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Senior Game Dev
Join Date: Jun 2023
Location: Cologne /Germany
Age: 58
Posts: 19
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Greetings from Cologne
Hi there,
my name is Willi Baecker and i am a founding member of some C64 and Amiga Groups back in the good old days. (FCG / TLC /RADWAR). After the end of my C64 time, I was also a founding member of 'Factor 5' and created some games together with the team which was an amazing experience for all of us. Glory times back then. Due to the high level of pirate-copying our games, we moved to the console market and leaved the amiga. I am now re-entering the amiga community after 30 years to proove myself that assembler coding on the amiga is like riding a bycicle. You never forget the basics.... Greetings from cologne Willi Baecker |
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Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Italy
Age: 49
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Welcome to the forum !
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Global Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Germany
Age: 46
Posts: 32,584
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Welcome to EAB, Willi
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: finland
Posts: 1,850
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I have acquainted with Kölsch for last 15 years once / twice an year, mostly in December
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Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: milan / italy
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Welcome!
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: -
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Welcome, Willi.
I am curious if Activision reached out to the Factor 5 company when they were planning on releasing R-Type II? |
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Senior Game Dev
Join Date: Jun 2023
Location: Cologne /Germany
Age: 58
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Natteravn
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Herford / Germany
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![]() We are honored to have you here! Willkommen! Do you have to change your name when more Factor5 members join? ![]() |
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Senior Game Dev
Join Date: Jun 2023
Location: Cologne /Germany
Age: 58
Posts: 19
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(Achim, Lutz and me -> All members of the Amiga Section of 'The Light Circle' who are responsible for the Copy Disks and the other Amiga demos...) and the team name was 'Factor 3'. When Holger and Stefan joined we changed the name to 'Factor 5' and never changed it again. At this point we were working on our first game named 'Neutralizer' which later was renamed to Katakis/Denaris. |
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Join Date: Jun 2021
Location: -
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Hello Willi. It's an honor to interact with one of the founding members of Factor 5.
Do you recall if, after doing Super Turrican for the SNES, Mega Turrican for the Mega Drive and Turrican 3 for the Amiga, when you moved to the "next level of Turrican games", did you plan to do any further Turrican game for either the Mega Drive or the Amiga? Or did you just envisioned Super Turrican 2 for the SNES only and because of either technical and/or commercial reasons? I always had the sensation, especially given that both Mega Turrican and Turrican 3 have endings hinting a possible continuity, that you probably intended both a Mega Turrican 2 (Mega Drive) and a Turrican 4 (Amiga) in the same or similar vein to the Super Turrican 2 game that appeared on the SNES (similarly to the fact that Super Turrican is a "cousin game" to Mega Turrican/Turrican 3), but market conditions on those platforms prevented that to ever happen. |
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Inviyya Dude!
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: Amiga Island
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Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: No(R)Way
Age: 42
Posts: 3,258
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Very cool, welcome and enjoy your stay!!
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95th User
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Brighton/UK
Age: 48
Posts: 3,120
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Welcome to EAB, massive fan of your games!
Any chance of Turrican 4 ![]() |
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: South Wales
Age: 47
Posts: 947
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Welcome , thanks for the games
![]() I worked in cologne some time a go for a few months. Loved it |
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Join Date: Oct 2022
Location: Roma
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Out of curiosity, were you in any way involved with the Bonk's Adventure/B.C Kid conversion on Amiga? If yes, how did it happen? I assume Hudson Soft must've heard about Factor 5's legendary status
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Senior Game Dev
Join Date: Jun 2023
Location: Cologne /Germany
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Going nowhere
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 50
Posts: 9,035
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I'd be interested to know about the whole Katakis/R-Type situation where Activision threatened to sue, and somehow, sane minds realised Factor 5 would be the perfect fit to actually do the official R-Type conversion on Amiga.
That would be a great story |
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Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: The Netherlands
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Welcome!
The Factor 5 games were on the Amiga were brilliant stuff ![]() I still remember desperately tracking down Turrican and Turrican 2 for the Amiga in the shops only to not be able find them... Until they were released in compilations later (Power Up and M.A.X.), which I promptly bought so it all ended well ![]() |
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