Super Turrican

ReleasedMay 1993

Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Wii
Super Famicom

About

The lost colony of Alterra is a completely man-made lifeworld abandoned long ago in a nearby galaxy. Alterra is actually five colonies in one. Each self-contained habitat has been separately bio-engineered by a powerful ecosystem generation network known as a Multiple Organism Unit Link. MORGUL, for short. Early colonists used MORGUL to render Alterra inhabitable. But a cataclysmic quake severed all system interface functions, and MORGUL murderously rebelled. The few colonists lucky enough to escape told a grim tale of a higher intelligence gone berserk. For generations, mankind sought a return to Alterra. Finally, genetic science created a saviour: Turrican, a mutant warrior, bio-engineered for the task of planetary reclamation. In the meantime, MORGUL has diligently twisted Alterran life forms to his brutal, destructive purposes. Thus, Turrican's challenges consist in eliminating hostile organisms from Alterra's five multi-level worlds and, finally, destroying the three faces of MORGUL.

Developer: Factor 5
Publisher: Factor 5, Hudson Soft, Tonkin House, Seika Corporation
Genres: Shooter, Platform
Themes: Action, Science fiction
Modes: Single player
Perspective: Side view
Age ratings: ESRB E10+, ACB G, PEGI 7
IGDB rating: 72 / 100 (13 ratings)

Release dates

Release dates by platform
Platform	Release
Super Famicom	Sep 3, 1993
Super Nintendo Entertainment System	May 1993 · North America1993 · Europe
Wii	Feb 29, 2008 · EuropeMar 3, 2008 · North America