At the turn from the 1980s to the 1990s, Manfred Trenz brought eight-way scrolling run-'n-gunning and Metroid-inspired exploration to the Commodore 64 as Turrican, a very well-regarded game among fans of the platform.
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Developer Message#
Load the game up and wait until the game goes to the title screen. Then, with a memory viewer, go to address 8F40 to see the following message.
HI FOLKS, THE MANIAC IS BACK !!!
ONE QUESTION: WHY DO YOU WANT TO CRACK THIS PROGGY ???
CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW MUCH WORK I DID TO MAKE A GAME LIKE THIS ???
HERE SOME INFORMATIONS ABOUT: STARTING TIME: 01.02.1989 (OH YES)
ALL THE IDEAS,GAMEDESIGN,ALIENROUTINIES,GRAPHICS,PLAYBILITY,TECHNICAL
PROBLEMS AND MUCH MORE TOOK A LOT OF TIME AND WAS VERY OFTEN NERVE-RACKING!
ECHT AETZEND YOU WOULD SAY ...
SOMETIMES I WORKED MORE THEN 14 HOURS A DAY, ONLY INTERRUPTED BY ESSENTIAL
THINGS LIKE FOOD,COKE AND MTV.
I MADE THIS GAME NOT ONLY FOR TO EARN MONEY BUT NEVERTHELESS I'M SURE
YOU AGREE WITH ME, THAT I WANT TO EARN FOR MY WORK.
SO DO ME A FAVOUR AND DON'T CRACK AND SPREAD THIS GAME !! IF YOU HAVE
ANY QUESTIONS CALL: 0211/5280-0 BYE NOW AND THINK ABOUT !
PS.: DO YOU KNOW WHAT A GROELATZ IS ?? YOU BETTER DO NOT !(Source: Manfred Trenz Franpage)
Hidden Messages#
There are also messages written with destroyable blocks hidden in out of bounds areas of various maps in the game. Only two have been found so far, but there may be more.
Level 1-1#
"1989" is hidden in the large area in the middle of the map.
(Source: Frank Gasking Blog)
Level 1-3#
"DTE" is hidden in an area in the bottom right of the level.
(Source: Selmiak's website)
Regional Differences#
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The North American release by Innerprise saw significant graphical changes, likely to account for going from the 50Hz PAL hardware to the 60Hz NTSC hardware. Basically, all background tiles use one palette per level, and any single-width tiles are now double-width.
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References#
- Zzap!64 #61, May 1990, pgs. 8-9↩︎
- The Games Machine #30, May 1990, pgs. 44-45↩︎
- 64'er July 1990, pg. 115↩︎
- Turrican (C64, 5 1/4" Disk) Innerprise - 1990 USA, Canada Release - Eli's Software Encyclopedia↩︎
- .info #35 (December 1990), pg. 9 - "Now Available for Amiga and C64!"↩︎
- .info #35 (December 1990), pg. 60 - "The following games have been announced by the game companies listed. Games that had been received in our offices at presstime have been marked with an asterisk (*)." "Innerprise: Turrican*, Time Guardian, Aviators"↩︎
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