This Retro Video session is very special because I just remembered how awesome and hard this game was back in the good SNES era. It is also a rarity to find. The Turrican series started in 1990 and was made by programmer Manfred Trenz, and developed first for the Commodore 64 by rainbow arts. He also designed Turrican II some time later. Super Turrican series was developed by Factor 5 (Star Wars games on the GC, for example) and Super Turrican II by Ocean Studios.

This scroll-changing shooter can be a mixture of Super Metroid and Contra: The Alien Wars, with some sweet, SNES-exclusive Mode 7 effects (Easy to remember in games like F-Zero and Mario Kart; it looks like you’re moving but what moves is the background). You have power-ups, different weapons, and even a morph-ball thingy (thanks metroid). A lot of labyrinths are going to make you mad, specially on that water stage I couldn’t find the exit when I was 10.

The music, Oh the music, is composed by German composer Chris Hülsbeck, who has also written stuff for Star Wars Rebel Strike for the GC, among other games. His music from Apidya, Turrican and Giana Sisters was performed live by a full symphonic orchestra in 2003, 2004 and 2005 at the annual Symphonic Game Music Concert-series in Leipzig, Germany. In 2006, a piano arrangement of his music from Turrican 3 was performed at the fourth Symphonic Game Music Concert. Nice.

This video shows a person named ShiryuGL playing the 1st stage of this awesome game.

Well, of you can find this game, buy it, ask a friend for it, undust your old SNES and let the Turrican Experience(tm) begin!