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Semi-related; a fun bit of juicy drama is always par for HN: "Duke Nukem Stole Graphics from Turrican" - http://www.nemmelheim.de/turrican/news/duke/ http://www
by antiverse 4y ago
Semi-related; a fun bit of juicy drama is always par for HN: "Duke Nukem Stole Graphics from Turrican" - http://www.nemmelheim.de/turrican/news/duke/ http://www.nemmelheim.de/turrican/news/duke/
- bm5k 4y agoA couple of those could be considered "inspired by" if you (a) squint and (b) ignore all the examples that are clearly the same ;) I played the duke nukem 1 & 2 shareware _back in the day_ but I missed out on Turrican thanks for sending me down this rabbit hole.
- gRoberts84 4y agoFair usage applies :D
- daenz 4y agoAfter watching some gameplay of Turrican[0], which came out in 1990, I'm convinced it is heavily inspired by the NES Contra (1987). 0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7jP0qQgL-c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7jP0qQgL-c
- toast0 4y agoTurrican being a robot, and the developer being from Germany leads me to believe it may have been inspired by NES Probotector[1] rather than Contra. PS, watching that now I know the struggle of 50hz gamers playing slow games was real... yikes. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcAjDFvVvaY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcAjDFvVvaY
- alisonatwork 4y agoThat's pretty funny. Although, to be honest, I think a lot of the shareware platform games from that era were seen as low budget knock-offs of more famous games on the consoles and 8/16-bit home computers.