I remember thinking "this is Turrican" but had seen pubs change games before.
Here in Australia we had a cartoon puppet show called "Agro".
Not sure what the original game was but a Game Boy game got a reskin to become an Agro game.
I can't harbor bad feelings towards Universal Soldier. It was how I was introduced to the Turrican series in the first place. It was the same story for many people in North America.
Activision: "How dare you make a near-clone of one of our most well-known flight shooters! As punishment, we want you to make an actual clone of that flight shooter-but you only get a month and a half. Sucks to suck!"
Six weeks later: *game complete*
Activision: *shocked Pikachu face*
According to Julian Eggebrecht from Factor 5, they knew the risk with Katakis and were happy with that solution. The R-type Version on Amiga put them on the map, the C64 Version of Manfred Trenz as well.
R-Type Mania
I've only played Super Turrican 1&2 and Mega Turrican and I loved all of them. The music was so good! I would like to see a new Turrican game if done right.
There's also a Turrican Anthology series that is supposed to be almost every version of Turrican I think in 2 collections that I don't know if its out now or not, but I've seen people complaining how its a huge cash grab due to them being sold at high prices.
Excellent video! There are two things regarding Manfred Trenz and Turrican I'd like to add:
- The last game Manfred Trenz made for the Commodore 64 was Enforcer (aka. Katakis 2), a side-scrolling Shoot 'em Up. It was released on Golden Disk 64 in 1992. Golden Disk 64 and Magic Disk 64 were disk magazines for the C64 by the German publisher Computec (aka. CP). Manfred referred to himself as 'the Master' in the credits of Enforcer. I bought that issue of Golden Disk back in the days and found out many years later that it was a game by Manfred.
- Manfred Trenz made a heavily Turrican inspired game for the Super Famicom / Super Nintendo. Rendering Ranger R² (working title: Targa), which was released only in Japan.
(I did a playthrough 16 years ago, the clips and the playlist are still on my yt-channel. Quality is of course by far not up to date and back in the days there was this 15 minute max. duration for videos on yt. Therefore I did 1 clip per stage. Of course there are much better playthroughs of R² on yt now, anyway mine was the first and was captured from the original hardware and not using emulation.)
My favourite Turrican is still Turrican II for the Amiga.
If You like the music Chris Huelsbeck made on C64, I highly recommend You to check out Thomas Detert.
It's kinda sad that Manfred Trenz has disappeared.
Superb retrospective. We are in a kind of golden age for Turrican lovers, what with Flashback, Gunlord X, Valfaris and Ultracore all out on console. Good things do come to those who wait. Now if they’d only add the C64 versions to Flashback, I won’t moan about a new Turrican.
Slight correction: The NES Super Turrican was only released in Europe, and the US release which was going to be by Seika was cancelled.
Slight Trivia: Mega Turrican was supposedly going to be published by Konami at one point according to a prototype.
Do you also know about the weird Java mobile game by THQ Wireless and the supposed cancelled Gameboy Color game with the soundtrack being available on Soundcloud?
I dunno about the GBC one so how the soundtrack?
i literally only knew of this game because of the java thq game and i spent the longest time searching for it :') and i'm so happy that i found its name now hahaha
Turrican Flashback is basically the highlights of Turrican, the upcoming Turrican Anthology from Strictly Limited will have pretty much all 16 bit games (excluding Universal Soldier) plus new modes and features (including Super's Director's Cut!). Personally I'm most excited about the map feature that's being added to the games!
Turrican II was easily my favourite Amiga 500 game. I relive the nostalgia whenever anyone calls me with the remix of Final Fight done by Volkor X as my ringtone. Highly recommend people check it out.
Thank you for this great entry! I loved the Turrican games so much. The incredible music right from the first second and a load of upgrades you could never run out of even if you tried! A great game on my always number one system... The Amiga
All I had was a demo of Turrican 2 on a Commodore Format power tape, which mesmerised me at the time as it was incredibly good fun. Then a while later I remember watching my cousin playing Universal Soldier on his Mega Drive and thinking "hey, wait a minute...".
never had Rayman noodles before
What a trip down memory lane . Played first on c64,then amiga before moving onto the megadrive and snes versions
The music was just stunning on the first 2 amiga games
Great vid, appreciate it 👍☺ ️I'm always amazed at how the early bedroom coders of the Speccy, C64 days knocked out games so quickly and at the same time being just kids in a lot of cases. The C64 versions you showed were super impressive. Like you said, so many 2d game franchaises were ruined in the move to 3d - Lemmings, Fade to black (Another world, Flashback) etc etc. I'd even add in Sonic T.Hedgehog to that too ;) They didn't realise that the 2d nature/constraints of these games were WHY they were so good to start with..Thanks again..
Fun fact, the music used in Turrican (on the C64 only) was the music from Transformer the Movie (The Autobot Decepticon battle during the intro and the Death of Optimus Prime as the End Theme)
Awesome little factoid
I loved Turrican back then. I had both games for the C64, all three games for the Amiga and even the PC-Version, which you forgot to mention 😉
I missed Rendering Ranger, Trenz' last Turrican-like game for the SNES
Or what about Hurrican, a well made Fangame for the PC.
The guys also made Takatis, but Hurrican is far more polished.
Dude, you have no idea how ecstatic I am that you mentioned psychotics Oscar. Apologies for the spelling as I'm doing voice to text. It is actually one of my most beloved arcade titles and as a side note, I'm trying to find a Mr. Project developer willing to work on a core of the game for it because I have too many fond memories! It really is a great game. I was concerned that you were going to miss that tie-in. However, as you usually do with your thorough research, you managed to dig up the information!
you are more than welcome mate. Honestly, I had only ever played it a few times before this video. Turns out, I am quite the fan now :D
Interesting to note that the Megadrive, TurboGrafx-16 & Gameboy versions were actually almost line by line conversions of the original C64 source code. That source code was a work of genius and learned a lot. In addition, Turrican 2 was only "converted" into Universal Soldier after 85% of it was complete.
Fuck yeah, this is my jam. What's next, Lemmings? Diggers? Legacy of Kain?
Already done legacy of kain
My father owns Turrican and Turrican II. I played both and I loved it.
There is a modern (well.. 2007) Turrican, it's the free "Hurrican". It's good (for its time), and you can't be more Turrican than that.
I thought you would mention Rendering Ranger R2, a highly Turrican-inspired Super Famicom game made by Manfred Trenz himself.
I had a ton of copies of C64 games as a kid but I never played Turrican. I hadn’t even heard of it until it was out on consoles. I have certainly heard of Chris Hülsbeck- I really did enjoy SID chip music.
Turrican on C64 was amazing. T2 on Amiga was sublime. T3 on Amiga was damn good fun. Music is just eternal. So good.
Nice Video. I do miss that Chris Huelsbeck created a Turrican 4 soundtrack, although the game doesn't exist...the great music continues! :D
Mr.DJ awesome! THIS is exactly the game I asked you very meagerly in a comment thread for another YT video about 2yrs back now! Some reason I'm 5 days late..oh well! Thanks for all the work you do to ensure a quality video each and every time for all of us sir..I mean that! ✊😎💯
PS-i do believe it's time I offer you my Patronage as well😉👍
Great video, I know what series of games I want to get into next now, great job dude, I look forward to see what comes next.
It was always a series no one heard of when I talked about it, and all these years later you see the games selling for a lot when I had them at pawn shop prices in the 90s. 😂I didn't know there's was a NES PAL version! I need to find it. Excellent video
I thought I was going crazy because it sounded like you said "Rayman Instant Noodles"
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Its honestly the worst prounciation of ramen Ive ever heard
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@@Tatwinus I mean, I've only ever heard two pronunciations. The obvious, correct way and....this. I'm not sure how you get it wrong.
Now THIS is some gaming history goodness!
Oh sweet! I had Super Terrica on the SNES and the game was kinda memorable for me mainly cos of the first stage music (1-1) and also learning that one of the Transformers: The Movie was used in the first game 8bits style!
The reason they made Super Turrican Director's Cut was because the original only had 3 months of development and had quite a bit of cut content.
Mega Turrican is my favourite 👍🕹👍 great video
That Turrican 2 loading screen music.... Sooo good.
Worms Complete History coming up? Yess!! 👏🏻👏🏻💪🏻💪🏻
I’ve always been put off by the difficulty level of the Turrican games. You’ve nearly inspired me to go and give maybe Super Turrican another go. Almost!
They are tough. Well worth it tho
Turrican games are indeed hard (maybe even unfair sometimes), but only if you are counting on reflexes alone. Once you start memorizing the levels, gameplay becomes much easier, and extra lives are always abundant (especially in the Amiga versions).
Mega Turrican is my favourite, thanks for the docu!
Turrican and Turrican II are excellent on the Commodore C64. I used Turrican during testing of THEC64 Mini NTSC release, by doing so I found a sound drift issue that no one had noticed yet.
Turrican! Mate!
This really takes me back to my C64 days.
The evolution of Slope's channel and videos have been really impressive.
Thanks mate
Still to this day my favorite game franchise. Great work but you just missed the Turrican 2008 prototype videos uploaded by Matthias Worsch who worked on Mafia 3 after working with Factor 5.
My first exposure to this series was though the unmentioned here J2ME version of the game (that was pre-installed on the Siemens M65 phones). It was frankly amazing for a phone game in early 2000s.
This game is definitely metal as heck. Every game just screams cyborgs shooting evil robots in a apocalyptic world where no one lives. I really wanna see a complete history of Manhunt.
Love Turrican and I really LOVE the Wizball shirt!!
Great video, just one thing missing. Turrican on siemens m65 "gaming"phone. As far as i know, it is an official release and it is pretty damn good too. I remember having the phone back in the day and you can imagine my shock finding Turrican game pre-installed on it. It runs on Java so might be worth checking it out if you have time and enough interest in it
Irem: "You copied our R-Type game! So either you do our job and port R-Type to C64 within 6 weeks for us or we'll take you to court!"
Manfred: "Uhmm ... deal!"
Universal Soldier is a game I have fond memories of because we only had two games here- Sonic Compilation and that 6 in one title with columns, SOR etc...
But my cousin had a Sonic and Knuckles, Rocket Knight Adventures, Lion King, Aladdin, and Universal Soldier to name a few and we used to borrow them! So it was only later in life that I discovered thanks to the net in the early 00s that Turrican 2 was the REAL game and US was the port- I didnt even know anything about the shooting stages, the system it was on...
...But if you have doubts just play the damn games- Mega Turrican is a trip with insane music, Turrican 2 is hugely fun and has aged well- and the even if you just check out the music... my god...Huelsbeck was, and still is a master of his game... and you can't go wrong here.
For me the Turrican 2 on Amiga 500 is the high point of the series. Back then benchmark was "arcade like experience in home" and with Turrican 2 you can drop the "like". It's butter smooth perfection from start to finish including just right balance with the retro style pixel art from late 80's polished to 16 bit glory.
As a game music fan the Turrican 2 title song has made most lasting impression of any game I've ever played.
Only downside is that up until advent of variable refresh rate Amiga 500 emulation experience was due to the game being PAL only a shadow of itself compared to running on a real hardware. Another downside is that the controller mapping was really wonky at the time due to limited number of joystick buttons (how I hate the up equals jump control scheme) and the need to use keyboard to activate some features.
Great video, mate.
Appreciate that bud
Sometimes the docs will be fucking awesome!
Keep up the good work fella and, as always, keep away from Amico and stay safe!
Still waiting for my physical switch release from SLG. As an old Amiga fan it’s been a hard wait. Especially with Turrican Flashback having 50% off on the eshop constantly. But the SLG version adds some extra features including full maps for all the games. And let’s face it even the Turrican cover art is worth the wait.
Ahh the Amiga.
I used to wish we got remakes of "Hostages".... then I played classic Rainbow Six (upto Vegas. Over Siege) lol
Hope you've now received it. I finally received mine a couple of days back after a 2+ year wait, but having an awesome time with it. The Turrican games have aged like a fine wine, and the soundtracks are still amazing.
I went from C64 to Amiga in my own childhood, checking out all of my uncle's copied disks... And I'm not even from the UK, just a lucky Canuck.
That was awesome :)
I bought myself the Anthology collection for the Switch to relive the brutal 90's gameplay but mostly for the brilliant soundtrack. I might be spending some more time on it again this year to see if I can complete Turrican 2.
I was Raised on the Amiga versions I just wish I kept them and the Amiga 500 and 1200 that I was given growing up.
I have always been interested in trying a Turrican game but have always been a bit confused about which games were which. Maybe I'll check out Mega Turrican or Super Turrican on the SNES.
Also sucks that Lair killed Factor5. They were IMO a talented developer. Would have actually liked to see what they could've done with a 3d Turrican.
Thanks to the ad b-roll, I have another song going though my head now...
I really liked Turrican 2 for the Commodore Amiga, so much fun and such a well put together game. Having said that, my first love will always be Turrican 3. Even though I only had about 4 levels of that game it to this day remains my single favourite game. Even though I will never be able to play it again I will always love the levels, music and the grappling hook. The whole series deserves more credit than it gets but I suppose that is the way of things. You are not big in Japan or the US then you don't count.
I had the colour monitor with disk drive built into keyboard AMSTRAD! and Turrican was definitely in my top 5 list.
I had a demo of Turrican II on my Atari ST as a kid, and played the hell out of it. I could barely complete the demo level, but hey, it was awesome, and so much to explore. Never got the full game disappointingly. 😢
Played turrican 2 soo much as a kid on my a500
Those vertical mode 7 shooting stages were hard as hell!
Rah-mun*
Now to enjoy the rest of this surefire awesome vid.
People from other countries have accents and pronounce things differently.
The American way isn't the only way of saying and doing things.
Im surprised I never heard of this serie before. Pretty awesome
Rainbow art's. Turrican was great and they did a puzzle platform game apprentice. Worth checking out.
Gunlord X is basically Turrican IV. Dirt cheap and highly recommended.
Turricane was indeed a fantastic series. Besides the graphice, the music within those games was top notch back that time. Always loved the Atari/Amiga versions most ;).
Rainbow Arts was also a great company with so many wonderful game releases back those days ... Really wonder why not any "remaster collections" are going to be released on the Switch now-a-days ...
This reminded me of a gaming magazine Headline!! I****think***it was Crash magazine article And it said "kicking up a hurricane with Turican II".. I remember sitting on floor in my Nan's spare bedroom opening the magazine and reading it thinking the game looked amazing and photo real on Amiga (bearing in mind I owned a ZX Speccy128k at the time)
I recall in some German interview it was mentioned that early in development of Turrican 3 they hit a technical limitation which seemed impossible to pass on Amiga, which was part of the reason behind switch to Mega Drive. However the work on Mega Turrican actually led to solution for the Amiga issue and so the Amiga version was back, and the development of it was so fast and smooth it actually overtook the Mega Turrican.
It is perhaps also worth mentioning Gunlord and Gunlord X since they are kind of ripoffs :P
I’ve heard so much about this game, listened to the soundtracks so many times, yet never played any of them. I really need to play them one day.
so cool!
I love the pull from NES's Bionic Commando on the SNES.
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DUDE, Super Turrican new and inbox for only 39 Mark und 95 Pfennig?!
That's a fucking steal!
Check out Gunlord X, it's pretty much a new 2d turrican. I got it on switch but should be on steam too. It's pretty good imo
Awaiting anxiously my Strictly Limited Games Collectors edition. To be honest, i never really got into the series deeply. I only tried the A500 versions and the ones up to SNES. It bothered me there was no diagonal shooting. I gotta change my mindset on these games, cause it was like that at the time….Thanks for the great overview!
Oh and thank you for showing me all these years later(since 2007!)that it's not ignorant to say "love me some" 😂
Damn, I still got my A500, good memories, a couple of years ago I played Gunlord, a good Turrican style game.
Yes complete history of worms and team 17 the hype is real worms 2 was my first online game ever!!
I realy love the turrican tunes.
Incredible music
17:17 Actually for me everything Turrican was destryoed in T3: a) that stupid hook, much better was the surround flash, it was an essential weapon of the game... now gone with an action-destroying hook. b) The whole point of Turrican was exploration and finding secret areas (and lots of extras there)
That Terminator inspired ad at the start takes me back.
There is a patch for Super Turrican NES, called Super Turrican PLUS. It completely upgrades the game, making it a top tier Turrican, as well as a top NES game.
You must play it!
I actually recorded the SNES soundtrack off the game on cassette :D Ahhh the 90s
Whose dad was the hardest and Rayman noodles? You had me in the first five, Mr British person! XD
The Turrican Anthology really needs a PC-Release. I own it on PS5, already but I'd buy it instantly if it was released on PC (preferably Steam).
Also would be nice if a new game would be developed.
I was wondering when someone might publish a as-good-as-can-be complete history of Turrican! Bravo Slopes.
P.s. I think a 2D/3D implementation would have worked if it was done right.
Picked up the flashback collection and loving playing it on PS4 but its a shame they didnt include the C64 version. The C64 version was my first experience of this phenomenal series with one of THE best soundtracks in gaming history across a whole series, especially with Turrican 2 on Amiga.
Turrican I and II are the best games in my mind
Same here.
Still waiting for them to deliver my Switch case. Ended up buying it from the eShop.
in an interview with the magazine asm(aktueller Softwaremarkt Magazin) Manfred Trenz said that he got the name (Turrican) from the phone book.probably a greek name..
At that time I had the demo version of turrican 2 (press copy?) where you could play level 1 in a loop with 99 lives..
I listen to the soundtrack all the time.
There was an unofficial version of Turrican made by fans, Hurrican. It was pretty good way back in the days of yore, roughly 2007ish. The music is pretty kick'in.