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Instruction booklet · May 1993

Super Turrican

ShooterPlatform1 playerPre-ESRB

The story

The lost colony of Alterra is a completely man-made lifeworld abandoned long ago in a nearby galaxy. Alterra is actually five colonies in one. Each self-contained habitat has been separately bio-engineered by a powerful ecosystem generation network known as a Multiple Organism Unit Link. MORGUL, for short. Early colonists used MORGUL to render Alterra inhabitable.

Specifications

Released
May 1993
Developer
Factor 5
Publisher
Seika Corporation
Players
1
Genre
Shooter · Platform
Rating
Pre-ESRB
Series
Turrican
Themes
Action · Science fiction
View
Side view

What the magazines said

8
EGM · one reviewer
6
6
6
6
Famitsu · four reviewers
Players
72/100 (13 ratings)
Nintendo Power
3.425/5
GameRankings
76.70%
Computer and Video Games
83/100
Game Informer
8/10
GameFan
85%, 92%, 93%, 80%
GamesMaster
90%
Official Nintendo Magazine
83/100
Super Play
80%
Total!
(UK) 75%, (DE) 2+
VideoGames & Computer Entertainment
8/10
Dengeki Super Famicom
7/10, 6/10, 5/10, 7/10
Electronic Games
88%
SNES Force
83/100
Super Action
88%
Super Control
85%
The Super Famicom
52/100
Super Gamer
89%
Super Pro
89/100
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Week of May 7, 1993
May. 5

The West Memphis Three are three men who – while teenagers – were tried and convicted, in 1994, of the May 5, 1993 murders of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas. Damien Echols was sentenced to death, Jessie Misskelley Jr. was sentenced to life imprisonment plus two 20-year sentences, and Jason Baldwin was sentenced to life imprisonment. During the trial, the prosecution asserted that the children were killed as part of a Satanic ritual.

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