/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3638693

Megaman is for boys.
Turrican is for men.

Only Turrican I ever beat was the NES version. And also the fan-game "Hurrican".

What other ports should I look into? Should I start with the original one on the C64?

>>3638704
Play the second one on the Amiga

>>3638704

SNES Super Turrican.
Genesis Mega Turrican.

SNES Super Turrican 2 is good but its not the same Turrican formula.

>>3638704
C64 Turrican
Amiga Turrican 2
Genesis Mega Turrican

>>3638693
HAIL AND KILL

>>3638704

T32K.

An excellent clone.

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=2392

Turrican is shit compared to other side scrolling shooters like Contra or Gunstar Heroes.

>>3638865

Thats your opinion. Contra is overrated. Gunstar Heroes is much too easy, maybe that's why it is appealing to you.

Turrican was THE shoot'em up. One of the best there is, but sadly got ignored just because it was an European game.

>>3638884

Yep

>>3638732
>>3638693
shiet I see it

Get this eurotrash off my /vr/. God damn crooked tooth nigels have no taste in video games.

>>3638927

Go play your gay Mario faggot.

Played the original on the C64 (1990 maybe?) and the freedom of exploration and sheer scale of the world blew my fucking mind.

It's always a touchstone game when I'm arguing about the merits of the European gaming scene from back in those days.

>>3638884
It wasn't ignored by Europe.

And that's the thing, when the American market was imploding, European gaming was as vibrant as ever with a fuckton of incredible games.

The only thing which cucked the micro computer gaming scene was the fact that they didn't have dedicated controllers. Every controller was 3rd party. And, in effect, gamers could be having completely different experiences depending on the type of joystick they were using.

Not to mention the fact that the games only used ONE fucking firebutton. Pushing UP to jump was just madness.

>>3638895
>>3638732
It's not exactly a secret that Turrican lifted a ton of things from other sources.

Some of the music is from the Transformers movie, the intro to 2 contains some images that look disturbingly like Macross while the ending screen is from a Moebius drawing, the player sprite itself is probably a modified sprite from Psycho-Nics Oscar, The Machine is the Marvel comic character Stryfe and the aliens are from, well, Aliens.

>>3638693
i remember the intro to turrican 2 being the coolest thing ever as a kid, especially the music (to be fair, the whole ost was p damn sweet)

good times

>>3638693
>I prefer this over Megaman series.

No worries, you're entitled to have a shitty opinion.

>>3639249
Megaman? More like Slowman.

Amiga version >>>>>>>>>>> all other versions

The Amiga version has the best music!

>>3638704
Next time check out the improvement hack.
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2244/

>>3638693
fuck off australia-kun you fucking autist

>>3639923
Australia?! I thought Turrican and Amiga in general is more a european thing. Most Amigafags I know are from Germany and England.

>>3639249

Megaman is for children, you can make better decisions when you grow up mkay.

>>3640169

Megababy

>dissing mega man

I love turrican as much as the next guy but really.

>>3640210
It's the only way to keep a thread alive on this board.

>prefering Turdican over classics like Contra and MM

>>3640689

Turrican is a classic. Too bad you Americans never got to play it along with other classics such as Terranigma. Contra was only good at the arcade and Megaman is the same recycled shit game after game with crappy cartoon graphics and shit music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70xp5mnsx1A

>>3640727
>megaman
>shit music

>>3640727
>Turrican is a classic

>>3640727
>shit music

Some lines you just don't cross.

>>3640727
>that god awful screen anchor position
JUST

>>3640727
there's NTSC versions of almost all the console ports and mega turrican (aka the only good game in the series)

there's also a rare NTSC version of the C64 game

MEGA TURRICAN!
WARGGGHH!
FUCK YEAR!!!

>>3641356
>>3640727
>>3638697
I really hate that helmet design

>>3640169
How is Turrican more adult than Mega Man?

WTF? Why the Megaman and Turrican vs/hate-shit? I love both!
Megaman and Turrican are for me two complete different things. Both games are awesome!

>>3641801
it's just australia-kun's thing

he will ALWAYS compare it to megaman in every thread where turrican is even mentioned

>>3641385
The in-game design (suit and helmet) looks complete different. I dunno why, I like the in-game design more. This artwork shows more the in-game design: >>3638693

>>3638927
this, Turrican is decent but far from what I'd call a good action game

>>3638693
loved the huge levels of the first two games, fun to run around and (try to) explore everything

i remember there being an optional boss in some more-or-less hidden location that i'm not sure was even beneficial fighting (a huge robotic fist iirc), just wtf was up with that one though

>>3638693
Turrican is bad. If it wasn't for the title theme, nobody would care about this game.

Interesting, how unpopular the game outside Europe is.

"hur dur this game is shit!" = american detected

>>3642160
glad you think unavoidable damage with no invincibility frames and pressing up to jump = a good game

Jazz Jackrabbit > Turrican > Metal Slug > Gunstars/AS > Contra > Fagaman

>>3642160
You sound like *that* kid who only owned Bible Adventures growing up and thinks it's actually a good game

>>3640732
It certainly is on the C64 and Amiga. Manfred Trenz and Factor5 were pushing limits of what was possible at that times.

>>3642034
The fist was not optional, it was a boss right at the start of the 2nd level in Turrican 1 (nice touch to start off a level with a boss btw, don't recall it anywhere else tbqh). There were optional space ship bosses on Turrican 1 3rd level and Turrican 2 2nd level, and an optional dragon boss on Turrican 2 8th level.

>>3642160
This. ITT: sour murrikans shitting on Turrican just because they either never played any of the games, or if at all then just the console titles which aren't nearly as good as the two original Amiga games.

>>3642171
For the first one, that's how the game's damage system is designed (continuous rather than quantized damage). As for the second, the games were suited to the systems they came out for - the C64 and Amiga had one-button joysticks and the fire button was obviously reserved for, well, fire. Nearly all platformers on those systems used up for jumping as the button was usually needed for a primary action such as fire.

>>3642223
>good graphics and music make a classic
typical yurop

>>3642237
I played Turrican on a Master System and Megadrive control pad.
The game supported 2 buttons.

Turrican 1 and 2 are the best versions, due to their emphasis on exploration.

Mega and Super Turrican are both quality games, but their linear design takes alot of the fun out of them.

Turrican was perhaps the first Western platform/action game to be on par with Japanese titles.

>>3642265
btw the fact Yuzo Koshiro contributed to the Turrican remastered soundtrack album is pretty amazing and shows how highly thought of Turrican is even in Japan.

>>3640727
>Contra was only good at the arcade
How so? The first arcade game is good but Super Contra's an awkward mess. The only good things about it are the music and the intensity, Super C is easily the better game.

>>3642182

Good taste.

>>3642228
hey, you're right - just had to check it now, and i was indeed thinking of that space ship boss in Turrican 2 you mentioned. was almost completely sure it was the fist too, damn

should have another go at these games soon to jog my memory, i suppose

>>3642852
To get to the space ship boss in T2 you have to hold left as you're falling down into the lower part of the level, the boss is on a high platform which cannot be reached from down below. The reward for beating the boss are two extra lives.

>>3642265
>I played Turrican on a Master System

Wat?

>>3642869
>The reward for beating the boss are two extra lives.
interesting, so there was some benefit after all. i'll try to keep that in mind then, thanks m8

>>3642265
Did this game really get a Master System release or did you just dun goofed?

>>3642270
The C64 version totally stole it's title music from Transformers: The Movie.

>>3642265
>Turrican was perhaps the first Western platform/action game to be on par with Japanese titles

This.

Oh god, no one told me there was a shmup-ish stage. I suck at shmups

>>3645297
2 has three genuine shmup stages with two being completely insane graphics- and scrolling-wise.

>>3642885
>>3643757

He meant control pad, not actual Master System console

>>3641403
Still waiting....

one up

>>3645297
Chill, you just need to focus and develop a method how play on that level. At least one shmup stage is a Turrican staple btw.

>>3647445
The speech was quite funky, specifically in Turrican II it always sounded more like "own up" somehow.

>>3642926
>>3647445
>>3648609

Finding one-ups is the main practical incentive to explore the levels thoroughly. In the old times I would finish Turrican II with over 30 lives in reserve as I got gud and knew how to traverse the maps efficiently (for best results you can't fuck around too much because of the timer which takes one life and downgrades your weapons by one level if it runs out) grabbing all the extra lives and barely losing any.

Top Turrican site: http://www.nemmelheim.de/turrican/ (some content is in German).

>>3647445
ONE OHOHOH

>>3648630

Thanks

>>3647445
>>3649351
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9_XsuajJsA

I love the digitized voices in this series.

>>3640727

looks like a warthog that is about to sneeze and has to breath through his mouth while jerking off his armpenis

Rainbow Arts doesn't make it any less gay

Round 2:

Why did Amiga only have one button? Jumping with the D-pad is awful.