I’ve been playing Rainbow Arts’ Turrican 2 now for perhaps 10 years or more. I started playing it on my original Amiga 500 and have recently taken it back up using the WinUAE Amiga emulator (running on my XBOX).

I’m embarassed to say that I never really made it much further than the first level. I wasn’t much of a games player back then (and could hardly be classed as one now) was often beaten by even my Dad. I was much more interested in programming games :)

Anyway, years later and with the aid of a spiced up joystick with rapid fire option and the save and load state feature of the emulator (allowing me to save and reload at any point in the game, read: just before a hard bits) I’ve managed to make some progress. I’m now up to level 3. I’ve had to stop because my hand has got tired hitting buttons.

Have a look at the screen shots so far. Note that these 304 by 216 pixel images are actual screen resolution. The tiny image you see on your super high resolution modern display is what was used to create the full size Amiga montitor or TV output. As you can imagine it was rather chunky.