Turrican Review/Series Retrospective - Kimble Justice

[@Sugarbear4_20]

The entire Anthology is coming to Nintendo Switch and PS4! What a time to be alive

[@napalmjam]

Perfect video to watch before the Turrican Flashback collection is out.

[@arioca]

Phenomenal retrospect on a fantastic and underrated game franchise! Thoroughly well written as always, keep up the great work.

[@Nitrous0x]

Chris Huelsbeck still dearly loves this franchise with his recent Turrican Anthology project where he rearranged/remixed just about every single Turrican song from Turrican 1 all the way up to Super Turrican 2. He currently has a fundraising campaign where he plans to completely orchestrate the best OST in the series; Turrican 2: The Final Fight. You heard that right, with an actual Orchestra. If Chris Huelsbeck's kickstarted campaigns have done super well, I can only imagine a campaign for a brand new Turrican game.

[@brunodavian377]

InstaBlaster...

[@ninjapirate47]

Let's not forget the c64 turrican knicking the theme from The Transformers: The Movie too. Used to love the sid version of that. Hell, still own it

[@Highlander1518]

Fun fact. At 1:04 the stance that Turrican is doing is exactly the same as the Manowar warrior from the ‘Kings of Metal’ album by Manowar (1988).

[@doublep1980]

If you loved Turrican,get Hurrican,it's a fanmade Turrican clone,available for free download,for Windows,basically a tribute/hommage with more modern graphics and it has the huge explorable levels,with secrets etc. and is really challenging.

[@waltherstolzing9719]

+doubleP Hurrican is amazing. There also exists a (now aging) Linux version (SDL2 I think) which needs to be built from source.

[@garethowen1099]

Some good memories there. It could have been worth mentioning Rendering Ranger( as that’s of course designed by Mr T) and maybe even Gunlord (as that game is a love letter to Turrican)?

[@AvroHawker]

Turrican 2 was one of my all time favourites on my Amiga 500. Happy memories!

[@Ecidemon]

Back in 2006 there was a fan made game named Hurrican for pc. It plays quite well and its very similar to turrican but with more modern and higher resolution graphics.

[@MrSEA-ok2ll]

The last Turrican-like title, I can recall came out a few years ago on the Dreamcast...absolute fun...great video.

[@orbitingdecay6797]

Gunlord X

[@RaptureMusicOfficial]

I love your videos, Kim! You have a soothing voice :) And yep,the Turrican game series rules! Super Turrican started my game music career - I played Super Turrican in 1995, beat it (difficulty is very easy on ST1), then read the snail mail address of the development team (Factor 5) in the credits. I gave them a phone call and asked for Chris Hülsbecks address & phone number, then I sent a demo tape which I made to Chris. Then I was invited into Chris' music studio, we became friends and worked on the first game projects in 1996! We're still working on game projects together. For example, I scored Giana Sisters DS and Giana Sisters Twisted Dreams. Cheers, Rapture

[@Dickie6990]

Thanks for this video. One of my all time favs. +1

[@Rip-Van-Tinkle]

Such a special series of games, if Manfred Trenz ever went to Kickstarter with a new Turrican, I would back it in a heart beat. Thanks for covering this, and you're absolutely right, Trenz, Huelsbeck etc...masters at work.

[@ronblaess1]

Thanks for this. Turrican has been and always will be my favorite game of all time. I played Turrican II so much that I was able to finish the game with 60 extra lives and my personal record score of 3,752,500 points. Today, even using a trainer, I cannot recreate that score ... What a game. Great review, too! PS: Trenz was not at the helm for Turrican II, that was pretty much a Factor 5 production.

[@ReigningSemtex]

I would definitely back a turrican kickstarter. My childhood, the music makes me melt

[@deceiver444]

Turrican on the Amiga was actually released in may/june 1990. It's Turrican 2 which was released in 1991

[@TheEPROM9]

I love Turrican, played most of them the SNES ones I got on an emulator. Got most of the games on the Atari ST. Painstacenly recorded the sound track from the ST. Fun driving along with Turrican tunes pumping out of the car at full volume.

[@KarimKhan-ys8oc]

Absolutely loved the C64 and was totally blown away by the Amiga versions back then as a teenager. I remember how long it took for them to publish part 3 on the Amiga and I got it on the first day of its release and then played it through on my very first attempt. That was somehow very disappointing. Turrican II is certainly the best of the bunch and I actually like the cleaner graphics over the later parts. Can’t wait for my Turrican Collection to arrive for the PS4. You were absolutely right! ;)

[@ProgrammedForDamage]

Turrican on the C64 was one of my favourite games ever back then. I appreciate you going back and covering this gem.

[@Phenylalanin1979]

For people looking for a Turrican-like game, check out Gunlord for Neo-Geo MVS/Dreamcast. Good video Kimble!

[@orbitingdecay6797]

A modern game that shares a lot of Turrican is gunlord x. Well worth looking at. On modern consoles now I believe.

[@Riverhill]

Great look on a fantastic series, my personal favorite is the Mega Turrican as that's the version I grew up with. Also noted you poppin by Justin's memorial stream, which was very nice!

[@DJDieWille]

Hey Kimble. I really enjoyed this one. So glad you decided to make a vid on Turrican. I totally agree with your comment at the start about the huge ammount of Amiga titles that are ruined by the limitations of the controler. keep up the awesome work mate, we'll be watching every vid.

[@SeeD1985]

It's 2020, and we finally have some news with the upcoming Turrican Anthology for PS4 and Switch. Excited!! :) Also, let's not forget that Manfred Trenz himself created Rendering Ranger R2 for the SNES, which is a good game, very Turrican-like, but for some reason never left Japan. Thank the lord for emulators :)

[@oscarzxn4067]

The SNES Super Turrican is definitely not a remix as you said, it has some leveles that look kind of similar to the ones from 2 but are totally different, and the last world shares a boss and backgraounds with Turrican 3/Mega but the design of the stages is different, so is overall a new game that shares a little bit with 3/Mega

[@paulroundandroundandround]

In your clip of Chris Huelsbeck playing a synth it is actually an Ensoniq ESQ-1 which was designed by the same chap who created the C64 SID chip! It's a great synth which I have too!

[@muragaru553]

Never heard of this series before, so a friend of mine linked to this video. Thanks for giving a good detailed look into it.

[@edrosa3485]

Turrican and New York Warriors were my favorite Amiga games.

[@EastyyBlogspot]

Saw on the Super Nt it comes with the unreleased Super Turrican Directors cut, as apparently it was cut down to fit on the cart for the main release.

[@UnknownUserZeroZero]

After seeing the teaser trailer for the 30th Anniversary announcement, I have to say, I'm truly excited!

[@JemyM]

I guess that a hidden gem nowadays is the 2007 Windows remake "Hurrican".

[@Poita]

Interesting video, thanks. Can't believe I played Turrican 1 & 2 until I dreamed about it in my sleep on my Amiga when they were released but never thought to use the wheel function to get over an extended length of spikes . . doh! It would have been nice for you to have mentioned and shown the fan game 'Hurrican'. The levels can be a little unfocused but it's really nice looking and plays great.

[@swordghoti]

Fair play, this game takes me back. European late 80's early 90's games have a very unique feel, the console slickness of Sega/Nintendo made the euro-bods up their game in terms of all round presentation. 2d side scrollers will never die, some of the most fun you can have in gaming comes from this very fertile wellspring of ultra-violence.

[@sluggotg]

Great History lesson of Turrican! My Brother and I completed both games when I was 29 and he was 30.. I had just got out of the military and was staying with him an his wife. We swapped after every death and completed both of them .. along with Dungeon Master and Chaos Strikes back. The best of times with the Best of games.. the Turrican Series and the Dungeon Master Series are the best of the best. I just wish I could find a C64 version of Turrican for sale On Ebay!.. No One wants to sell it!

[@Clairvoyant81]

Turrican 3 was pretty much the first game I ever I got hyped for just by hearing it was being made. I loved the first two and the prospect of a third was awesome to me. I wasn't disappointed in the slightest, to be honest. Then again, I was still a kid when T3 came out and didn't really notice the more linear levels. If Manfred Trenz chooses to do a new Turrican, I really hope he'd be smart enough to make it a 2D game. Turrican in 3D just sounds like a terrible idea to me.

[@renbymon]

I played all three Turrican games on my A500 when I was a young 'un. So much awesome!

[@TamasKalman]

this review does justice for turrican

[@GoldMineLV]

Another great video! I have never played these games, but they seem awesome. Will have to check them out sometime. Keep it up.

[@leerobertson7226]

Very informative, I'm just about to purchase turrican flashback on the switch.

[@undeadmaster666]

oh now these are the most fun games on the amiga. by far the best memories of this game really thanks to epic music, fast pace and a down right punishing difficulty

[@lunamorley]

Actually, the Amiga version of Turrican 1 came out the same year as the C64 version (1990). That and yes, many of the stages in the SNES Super Turrican were loosely based on those of T1 & 2, the designs themselves were greatly different (though, you do get a lot of the same vibe, so I could definitely see how you came to such a conclusion). With that out of the way, very nice job! I'm a huge fan of the series (Heck, I'm currently doing a retrospective of it myself. Great minds think alike, I suppose) and I think you represented it rather well. Went right into my favorites! XD

[@atarikid282]

Great video! Thanks for all the information while keeping it very entertaining.

[@mkmot530]

There is a fan remake called Hurrican and it is amazing it really has that Turrican feel to it.

[@segasailor4374]

Wow this game looks nails. Well done Kimble awesome review dude. Does anyone else notice that with some games your better at them when your little rather than when your grown up, I find it strange.

[@ganjam0n]

Great review as usual, i loved and still do love the turrican series on my amiga, amazing games, the controls were so responsive it was indeed a joy to play.

[@Andrew_TS]

Great to finally see this vid! It's okay, I think most of us are crap at the games, but love them all the same. :) I was also sad to see what happened to Turrican II with Universal Soldier, since I only had access to the console ports, myself, but hey, it was better than nothing. I started with Mega Turrican and kind of worked my way backwards.

[@georgor1980]

Atari ST had a very interesting conversion. Especially for Turrican 2. Jochen hippel remixed huelsbeck resulting into an exceptional chiptune soundtrack

[@NewsRedial]

Turrican was the first game I was ever consumed by, found myself playing all night with piles of empty coke cans by my Amiga and then freaked out by the fact that I dreamed about it.

[@SinGulaR2]

I still have the original issue of the magazine where he got that picture of Trenz playing on a computer from :D

[@lazarus30001]

You wouldn't happen to know where to get an art print or poster of Julie Bell's painting for the cover art of the Genesis edition of Turrican ?

[@AgentLemmon]

this was my favoretie c64 game. Also my favortie c64 music along with the last ninja

[@hairy_cornflake]

Oooh nice, still haven't tried any of the Turrican games (besides the ones on MegaDrive) but I've hear a lot of good things about them. Oh and thaaaaaat music!

[@farseerflore9512]

No Atari ST? None the less, thanks for taking me back to my childhood and for giving us an inidepth and informative view. Great work as always!

[@farseerflore9512]

Turrican4D Didn't say it couldn't, just commented on how it wasn't in the video.

[@RyumaXtheXKing]

You should take a look at Rendering Ranger R2. It's designed by Manfred Trenz and similar to Turrican.

[@Sinn0100]

I would support a Kickstarter for Turrican. Hell they should make a giant compilation and put them all on one Blue-Ray disc. "I'd buy that for a dollar." ;)

[@kami3000]

Great video. I just had to startup my WinUAE and check out the games myself. They have great graphics and sound i have to admit. What's really annoying is that the UP-button is for jumping and i can't remap it :/

[@poiccard]

Nice work Mr.Justice! It gave me the motivation to finally finish Mega Turrican and it wasn't that hard (and I'm not a really good player...)!

[@salaciouscreations4323]

I had turrican2 on the speccy on budget label. There was no ending on the tape. I killed that huge end boss but never got the ending

[@predaking2wings]

i got for the genesis turrican, universal soldier, and mega turrican great games all three, and universal soldier has a great sound track, check it out!!

[@auritone]

Rendering Ranger on the SNES feels almost as a spiritual sequel to Turrican and it's one of the most technically impressive games I've seen on the SNES. Trenz really shows he's programming skills in that one.

[@rootykazooty351]

True, i've got a reproduction and it's awesome.

[@cpnnpr]

Kim, I'm not sure if it has been mentioned before, but there is a game on Neo Geo and Dreamcast called "Gunlord" by NG DEV TEAM, who are also German. I'm not sure if there are any official ties to the original, but the game is clearly a spiritual successor. Have you seen it? I'd love to see it covered as an addendum to this video. Kudos and thanks for the show!

[@jeremygregorio7472]

What's weird is it never got a Sega Master system port. Or at least a game gear

[@Blurgleflargle]

If there's one company I'd want to pick up the Turrican license, it's Rebellion. Not because they make great games, but because the character might as well come straight out of a 2000AD comic.

[@Riverhill]

Will you be covering Rendering Ranger later on? As it's sort of Manfred's last entry into the series, in spirit atleast!

[@carlhughes5767]

Thorough and informative. A very British (and as such more in depth and interesting) slant on what the likes of AVGN do. A+. I find it a little disappointing you don't get a few more views but unfortunately people are stupid.

[@PyronsLair]

Again you made a excelent work Kimble, Turrican is one of my favorite series GZ! I have to say just one thing... Turrican 2 have a good port do PC Dos in 1995, with enhanced grafics and etc.., its the best version after the original game, take a look later. Keep going man !

[@paul1979uk2000]

Two things I wouldn't mind seeing, 1. Turrican 1, 2, 3, Super Turrican 1 and 2 remastered for today's hardware with much better visuals and sounds but keep the core of the game the same, could be done 2D or 3D like Trine did it, 2. I would like them to try a new take on it in completely 3D to see if they could make a good game of it., I would back a kickstarter project for both of these.

[@Folgemilch21]

in a recent interview one of the german developers said that the changes made for turrican 3 (the more linear levels) were due to pressure from their international publishers. they said they would sell more if the game werent so "open worldy" and more like contra and the likes

[@bantawoo8686]

A well made video. But you did not mention a lot of stuff. Like rendering ranger r2, turrican 2004, Turrican 2 (PC Version) or the inofficial Turrican 3 on the C64, which is bloody brilliant and was coded by one of Manfred's friends.

[@isabellapakulska]

Thanks Kim! If watching THAT Manfred Trenz still hesitates in making it happen, may Morgul devour upon his soul...

[@VSigma725]

One of my favorite things about Turrican is how they reskinned it to make Universal Soldier for the Genesis. Just such a weird thing to do!

[@RobertNES816]

I unfortunately had Turrican for the Genesis. It was just way too hard! Your health was diminished too quickly. Mega Turrican on the other hand is one of my Favorite games on the Genesis! The music and effects are great. I also have Super Turrican for the SNES I like that game as well. Maybe one day I'll get my hands on Super Turrican 2.

[@lucariowolfomegax1175]

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[@incyou]

bloody brilliant review/retrospective , just like Turrican! Cheers:)

[@5kehhn]

Good thorough review.

[@wrestletube1]

Great episode as usaul Kimble.

[@arvizturotukorfurogep6235]

TURRICAN RULEZ! I wonder how it would translate as a 3D game. Would it work as a third person shooter?

[@Diablokiller999]

Where did you find all the footage from the devs? Seems like TV footage from RTL and ARD, would love to see those, especially because they're in german ^^

[@silvergoldgaming4354]

Manfred Trenz made Katakis and the Amiga version of R-Type.

[@RelativeStrengthFit]

Thanks Kim

[@patrikfernstrom7607]

Great video. I urge all Turrican fans to also check out Gunlord for the Dreamcast and neo geo. An amazing homage to the classic series.

[@GeoNeilUK]

Was this on by the same people behind Apidya II? I think Chris Hulsbeck did the music for Apidya. I know he did the music for Great Giana Sisters. Kaiko did Apidya! I still wonder... if only the Sharp X68K was released outside Japan... what the Japanese could have seen? Apidya would make a good Third Person Rail Shooter... or even a JRPG... had it been ported over to the consoles, the Japanese might have adopted the franchise.

[@Nockalates]

Turrican was brilliant. I had a soft spot for Retrograde too. Have you reviewed that Kim?

[@VukDj1]

There's a fan-made game from 2007, called Hurrican. You should give it a go, it's amazing :)

[@TheEPROM9]

mY GOD, i LOVE THAT GAME =-)

[@Karloss00]

Surprised you didn't mention that the Amiga version of Mega Turrican had more sections to it.

[@realfamiliarfez]

I've always found Turrican 3/Mega Turrican to be my favourite one because of how i just know (mostly) on what im doing, in the 1st and 2nd one i cant see whats going to jump at me or if im about to jump into an endless pit because of how my character is 20 feet across the centre of the screen. Ive also found that the games have gotten better and better the more they progress, with 1 being my least favourite since i just hate the difficulty and the "where the hell do i go" stages. Also the first turrican game i played was mega turrican so uh im a disgrace to the turrican community i guess.

[@yahushaking4367]

Turrican 3 is the best Looking game for Amiga and it was very good

[@louiedidcote9948]

Didn't you like the new Strider? it wasn't GOTY 2014 or anything but definitely deserved it place in the series, which is more then you can say about most modern reboots.

[@Kim_Justice]

Nah, I was just so bored playing it. Felt grey and bland...I guess I wanted something more like the Strider I grew up with, not a Metroidvania-type game.

[@louiedidcote9948]

Fair enough, I'd be lying if I said I didn't see where you were coming from...

[@TheDaoOfLatino]

Kimble Justice I guess that means we won't see you do anything but a quick look at Strider (2014). I'm sorry you were so disappointed by it. I sort of saw this thing coming seeing as Double Helix made two of the worst games for two of my favorite franchises (Silent Hill and Front Mission), and the game, much like Killer Instinct (2013) is rendered in such high contrast that it basically comes off as gray and brown. Everything is really dark and it makes a series that was supposed to look chipper into something more morose. Oddly enough the backgrounds, if I squint hard enough, remind me of Strider Returns. Oh and good review/retrospective. The only game I've gotten my hands on is Super Turrican and despite being a somewhat flawd EQed Best Hits version I still very much enjoy it.

[@whatamalike]

+Kim Justice AYe thats how I felt about it. I mean the presentation was wonderful, but yeah the gameplay was the usual cookie cutter metroidvania mold. Seriously though, Super Metroid and Symphony of the Night did that style so well that theres no real need for anything else in that style to be released outside of fangames, especially those series' like strider which have no purpose in that gameplay style.

[@quohog1977]

One of the best chipsound music i ever heard when will be kims first game will be out ?

[@lightninglj]

Pretty sure turrican was ported to the genesis. I remember owning it. There was a jetpack stage with some pretty epic music and was hard as shit

[@antshield]

Kim Justice. I'm a huge fan from America. I've watched all your reviews and documentaries loving them all. Great quality. I learned all about Amiga and the like, systems and home computers I've never heard of. I'll be joining your patreon soon, I want to give more feedback as well but for now I just wanted to ask if you can do a full review of the Genesis Turrican. I want to explore for those secrets while running and gunning but can't get past the first 2 minutes. Is it this version or is the game really that hard?! Mega is fun, but I want an authentic experience.

[@lunamorley]

The Genesis version's health meter drains a LOT quicker, there are more enemies and if you're playing it on an American system, the game runs faster. The game was always very hard, but the Genesis version takes that to a whole other level.

[@bsdims]

0:54 when?

[@adamgrimsley2900]

Brilliant game

[@gumdeo]

Great platform shooters.

[@pappachook]

Great vid as always.

[@Larry]

Ah wow, funny you did a feature on Turrican dude, I'm currently writing one about Quik and Silva :D But GameJew did a song about Mega Turrican, mostly about how he doesn't understand it. Mushroom Singdom #33 April 14th

[@arvizturotukorfurogep6235]

Speaking of revivals of old home computer franchises, where is the PS4 Shadow of the Beast game gone?

[@Alianger]

Good series (with excellent music) but I always hated the scrolling in the first two (it's even more annoying in that NES ver. where the sprites are smaller so it's more obvious), as it just kind of stresses me out to have to memorize layouts or take it slow in a run 'n gun. Mega Turrican is definitely my favourite, not sure about 3.

[@Alianger]

That the camera isn't tight enough, nothing to do with smoothness.

[@5HlNOBI]

Loved Turrican II on my a500 and a4000 :) Great review!