Trivia / Turrican

• No Export for You:
  • An NES game titled Super Turrican was made entirely by Manfred Trenz, but was released only in Europe late in the NES's life. It's a completely independent game to Super Turrican for the SNES, developed by Factor 5.
  • Super Turrican for the SNES is the only game in the series that saw a release in Japan.
• Pop-Culture Urban Legends: It was widely accepted by the fandom that the reason the series died out was because of a fall out between Manfred Trenz and Julian Eggebrecht over who owned the series rights. Eventually both of them came out publicly and jossed this theory; as it turns out Trenz just quit game development entirely after the frustrations caused by the development of the unreleased Turrican 3D, while Eggebrecht just kept the franchise in the back burner after this incident.
• Schedule Slip: Mega Turrican was finished before Turrican 3, but the the game couldn't find a publisher until 1994 with Data East. As a result, they ported it to the Amiga ahead of time.
• What Could Have Been: Notably, Factor 5 actually went on record as saying that, with Super Turrican, due to going for a cheaper cartridge, they had to cut literally the last third of the game. The definitive version was developed, and released over a decade later.