Legend of Hero Tonma
Legend of Hero Tonma is a side scrolling platform game released by Irem to arcades in 1989. The player controls a caped hero named Tommy in his quest to rescue a princess. Tommy can cast fireballs (which can be upgraded in power) to dispatch enemies, and jump on their heads to temporarily stun them.
Legend of Hero Tonma
- Date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Irem
- Genre
- platformer
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Legend of Hero Tonma is a side scrolling platform game released by Irem to arcades in 1989. The player controls a caped hero named Tommy in his quest to rescue a princess. Tommy can cast fireballs (which can be upgraded in power) to dispatch enemies, and jump on their heads to temporarily stun them.
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The game was ported to the TurboGrafx-16 in 1991 and localized to North America in 1993. The TurboGrafx-16 version was re-released on the Wii Virtual Console in Japan on September 4, 2007, in North America on September 24, (delisted on March 30, 2012; returning in September 2013), and in PAL regions on September 28. The game was then released for the Wii U Virtual Console in Japan on March 18, 2015, and in North America and Europe on October 12, 2017.
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• Title — Legend Of Hero Tonma • Developer — Irem • Publisher — Irem • Released — Arcade: 1989 TurboGrafx-16: February 1993 NA • Genre — Platform • Modes — Single-player, multiplayer • Platforms — Arcade, TurboGrafx-16 • Arcade System — Irem M72
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In Japan, Game Machine listed Legend of Hero Tonma on their June 1, 1989 issue as being the tenth most-popular arcade game for the previous two weeks.
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