History VideoGame / Turrican

Turrican is a video game series that got started by Manfred Trenz. The original entry was first released on the UsefulNotes/{{Commodore 64}}, and then its successor, the UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}}.

Turrican is a video game series that got started by Manfred Trenz, and was first released on the UsefulNotes/{{Commodore 64}}, and then its successor, the UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}}.

* DroughtLevelOfDoom: World 4 in the original. Due to a certain limitation in the preceding level you're not likely to have a fully leveled spread shot, which makes it incredibly difficulty to find the few invisible item blocks there are.

* UnexpectedShmupLevel: Worlds 3-1 and 3-3 in ''Turrican'', and the Commodore 64 version of ''Turrican II'''s final stage, all have you grab a jetpack and start flying. In all three levels, you needed to find a hidden item to start the level, but this was changed in later ports. However, later versions of ''Turrican II'' changed it to a platform jumping stage. The Amiga version of ''Turrican 2'' also had stage where you get into a ship and experience a ''VideoGame/{{Gradius}}''-like shoot'em up segment.

** Turrican 2 has a drone flying past your ship in one of the flying levels with a banner saying, "Katakis Lives!"
** Every Turrican game but ''Super Turrican 2'' had one level taking place in an Franchise/{{Alien}} hive, complete with face-huggers, Xenomorphs and even an Alien Queen as the endboss in ''Super Turrican''.
** Super Turrican (SNES version) also took place on a planet called Katakis. In both cases, Katakis is an ''VideoGame/RType'' clone Manfred Trenz worked on.
* SkippableBoss: Turrican II has a sort of flying saucer on stage 1-2 which you have to go out of your way to fight. However, if you do, you are rewarded with 4 extra lives when you kill him.

* PoweredArmor

* NintendoHard: Every of this series' installments is being either pretty close to this, or '''purely this''', no matter whether this is an official game or a fan remake.

It's TheFuture, and mankind has spread into space. Their sole protection from the scum of the universe is the [[TheFederation United Planets Freedom Forces]] and its champion, (the second and third games name him as Bren [=McGuire=],) equipped with the state of the art Turrican PoweredArmour. The person wearing the mantle of Turrican varies, as do the villains. The series'two main antagonists are the three-faced computer MORGUL, and the evil cyborg[=/=]ComicBook/{{Galactus}} impersonator known as [[SpellMyNameWithAThe The Machine]].

It's TheFuture, and mankind has spread into space. Their sole protection from the scum of the universe is the [[TheFederation United Planets Freedom Forces]] and its champion (The second and third games name him as Bren [=McGuire=]), equipped with the state of the art Turrican PoweredArmour. The person wearing the mantle of Turrican varies, as do the villains. The series'two main antagonists are the three-faced computer MORGUL, and the evil cyborg[=/=]ComicBook/{{Galactus}} impersonator known as [[SpellMyNameWithAThe The Machine]].

* MasterComputer: MORGUL, the main antagonist of early games is a three-faced computer. MORGUL stands for '''M'''ultiple '''Org'''anism '''U'''nit '''L'''ink.

* MookCarryover: BigBad The Machine from ''Turrican II'' onwards inherits a few of Morgul's robotic minions from the first game, including the aforementioned MascotMook.

It's TheFuture, and mankind has spread into space. Their sole protection from the scum of the universe is the [[TheFederation United Planets Freedom Forces]] and its champion (The second and third games name him as Bren [=McGuire=]), equipped with the state of the art Turrican PoweredArmour. The person wearing the mantle of Turrican varies, as do the villains, though a frequent foe is the evil cyborg[=/=]ComicBook/{{Galactus}} impersonator known as [[SpellMyNameWithAThe The Machine]].

* {{Animesque}}: The intro's of the Amiga versions of ''Turrican 2'' as well as ''Turrican 3'' are this.

* NintendoHard: Every of these series' installment is being either pretty close to this, or '''purely this''', no matter whether this is an official game or a fan remake.

* TheMaze: World 4 in ''Turrican'' is a massive three part maze with creepy ambient sound instead of the CrowningMusicOfAwesome featured everywhere else. Power-ups are much harder to find, and dozens of pixel-perfect (and sometimes entirely illogical) jumps are required to reach the exit. All of the [[WombLevel womb levels]] in the sequels have similar length and difficulty, but later entries are more forgiving by having an Exit arrow appear if you get lost.

Although the parent company abandoned the series well over a decade ago, the series' cult status has inspired numerous fan-made sequels, such as ''[[http://www.pekaro.de/ T2002,]]'' the exceptionally professional-looking ''[[http://turrican.gamevoice.de/hurrican_site/ Hurrican]]'' and the Game Gear game [[http://www.smspower.org/ggt/ GGT.]]

* ''Turrican II: The Final Fight'' (Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Mega Drive/Genesis*, Game Boy*, PC)

It's TheFuture, and mankind has spread into space. Their sole protection from the scum of the universe is the [[TheFederation United Planets Freedom Forces]] and its champion (The second and third games name him as Bren {=McGuire=}), equipped with the state of the art Turrican PoweredArmour. The person wearing the mantle of Turrican varies, as do the villains, though a frequent foe is the evil cyborg[=/=]ComicBook/{{Galactus}} impersonator known as [[SpellMyNameWithAThe The Machine]].

It's TheFuture, and mankind has spread into space. Their sole protection from the scum of the universe is the [[TheFederation United Planets Freedom Forces]] and its champion (The second and third games name him as Bren McGuire), equipped with the state of the art Turrican PoweredArmour. The person wearing the mantle of Turrican varies, as do the villains, though a frequent foe is the evil cyborg[=/=]ComicBook/{{Galactus}} impersonator known as [[SpellMyNameWithAThe The Machine]].

It's TheFuture, and mankind has spread into space. Their sole protection from the scum of the universe is the [[TheFederation United Planets Freedom Forces]] and its armored champion, Turrican. The person wearing the mantle of Turrican varies, as do the villains, though a frequent foe is the evil cyborg[=/=]ComicBook/{{Galactus}} impersonator known as [[SpellMyNameWithAThe The Machine]].

* UnexpectedShmupLevel: Worlds 3-1 and 3-3 in ''Turrican'', and the Commodore 64 version of ''Turrican II'''s final stage. In all three levels, you needed to find a hidden item to start the level, but this was changed in later ports. However, later versions of ''Turrican II'' changed it to a platform jumping stage.

Although the parent company abandoned the series well over a decade ago, the series' cult status has inspired numerous fan-made sequels, such as [[http://www.pekaro.de/ T2002,]] the exceptionally professional-looking [[http://turrican.gamevoice.de/hurrican_site/ Hurrican]] and the Game Gear game [[http://www.smspower.org/ggt/ GGT.]]

* {{Animesque}}: The intro's of the Amiga versions of Turrican 2 as well as Turrican 3 are this.

-> "Hello and welcome to Turrican! Be my guest! Another day, another try, but remember: SHOOT! OR! DIE!!!]] [[EvilLaugh HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!"

-> "Hello and welcome to Turrican! Be my guest! Another day, another try, but remember: [[PunctuatedForEmphasis SHOOT! OR! DIE!!!]] [[EvilLaugh HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!]]"