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		daenz on July 15, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Duke Nukem II’s parallax scrolling worked After 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

toast0 on July 16, 2022 [–]

Turrican 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

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