Legend of Hero Tonma (レジェンド・オブ・ヒーロー・トンマ) 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.
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.
Reception
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.
References
External links
- Legend of Hero Tonma at the Killer List of Videogames
- Legend of Hero Tonma at MobyGames