A500 Turrican II - Intro

The sequel and considered by many, the best 'Turrican' ever made, 'Turrican II' showed what Factor 5 could pull of when they had the time combined with the previous experience with 'Turrican'. The end result is simply a dream arcade game, with even a reference to 'Katakis' throw in for good measure. Once again, Chris Hüelsbeck proved his skill, by making me plug my Amiga sound output to my stereo, so I could tape the songs and listen to them in my walkman.

[@rafadarkside9029]

Mr. Chris Huelsbeck! A whole bunch of Amiga players from all around the world we salute you!

[@ShiryuGL]

Hear, hear!

[@thor1829]

Even non-Amiga gamers like myself salute mr Huelsbeck for his works of art!

[@jipostus]

This is one of the best soundtracks ever made. Sadly most people these days don't know that this series even exist.

[@ShiryuGL]

I'm just glad I was there at the time to fully appreciate the whole Amiga experience.

[@PawelPipovic]

That's one of the eightiest music i remember :)

[@MediaMunkee]

I didn't have an Amiga growing up, hell it took until around 2006 for me to first hear of its existence, so I don't have the nostalgia for it and most of the games I've tried (Turrican included) are very much a product of their time to the point that it's really hard for me to get any enjoyment out of them. That said, most Amiga _spritework_ is phenomenal and this is one of my favourite chiptunes of all time.

[@levelminusone]

This was THE BOMB on Amiga 500!

[@andyukmonkey]

Computer game devs struggled with design and control compared with console game devs it seems. It's a horrific struggle to avoid getting all of your energy sapped all the time by enemies flying all over the place.

[@topdecker1334]

Developer: "Here, make a theme song for this" God: "Sure"

[@AbHotten]

Chris Hülsbeck: "Hey God, stop taking credit for my work!"

[@kemikemi756]

Lol

[@benbaselet2026]

Good grief man, these should come with a warning label! I nearly spilled my drink. 6/5

[@MRGAMER-ql9hw]

If you lived through the 80s and 90s You experienced life

[@chrisstrijbosch9318]

spoken true words of and oldskool generation

[@ShiryuGL]

IMO all we won in technology we lost in imagination and resourcefulness.

[@willvatcher1898]

Cant say i agree here. while i agree they were resourceful designers back then, they werent nearly as professional as they are now.

[@craigbroadfoot1851]

Will Vatcher Talking specifically about chiptunes, this was an incredible art-form of the period using limited resources to create amazing tunes. Games now are more like movies and obviously technically better, but something has been lost as well - that’s why people still gravitate towards chiptunes and retro games.

[@glenmcl]

Facts

[@willvatcher1898]

@@xiyx9748 your referring to yourself as the fool i take it? Also showing a lack of knowledge about the history of the industry

[@megaman1806]

@@willvatcher1898 While I disagree with you, you are hardly a fool for that statement You may know a lot more than I do but I feel we lost resourcefulness. But you do get people online just trolling a lot of them are just children or mentally ill so just ignore them. Though sometimes I like to have a Lil fun retaliating lol

[@megna1]

One of the best memories of my youth.

[@ShiryuGL]

Great youths we had.

[@CML_666]

2023 still remembering THAT time We all had the great times and we're connected between each other by this great Amiga Thing in our youths time I Salute to designer all games on Amiga and all players in this invisible community worldwide They all made unbelievable step in the gaming Take care out there !!

[@RalphZ80]

This game is a work of art and one of the jewels in the Amiga crown. Manfred Trenz and Chris Huelsbeck pulled off hundreds of colors, 50fps and 7-channel sound in 1991, pushing the Amiga so hard it made me believe in voodoo. Plus, it helped that Huelsbeck made his best compositions right here, fully justifying the multichannel sound.

[@Kettenhund82]

Such a great comment on that gem Turrican II

[@blex5579]

voodoo is echt..

[@urielwizzy4680]

true true

[@wbb77]

and they squeezed the game on ONE disk!

[@stuCameraman1]

50hz interlace....not 50fps....no tv could support 50fps back then

[@jmac79ers]

after 20 years of storage, i have finally fired up the old amiga. my 9 year old boy is now playing this, haha

[@ShiryuGL]

Excellent machine.

[@robertgijsen]

Better make sure the battery gets replaced if you haven't done so ny now. The battery leak does permanent damage, and so many innocent Amiga 500s have sadly been killed by that...

[@commongivemeanicknam]

@@robertgijsen Whoa I didn't know that. Got one behind me that was sleeping for over 20 years now... :/

[@johny7even]

Goosebumps literally all over my body. I used to play this on an Commodore Amiga in the 90s . The music haunted me till today 😵😵😵😵😵

[@opa-age]

I watched this intro hundreds of times, and then barely played the actual game lol.

[@Arska777999]

This is one song from Turrican 2. It's a great song in itself, but then you need to realize that there were 10+ levels in the game and each level had a theme of its own... and some levels had a separate theme for an end boss. Each piece of music was excellent. I have no idea how many times I played through this game, but I know that without all this great in-game music I'd have completed the game far fewer times.

[@rotorcraft68]

Quite possibly THE _BEST INTRO OF _*_ALL TIME!!!_*

[@bitsnbobsbobsnbits368]

one of the best computer soundtracks to date

[@ShiryuGL]

Indeed.

[@bitsnbobsbobsnbits368]

@@ShiryuGL still so good in 2022, gonna have this playing at my funeral

[@andrewpearce1723]

Chris huslebeckkis a seriously awesome composer still loving the tunes 30 years on

[@conganator5822]

Chris Huelsbeck, der Held meiner Jugend. Hab die ganze Zeit nur Gänsehaut...

[@ShiryuGL]

Likewise.

[@wolfen337]

Chris Hülsbeck shook everyone’s hand and walked out the door. Three weeks later, Hülsbeck walked in the door with music in his hand. The music began. I was sweating. I am impossible to satisfy, I thought. I was cheering! How did this thin man with a dackel dog, seize the soul of every character and set it to music?! Then it dawned on me. Simple. How could I have not known at our first meeting that Chris Hülsbeck is German."

[@haselnussfee8590]

Ah, Turrican, Great Giana Sisters, Super Cars 2, Speedball II, Monkey Island ... the first Civilization, needing 1 MB the vanilla Amiga 500 didn't have; Hülsbeck, the Bitmap Brothers ... great times. I really miss them.

[@ShiryuGL]

The best of times.

[@mihirpurohit5653]

Literally listed my favourite ever games Parasol stars?

[@ronnie9891]

Wow...... After all these years this brought a tear to my eyes... my childhood right there

[@alexhaddon9868]

Remember hauling my amiga 500 to school for my presentation on computer graphics . Even the teacher was blown away. School only had apple Macs. Thanks for the awesome memories. My other fav soundtrack is project x

[@ShiryuGL]

My pleasure.

[@thegeforce6625]

Greatest flex on not just your classmates, but your entire school.

[@ncry]

You don't hear game music like this anymore. This is just among the best tunes ever made to a game.

[@fefraga2008]

Showing all the strength of the first sound capabilities of computers.

[@jothain]

@@fefraga2008 It's incredibly impressive track, especially considering that. Hüelsbeck really took everything out of Amiga's sound capabilities. Many other impressive stuff too like c64 commando. Guy made better music track for c64 than expensive arcade were. Correction that was Hubbard.

[@andreaskohaus1174]

You should search for Tiny Thor Soundtrack!!! Newest creation by Hülsbeck (and Fabio). It's superb. Could have been Turrican-music, too.

[@-Burs]

Chills from first to last second. And a tear in my eye.

[@emmaevans9498]

Same here, so much childhood nostalgia as that theme gears up

[@2K8Si]

At 50 seconds, is where the music goes from awesome to EPIC... EVERY SINGLE TIME.

[@Gigas0101]

I always loved this song, the build-up to the iconic turrican motif just screamed "It's back!" like nothing else.

[@skabbymuff111]

I ABSOLUTELY WET MY PANTS TO THIS UPON 1ST LOADING UP AS A KID! THE MUSIC IS EPIC, BUILT FOR HEROES!

[@finjakke]

This was the pinnacle of the Amiga. The best game music ever made IMHO.

[@Strap1205]

Absolutely unmatched for the amiga era and still a timeless masterpiece of computergame music. Absolutely phantastic!

[@kocsis1978]

I remember we was playing on the commodore 64 at my best friend when i've got a VHS tape with some amiga 500 games on it, recorded for us to introduce the system and games. I still remember the firsg time when i've seen this screen with this music, i was absolutely mesmerised then i've seen the gameplay too, i fell in love straight away. Im playing games since 80's constantly but this game is in my top 5. I'd love that era and although i've still got two amiga 500 i truly miss the early 90's, it were a pure joy to be a gamer then.

[@ray-sattler]

I miss the limitations of the time back then so much, born in 85 my childhood and youth was the best time for gaming and i am glad i was there, this awesome times will never come back, LAN-Parties with Unreal Tournament and C&C, playing consoles 4 player split screen, games like Goldeneye and Perfect Dark, such a wonderful time

[@GavinFreedomLover]

The bit that starts at 0:49 is absolute genius!!

[@AshleyPomeroy]

It takes a certain amount of confidence to come up with a killer main theme tune - and then only play it for ten seconds in an entire eight-minute composition.

[@CMDRGreyWolfe]

Agree. Love that section.

[@Xeneonic]

@@AshleyPomeroy 2:09 it repeats, 3:54 is the same on a higher note, and finally at 6:41 on an even higher note.

[@maxmaximo9227]

Maybe the best Amiga game and one of the best ever. The music is awesome.

[@VIdeokr6]

Hab damals den Amiga nur so stundenlang laufenlassen Disk rein Stereoanlage an und laut. Die Orginaldisk hab ich heute noch!! Cris Hülsbeck macht immer noch Musik fur Games zb.Geo Drop HD für IOS der Track ist auch wieder super Schöne Zeit gewesen.

[@maxdunte4061]

Video Sechs das war eine geile Zeit. Ich höre mir noch heute den Sound noch gerne an.

[@alexstone7035]

I spent months and a fair bit of dosh coaxing a dead A1200 back to life just to play this game again. And it was totally worth it.

[@ShiryuGL]

Alex Stone Time well spent.

[@alexstone7035]

It was indeed.

[@turricaned]

Alex Stone If it ran on the A1200 without boot options/Relokick, then it was clearly very well-coded too...

[@woafire]

The best video-game theme ever. To hear this famous tune brings me back into good old times. Deep memories awake now.

[@Rienrodrys]

One of the best game ever made.

[@CMDRGreyWolfe]

Hearing this intro after all those decades takes me straight back to the teen years of my life on a wave of nostalgia that brings both happiness that it was, but sadness that it's gone.

[@Dowlphin]

This kind of music had such a great influence on my musical mind (along with Megaman theme and various tracker modules and generally anything electronic from Scandinavia).

[@SlyBeast]

That is unbelievable.

[@ShiryuGL]

So it is!

[@PikaLink91]

0:50 my favorite part :D I am not old enough to remember the Amiga, my story begins with the PS1 and N64, but dammit when I go back in time and listen to gold like this, I'd wish I had been there!! :D In fact, my first exposure to this game in particular was at an 80s party last your in october, where all kinds of different 80s consoles/computer hardware had been set up for our entertainment. Among them was the Amiga and a variety of games, among them was this game. It caught the corner of my eye with its flashy titlescreen, and although I could barely hear anything over the noise from the party, this amazing track still managed to cut through and I instantly fell in love!! :D

[@GavinFreedomLover]

+PikaLink91 , it was the golden age of gaming

[@wowsnav]

Maybe some day gaming can go back to its superior roots where casuals don't run everything, and where we don't have bratty children who talk about how they wish they could go back in time to the "superior gaming days" that they weren't even alive to experience. Look at the garbage we have today for shooters. Overwatch? D44M? Call of Duty? Battlefield? All are terrible in comparison to Quake and Unreal. Gaming just keeps getting worse.

[@690_5]

wowsnav I think I like TF Classic and TF2 out of the shooters now a days.

[@foulplay99]

Doom 2016 was actually great, easily as much fun as the original Doom games and Quake.

[@trailwaver404]

PikaLink91 SO true my other favorite part is 3:54 Holy shit I'm in love with this music!!!

[@nivaavina2403]

This is AMAZING MUSIC AND INTRO STORY...... what a legend!!!!

[@Hoto74]

It is really amazing how this sounds even today that good. Not the song itself, this is great as always, I mean the Amiga sound itself.

[@DoctorHades]

Incredible music. Chris Huelsbeck, Rob Hubbard (Master of Magic) and Chris Follin (Ghouls 'n' Ghosts)... three of my favourite music composers. This tune is amazing though and still sounds energetic and catchy, all these years later. It is impressive how much they got out of fairly limited hardware. These days music is technically better but most of it isn't memorable in the same way as these old chipset tunes.

[@NALTOHQ]

Didnt live to see the Amiga, nor the Genesis, nor SNES. But I now have a Sega Genesis and a repro copy of Mega Turrican and original copy of Ballistic’s conversion of the original Turrican and I love this series to bits.

[@ShiryuGL]

Nice!

[@AlTheRelic]

This song is bone chillingly good, it gets to the soul, it's epic!!!

[@DrBossKey]

So good, I'm suuper stoked that Chris did the soundtrack for my game, Interstellar Sentinel. We channeled the spirit of Turrican goodness!

[@lucenerax]

wow.. such a magical time, emotional listening to it now!! :D

[@mnieuwhof]

The best!!! Amiga 500 forever!!!

[@DrZaius-wz2ww]

Past, present and future. This sound will always be with me. Like the Force. I´ve been groiwing up with Turrican, back in those days ;) . Me and my friend, we used to play this hour by our just to get into the flow of music and gaming. I still hear this on my phone. Atm its the amiga Turrican medley. Chris Huelsbeck did a great job. I am very thankfull! Ich verbeuge mich für so viele schöne Stunden exzellenter Unterhaltung

[@ShiryuGL]

Same here.

[@capbarker]

I come back every year or so to relive this amazing intro

[@christianherbst674]

Did you ever wonder what a legend might sound like? Well, you've got yer answer!...

[@PoundSound]

Most epic game intro ever!

[@shugaroony]

Even after all these years its still fantastic - one of the truly great gaming soundtracks of them all! (Decent game as well!)

[@Gollumfili]

Absolute master piece, game and music.

[@secundus6457]

I have never had Amiga and never played or even seen Turrican before, but it sounds brilliant. One of the best.

[@ShiryuGL]

You had to be there!

[@Novous]

when a song is so good, UMG copyright strikes it

[@ShiryuGL]

Indeed!

[@stigludwigsen]

One of the best game soundtracks ever, 10/10.

[@TheWatcherxx99]

👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

[@danielmclellan4561]

Glad I was born when I was I got to enjoy these back on the day

[@Lee-lm7pk]

stunning soundtrack and amazing gameplay, Trurrican II is one of the best retro game to ever exist in my view

[@Ragefatha]

Am I crazy? I still think this sounds fantastic to this day. What a superb soundtrack...brilliant game, and its been about 20 years but I'm sure it was only 2 disks as well. How did they manage to fit so much into so little? There used to be a computer shop in Manchester UK called Microbyte back in the day, and I remember when this came out they had it playing all day, every day on a loop for weeks on end and I don't think anyone tired of it. I miss these days of computer music...

[@ShiryuGL]

You ain't crazy.

[@docdoom79]

The original T2 was one disk only (which usually fit only 880kb) and factor 5 figured out a way to pack a little bit more onto it. That was their copy protection and the reason that all the 2M pirated versions had 2 disks (in 2014!!! the first 1 disk pirate version was released)

[@Ragefatha]

@@docdoom79 Is that a fact? Thats incredible if they managed to fit everything onto just the 1 disk! I have to be honest, back in the day my copy of Turrican was the pirate version along with 99.9% of the rest of my games lol. In fact I think the only games that I owned outright was Beach Volley and The Secret of Monkey Island 2. Piracy was so easy and so prevalent back then...even the years before pirating my CPC and Spectrum games on cassette. Such different times, but yeah I am amazed they managed to get the whole of Turrican 2 onto one disk only...magicians.

[@gooseywhispers]

There is no better intro music in existence

[@jimboeth1]

This gave me goosepimples. I remember the first time I let the title screen run and the "hidden" backstory came on. EXCITE.

[@foxbaker1736]

I was , back then , in the Amiga scene . This was from another world and still is . Still gives me goosebumps and blows me away in 2019 .

[@OldSchoolRasslin]

Hard to believe this fantastic game is nearly 30 years old!

[@ShiryuGL]

We could not possibly know how good we had it back then.

[@em00k]

One of the best sound tracks ever written. I still beat box this in the office and I'm 30 now :) Brilliant.

[@Alexthefireable]

I remember those days. Plenty of hours with Amiga and Turrican. Great soundtrack!!!

[@vetronrecon6514]

Good old AMIGA.Remember that,and Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 ost.Excellent run!Don't forget about Lost Patrol ost.Legendary!

[@Vaabenhus]

Absolutely classics! 😍 Back then everybody - and everybody's dads, teaching us about "Computers" thought the PC would only ever be for spreadsheets and stuff like that. How the world have changed! But thank you C64 and Amiga 500, you were a big part of kickstarting something great.

[@vetronrecon6514]

@@Vaabenhus Please insert Disk 4/11👍😋😁

[@BlahBleeBlahBlah]

Hardware limitations inspire creative solutions, doing as much as possible with what is available really drove developers to battle it out and prove their coding skills. Nowadays we have an incredible amount of processing power - there’s little incentive to really optimise to get the most out of the hardware. We also have a huge variety of hardware to target so high level languages and abstraction is used.

[@Xeogred]

Chris Huelsbeck ... just wow. You can't beat this music.

[@OperatorGnosisRecords]

This track, and the rest of the Turrican 2 ost, was the soundtrack to my cyber-punk obsessed, anime n' video games overloaded teenage years, 91' onwards. One of the best times of my life, and this music haunts me forever with associations from that time. It also inspired me to do what I do today, which is make electronic music professionally! Thanks, Chris Huelsbeck. He was clearly a bit of a genius :-)

[@ShiryuGL]

He still is and has a new kickstarter cooking right now for the complete orchestration of all "Turrican" sountracks! :D

[@OperatorGnosisRecords]

Aha, cool!

[@LiMZ]

Turrican was one of my favourite games along side choas engine,, how times have changed this brings bk so many childhood memories ahh the nostalgia no game today can have the impact these did back then :).

[@ShiryuGL]

True.

[@onpsxmember]

You might be interested in the 30th Anniversary release.

[@swampchocobo]

I loved this game, used to play it for hours when I was a kid :)

[@mensk070]

Yeah, this one is epic. I sometimes just listened to the intro and stared at the screen. This one is epic.. Respect to Chris Hülsbeck!!

[@bez_znaczenia]

I'm too young so never played that or any other these legendary games on Amiga, Commodore or Atari. But thx to my father I know them and saw, heard music of them. Like this, Xenon, Leander, Cannon Fodder. And other but no on these but on "normal" PC like Unreal or FreeSpace. They all are epic. What's more every time when that music plays from 3:20 I have tears in my eyes. Fucking amazing.

[@AmbientEpicuros]

Never forget!

[@Anal0Avenger]

Before altzheimer eats my brain!

[@thespectator2976]

Chris Huelsbeck, hes is still my GOD today, a true inspiration.

[@ShiryuGL]

A true genius.

[@mikibalbogol]

I finished that game and I remember listening that song over and over again! Aweaome!!

[@OriginalRoygbiv]

This game theme tune makes me go gooey all over with nostalgic bliss and makes me wonder what ever happened to these wonderous times in the home computer's history! Nothing in stores these days seems to come close to the amazing atmosphere of this game and its music! Those were the days.....

[@jeffreyokun2355]

Chris Huelsbeck, still one of the greatest ever in digital music!

[@JETJOOBOY]

But Julian Eggebrecht has the best NAME EVER!

[@OmenFrankfurt]

Just the soundtrack alone would have been reason for buying an Amiga if I hadn't had 4 of them anyway xD. Just the best soundtrack ever.

[@grrlpurpleable]

I used to load this up just to listen to the soundtrack - no intent of playing the game! :)

[@BlazeRhodon]

Great track! Masters of synth music like Tangerine Dream would be proud of this track!

[@Phonolith303]

Fun Fact: Chris Huelsbeck used "das Mädchen auf der Treppe" by Tangerine Dream for the Game "Mini Boulder" (ANTICS collection, 1987).

[@DailyCorvid]

49 people got a disk read error and no music :(

[@MrcInc1977]

I agree... This music is f*ck*n awesome :)

[@jessecuster5333]

There's only one word that can describe it. Majestic! Thanks to youtube after 25+ years i can say a big thanks to the developers for making one of the greatest side scrolling shoot em up games ever. What you made was nothing short of magic, god bless you.

[@Sabbathman1979]

Immortal masterpieces, both the game and this timeless music...

[@stynov83]

It's epic. Always gives me the chills.

[@zanaredge8626]

This soundtrack is a soundtrack as film 90/80 years!!!

[@willvatcher1898]

Im 36 years old and i played this a lot when i was a kid in the early 90's. It was certainly a solid and enjoyable game but i certainly never recall it being considered a masterpiece. Sometimes things from the past are remembered for being even beteer than they really were.I used to use the cheats to get though the tougher levels sometimes like that ridiculouly fast spaceship flying level. The music is without question brilliant

[@docdoom79]

It certainly was a masterpiece, after it every company was trying to come up with a turrican killer. It was technically the most advanced amiga game, on release.

[@willvatcher1898]

@@docdoom79 how old are you Nils? I have amiga magazines from back then. It wasn't even considered the best shoot em up at the time, let alone a masterpiece. It did look good but was not the most technically advanced either. You had 3d games, another world, robocod, monkey island 2 which were all higher rated and more advanced.

[@Philtho]

I love Chris Huelsbeck. This was the first tune I played in my new BMW years ago as I was flooring it out of the lot. The music is so damn kickass.

[@TheWatcherxx99]

👌🏻🏆👍🏻😁

[@wolfy333sp]

Yeah gotta say the Turrican soundtrack is awesome, the music has it's own little story in it!!

[@analogGigabyte]

This game fit inside a 1.44 MB magnetic disk and still kicks ass

[@nickscott9129]

880 KB disk even!

[@docdoom79]

The original T2 was one disk only (which usually fit only 880kb) and factor 5 figured out a way to pack a little bit more onto it. That was their copy protection and the reason that all the 2M pirated versions had 2 disks (in 2014!!! the first 1 disk pirate version was released)

[@stacykeiblerslovesla]

I love listening to this when I'm trekking - headphones on - surrounded by beautiful nature but enveloped in futuristic sound. :D

[@Xifihas]

Chris Huelsbeck created the greatest game soundtrack ever using what was by far the best sound system at the time.

[@GK1976A]

Absolutely amazing. Already downloaded it so I can listen to this in the gym.

[@Ragefatha]

Does videogame music get any better than this?....no...no it doesn't

[@raxsavvage]

there be a reason growing up whenever peeps asked what music i liked most.... had to say computer game themes. they suck now.

[@ruffback]

Only Tim Follin's Ghouls N Ghosts tunes IMO.. those are still other level in terms of originality and amazing composition.

[@pferreira1983]

The R-Type Amiga theme.

[@tonivirrankoski]

Chris is genious! He was made Great Giana Sisters intro for C-64 too. Amazing!

[@draconpost]

@@raxsavvage because instead of trying to make a great game with proper ambiance and new things they try to push in stuff which is popular, it was always about the money but now they try to use popularity instead of trying to become popular, it sadly hurts the games badly when it comes to music

[@nawletorre7136]

manfred trenz & chris huelsbeck are GENIOUS

[@Adam-jv9wz]

I still show this to my friends, colleagues and anyone who'll listen when we've all had a few! Mostly I get odd looks, sometimes a charity nod or two, but every so often I get 'oh yeah, I had this game when I was a kid, I loved it! Why are you showing me this 30+ years later you weirdo 🤣

[@ShiryuGL]

Timeless, really.

[@Adam-jv9wz]

@@ShiryuGL exactly! We're on the same page!

MASTERPIECE!!!!

[@blex5579]

you connected to FM- i have family there by the name Sebesta...cheers from germany

[@cracksi001]

Thx to the uploader and Chris h. Great.. Und ja damals am Schulhof.... Da wars noch cooooooolio oder end fett...

[@MarcelSerbassen]

This times there was nothing better on this earth for playing on amiga, one of the few games I bought to show respect to the hard and wonderful work of factor five. Turrican is a legend...

[@lexicanium]

Loved every minute of it. Best game I had for my amiga, and still one of my favorites.