{"id":484,"date":"2012-02-22T07:20:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T07:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astrofra.com\/wordpress\/?p=484"},"modified":"2012-02-22T07:20:04","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T07:20:04","slug":"turrican-3-title-screen-a-bit-of-vg-archeology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astrofra.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/02\/22\/turrican-3-title-screen-a-bit-of-vg-archeology\/","title":{"rendered":"Turrican 3 (title screen), a bit of (VG) archeology."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday night, a friend sent me the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astrofra.com\/museum\/T3-Title-9-4.zip\">ASM source code<\/a> of the title screen of the game <strong>Turrican 3<\/strong>, released by <strong>Factor5<\/strong> on <strong>Amiga computers<\/strong> around the year 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Not only the 68000 ASM source code of the title screen makes <strong>more than 5000 lines<\/strong>, but it contains a few evidences of where the Factor5 team got their inspiration from.<\/p>\n<p>The line 31 mentions a &#8216;<strong>Stryfe<\/strong>&#8216; character.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.astrofra.com\/posts\/misc\/2012-02-22_075844.jpg\" title=\"Turrican 3, asm source excerpt.\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"668\" height=\"197\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I started to look into Google Image, and I quickly found the following character, featured as a Super Vilain of the Marvel universe (look at his <em>Real Name<\/em>) :<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.astrofra.com\/posts\/misc\/2012-02-22_080039.jpg\" title=\"Stryfe, (c) Marvel.\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"478\" height=\"371\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that &#8216;Stryfe&#8217; character the twin brother of the <strong>Turrican 3&#8217;s Super Vilain<\/strong> (and Final Boss), <strong>featured below<\/strong> in the title screen of the Amiga version ?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.astrofra.com\/posts\/misc\/2012-02-22_075909.jpg\" title=\"Turrican 3, intro screenshot.\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"478\" height=\"419\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Amazing, isn&#8217;t it ? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>For the record, there is a longplay of Turrican 3 Amiga :<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y530mBlpv7k?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday night, a friend sent me the ASM source code of the title screen of the game Turrican 3, released by Factor5 on Amiga computers around the year 1993. Not only the 68000 ASM source code of the title screen makes more than 5000 lines, but it contains a few evidences of where the Factor5 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/astrofra.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/02\/22\/turrican-3-title-screen-a-bit-of-vg-archeology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Turrican 3 (title screen), a bit of (VG) archeology.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-input"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrofra.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrofra.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrofra.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrofra.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrofra.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/astrofra.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrofra.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrofra.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrofra.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}