Turrican

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Turrican
System(s): TurboGrafx-16
Publisher: Ballistic
Developer: Rainbow Arts, The Code Monkeys
Genre: Action
Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code US 1991-11 ATGX04TUT6
Non-NEC versions Amiga Amstrad CPC Atari ST CDTV Commodore 64 Game Boy Mega Drive ZX Spectrum

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Turrican is a run-and-gun game originally developed by Rainbow Arts for the Commodore 64. Rainbow Arts licensed Accolade to make console ports, one of them being a TurboGrafx-16 port released in 1991.

Story

The lost colony of Alterra is a completely man-made world in a nearby galaxy, abandoned long ago. Alterra consists of four self-contained habitats, separately bio-engineered by a powerful ecosystem generation network known as the Multiple Organism Unit Link (MORGUL). However, a cataclysmic earthquake severed all system interface functions and caused MORGUL to violently rebel. Few colonists survived.

Mankind has sought to return to Alterra for generations. Turrican, a genetically engineered mutant warrior, was created for the purpose of reclaiming the planet. Turrican must eliminate the hostile organisms created by MORGUL from Alterra's life forms and finally destroy the three faces of MORGUL.

Production credits

• Designer: The Code Monkeys
• Producer: Chris Bankston
• Testers: David Friedland, Robert Daly
• Manual: Larry Hall
• Additional thanks: SoftGold GmbH, Rainbow Arts, Factor Five, Boris Vallejo, Al Miller, Peter Doctorow, Randy Oyler, Jeff Hoff and all others involved.

Source:

US manual

File:Turrican TG16 US Manual.pdf

Magazine articles

Main article: Turrican/Magazine articles.

Physical scans

TurboGrafx-16, US
Cover
Card File:Turrican TG16 US Manual.pdf Manual Jewel Case

Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
?	CRC32 eb045edf MD5 52d40c4e0a8435308c22c69a54e4baae SHA-1 a5830c0d5cd94e3c6f33e1799bb123857400b1bc	256kB		Card (US)

References

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