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Turrican

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Game Information

Original Release Date: December 31, 1990

Platforms: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine, ZX Spectrum

Involved Companies: Rainbow Arts, Rainbow Arts, Ballistic, Accolade, Probe Software, Factor 5, The Code Monkeys

Genres: Shooter, Platform

Summary: Turrican is a 1990 video game programmed and designed by Manfred Trenz. It was first developed for the Commodore 64 by Rainbow Arts, but was ported to other systems later. In addition to concept design and character creation, Trenz personally programmed Turrican on the Commodore 64. A sequel, Turrican II, followed 1991 for the Commodore 64 and other platforms.

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This work is part of CSCI E-114, Web Application Development with Jamstack, Harvard Extension School. All video game data was obtained from The Internet Game Database (IGDB).