Super Turrican (1993)
Super Famicom · Super Nintendo Entertainment System · Wii
3.10 from 62 ratings
153 members have it in their collection · 2 playing now · 42 backlogged · 22 wish listed
How long? Main story 4h · 100% 2h (from 3 logged playthroughs)
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 …
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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.
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Details
- Developers
- Factor 5
- Publishers
- Factor 5, Hudson Soft, Seika Corporation, Tonkin House
- Genres
- Platform, Shooter
- Themes
- Action, Science fiction
- Series
- Turrican
Release dates
- May 1993 (North_America) Super Nintendo Entertainment System
- Sep 03, 1993 (Japan) Super Famicom
- 1993 (Europe) Super Nintendo Entertainment System
- Feb 29, 2008 (Australia) Wii
- Feb 29, 2008 (Europe) Wii
- Mar 03, 2008 (North_America) Wii
Also available on
- Super Turrican: Director's Cut (2018) · SNES
Related
Bundled in
- Turrican Flashback (Dec 2020) · NSW, PS4
- Turrican Anthology Vol. 1 (May 2022) · NSW, PS4, PS5
- Turrican Anthology Vol. 2 (May 2022) · NSW, PS4, PS5
- The Turrican Collection (Feb 2026) · EVER
Rating distribution
5 stars
3
4 stars
16
3 stars
29
2 stars
12
1 star
2
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