Mega Turrican

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Mega Turrican
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Data East (US), Sony Electronic Publishing (EU)
Developer:
Peripherals supported: Six Button Control Pad (Mega Drive)
Genre: Action

















Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code
Sega Mega Drive
US 		$59.9559.95[1] T-13086
Sega Mega Drive
EU 		T-93246-50
Sega Mega Drive
UK

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Mega Turrican is an entry in the Turrican series, released for the Sega Mega Drive in 1994. It is technically a direct sequel to Turrican II, which saw release on the system in the rebranded form, Universal Soldier (which in itself is a sequel to Turrican).

Mega Turrican was the first and only Turrican game to be produced with Sega hardware in mind. It was developed and completed in 1993 by Factor 5, however was put on hiatus due to an inability to find a publisher for the game. Rainbow Arts, responsible for the original releases on home computers such as the Amiga, were unable to publish it themselves, however would go on to publish an Amiga port of the game by NEON Studios, relabeled Turrican 3. The Amiga version of the game was consequently released before the Mega Drive version, despite being finished at a later date.

Mega Turrican was eventually published in 1994 by Data East in North America, and Sony Electronic Publishing in Europe. Much of the content of Mega Turrican (most notably the music) was recycled for use in the Super Nintendo game, Super Turrican.

Production credits

  • A Factor 5 Production
  • A Game by Thomas Engel
  • Mega Turrican
  • Designed by: Thomas Engel, Frank Matzke, Julian Eggebrecht
  • Main Programming: Thomas Engel
  • Additional Programming: Holger Schmidt
  • Graphics Design: Frank Matzke
  • Additional Graphics: Ramiro Vaca
  • Music and Soundeffects: Chris Hülsbeck
  • Map Design: Thomas Engel, Julian Eggebrecht, Willi Bäcker, Lutz Osterkorn
  • Additional Production and Support: Rene Henke, Silvia Schmidt, Anja, Jens Petersam, Peter Drescher, Rudolf Stember
  • Produced by: Julian Eggebrecht
  • Based on a Character Created by: Manfred Trenz
  • This game was created using Pegasus Mega Drive
  • All programs, graphics, music, soundeffects, and other data in any form related to this game © 1994 by Factor 5 Productions
  • Regards to: Achim Moller, Stefan Tsuparidis, Nils Meier, Sven Meier, Andreas Escher, Andreas Hagemann, Axel Bialke, Bitmap Brothers, Blue Byte, Christian Awizio, Christoph Weise, Cybermedia, Dirk Jagalski, Doc Bobo, Graftgold, Hans Ippisch, Heinrich Lenhardt, Jan Delgado, Klaus Dieter Hartwig, Kristin Dodt, Lucasfilm Games, Marc Bonn, Neon, Renegade, Sirus Ahmadi, Sven Werner, Thalion, Torsten Opperman, Tina Lustig, Ulli Mühl, Powerplay and the Chillur Empire
  • Presented by: Data East
Source:
In-game credits


  • Special Thanks to: Jonathan Seidenfeld, David Hoffman, Brian Balistreri, Sirus Ahmadi, Factor 5
Source:
US manual[3]

Magazine articles

Main article: Mega Turrican/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

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Print advert in Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #57: "April 1994" (1994-xx-xx)
also published in:
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Print advert in Mean Machines Sega (UK) #26: "December 1994" (1994-10-28)
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Physical scans

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
83 №157, p143[6]
85 №56, p50[1]
77 №17, p74
89 №20, p52-54[7]
83 №20, p30-31[8]
70 №29, p48-50
89 №48, p138-139
87 №54, p60-61
78 №32, p48
80 №2, p37[9]
Sega Mega Drive
 82
Based on
10 reviews
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
1700 igr dlya Sega (RU)
60
[10]
Alaab Alcomputtar (SA)
75
[11]
Computer & Video Games (UK)
83
[6]
Electronic Games (1992-1995) (US) NTSC-U
87
[12]
Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U
82
[13]
Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1 (RU)
60
[14]
GameFan (US) NTSC-U
90
[15]
Game Players (US) NTSC-U
88
[16]
GamePro (US) NTSC-U
85
[1]
Gamers (DE) PAL
73
[17]
GamesMaster (UK)
77
[18]
MAN!AC (DE) NTSC
83
[19]
Mega (UK) NTSC-U
83
[20]
Megablast (DE) PAL
80
[21]
Mega Force (FR) NTSC-U
93
[22]
Mega Fun (DE) NTSC-U
88
[23]
Mega Play (US) NTSC-U
86
[24]
MegaTech (UK) NTSC-U
70
[25]
Mean Machines Sega (UK) NTSC-U
89
[26]
Player One (FR)
89
[27]
Play Time (DE) PAL
65
[28]
Power Unlimited (NL)
90
[29]
Sega Power (UK) NTSC-U
87
[30]
Sega Pro (UK) NTSC-U
78
[31]
Sega Zone (UK) NTSC-U
83
[32]
SuperGamePower (BR) NTSC-U
80
[9]
Tricks 16 bit (RU)
70
[33]
Video Games (DE) NTSC-U
80
[34]
VideoGames (US) NTSC-U
80
[35]
Sega Mega Drive
 80
Based on
29 reviews

Mega Turrican

Mega Drive, US
MegaTurrican MD US Box.jpg
Cover
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Cart
Megaturrican md us manual.pdf
Manual
Mega Drive, EU
MegaTurrican MD EU Box.jpg
Cover
MegaTurrican MD EU Cart.jpg
Cart

Technical information

ROM dump status

System Hash Size Build Date Source Comments
Sega Mega Drive
✔
CRC32 fe898cc9
MD5 8d73db292f0f4c838e72086fb3d5896b
SHA-1 180285dbfc1613489f1c20e9fd6c2b154dec7fe2
1MB 1993-12 Cartridge (US)
Sega Mega Drive
✔
CRC32 b1d15d0f
MD5 de3c63abb34a54d264f8d5ea1bcb40d9
SHA-1 00ad2cf231bedbd373253b169e170e8b0db4c86a
1MB 1993-12 Cartridge (EU)
Sega Mega Drive
 ?
CRC32 11326504
MD5 2a69cba305fc404f9e50b3ba1683d3a3
SHA-1 5955517511ac064b66274f60e984d2ffee84a91a
1MB 1993-12 Page

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 File:GamePro US 056.pdf, page 52 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:GamePro US 056.pdf_p52" defined multiple times with different content
  2. ↑ File:SegaMagazine UK 11.pdf, page 88
  3. ↑ File:Megaturrican md us manual.pdf, page 19
  4. ↑ GamePro, "April 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 33
  5. ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "May 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 35
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 File:CVG UK 157.pdf, page 143 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:CVG UK 157.pdf_p143" defined multiple times with different content
  7. ↑ File:MeanMachinesSega20UK.pdf, page 52
  8. ↑ File:Mega UK 20.pdf, page 30
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 File:SuperGamePower BR 002.pdf, page 37 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:SuperGamePower BR 002.pdf_p37" defined multiple times with different content
  10. ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 127
  11. ↑ Alaab Alcomputtar, "" (SA; 1995-08-xx), page 25
  12. ↑ Electronic Games (1992-1995), "March 1994" (US; 1994-02-22), page 68
  13. ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "February 1994" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 40
  14. ↑ Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1, "" (RU; 1999-xx-xx), page 332
  15. ↑ GameFan, "Volume 2, Issue 4: March 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 14
  16. ↑ Game Players, "Vol. 7 No. 5 May 1994" (US; 1994-0x-xx), page 50
  17. ↑ Gamers, "Januar 1995" (DE; 1995-01-08), page 32
  18. ↑ GamesMaster, "May 1994" (UK; 1994-04-28), page 74
  19. ↑ MAN!AC, "05/94" (DE; 1994-04-13), page 37
  20. ↑ Mega, "May 1994" (UK; 1994-04-21), page 26
  21. ↑ Megablast, "2/94" (DE; 1994-03-30), page 34
  22. ↑ Mega Force, "Juillet/Août 1994" (FR; 1994-07-04), page 94
  23. ↑ Mega Fun, "05/94" (DE; 1994-04-20), page 102
  24. ↑ Mega Play, "February 1994" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 44
  25. ↑ MegaTech, "May 1994" (UK; 1994-04-21), page 48
  26. ↑ Mean Machines Sega, "June 1994" (UK; 1994-04-30), page 1
  27. ↑ Player One, "Décembre 1994" (FR; 1994-1x-xx), page 138
  28. ↑ Play Time, "2/95" (DE; 1995-01-04), page 112
  29. ↑ Power Unlimited, "Jaargang 2, Nummer 6, Juni 1994" (NL; 1994-05-25), page 49
  30. ↑ Sega Power, "May 1994" (UK; 1994-03-31), page 54
  31. ↑ Sega Pro, "May 1994" (UK; 1994-04-21), page 48
  32. ↑ Sega Zone, "May 1994" (UK; 1994-04-xx), page 26
  33. ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 19
  34. ↑ Video Games, "7/94" (DE; 1994-06-29), page 88
  35. ↑ VideoGames, "May 1994" (US; 1994-0x-xx), page 80
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