Metroid Database.com

While poking my head around looking for web information, I found this neat little T2002 hack-in-progress, Metroidican! T2002 is a level editor for Turrican Forever, a very powerful tool that lets you make some pretty sweet Turrican fan games.

What is Turrican, you ask? And just who is that stubby little guy standing next to our favorite bounty huntress's spaceship? Turrican is an action game that originally came out for the Amiga computer in the late '80s. It was created by Manfred Trentz, and many of the guys who worked on the game are now at Factor 5. A cult classic, it's one of my favorite games. Heavily inspired by Metroid (as well as Super Mario Bros.) - and also taking a lot of art design from Alien and Terminator, Turrican also had some pretty sweet music by Chris Huelsbeck, massive mazes with lots of hidden secrets, and screen-size bosses long before games like Super Metroid and Contra made them commonplace. In fact, it's one of several games currently missing from our Recommended Games feature, which I might add we are certainly intending to update!

As for who the guy in the suit is, he's basically 'the guy whose name you can't pronounce and isn't very important to understanding the game anyway.' Essentially, he's the 'Turrican Man', but his real name is Bren McGuire, something long-time fans of Battle of the Posters might remember from BotP4. (BTW, Outerverse, glad to see the site is still up! :)

If you want to know more about Turrican, you can check out Turrican SETA, the essential Turrican database, as well as HG101's article on the series. Unfortunately, the original games aren't that easy to find, though Super Turrican was re-released for the Wii (though Super Turrican is certainly not well polished). Let's hope they bring over Mega Turrican! Be forewarned though as these games can get pretty tough!

Until next time...
Captain Commando