Manfred Trenz
German video game designer
Manfred Trenz (born 29 November 1965 in Saarbrücken) is a German video game developer.
He is the developer of the Turrican video game series as well as the Commodore 64 version of the game R-Type. He also made The Great Giana Sisters. He is currently developing games for his own company, Denaris Entertainment Software.
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