History of Turrican - Episode 1 - Origins

The History of Turrican begins with a look at what inspired this classic game. Take a look at a forgotten 1987 arcade shooter, ponder the Metroid connection, and watch to the very end for a look ahead to Episode 2!

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• turrican
• videogame
• video game
• arcade
• oscar
• metroid
• commodore
• spectrum
• amstrad

[pacpacfujishima]

Great video, for part 2 don't forget to talk about the Commodore Amiga Turrican 2 and its awesome music that gave to the musician Chris Huelbeck worldwide fame and recognition.

[FunkyM217]

@pacpacfujishima Episode 3 will feature Turrican II, I'll be starting work on that one tomorrow : )

[fritske88]

cool, when will part 2 arive?

[FunkyM217]

@fritske88 Tentatively pencilled in for 2 weeks' time. I'm aiming for a fortnightly schedule, Shouldn't be too hard with this new screen-recording program.

[FunkyM217]

Let 'em come! I'm surprised nobody mentioned that I hadn't mentioned Super or Mega Turrican (which, btw, I'll get onto in episode 4)

[stoffern]

How many wedgies did you get in high school?

[StahlhandSoldatTurk]

interesting

[wandererlain]

Interesting. I'd never even heard of Psycho-Nics until I saw this vid. Turrican was the first game I played of it's kind. Cool vid.

[FernandezMustDie1988]

Aww, sweet teenage memories... and the best part: your voice still sounds like you're 14.

[ash81b4u]

Nice episode one. Look forward to the rest.

[ZXAmiga64]

looking forward to watching this !, ive argued quite a bit with people about OSCAR being an inspiration for this game, hope this video will help more people understand that OSCAR really was a huge inspiration for this.

[theTurrican2]

seriously!!!WHEN will a new decent game be made? Any rumours? I LOVE THIS GAME OVER ALL ELSE IN THE WORLD! Epic...nice episode btw;o)