A500 Turrican - Intro

[ToughGuyver]

Shit, I'm crying ...

[elmo44564]

Turrican kicks ass man :). them were the days.

[JayArgonaut]

The geniuses from Germany who went on to make the excellent Gamecube Rogue Squadron games. :)

[5gamerman]

the guy laughing reminds me of ncs

[Apathesis0]

I love that slow part of the intro before the drums come in...

[PanicKernel2008]

One of my best peferate Amiga game with Turrican 2 of course !

[thezodiak666]

this is the best... im 31 years old now. have seen a lot of games... this is the best!! by the fucking far!

[REALSlutHunter]

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 :)

[Colspex]

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.

[WatchRyder]

@Colspex

Wow Colspex that was pretty deep man!

+1

[masterpatric07]

having an amiga is like getting in a honemoon without having sex.cardinal sin.turican is freeware go and download it now.

[CloudMcall]

Amiga just love it, still use my Amiga A500, A1200.

[TheEPROM9]

I've got this on the Atari ST recently, it's a bloody excellent game!

[richardcavell]

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.

[ianfergalfarrar]

the best game soundtrack ever :)

[Combatripper1]

Kein PC-Spiel konnte mich jemals wieder so fesseln wie die alten Amiga-Spiele mit ihren Disketten, der Wartezeit beim Laden, der "Guru-Meditation" ab und zu und der damaligen Grafik! Wenn man Call of Duty 2 oder Need for Speed Teil 500 mit Turrican, Rick Dangerous und all den anderen Spielen vergleicht, dann verlieren die neuen Spiele - weil ihnen Seele und der Zauber der Kindheit fehlt!

Früher war eben doch alles besser - krass, wie sehr so ein Opa-Spruch zutrifft! Auch ohne Internet und Handy

[LordWhisper]

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.. :-))

[paulpm1974]

Man I wish My Atari ST had that kind of sound :)

I wish they released the STE a year later with Stereo and better hardware, took too long for the STE to come out.

Oh well, I still liked my ST :0

Outs.

[Probablyacowtbh]

"And remember shoot or die" Ahhhh so that's why I was crap at it. Too busy geeking out to the music methinks.

[Stillwell86]

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!

[SwiftRoman]

@Stillwell86 I have all the music as a demo disk as an ADF file. Whit that disk you can just choose the song you want. I think it also has all tracks of Turrican II.

[REALSlutHunter]

*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

[SwissRacingturbo]

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.

[sleepingforests]

I really love this game. Feel like playing it again now!

[orochimaru5]

and remember...

shoot or die!

[AlTaIrFrEaK]

WHAAAHH!!!!

i am 14 years old... (i know that isnt old xD)

but i had a amiga a500 as i was 2 :DDDD

that was my favourite game!!!!!!!

I LOVED IT!!

[bladewar2000]

L'Amiga pour toujours.... souvenir souvenir.... j'ai toujours mon A500 et mon A1200... les jeux Amiga resteront toujours dans nos mémoires..

[Malimedo02]

Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !!

Thattttttttttttt Rock's !! ;o)

Wo ist mein AMIIIGAA ;o)

[AlTaIrFrEaK]

@Malimedo02

lass uns einen amiga emulator downloaden >8DDD

[johny7even]

I love the music of this game!!!!!!! Huh, i need my amigaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa :pp

[Neolord12]

OMG,this is like a trip into the past!Best Times of Video gaming, new games can't reach ever....best music !!!!

[th3dig1tal0n3]

On real Amiga "Welcome to TurricaN" is accompanied by seek noise from floppy drive. Gives kinda creepy surround effect. :D

So it uses 5 hardware audio channels!

[porcorosso81]

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.

[TEMPHUiBISsupport]

On the 26th September 2009 the video of Pulsariffic Current is released.

If you like all things electronica then check out Temphuibis.

His influence of sound is based on games like Mario bros and Sonic the Hedgehog and other retro games

[eebrero]

Amazing game and awesome songs...

This brings back good memories. :-)

[psychogorilla]

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.

[hasstrologe]

Germany proudly presents

[r3igam]

Well...only you´re wrong!

Chris Hülsbeck is from Kassel/Hesse and as long as the swiss don´t go on a conquering spree in europe Kassel is, was and will be a city in the centre of germany;)

[FricoPalatino]

I confess!

Ich hab immer gedacht, er wäre Schweizer. Keine Ahnung warum... Hab's dann aber auch in der Wikipedia gelesen, dass er aus Kassel kommt.

Viele Grüße aus den Südalpen in die Kasseler "Hügellandschaft"! ;)

[Merrymettwurst]

awesome game

[pmsfotowelten]

wooooow...welcome to turrican...every single day, these words was great :-)

[ceffydriver]

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!

[LUNAPOLICE]

anyone ever finish the final level? i got stuck with all those fucking blocks in the way you had to shoot a path through!

[SwiftRoman]

Yes.. me... Godmode on....

[imagination43]

i LOVED this game, i remember playing this as a little kid and the WELCOME TO TURRICAN part always scared me lol

[poopskinTheLiar]

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.

[Mogart81]

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

AMAZING Turrican! 5/5

this song is qonderful, especially the mystic passage @ 2:36

Thanks 4 sharing this with us

regards ;)

[Absolutshelley]

Amiga 500 games were legendary cause of their music - best sound chip back then.

[rik11110]

never got into the game but could sit and listen to the music all night. Its incredible to think the quality of games thay could fit on 1/2 meg floppies. for me these guys had more talent than programmers nowadays, they had to squeeze so much into so little

[casperld]

ABSOLUTELY!! There was so much in these games!! Its mind boggling to think how they did it!

Turrican was one of my favourite games :)

[tiiff1]

Absolutely true!

[SwiftRoman]

Indeed.. same whit XenonII from brotherhood.

[TyltyI]

@rik11110

Yeah they sure did. So few resources, so much to do to appeal people, and they could do wonders.

Today it's the opposite, they have everything they need and it's much harder to surprise us.

[Mehulasi]

I remember this game forever because of the most awesome soundtrack ever made. Sonic the Hedgehog 1 & 2 as a good second place =)

[CatFiesta]

FUCKING AWESOME!

[barryoaten1]

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.

[usgloli]

This cheat was for Beast 2.....

;)

[barryoaten1]

i stand corrected,too many amiga memories,lol.I meant to say type in "bluesmobil" on the hi score table to get 99 lives.

[schpongled]

Holy crap, I can remember both of those! Wow it was ages ago, but listening to all these classic amiga tracks takes me right back.... So nostalgic.

[bikingmadman]

Awesome game sound track - still got my A500 and A1200 and can't get enough of this ultimate blast'em up shooter :o)

[benne666999]

I'm love it !!!

the game

the music

all!

[revengeofthedog]

Turrican was an absolutely amazing game. I still haven't played many console games which are better.

[xholychickenx]

OH MY GOD I LOVE THIS SO MUCH

[SiroOlio]

GOOSE BUMPS!! Oh childhood :] Now seeing this after 15 years, it brought all back to my head! Oh joy! <3 Love the game! Amiga rules!

[gamein60seconds]

I agree with that, Its possibly the most amazing piece of music on the C64. The game was so tightly coded for that machine that conversions to other machines were quite difficult. Very peeved not to have got it for the atari xl

[Ertyhert]

great

[ILOVENEDAH]

was turrican the one with the flash and bones level or something like that were you walked on meat or something, at least thats what i remember and my memories are allways severely flawed... this game is definetly cooler than metroid but nowadays it sucks i mean come on why cant i shoot upwards??i cant imagine anymore that that didnt bother me when i was younger man i had games were i cant shoot upwards!! but still the game was pretty good for not beeing able to shoot upwards

[Guuuuu]

da kann mozart einpacken ;)

[xholychickenx]

This is clearly made of win. Why, you may ask, because 8-bit music is just superior to anything.

[NovoBeatz]

YEAH!!! MORE IS NOT TO SAY!!!

^^

[lurynowicz]

"Having and Amiga and never plying this is criminal." Universal true!

[earthmanbrick]

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).

[DEANUS234]

The best of the best, lets show the St versiona owners what they are missing, the Amiga rules always.

Long live the SID chip which started it all.

[Triggerhappytel]

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.

[nogginzinc]

There is a fan-made game called Hurrican. I downloaded it recently and it's good game.

[VikutaaChyaaruzu]

Speaking of new-gen, I did hear of a few old Turrican games that made it to the Virtual Console -- Super Turrican, Super Turrican 2, and Mega Turrican. But you're right, I wish Factor 5 took some time and retooled Turrican for our current consoles -- like the Wii.

[lasercaution]

NOSTALGIA

Wow, CHRIS HÜELSBECK is a genius! I'm a gamesoundtrack freak and loved the game, sad I sold so much of it. Stupid me. Thanks for putting this up!

[realmatrix123]

Never forget it - i was a kid

[snikhaas]

Who made the music, was is chris hulsbeck ?

[wankaru]

that Turrican song will cruise in my mind 4ever.. and remember ... SHOOT OR DIE :)

[pbisant]

The best days of my life..

I want to be a kid again!

Greeting to all Turrican fans from Italy!

[moerislak]

AAARRRRGGGHHH! Still Turricane inside!!! Great!!

[beerserker555]

Turrican r0xXxorz!!!111!!

[tyler12345678910]

shoot or die!!!

We all played it...we are turrican boys for life

[Seano71]

I wonder if a FPS version will ever come out for it?

[nogginzinc]

Ha! like Metroid Prime did?

Might seem like a rip-off, though. kinda like Turrican was looked down on by some as a Metroid clone. It wasn't really, cause Turrican had alot of originality going for it.

[fotakatos]

@nogginzinc

Turrican is older than Metroid - in other words: those guyz who claim that Turrican is a rip-off are shitheads.

[VikutaaChyaaruzu]

Actually, Turrican DID come after Metroid (Nintendo released Metroid in around 1986 or so, and Turrican was released in 1990). I know of this cos I study the copyright dates. Nonetheless, both games have their similarities and differences, and are still great games that I play.

[fotakatos]

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.

[VikutaaChyaaruzu]

Sometimes, I wish I had an original Commodore 64 and the original version of Turrican for the Commodore 64/128. Although I have Super Turrican on the Super NES for the Wii Virtual Console, it just doesn't seem to be enough... makes me feel like I'm on the Earth longer than Ken Laszlo has produced his music.

[fotakatos]

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. ;)

[VikutaaChyaaruzu]

Meh, I guess I'll get both versions then and lay bathed in sweat for another night. Both versions, believe it or not, have their own unique music -- both games having their music written by Chris Huelsbeck (except for "Subsong 2" on the C64/C128 version, which is actually Vince DiCola's "Escape" from the 1986 movie "The Transformers").

[fotakatos]

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.

[VikutaaChyaaruzu]

Some people complain of being unable to hear some music on the C64 version, but I know of someone who has the whole C64 soundtrack of the Turrican 1 music. It is unknown about what is causing the in-game music to not be heard in Turrican 1. Fortunately, I could alternatively buy the Amiga version for my Amiga 500 -- but I'd also need a working Amiga 1080 Monitor.

Commodore International and Amiga Inc. should be re-shown such masterpieces like this after all these years.

[fotakatos]

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..

[VikutaaChyaaruzu]

o.o I did more research and the sources said that Huelsbeck did make the music for the C64 version of Turrican 2 -- the original version of "The Desert Rocks" does appear in the game, and I had listened to it a while ago. I compared it, side-by-side, with the Amiga conversion, and the C64 version sounded like it was made from a MIDI-based cellphone ringtone maker. XD

[fotakatos]

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.

[fotakatos]

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).

[VikutaaChyaaruzu]

OK then. I should buy the C64/128 and Amiga versions of both Turrican 1 and 2 simply to see if the proof does lie in the pudding. In the words of the U.S. Army, HOOAH!!!

[schpongled]

Listening to the music just takes me right back.... I want to be a kid again!

[howdydoodly]

i agree life smells of work now.poor fackin show. ;)

[betonglasmix]

man i was searching for that so long, welcome 2 turrican... reminds me of the good old amiga days, thx dude

[entertheblue]

A jewel in gaming, running on Amiga's 7MHz cpu! All that action, weapons, huge levels.. They used to make great games back then.

Amiga500, respect.

[Ebb1993]

The voice sounded scary.

"Welcome to Turrican! Be my guest! Another day, another time! And remember... shoot or die!

Ah-ha-ha-ha!"

[angellev]

Best intro music EVER!!!

Good old days...

[modcasting]

thanx for you great job !

[NabannaVelConcorde]

I love this game so much!

[Q3DM7]

yes, this game was sooo great!

[uargh]

memories

:-)

awesome

[licksers]

paul van der valk and chris huelsbeck rules!! space hero music!! hehe.

[zeusgb]

Chris Huelsbeck rules!