{"id":117410,"date":"2020-09-01T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/09\/classic_run-and-gun_blaster_turrican_is_making_a_comeback_and_fans_might_need_deep_pockets"},"modified":"2020-09-01T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T12:15:00","slug":"classic-run-and-gun-blaster-turrican-is-making-a-comeback-and-fans-might-need-deep-pockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/09\/01\/classic-run-and-gun-blaster-turrican-is-making-a-comeback-and-fans-might-need-deep-pockets\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Run-And-Gun Blaster Turrican Is Making A Comeback, And Fans Might Need Deep Pockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f16f4696a5364\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f16f4696a5364\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\"><\/aside>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Strictly Limited has revealed that it is launching two Turrican-themed collections at \u20ac34.99 a pop, as well as two quite expensive collector&#8217;s editions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Turrican Anthology Vol. 1<\/strong> will consist of the Amiga versions of <strong>Turrican<\/strong> and <strong>Turrican 2<\/strong>, the SNES <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/super_turrican\">Super Turrican<\/a><\/strong> (and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/10\/super_turrican_directors_cut_comes_with_with_every_analogue_super_nt_console\">Super Turrican: Director&#8217;s Cut<\/a><\/strong>), and the Mega Drive <strong>Mega Turrican<\/strong> Score Attack. <strong>Turrican Anthology Vol. 2<\/strong>, on the other hand, will feature the Amiga&#8217;s <strong>Turrican 3<\/strong>, the Mega Drive&#8217;s <strong>Mega Turrican<\/strong> and its Director&#8217;s Cut, plus the SNES <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/super_turrican_2\">Super Turrican 2<\/a><\/strong> and Super Turrican 1 Score Attack.<\/p>\n<p>These two collections will be bundled together in two special editions. The Collector&#8217;s Edition has a poster, keychain, artbook, soundtrack CD, stickers and making-of Blu-Ray, and costs $99.99. If that doesn&#8217;t sound anywhere near expensive enough for you, then you&#8217;ll be pleased to learn that the Ultra Collector&#8217;s Edition will also include a 20cm figurine of our hero, an acrylic diorama, four soundtrack CDs and an instruction booklet.<strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"TRC Turrican CEBanner 1920x1080 NSW 1024x1024\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4df458a08440e\/trc-turrican-cebanner-1920x1080-nsw-1024x1024.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' viewBox='0 0 900 506'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4df458a08440e\/trc-turrican-cebanner-1920x1080-nsw-1024x1024.900x.jpg\" alt=\"TRC Turrican CEBanner 1920x1080 NSW 1024x1024\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"TRC Turrican CEBanner 1920x1080 Ultra NSW 1024x1024\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/49ce6dc8a14be\/trc-turrican-cebanner-1920x1080-ultra-nsw-1024x1024.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' viewBox='0 0 900 506'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/49ce6dc8a14be\/trc-turrican-cebanner-1920x1080-ultra-nsw-1024x1024.900x.jpg\" alt=\"TRC Turrican CEBanner 1920x1080 Ultra NSW 1024x1024\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Original Story [Wed 26th Aug, 2020 13:05 BST]: Turrican<\/strong> \u2013 one of the Amiga&#8217;s best games \u2013 is making a comeback after 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>Strictly Limited Games is teaming up with Factor 5, the original development team, to resurrect this classic series, which also saw release on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/super_turrican\">SNES<\/a> and other consoles in the early &#8217;90s. Factor 5, as we all know, would later create seminal Nintendo titles like <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gamecube\/star_wars_rogue_squadron_ii_rogue_leader\">Rogue Leader<\/a><\/strong>; it is now involved with Epic Games and is working on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/fortnite\">Fortnite<\/a><\/strong> and the Unreal Engine.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow \u2013 Thursday, August 27th \u2013 will see the release of an exclusive trailer and more about the &#8220;special 30th birthday edition&#8221; of the game. This will take place during the Gamescom Opening Night Live (20:00 &#8211; 21:30 CEST \/ 11:00 &#8211; 12:30 PST).<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the reveal, Strictly Limited Games will open pre-orders for the exclusive and limited editions of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Are you a fan of this series? Will you be tuning in? Let us know with a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Strictly Limited has revealed that it is launching two Turrican-themed collections at \u20ac34.99 a pop, as well as two quite expensive collector&#8217;s editions. Turrican Anthology Vol. 1 will consist of the Amiga versions of Turrican and Turrican 2, the SNES Super Turrican (and Super Turrican: Director&#8217;s Cut), and the Mega Drive Mega Turrican Score [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}