Super Turrican is heading back to original-style hardware in Japan, with Columbus Circle preparing a new Super Famicom cartridge that bundles the 1993 run-and-gun shooter with Super Turrican: Director's Cut.
The cartridge is scheduled for late July 2026 and is priced at 7,980 yen before tax, according to Columbus Circle's product page. An Amazon Japan listing is already live with a Game Lab strategy guide offered as a pre-order bonus.
The appeal here is not just another retro reissue. Super Turrican: Director's Cut has had an unusual path through modern retro hardware and collector releases. Factor 5 developed the restored version after the studio's 2017 resurrection, bringing back material that had been cut from the original game because of cartridge capacity limits, including sound, stages and enemy characters.
That version first appeared for Analogue's Super Nt before later showing up in Strictly Limited Games' Turrican Anthology Vol. 1, on a standalone aftermarket cartridge for NTSC and PAL systems and in Evercade's The Turrican Collection in February 2026. Columbus Circle's release gives Japanese Super Famicom owners and compatible-hardware collectors a local cartridge containing both versions.
The package will also have new artwork from Tetsuhiko "Han" Kikuchi, the former Konami and Treasure artist whose credits include Gunstar Heroes, Guardian Heroes and Radiant Silvergun. For a game with a long history in the collector scene, that packaging detail is likely to matter almost as much as the ROM lineup.
Super Turrican remains one of Factor 5's signature 16-bit shooters, a fast side-scrolling action game with a reputation that has outlasted the hardware it was originally built for. This new cartridge will not replace the many modern ways to revisit Turrican, but it does give the Director's Cut another physical route onto Super Famicom-style systems.