Mega Turrican

Mega Turrican
European cover art
Developer(s)	Factor 5 (Mega Drive) Kaiko/Neon Studios (Amiga)
Publisher(s)	NA: Data East EU: Sony Imagesoft (Mega Drive) EU: Rainbow Arts/Renegade Software (Amiga)
Designer(s)	Thomas Engel Frank Matzke Julian Eggebrecht
Platform(s)	Mega Drive/Genesis, Amiga, Virtual Console
Release	Amiga EU: 1993 Mega Drive/Genesis NA: June 7, 1994 EU: November 1994 Director's Cut WW: 2022 Wii (Virtual Console) EU: March 22, 2008 NA: April 14, 2008
Genre(s)	Run and gun
Mode(s)	Single-player

Mega Turrican is a run and gun video game, developed by Factor 5 in 1993 and marketed by Data East in 1994. Part of the Turrican series, it was designed for the Mega Drive/Genesis, and later followed by an Amiga port converted by Kaiko and Neon Studios under the title of Turrican 3: Payment Day. Despite not being the original, the Amiga version was the one that was first commercially released in 1993, published by Rainbow Arts in Germany and Renegade in the rest of Europe. The Mega Drive version did not have a publisher and stayed unreleased from spring 1993 until 1994, when Data East took over its worldwide distribution. Data East itself released the game in North America, and contracted Sony Imagesoft for the game's distribution in Europe.

The Mega Drive version of the game was re-released on the Wii's Virtual Console service in Europe and Australia on March 22, 2008 and on April 14, 2008 in North America.^[1] It was also released once again for the Mega Drive/Genesis in 2022 as Mega Turrican: Director's Cut, an aftermarket cartridge containing the original game, a new variant with some restored content and a score attack level.