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Titan is a 2D arcade game / puzzle game hybrid. For some reason, mad professors of the future tend to invent strange entertainment games in which every participant dies. Professor Hybrys’ variant is called Titan and involves a ball, a control unit and 80 labyrinths. Your objective is either to...

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Developer
ISCO

Released on
1991

Size
1 Player

Version
TurboGrafx-16

Requirements
NEC TurboGrafx-16

Downloads
Puzzle

Publisher
Naxat Soft

ESRB Rating
Not Rated

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Titan is a 2D arcade game / puzzle game hybrid.

For some reason, mad professors of the future tend to invent strange entertainment games in which every participant dies. Professor Hybrys’ variant is called Titan and involves a ball, a control unit and 80 labyrinths. Your objective is either to destroy all destructible blocks in each level by hitting them with the sphere, or to pilot it to the exit. The black ball is beyond your control; it will bounce straight or diagonally through the labyrinth with constant speed. You move the control unit, a small box, with you are to position in a way that the ball bounces off it in the desired direction. You can also catch the sphere by quickly moving over it, and then release it in a direction of your choice.

The labyrinths not only contain harmless, destructible blocks, but also increasingly difficult hazards. If the sphere or your control unit hit a skull symbol, one of your nine lives is lost. Teleporters exchange the position of you and the ball, wall pieces can be pushed around or destroyed by your unit, floor tiles will grow into walls when you pass over them too often. The high game speed can be slowed down by holding the space key – a very useful option in tricky situations.

Titan mixes an arcade game foundation (requiring quick reflexes and good nerves) with puzzle game elements (requiring logical thinking to beat the complex levels). The challenge is to control the sphere accurately, yet indirectly.

Titan

Overview & History

Released in 1991 by Pack-In-Video exclusively for the PC Engine in Japan, Titan is a hidden gem of the 16-bit era that never officially crossed the shores to North America as a TurboGrafx-16 HuCard. The game plunges players into a dystopian science-fiction future where an oppressive cybernetic syndicate has seized control of Saturn’s largest moon. You assume the role of an elite, heavily armored bio-mech operative engineered specifically to infiltrate the heavily fortified subterranean stronghold of the syndicate, neutralize rogue artificial intelligence cores, and rescue the imprisoned planetary scientists before the moon’s self-destruct protocol is triggered.

Gameplay Features & Mechanics

Titan is a brutal, fast-paced side-scrolling run-and-gun action platformer that heavily tests player reflexes across five vertically and horizontally expansive stages. Unlike traditional shooters, your protagonist can temporarily cling to walls, execute a high-speed dashing slide to evade lethal laser grids, and charge up a devastating plasma blast. As you progress, you collect floating nano-modules dropped by downed biomechanical sentinels to upgrade your core arsenal, switching between a rapid-fire pulse rifle, a piercing railgun, and room-clearing cluster bombs. Boss encounters at the end of each sector require meticulous pattern memorization, demanding precise timing with your temporary invulnerability dodge-roll to survive bullet-hell barrages.