Turrican (1990)
- Download the game as TAP/TZX
- Play the tape for a real Spectrum
- Run the game in an online ZX Spectrum emulator
Turrican is a legendary arcade adventure game released in 1990 by Rainbow Arts for the ZX Spectrum. The game was created by Daren White and Jason Green, with inlay and poster art provided by Celal Kandemiroglu.
Designed for a single player, the game features multi-directional scrolling and intense boss fights. It supports Kempston and Cursor joysticks and utilizes a multi-loader system for both 48K and 128K machine modes.
The cassette version cost £9.99, while the disk version cost £12.99.
Turrican received critical acclaim with an average magazine score of 88.01%. It earned the Crash Smash award and was featured as a Megagame in Your Sinclair magazine.
In Russia, the game achieved legendary status. It saw numerous TR-DOS adaptations, and cracked cassette versions were released by groups such as CSL and Noskov. Various POKE codes for infinite lives were published in magazines like Micro and Revival.
Found 2 cracked versions (releases) of the game