Mega Drive Longplay [007] Mega Turrican

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Played by: Mad-Matt
Another longplay of Mega Turrican.
Not as clean and tidy as the Longplay by T-0815 which is also a 100% run, I unfortunately missed some diamonds and a life pretty much at the start of world 4. Kicking myself for that one. Its a good thing collectibles have no effect on the game or ending.
Still, my goal for this run through of the game was to capture the game with more accurate audio provided by a different emulator (Genplus GX) than used in the previous run (Gens) as this game just simply deserves it. -
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[@jcmartin3801]

These guys did amazing things with the genesis sound chip for this game.

[@juanbadilla2232]

And graphics too. Dont forget that bro, ok? Think before commenting.

[@alonofisrael4802]

YES THE SOUND FOR A GENESIS GAME IS OUTSTANDING

[@alonofisrael4802]

@@juanbadilla2232 Think before commenting. FUCK YOU

[@juanbadilla2232]

@@alonofisrael4802 fuck you too. 😠

[@juanbadilla2232]

@The Big Picture 🤫🤫🤫😎

[@agreedboarart3188]

This game is literally on Switch and PS4 and no one talks about it. Such a great game.

[@Theshark15z]

I wish they would have put Super Turrican 2 on that collection.

[@aegisreflector1239]

is it on a collection?

[@blackyoshi1230]

@@aegisreflector1239 - _Turrican Flashback._

[@asrninja]

@@Theshark15z Gibt es in einer Sammlung. Turrican Flashback : - Turrican - Turrican 2 - Super Turrican - Mega Turrican Turrican Anthology 1 - Turrican - Turrican 2 - Super Turrican - Super Turrican Dir. Cut - Mega Turrican Score Attack Turrican Anthology 2 - Turrican 3 - Mega Turrican - Mega Turrican Dir. Cut - Super Turrican 2 - Super Turrican Score Attack

[@someonejust5062]

No it’s not

[@sjcobra84]

This game is timeless. Art, Game play and the soundtrack. My favourite mega drive game of all time

[@lucaschambe]

Best Sega Music Ever

[@guachi1]

10 años buscando este juego sin poder acordarme el nombre, fue el cartucho que me vino con mi primer sega, si habré viciado a este juego lpm!

[@cesarverazzu2485]

Las viciadas que habremos pegado. Era jugar a este juego y después ver los super campeones

[@alubaldini]

Solo jugué el de snes el dos no lo ose tendré que jugarlo este en sega

[@TheCrimsonKodiak]

Is it just me, or do most sci-fi games in the 80's-90's have an obligatory xenomorph stage?

[@legionbeast]

Many of them did. I know Contra did.

[@gabriellvaldez5248]

XD

[@Thewolfguys.cartoons2000]

Mabye the alien movies were absolutely popular in the 80s/90s, that's why they inspired them

[@juanbadilla2232]

Its just you man! Accept it.

[@TheCrimsonKodiak]

@The Big Picture that one is a bit obvious. Main character is a woman who fights a space pirate named Ridley. Might as well give him a brother named Scott.

[@notsuoh16Bit]

I love the super smooth sprite rotation in this game, shows what the mega drive was capable of when the programmers could actually program. Europe was where the true skill was.

[@digimaks]

Yeah I noticed that too! I see the rotation is very smooth- seems like they are using sprite hardware resampling to achieve that, instead of creating 6 frames of sprite rotation animation.

[@notsuoh16Bit]

@@digimaks oh yeah, way more that 6 frames, it's so smooth it must be a truly dedicated software algorithm or some trick with the VDP debug abilities, the one that team Titan were able to take advantage of, I'm not sure, but it's amazing to see.

[@victorbranco7928]

Actually it is software done sprite rotation.

[@notsuoh16Bit]

That makes no difference, actually it is still sprite rotation, some systems need a single comment to get a system to do it with hardware, others need a software engine designed and run while doing other computation, I feel the software engine really shows the power of the hardware and power management of the coder, also Team Titan also found some forgotten hardware abilities in the VDP that allowed for frame buffering to achieve scaling and rotation, butter smooth.

[@Chuck145e]

This game is like a mix between Contra & Metroid. It's pretty damn awesome.

[@Thor-Orion]

I’m making a game that’s some bizarro mix between this and Alien Soldier.

[@Antonio-hx7yh]

Turrican is better than both

[@rjcarello]

Wow! This looks like the most amazing game ever! Seriously looks better than any other 16-bit console game. Fantastic art direction! I'm going to try and find a copy.

[@WanderlustZero]

The machine: Destroys dozens of planets, enslaves hundreds of people (Umm... I guess he would've killed several billion as well, but okay) Bren: 'Meh' *Some girl Bren wants to bang makes the puppy eyes at him* Bren: 'Well shit, time so suit up'

[@samdroidva]

Insanely underrated game. If this had been the first time I'd ever seen this game I wouldn't have guessed it was being played on the Mega Drive. The Sound FX, Music and Graphics pushed this system to its limits. How did they manage to get the color palette onto this title?? amazing!

[@SamaSaku1]

Looks like you don't know a lot of Mega Drive games

[@inceptional]

I'm a SNES fanboy, but this really is just sooo much better done than the SNES version, in almost every aspect.

[@Bloodreign1]

There is no SNES version of this game at all, the 2 SNES games were unique Turrican titles. Now you could compare it to the Amiga version, since it is on that machine. If you were really an SNES fanboy, like you claim to be, you'd know Turrican 3 was never on the console.

[@inceptional]

@@Bloodreign1 Still, people compare them (Mega Turrican and Super Turrican) and the Genesis version just outshines the SNES version in pretty much every area imo.

[@scrungo7610]

Funny, I feel the exact opposite

[@victorbranco7928]

Super Turrican is so much better than Turrican on Genesis, also Super Turrican 2 is way better than Mega Turrican. SNES Wins!

[@robertwilson3866]

You really did a poor job of pretending to be a SNES fanboy there lol

[@Petrichorscreen]

That animation for the plasma rope is adorable, i love it lol. Thank you console wars for introducing me to this game, i would of loved it as a kid.

[@chriskaprys]

7,497 reasons to love this channel: this is (just) one. :)

[@deckofcards87]

Imo this is one of the greatest games of all time, I never get tired of it

[@agreedboarart3188]

Same. It's criminally underrated.

[@grimmdanny]

When I first heard this game's soundtrack, I couldn't believe it was running off a stock Genesis. Many Sega games tried and failed to replicate the Cymbal crash sound, and this game nails it which was a pleasant surprise.

[@Ezmin]

Слёзы на глазах...спасибо!👍

[@adroharv9213]

Excellent and thorough playthrough. I really like the MD version and it's fair to say this is the best version despite still being very keen on the Amiga non parallax bars and more monochrome stylings. The music is very faithfully recreated on MD though I would give the nod to the Amiga version in fairness for sounding the best. I really love some of the lower synth bass sounds on the MD which lets be honest is what made the sound so awesome on the machine

[@andersdenkend]

I really liked this game. Maybe because of the more streamlined levels. And well the music and art is gorgeous as well, of course. :D

[@juanesteban7503]

La música del final me hace llorar desde los 8 años. Hoy tengo 29. Yo no lo podía ganar pero mi hermano mayor si. Y me quedaba en el piso mirando el 14 pulgadas ahí, embobado.

[@Esmeralda.esmeraldaa]

Posta q si

[@thehumbleone1983]

It is the best music and game for the Mega Drive

[@juandicriado1873]

Qué juegazo! y qué manera tan brutal de jugarlo!

[@fernandomonzon4546]

Lo hace tan facil y es tan complicado

[@mja9376]

This brings back so many memories

[@D1no-Bravo]

i have played many games but there is something special about this one. i think it is the care. like the grapple hook, it operates with a very intricate method

[@Sinasi08]

This game is using the full potential of the megadrive! Looks and sounds awesome 👌

[@BlazeRhodon]

Great game! I prefer Mega Drive version than Amiga due to better optimization and better controls.

[@giuseppelavecchia775]

Versioni molto simili,buone entrambe

[@jimmybiggs9230]

Best version of mega turrican on all systems in genesis hey day!!!

[@laden3024]

Esta es la version original, mientras que la version de Amiga fue lanzada antes, se trata de un port de Mega turrican, Factor 5 ya tenia el juego listo para el año 1993, pero no tenia un distribuidor, asi que esperaron un año para lanzarlo con Data East en 1994

[@Juganawt]

Great game! Personally, I prefer the Amiga version, because the music is awesome on the ol' Miggy! T3 / MT never got the credit it deserved. It's *almost* as good as T2, and miles better than Turrican 1.

[@zenitpro]

I always loved this game for every aspect... great gameplay, sharp graphics, fantastic soundtrack, and true sprite scaling and rotation on a Genesis, to top it off!

[@Bloodreign1]

Any scaling and rotation is built into the software as a stock Genesis cannot do either natively. It was up to the developer, if they were talented enough, to pull it off.

[@cristian_2546]

Que nostalgia lpm Horas y horas jugando para terminar

[@blueuser2465]

That's was amazing, guy. I think that it game is incredible and it is one of the bests games from Sega.

[@ZeroKenshin]

THIS IS SO NOSTALGIC!!!

[@stryf3901]

Special guest, Stryfe from Marvel 😂

[@slikdarelic]

when i see great games like this on any console, it makes me wonder wat the hell are some of the other developers doin???

[@kiwibro6454]

Holy shit, that's some really smooth scaling for the genesis, that's impressive

[@papeleradereciclaje4375]

And rotation!

[@statiz23]

1:03:56 badass boss shooting sound effect! that yamaha 2612 pulling that BASS loud😎👍

[@mark771977]

Easily one of my favourite games. Loved the Amiga version to death but the controller of the Megadrive version just steals it for me. Amiga definately would have benifited from more buttons.

[@mark771977]

yeah I used to use a megadrive controller on my miggy. But only some mapped the extra buttons. I guess they didn't want it to be a console until right at the end when it was being destroyed by the SNES/MD. Suddenly they supported gamepads!

[@mark771977]

***** I know but it's pretty pointless when you can only use the b button and still have to press up to jump

[@DTM-Books]

Definitely a favorite of mine. Interesting how the Genesis was starved for run-and-gun shooters for so long, and then within a year, we had Gunstar Heroes, Mega Turrican and Contra Hard Corps. I really enjoyed Super Turrican on the Super NES, but this version raises the bar to a whole new level. I miss the programming wizards of Factor 5.great video!

[@Merl-co2nd]

Awesome game for an awesome system!

[@atenakehnaton3965]

Console Wars brought me here.

[@cesarverazzu2485]

That's it. Are we doing this?

[@bwilson774]

Who? Cares.

[@alvarochaves1999]

0:05 Most clean voice over on a Mega Drive game ever!

[@jordanjackson6151]

I wonder if it was Manfred Trenz voice.....

[@SeekerLancer]

@@jordanjackson6151 He didn't have any involvement in Mega Turrican.

[@jordanjackson6151]

@@SeekerLancer Ah...I see. Thanks for the correction.

[@Bloodreign1]

The presented by Data East voice is Chris Huelsbeck's.

[@darrenclements6028]

Mega turrican is ABSOLUTELY STUNNING and AWESOMELY AMAZING

[@Martin-wd6qs]

Que recuerdos.!! Mis primeros juego de sega.

[@ranggabozz]

I love this game, many secret zone

[@mvoproject]

Oh, nostalgy!! Whats a MUSIC, whats a graphic! Chris Huelsbeck just an FM/PSG-magician like Jesper Kyd, Howard Drossin, Tony Tallarico, Matt Furnis ... First time when I discovered this incredible game I thought it was made in Japan ! The music (melodies, scales, chords, etc.), graphics (a-la manga faces), robots, cyborgs, bosses, ideas, the story line, cut scenes - everything reminded me the high quality Japanese games. Especially that alarm warning "Emergency!" that I heard once in another wonderful super-action "ALIEN SOLDIER". For the second time I saw the logo "Factor 5" in the friend`s Game Boy game "Contra the legacy of war" but it was absolutely another story =) So love that second BGM starting from 10:14, just gives me chills! But whole OST is amazing and one of my fav all the time since mid 90s!

[@Bloodreign1]

Kyd's a bit overrated, Huelsbeck seems far more talented to me IMO.

[@mam28]

fantastic music.

[@VALDYVERSE]

@@eskanda3434 no.

[@RigbyIsTheMan]

@@eskanda3434 no

[@benjaminzuniga5750]

@@eskanda3434 N O

[@WanderlustZero]

@@eskanda3434 No.

[@facugm68]

Amo este juego, aun lo tengo en mi sega pero algun quisiara estar en el nivel secreto Esta musica es MEGA Fantastica

[@matiasrodriguez6341]

Para el nivel secreto tenés que tener dos ceros juntos en el score

[@pierreclinton]

I liked Mega Turrican, used to play it when I was a kid, I’m very good at it, it really got me pumped up years ago I remember every game. I call 1 of these my unforgettable memories, that was good times. I’m skilled at that one. Exterminating them on my games are my specialty like I did with flies on Donkey Kong 64, liked that one too though.

[@Bloodreign1]

Expensive game now, but I got extremely lucky on this one years ago, free at a Play N Trade about 20 miles from my house. This game, and Wolverine Adamantium Rage for Genesis wasn't in their system, so the guy offered both of them to me for free. I absolutely accepted Mega Turrican (it was cheap at the time anyway), and left Wolverine Adamantium Rage there (I do have it for SNES, neither version all that hot). I'd say, I did alright by this one.

[@achtunger5528]

The power of 7 MHz on full display!

[@donkeystyle3200]

“EONS HAVE PASSED, SINCE MANKIND LAST HEARD OF THE EVIL MACHINE.” And I thought I was bad with commas!

[@luigiponze2414]

Nunca subestimen el poder de SEGA GENESIS !

[@yorkshirepud6676]

Ia ploom de ma tont!

[@antoniofuentes5297]

Estas en lo cierto mi querido Luigi, el genesis es una máquina powerful, que algunos programadores no pusieron el empeño adecuado para hacer grandes obras de arte, y que sólo se centraron para favorecer al snes, vendidos, Checa el dato Mortal Arcade Edition, Street fighters hacks Lord Hiryu y Pyron, Mortal Máster Linkuei, Sunset Riders Pyron, Final Fight Uktimate y demás bellezas de juegos recreados, ah Pzf un shoot en up fantástico, el Mega era superior al snes, por el procesador que tiene, Checa efectos en Adventures of Batman y Robin, los que según nintendo decía que el genesis nunca lo podría hacer, como no, incluso en Sonic 3 les taparon la boca con el bonus stage de las esmeraldas escaling y rotation, saludos somos apasionados por los juegos ellos generan gran polémica, saludos, bye 👍

[@luigiponze2414]

@@antoniofuentes5297 Correcto ! Saludos

[@MarkFoster1989]

5.32 Rolling over the mech thing, bouncing off its head and dropping a bomb. Sweetest move I've ever seen.

[@shymickey6]

I like how he runs. He runs like he's a butler underneath all that armor carrying that weapon, as if he were Jeffrey from the fresh prince of bel air.

[@jayfarina7263]

Hahahaha totally agree. I love the running animation of this character. It looks so cool!

[@TSA-Gaming-and-Retro]

Well done played mate, The Megadrive Version is similar to the Amiga Version, played both - ( did also a longplay of Turrican 3 on the Amiga, and recorded it ) I prefer the Amiga Version when it Comes to Sound and Colors but the Megadrive Version contains more sprites and also a quit nice gfx bg. Keep on the good work.

[@FeelingShred]

This version has the correct sound. Or is it the emulator that doesn't filter some frequencies out like used to happen on old tube TV's? Anyway, this sounds like the one I remember

[@inceptional]

The fist boss at 23:26 is a great example of art trumping tech: This boss fight on Genesis looks much better than on SNES, and purely because in the SNES version they used Mode 7 just so they could rotate and scale the fist a couple of times. And, as a result, it ended up with a much more simple and boring background due to the fact the SNES could only really do the most simple stuff with the rest of the background and or use all sprites to make it look more detailed, which was pretty costly. They should have never used the dumb Mode 7 scaling effect and just went with a great looking level and fight, that could have looked even nicer on SNES with more colours and extra background layers and so on.

[@Bloodreign1]

At the time it came out, scaling and rotating were absolutely mindblowing, didn't really see it outside of Namco arcade games, and some Taito arcade games.

[@inceptional]

@@Bloodreign1 Well, true. But, if they were going to insist on using Mode 7 there, I really think they should have put a lot more time into adding stuff to make the background look more detailed too. They had plenty of room for using sprites for fake background elements, along with changing the backdrop colour per scanline, and even using the two colour windows as well.

[@jaybirds470]

Mega Turrican paved the way for Metroid Prime (Samus)! 🦾🦿

[@giuseppelavecchia775]

Gioco leggendario,un capolavoro sul megadrive

[@Quester91]

I'm pretty sure your version has more levels than the one I played when I was a kid

[@livingartifact2749]

Whoever owns the rights to Turrican should one day reboot the Turrican franchise and make it a First Person Shooter.

[@Chris-jl6vp]

Those faces.

[@MR7604]

OMG, that music at 22:35

[@PetrKL21]

That underwater level used to scare the holy hell out of me

[@Korgi_Polymer]

7:30 never heard that track before, I've only played the NTSC version, did PAL get more music?

[@thenate5367]

Korgi Polymer Nope. He found the secret level.

[@StormSpotter342]

48:14 Huh... I've seen the festering alien bowels level before. I've never seen the festering alien bowel /TRAIN/ Level before...

[@Wargulpartal]

oh yeah, Hans Giger improved! :D

[@banqssavage7045]

This game was amazing for me to play as a kid, i love this game even though i never made it past the octopus lol

[@jacobrudniski3927]

This is my favorite of the turrican soundtracks

[@davidclementsclements2586]

Mega Turrican is Legendary and Outstanding 💗💗💗💗💗💗

[@TSA-Gaming-and-Retro]

As we prefer the Amiga Version which is there known as Turrican 3 when it comes to Sound, the Megadrive Version has its own Charme. Very good Gameplay of a classic.

[@FERNANDOTeixeira-j9t]

Classic Absolut ❤❤❤🤜🤛🔝

[@Akonmj93]

I have a question, ¿What's the value of the diamonds? I don't know what they are serving for

[@huimorjaxxx4443]

The sound is fuckin awesome \0/

[@OldAussieAds]

This looks and sounds arcade quality. How did I miss this game back in the day?

[@frederic24fr]

best game ever !

[@simonebernacchia]

TSA Retro In the amiga the background parallax in the first level was provided by copper; i wonder if they took in consideration the idea of a repeating sprite like in Risky woods or maybe there were technical difficulties and/or time constraints; not too satisfied on how in the wrecked city level they decided for a bland dual playfield and a blandest palette for the foreground and, finally, the vertical changing color copperlist used on the alien world has been recycled in Lionheart later, but with better results.

[@Bl4ckD0g]

Jesus, I haven't played this game since I was like 5.

[@marleymcleay9228]

I prefer this to the SNES version.

[@Bloodreign1]

The SNES didn't have the third Turrican, if anything the two Turrican games it had were very different than the Genesis Turricans.

[@marleymcleay9228]

True, the SNES version of Turrican 1? did have similar bosses and arguably similar last stage! with the Giger inspired design. I mean I grew up with the comparisons so I'm basing my experience on the teenage experience ;)

[@turricanrocks1552]

Ben Owen1 in my opinion the. Ahem. "SNES version" (which is a TOTALLY different game...) is better. Better than the MD and Amiga version. Of course that is my opinion. So respect opinions. Impostor.

[@Bembel81]

Snes Turrican is not a real Turrican.

[@benjaminzuniga5750]

@@turricanrocks1552 Mega turrican > Super turrican Mega turrican es mas largo, me parece bastante mas meritorio considerando las limitaciones del sistema y algunas pistas suenan mejor en mi opinion solo algunas, y el final boss en MD es 10 veces mejor que el aburrido boss de SNES (alien)... Sorry

[@R.L.Correa]

Very nice! 👏👏👏

[@samuelperdegaton4143]

I fucking loved this game my step dad bought me this and the system when I was kid still at 40 one of the best Metroid knockoff game

[@zipo646]

I totally love this game

[@leandroleones8904]

mi hermano mi primo y yo concordamos que este es el mejor juego de sega que hemos jugado

[@FellTheSky]

juko chan 😍

[@DoktorSpakur]

YT commercials just keep getting longer and longer and louder and louder

[@exosquad2340]

в детсво окунулся!!! Спасибо!

[@RetroArcadeGuy]

This looks like a Metroid clone. The music is amazing! Hardware level, the Genesis couldn't do sprite rotation. But the CPU was so powerful it just didn't care to do small rotation tasks via software. It's sad Factor 5 had to close doors, they left after delivering some games. But they weren't lackluster titles either as seen here!

[@jacobspowell4416]

I just brought Turrican Flashback Collection for the Nintendo Switch

[@A_Man_In_His_Van]

Well at least you had 49 extra guys at the end, you know, in case you needed them lol.

[@snescoloridinho1927]

Best version

[@micahevans3443]

i use to love this damn game with a passion i miss this shit

[@CJALSTON31]

Oh...right in the childhood

[@tachoschieber]

22:33 : best grafiks, best musik, best level. i love it

[@tristan0094]

what is your favorite weapon? 🧡 mutible? 💚 laser? 💙 rebound?

[@ciuffoarancione8929]

Multiple the best. Rebound worst (too slow)

[@spine--damaged]

2:50 MUSE! Now we know where they got inspired to play Bliss.

[@connyberg5665]

This game is gorgeous! BIG improvement from the Amiga version

[@RetroPiero]

From what i read, there were plans to make an original Turrican 3 for the Amiga but Factor 5 decided to scratch that idea & just port Mega Turrican to the Amiga (bit of a downgrade port too) & just call it Turrican 3.

[@KurtPedersen-tg7jc]

A classic amiga lover answer when a game isn't the best version - Then it is a "bad conversion" . Truth is, the Amiga console is way too overrated. The Sega console were so much better. If you compare the two versions, you'll notice the Amiga version lacks gfx in several places where it is "blank", whereas the Sega version have parallax scrolling.

[@THEKARIKA2000]

É DIFERENTE!! QUE VERSÃO É ESTA? CORTES DO DIRETOR? IS DIFFERENT!! WHAT VERSION IS THIS? DIRECTOR'S CUTS?

[@rolndice]

This game looks sweeet!

[@igodreamer7096]

10:15 Amo essa música!

[@infinitesand9397]

They took all the bad parts of super turrican and made improvements. This game just plays way better and is generally better paced.

[@micahevans3443]

and the music use to have me in the damn zone

[@simonebernacchia]

Mega Drive Longplay [007] Mega Turrican

[@metalcoola]

+Simone Bernacchia You also fight Turrican 1 1-2 Fist boss, kinda fits, considering level is called Scrapyard :)