Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for August 8th, 2022. In today s article, we ve got a bit of news to dig into, a pair of reviews to read, some dubious new releases to summarize, and the usual lists of new and outgoing sales.
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16-bit home computer retro games are welcome on the PlayStation 4, especially as there has not been an abundance of Commodore Amiga games available, with a few exceptions being versions of Another World,
GODS Remastered, and Shadow of the Beast. Therefore, it s particularly pleasing to have the first two classic Amiga Turrican titles presented in their original 16-bit sprite splendidness in the Turrican Flashback Collection s four game pack.
The four European-style run-and-gun games included in Turrican Flashback are early examples of Factor 5 s games developed in Germany, so alongside the two aforementioned Amiga titles are two games released on 16-bit consoles with the 1993 release of Super Turrican on the SNES, and the 1994 Mega Drive/Genesis game, Mega Turrican. While these console games have previously been available on the Wii s Virtual Console, the first two Amiga Turrican games have not been ported to modern consoles before.
Super and
Mega Turrican. Sadly, though, that’s not what we have here. This is
Turrican Flashback, a cheaper, smaller digital compilation of just four titles from the series – making for a pretty major oversight.
See, with Turrican Flashback you’re getting the Amiga
Turrican and
Mega Turrican (which is, essentially, a port of the Amiga follow-up
Turrican 3: Payment Day) and, lastly, the SNES title
Super Turrican. Four very enjoyable and playable games, but where in the world is
Super Turrican 2? Well, it’s on the Anthology set, yes, but its absence from Turrican Flashback is keenly felt.
Super Turrican 2 is tremendous fun and its addition would make Turrican Flashback a much better prospect given that, essentially, the