Trivia
The planet on which the action of Super Turrican takes place is called Katakis, which is also the title of a side-scrolling shoot'em up developed by Factor 5, the team responsible for Super Turrican.
In Super Turrican's intro, the planet is classified as "mostly harmless", which is most likely a reference to Douglas Adams' famous book "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", in which the earth is described as "mostly harmless"