@tomscholes Turrican 2 on the Speccy was a total pece of junk man!! The controls are horrible, our Turrican is not colorful, it doesn't sound much better than this one even with a soundchip and there are many many other things that are wrong with Turrican II for the Speccy. The only good thing is that it told you to rewind, stop and play the tape.
It seems to be a completely different game from the Amiga version. Kudos to the Specky for once; sorry, but I never had one so don't have much love for it.
its been said a million times but i say it again. i prefered C64 for graphics and sound/music. but for playability and a kind of 'spirit' all of its own the spectrum wins. which is best? id say neither. both worked well in their own way.
The guy that reviewed this was funny and entertaining. When he mentions how c64 owners berated the spectrum at the start- hes right- I was a proud c64 owner,and always too the piss outta my friends spectrum versions of games! But..this looks really good. It was a smashing game on all formats and the speccy here does a stand up job.
Yea it is nice in the graphics department. Obviously doesn't have the scrolling speed of the C64 version, but it has its own charms. The David Berry games: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Tintin on the Moon, Dan Dare 3, Savage, Extreme, Smash TV etc are more examples of really nice colourful games on the machine.
no c64 owner ever said anything to me, maybe because they were in the minority at my school
notanfningain 4 months ago
why does he have mismatched colour boots?
ljj67 1 year ago
A shame there was no MSX version of this !
dark1ankh 1 year ago
It is a good little port, even if the sound's not up to much. And I wonder how many Speccy owners went on to buy Macs...
FunkyM217 1 year ago
there was a turrican for genesis that had great game play, but w/ graphics that had a little bit 2 b desired. Now for ZX this is pretty good!
yaywhewclips242 1 year ago
Ever tried the Amstrad CPC port of Turrican? Pretty much the same as the Spectrum but much more colourful, oh and of course no colour clash.
andyukmonkey 1 year ago
Spectrum was an awesome machine that sometimes did plenty of of stuff C64 had trouble with
C64 was awesome too and pretty much did wank over the Speccy in lots of ways
I loved them both and i'm highly respectful of this great time and memories it now provides
Makes me laugh when people still slag on these great machine like their lives depend on doing so
In truth the Spectrum was a bit shite in a few crucial areas but it remains one of the most charming machines of our time
Adropacrich2 2 years ago
EXTREMELY inept reviews but strangely compelling! :)
MustNotRead 2 years ago
Turrican 2 on the Speccy was far better... In fact Turrican 1 was never much good on any machine if I remember correctly..
tomscholes 2 years ago
@tomscholes Turrican 2 on the Speccy was a total pece of junk man!! The controls are horrible, our Turrican is not colorful, it doesn't sound much better than this one even with a soundchip and there are many many other things that are wrong with Turrican II for the Speccy. The only good thing is that it told you to rewind, stop and play the tape.
hoques1432 1 year ago
It seems to be a completely different game from the Amiga version. Kudos to the Specky for once; sorry, but I never had one so don't have much love for it.
MagikGimp 2 years ago
its been said a million times but i say it again. i prefered C64 for graphics and sound/music. but for playability and a kind of 'spirit' all of its own the spectrum wins. which is best? id say neither. both worked well in their own way.
xyfb 2 years ago 4
Ergh...
This is a porting disaster. the Speccy was definately capable of better, although a game like Turry was just out of it's league.
poopskinTheLiar 3 years ago 4
what is ZX spectrum? (noob here)
RetroGameRoom 3 years ago
That's fucking blasphemy that is!
casperld 2 years ago
Only the most advanced games console of all time.
edbingey 2 years ago
Awesome it wat it is
phreakindee 2 years ago
Well, it's certainly Colourful...
FunkyM217 3 years ago
this guy from intro screen ... its hellknight(tm) from doom(tm) ... ;)
xchmelmilos 4 years ago
It's Gordon Brown's Giant Clunkin' Fist!
Fawltykog 4 years ago
I'm still waiting for the +4
Lebowsk1 4 years ago
Yeah the Spectrum is The Machine hehe.
Actually I know it's really great game, but I wasn't a big fan of this game on the Spectrum.
Loved it on the Amiga
Haller1977 4 years ago
The guy that reviewed this was funny and entertaining. When he mentions how c64 owners berated the spectrum at the start- hes right- I was a proud c64 owner,and always too the piss outta my friends spectrum versions of games! But..this looks really good. It was a smashing game on all formats and the speccy here does a stand up job.
tempestgopherit 4 years ago
Wow. This is actually a pretty gorgeous game. I didn't think the Spectrum was capable of this.
itstheit 4 years ago
Yea it is nice in the graphics department. Obviously doesn't have the scrolling speed of the C64 version, but it has its own charms. The David Berry games: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Tintin on the Moon, Dan Dare 3, Savage, Extreme, Smash TV etc are more examples of really nice colourful games on the machine.
collieuk 4 years ago