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- From: ins750t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Jim Giannakis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
- Subject: Re: Turrican 3 SEU level, was Re: Shoot Em Up's
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.002355.29333@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 00:23:55 GMT
- References: <92320.151810MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu>
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- Mark 'Mark' Sachs (MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu) wrote:
- : In article <BxqB4M.F4@dunaad.co.uk>, dan@dunaad.co.uk (Daniel Hunter) says:
- : >In article <1992Nov13.175253.29212@u.washington.edu>
- : >foregone@stein.u.washington.edu (Ah so Grasshopper!) writes:
- : >>In article <BxMIu7.A3H@dunaad.co.uk> dan@dunaad.co.uk (Daniel Hunter) writes:
- : >there is a special icon that you pick up and a helicopter brings a message
- : >across the screen, never found out what it did .Anybody?
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- : What happens is that in amongst the flood of speeding helicopters, which
- : you can dodge by staying at the top of the screen, is a mechanical eye
- : standing still. Blow it up (I do it with power lines) and a question mark
- : icon appears. Pick up the '?' and two things happen:
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- : 1 - yet another chopper zooms across the screen, pulling a banner that says
- : "KAHNAKAS LIVES!" (no, I have no idea what it means)
- : 2 - your score starts going up very quickly and keeps doing that until the
- : end-of-level boss shows up.
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- : I can't wait for Turrican III...
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- Actually the message was "KATAKIS LIVES". Katakis was a game written by
- Rainbow Arts before Turrican 1 & 2. Basically It was deleted as it was too
- close a copy of R-Type (well thats what Activision thought anyway). And
- Activision (they who converted R-type) threatened (or did) take legal action.
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- Jim
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