Turrican (Amiga)

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cover art by Celal Kandemiroglu
            Series : Turrican
         Developer : Factor 5
             Music : Chris Hülsbeck
            Genres : Run and gun
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not completed.
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It rules with an Iron Fist

Analysis

  • The level 4 music ('Enemy Mine') always reminded me of 'One for the Books' from the 'Miracle Mile' soundtrack by Tangerine Dream from 1989.

Log entries

    1991-00-00
  • Turrican was a bit underwhelming to me because I ended up playing it *after* Turrican II. However, Chris Huelsbecks music for the first level had a feature that was very interesting to me: an interweaving chord glissando, possibly inspired by Xenakis' 'Metastasis'. In Turrican, this was an interesting combination of the tonal and the atonal. I later used the same type of glissando for the final boss of 140.
  • 2014-08-30
  • I haven't played this for years, and wanted to try a quick game. I lost my third life on level 2.
  • 2014-09-07
  • There is a hiscore cheat 'Bluesmobil' that gives 99 lives. Maybe worth a try?
  • 2014-09-08
  • I tried the BLUESMOBIL cheat and played through level 1-2/5, but then the game hung.
  • 2014-09-20
  • My floppy may have a read error on it. It hung after a couple of levels. Too bad.

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