Update: Strictly Limited has revealed that it is launching two Turrican-themed collections at €34.99 a pop, as well as two quite expensive collector's editions.
Turrican Anthology Vol. 1 will consist of the Amiga versions of Turrican and Turrican 2, the SNES Super Turrican (and Super Turrican: Director's Cut), and the Mega Drive Mega Turrican Score Attack. Turrican Anthology Vol. 2, on the other hand, will feature the Amiga's Turrican 3, the Mega Drive's Mega Turrican and its Director's Cut, plus the SNES Super Turrican 2 and Super Turrican 1 Score Attack.
These two collections will be bundled together in two special editions. The Collector's Edition has a poster, keychain, artbook, soundtrack CD, stickers and making-of Blu-Ray, and costs $99.99. If that doesn't sound anywhere near expensive enough for you, then you'll be pleased to learn that the Ultra Collector's Edition will also include a 20cm figurine of our hero, an acrylic diorama, four soundtrack CDs and an instruction booklet.
Original Story [Wed 26th Aug, 2020 13:05 BST]: Turrican – one of the Amiga's best games – is making a comeback after 30 years.
Strictly Limited Games is teaming up with Factor 5, the original development team, to resurrect this classic series, which also saw release on the SNES and other consoles in the early '90s. Factor 5, as we all know, would later create seminal Nintendo titles like Rogue Leader; it is now involved with Epic Games and is working on Fortnite and the Unreal Engine.
Tomorrow – Thursday, August 27th – will see the release of an exclusive trailer and more about the "special 30th birthday edition" of the game. This will take place during the Gamescom Opening Night Live (20:00 - 21:30 CEST / 11:00 - 12:30 PST).
Shortly after the reveal, Strictly Limited Games will open pre-orders for the exclusive and limited editions of the game.
Are you a fan of this series? Will you be tuning in? Let us know with a comment.
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Cool, looking forward to that
Nice... very interested to see what form this takes!
Now that is some dope news. I'll be buying, Strictly Limited is my favorite of all the boutique publishers.
Probably never made much progress in Turrican 1 & 2 back in the day, but it was always cool.
Incredible! Let's hope Chris Huelsbeck is on duty to do the soundtrack.
I would definitely be interested in this. That was a fun game.
Nice hopefully Turrican 2 and Mega Turrican are not far behind
Hopefully turns out better than the Contra reboot.
I'm having tears in my eyes!
Love basically all of the Turrican games. Can't wait for this!
Does this have something to do with Judge Dredd? The robot face at the bottom left looks very much like an ABC warrior from the film (1995)
Wonder if it has a non-widescreen option with scan-line filter.
@ozwally I don't think it does but back then, the characters on cover art did often take inspiration from movies afaik and have seen.
Holy shirtballs. Played Turrican 1 and 2 on the Commodore 64 and they remain my all-time fave games. Manfred Trenz did amazing things on that system. Can't understand why this kind of Eurostyle action platformer never really caught on. Been playing Gunlord X on the Switch, which is a fantastic Turrican sequel in all but the name, and now THIS... Aaaahh! Awesome.
Fantastic, I hope this comes to Switch.
I wonder if Universal Soldier will be included in this collection ?
There are so so many older SNES and N64 franchises that are prime for a reboot or sequel its unreal. This being one of those franchises.
Okay, this is awesome.
I've never really played that much Turrican, but I enjoyed Gunlord X quite a bit, so definitely consider me interested.
This is going to be epic......... 👍👌
Absolutely loved this on the CPC, can't wait to see it on the Switch, preferably in some mega-suped up reboot (FPS a la Metroid? Can but dream...)
I have Turrican 1, 2 and 3 on Amiga, Turrican 2 on PC and Super Turrican 1 and 2 on SNES and Wii Virtual Console and I've played them all to death! This is absolutely fantastic! Turrican 2 on Amiga is my personal all-time favorite game. Number one. I'm wondering what exactly will be revealed tomorrow? I'll take anything!
@Turrican my personal hope is that the new game is accompanied by all the old games. With a game like this I hope that’s possible. That’s the dream. I assume it’s a new game and strictly love old games so packaging it all together would be dope: super dope.
@Stocksy How about a new "Turrican 4: Rise of the Machines" (Chris Hülsbeck already made a soundtrack for that ) together with a "Turrican All-Stars"? All Turricans for all 8- and 16-bit platforms in one package for Nintendo Switch? That would be so great! One can dream...
Would love it, but knowing Limited Run, it will be a new cartridge for the SNES, so only made for collectors.
A collection with all of them on a switch cartridge would be great but doubt it will happen
Shoot (your wallet) or Die!
Press the "Pre-Order" button on your almighty joystick!
Christ I'm old...!
@Turrican We would have had worse days!! Ha.
@noobish_hat probably doing okay out of it though. I hear this Fortnite of their's is quite popular.
Just imagine if they made a new Turrican game that actually looked as good as the illustration art in that picture ^^^
Of course, it's 2020, so we'll likely get something that looks like some crappy half-Nickelodeon, half-Flash abomination--in HD! So "beautiful" and "modern"
BREN MCGUIRE LIVES
@gcunit Same here.
Yes! I had a version of this on GameBoy and loved it to bits. Can’t wait to see this.
Is this an all new game or a port of Super Turrican: Director’s Cut that came installed on every Analogue Super NT?
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2017/10/super_turrican_directors_cut_comes_with_with_every_analogue_super_nt_console
The wording of the article doesn’t specify.
Arghhh!!! Yes, yes please! Would love a Turrican collection but I’m probably setting myself up for disappointment here.
A Turrican 30th Anniversary edition should include
1. Turrican (C64)
2. Turrican II: The Final Fight (C64)
3. Turrican (Amiga)
4. Turrican II: The Final Fight (Amiga)
5. Turrican (NES)
6. Turrican (Game Boy)
7. Super Turrican (SNES)
8. Super Turrican 2 (SNES)
9. Mega Turrican (Sega MD)
10. Katakis / Denaris (C64)
11. Katakis / Denaris (Amiga)
I think that covers all the originals, all the Nintendo specific ones, and all the good ones.
https://www.strictlylimitedgames.com/turrican/
@Turrican thanks for the follow up info. Good to see Super Turrican Director's Cut getting a wider release. I didn't know there was or could be a Mega Turrican Director's Cut. That might be interesting, especially if it has a lot of changes. That second anthology has a lot of Turrican 3 on it.
I’ll take both. Too bad no C64 Turrican 1&2 though
Already pre-ordered the Collector's Edition! Haven't ever heard of that Mega Turrican Director's Cut and what are those "Score Attack" versions of ST1 and MT? Looking forward to the whole package!
Shame it is on two cartridges and not have the C64 versions (as thats the ones I played as a kid), but couldnt help myself.
Couldnt justify getting the collectors edition, just bought the two bog standard physicals
Woah...that is good news!
Both Super Turrican 1 and 2 come built in to the Super NT, they’re ok I guess.
Pre-ordered the standard editions and the vinyl boxset...it was expensive, but I got the feeling I might hate myself later on if I don't get it now.
Great to see the games getting some renewed interest, but personally I feel splitting the pack into 2 is taking the piss a bit. If they'd all been on one then I could see myself picking up a copy. I'll just wait for the eshop sale price instead, or just carry on emulating.
I never played these games back in the day, but I sure appreciate the skill that went in to creating them.
So expensive and no justification to break games this size into two collection. Should be one collection. The limited run industry is toxic.
I’ll take ten of the ultimate edition!
@Stocksy Totally agree. If all of the games were on the one cart for $34.95 (plus the not inconsiderable shipping costs to the UK) I would buy it. I will just have to wait for the digital versions to get a significant discount instead.
Spreading the best games across two editions is a cheap trick to force sales, couple that with the fact that Strictly limited games are an absolutely horrendous publisher and I'll be giving this a wide birth.
Given how small the file sizes of these games are there is no real justification for releasing them in two separate volumes. Look at how many games there were on the single Sega Mega Drive Collection.
I'm quite disappointed. That means at least $30 for each physical release, which is beyond insanity.
There's not enough content in each pack to justify a separate release.
I could’ve sworn I read about this last week on nintendosoup. I love this site but it seems they are often behind
needs be in 2 volumes WHY and price is crazy
Nice but I already got all the Turrican I need on the Analogue systems.
Collection 2 may be a particularly bad value. Turrican 3 and Mega Turrican are pretty much the same game, on different platforms. I'm not aware of the details of a Mega Turrican Director's Cut, but if it's not much different, or adds a stage or two, it's still going to be mostly the same. You'd have three versions of Mega Turrican/Turrican 3, then Super Turrican 2 as the only other full game in the set.
This is fantastic for me. Yes a little expensive but such great memories of playing Turrican 1 and 2 on both my c64 and then on my Amiga. Turrican 2 on the Amiga is possibility still my favourite game ever (sorry Zelda botw). Sadly my amiga 1200 doesn't work any more. Gutted the c64 versions are not included. I have played the snes and megadrive versions as I own the vc versions. They are good but not quite as good as the Amiga versions. Collection 1 a download must. A sale on collection 2. Just need Super frog and the Alien Breed games now.
Turrican...I love ya but not sure I’ll go for this as it’s a bit expensive and wish we just had the bunch all together. I’d love to see turrican make a comeback.
Definitely interested in this...at some point. They're making the same mistake here as those Darius collections. When they come down off that ridiculous asking price, I'll be waiting.
So is there going to be a digital release or not?
So basically 40 bucks for different versions of the same game. Then another 40 for different versions of the sequal.
Not really worth it for either. We will see what they do for the digital version. Will it be single versions or a pack like this. That would be worth it for no more than 15 bucks at the most.
Feels a bit like what LRG did with the two Blaster Master Zero games. They need to be on separate carts because...?
From my limited experience with SLG, you will be waiting a very, very long time to see what you bought.
@robr It's Sony policy that a physical release must have an accompanying digital release, and it would be common sense to put them on eShop too.
Oh yeah, and on the 28th or so they had this interview stream with Factor 5. Someone posted a recap on a French forum site, and I ran it through Google translate. There's quite a few good details in there:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FXi2ZBBQLhk0hid8jeIbPLhgSj0abR_WnRf-yAzXmHc/edit?usp=sharing
The pricing really leaves a sour taste in my mouth. When you think that the Contra collection comes with 7 games spanning 5 platforms for $20 , then this is just absurd. I get that Contra is more popular and the numbers may have to be a bit different, but this is well outside what I think is acceptable.
For a collection containing Turrican 1 & 2 (C64 and Amiga versions) , T3 for Amiga and MD and the 2 SNES Turrican games, I would have happily forked over $40 which is still twice as much as the Contra collection.
Since I love the series so much I’ll probably still pick up the first collection, but yeah... way to sour what should have been a great reveal.
@The-Nate
Thank you. Looking forward to playing the de-materialised version.
What does the Ultra Collector's Edition cost? I just see sold out on the strictly limited store. Did they make 3?
@shazbot it's 200 Euros.
They think they have Pokémon on their hands with that double release? Are the physical collectors for this type of thing really that good for them? I’m sure they have the necessary data but wow, they’re really squeezing it
Anyone know which Turrican version was on the GameBoy?
I know Turrican, played it back in the days, but it was not my favourite.
@KIRO I believe it was a version of the first game in the series.
For one reason my avatar is Turrican: I love Turrican.The first game in the series convinced me that the Amiga was a great machine. Yet, I love my hard-earned money more. In no way am I going to spend $75 to play the games on switch.
Ranger X on the Mega Drive Genesis was way cooler and deeper. You had a bike and a floating ship with unlockables skills in free roam 2D stages.
Did these even ever release? As far as I can tell, they got cancelled or something.. I have the Flashback collection and it's great, but the absence of Super Turrican 2 blows..
It appears that these are finally shipping.
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