The 8-Bit Wars: Turrican

[TL]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHx04DV7eTc

[Rogue Trooper]

Good use of host hardware on Speccy+CPC (poor sound aside), but you can tell this was written for the C64.

I'd go C64 by a good distance, then CPC with Speccy coming in close behind at no.3.

[108 Stars]

C64.
The game was just developed with the C64 in mind as Rogue Trooper said. It was made to make use of fluent scrolling and fast sprites. The ports are competent, but there had to be compromises.

[Rogue Trooper]

C64.
The game was just developed with the C64 in mind as Rogue Trooper said. It was made to make use of fluent scrolling and fast sprites. The ports are competent, but there had to be compromises.

According to this'ere Making Of...article i'm reading:

Turrican was the 1st C64 title with TRUE parallax scrolling, which proved a nightmare when converting game to the Amiga as developer said 'Vertical Parallax scrolling is very hard on the Amiga...there are probably only 10 titles that manage it properly.In the end we built the scrolling from sprites, but it was very hard'.

Factor 5 wanted to do the console conversions of Turrican 2, as they were big fans of the platforms, but Rainbow Arts sold the rights to Accolade, who's worse than Amiga version of Turrican (on the MD) upset them, but not as much as seeing the Universal Solider Licensce being slapped on a terrible version of Turrican 2 ('we cried').


Turrican's concept came from a lot of sources:

initally inspired by Data East's 'Psyco Nic Oscar' coin-op, but took the jumping from Mario games, exploring and searing from Metriod and the title screen and logo fro (Man-O-war's) 'Kings Of Metal' album art.

[TL]

This is an early video for an abandoned Atari 8-bit conversion of Turrican:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kthZdlr6wL0

[Rogue Trooper]

GB ver, C+VG's GO! Tim Boone+Paul Rand reviewers, Overall 88%.