88
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100 point score based on reviews from various critics.
3.8
MobyScore
5 point score based on user ratings.

Description

Three-headed demon Morgul has been influencing people's dreams to create nightmares, but more recently these nightmares have become real. Only Turrican can save them in this fast paced side scrolling shoot-em up. It features 5 worlds and 13 levels of challenging gameplay.

Gameplay is conceptually simple: just jump, shoot and explore. However, this game puts a lot of emphasis on finding and using the 10 different weapons Turrican can collect.

Alternate Titles

  • "Hurrican" -- Working title

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The Press Says

Pixel-Heroes.de Aug, 2003 10 out of 10 100
Computer and Video Games (CVG) Aug, 1990 94 out of 100 94
Zzap! Aug, 1990 94 out of 100 94
CU Amiga Jun, 1990 91 out of 100 91
Retrogaming.it Feb 13, 2008 9 out of 10 90
Amiga Format Aug, 1990 88 out of 100 88
Amiga Action Jul, 1990 83 out of 100 83
Power Play Jun, 1990 81 out of 100 81
Datormagazin May 23, 1990 8 out of 10 80
Svenska Hemdatornytt Apr, 1990 80 out of 100 80

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no one but me cares about cover art 3 Pseudo_Intellectual (40571)
Oct 20, 2011

Trivia

Cover

The cover art for the Game Boy, Sega Genesis and TurboGrafx-16 was painted by Julie Bell and is entitled Turrican.

References

The title screen of Turrican was obviously inspired by the cover of the Manowar album Kings of Metal.

Remake

In June 2007, a freeware Windows remake with the title Hurrican was released.

Title

The name Turrican comes from the Italian name "Turricano", which the developers found in a phone book of Düsseldorf (Germany).

Awards

  • Power Play
    • Issue 01/1991 - Best Sound in 1990 (Amiga version)
Information also contributed by irelandgamer94 and Sciere.


This entry was contributed by Quapil Bronze Star Contributing Member (4756), POMAH (26139), Famine3h (300), RKL Bronze Star Contributing Member (5616), Martin Smith (63361), quizzley7 (21260) and ケヴィン Bronze Star Contributing Member (3649)
 

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