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I’ll never forget the first time I experienced Turrican. I was visiting a friend’s house and he was playing it on his C64. It looked absolutely phenomenal and it had the kind of slick controls and aesthetics that you’d typically see in an arcade game. Sadly, when I was eventually able to play the Amstrad port, it was nowhere near as good, and Turrican became one of those titles that made me envious of my C64-owning friends.

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