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Here are some stories of me and Turrican-

When I was 6 years old and had just got an Amiga, I routed through my parents room and found Turrican 2 in their wardrobe. I played it and confessed when my dad came in from work. They weren’t mad, it was what I did back then (I also used to break out of my crib as a toddler… somehow. The metal bars under the mattress would end up bent and I’d be freeee. No idea how I did that).

Age 7-8 I used to load up Turrican 1 and eject the disk just so it would stay on the loading screen for ever. I think I drew pictures or read magazines with it on loop, can’t remember!

Age 15 I tried to make a Turrican fangame using some concepts of the original-

• Large, semi-linear levels
• Upgradable weapons
• Swarms of enemies/enemy generators

… but it was only a little demo.

Around this time I ripped the Turrican soundtrack myself using my Amiga and PC. It’s a wonderful soundtrack.

It’s Lemmings 2 this week folks. Originally developed by DMA Design, a little Liverpudlian studio that went further north to Scotland to create the GTA series. Lemmings would later be ported to the PSP and PS3 by Team 17, a hark back to the old Amiga days mayhaps? Anyroad, this soundtrack contains all 12 songs plus the ending song including the ever catchy, potential Christmas number 1 “Polar” and the 90’s rave “Sports”. S’all good stuff!

DOWNLOAD (38MB)

Another one of the Amiga’s popular titles, Superfrog was a platform from the same nest as Sonic and Mario. A couple of years later Team 17 were to make Worms and their fate was sealed to that series. But around that time they produced a number of hits including Project X… a tough as nails SHMUP which was parodied in Superfrog’s bonus missions. The game also had a cameo of Putty from the parent-infuriating toy and Amiga game.

DOWNLOAD (80MB)

Next week I’ll select something from the lesser known regions of the Amiga’s library, I swear

I feel some pride with the Amiga console – it was the first real games console I really stuck with. My parents bought me one at aged 7 and it survived as a regularly used machine until I was 15. There were some real classics on it but its talent lied in the music department. The soundchip was fairly advanced supporting modular music – an improvement on Midi in that musicians could use their own sound samples. It wasn’t until CD-Audio came along that game music was improved. Which is a fairly awesome legacy.

So hopefully, without running out of game soundtracks, I’m going to upload a new ripped soundtrack every week.

In the first episode we’ve got… Turrican! A platform shooter series developed by Factor 5 from 1989 to 1993 (the 3 main games), Chris Huelsbeck was the musician. It was the Amiga’s answer to Metroid. The download contains the soundtracks for Turrican 1, 2 and 3. Couldn’t think of a better way to kick this off to be honest!

DOWNLOAD (180MB)