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Genre: Action | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number of players: 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Turrican is a run-and-gun game originally developed by Rainbow Arts for the Commodore 64. Rainbow Arts licensed Accolade to make console ports, one of them being an unlicensed Sega Mega Drive port released 1991.
The game is not region protected.
Contents
Gameplay
Both the C64 and Amiga version relied on various keyboard inputs for special weapons, which had to be remapped to a three button layout. This was done in a complicated way: fires, and jump, cycles through special weapons. To activate a special weapon, and need to be pushed simultaneously, which means the character will always jump while using special weapons.
While the Mega Drive port is faithful in terms of content, health depletes at a faster rate (aprox. 4x), making the game considerably harder.
Chris Hüllsbeck's famous musical score wasn't faithfully reproduced either, although this can be partially attributed to the hardware. He would personally program the music for Mega Turrican, which was highly praised.
In order to be played at the correct speed (using the Amiga version as a reference), the game needs to be played on 50Hz PAL setting.
Worlds
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World 2 | |
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History
Legacy
Rainbow Arts allowed Accolade to hold its console license for Turrican II, but the game was actually rebranded and released as Universal Soldier, a tie-in to the Jean-Claude Van Damme 1992 movie. After that, Factor 5, the developers of the Amiga versions which the Mega Drive versions were based on, went on and produced Mega Turrican on the Mega Drive by themselves.
Magazine articles
- Main article: Turrican/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
also published in:
- Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #30: "January 1992" (199x-xx-xx)A database query error has occurred. Did you forget to run your application's database schema updater after upgrading?[3]
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Physical scans
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Technical information
ROM dump status
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512kB | 1991-06 | Cartridge (US) |
References
- ↑ ', "" (; ), page 42
- ↑ ', "" (; ), page 36
- ↑ ', "October 1991" (; 1991-xx-xx), page 76
- ↑ ', "Vol. 2, No. 3: June/July 1991" (; 1991-0x-xx), page 46/55 (46)
- ↑ ', "Vol. 2, No. 3: June/July 1991" (; 1991-0x-xx), page 46/47 (46)
- ↑ ', "Vol. 2, No. 3: June/July 1991" (; 1991-0x-xx), page 87
- ↑ ', "Vol. 2, No. 3: June/July 1991" (; 1991-0x-xx), page 81
- ↑ ', "Vol. 2, No. 3: June/July 1991" (; 1991-0x-xx), page 74/75 (74)
- ↑ ', "Vol. 2, No. 3: June/July 1991" (; 1991-0x-xx), page 84
- ↑ ', "Vol. 2, No. 3: June/July 1991" (; 1991-0x-xx), page 36/37 (36)
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 252
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 135
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 365
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 111
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 52
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 35
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 28
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 54
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 46
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 172
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 87
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 64
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 81
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 33
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 74
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 142
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 84
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 168
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 36
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 68
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 27
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 85
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 29
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