Turrican II: The Final Fight Longplay (C64) [50 FPS]

Developed and published by Rainbow Arts in 1991.

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The Turrican games were some of the best games to grace home computers of the late 1980's and 90's. Most people will be familiar with the Amiga version by Factor 5, but the C64 also got a release by Rainbow Arts, helmed by Manfred Trenz.

The game opens with an incredibly long intro sequence (15 minutes long!) that sets the back-story for the game.

The crew of galactic cruiser, the Avalon 1, are about to journey beyond the reaches of the known universe on an exploration mission, when their vessel is attacked and hijacked by an enemy vessel belonging to The Machine. The crew are wiped out and the safety of Earth and all other colonies are jeapordised as the forces of chaos take over the ship.

As a member of the Avalon 1's remaining crew, you manager to escape and don the all-powerful Turrican reinforced armour suit, determined to get revenge for your fallen comrades and to defeat the The Machine and his forces.

What this boils down to is a a side-scrolling platform game with plenty of shooting, enemies to kill and power-ups to collect across a varied set of levels.

The levels themselves are far from linear, with many secret areas to find and extra lives to be collected.

I for one never played the C64 version before recording this video. It's something of a technical marvel, with amazing graphics, huge levels and great mechanics. Markus Siebold also produced some great music for the game, but this is present in only a select few levels, which is a real shame and the only disappointment with the game.

For you eagle-eyed viewers, the score and lives counter changes somewhere around world 4 thanks to a game crash, which meant I lost my save states and had to start a new game at the last level I played.

Trenz stated in the closing credits that Turrican 2 would be his last C64 game, although he went on to create Enforcer: Fullmetal Megablaster for CP Verlag a year later.

Anyway, let's raise a toast to one of the best games to grace the C64!

Enjoy!
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