Turrican Flashback is a nostalgic paradise of synths and bullets Nostalgia, as they say, is one hell of a drug, and in lockdown we’ve been getting very, very high. A generation of middle aged men – myself included – have helped push shares in Games Workshop through the roof as they rediscover the hobby that saw them through their teenage years. The Turrican Flashback collection, now available on Switch, scratches an itch that dates back even further, to a time when I was nine years old, playing games on my family’s Amiga 500. One of the more prestigious titles in my adolescent games collection, I must have played through Turrican II a dozen times. It was among the first run-and-gun titles where exploration and discovery were just as important as reflexes. If you could find all of the hidden areas filled with extra lives, you could afford to bash your head against the occasional shmup sections and bullet-sponge bosses. And playing through a game with already floaty controls on a spongy joystick – I had no idea you could use a control pad or keyboard – meant I