Trojan (video game)

Trojan
North American arcade flyer
Developer(s)Capcom
Publisher(s)
Director(s)Takashi Nishiyama[5]
Designer(s)Takashi Nishiyama
Platform(s)Arcade, MS-DOS, Nintendo Entertainment System, PlayChoice-10, PlayStation 2, Xbox
ReleaseArcade
NES
  • JP: December 24, 1986
  • NA: February 1987
  • EU: March 23, 1989
Genre(s)Hack and slash
Beat 'em up[5]
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Trojan (闘いの挽歌, Tatakai no Banka, "Requiem for Battle") is a side-scrolling action game developed by Capcom, originally released as a coin-operated arcade video game in 1986,[6] and published in North America by Romstar[2] and Capcom.[4] Directed by Takashi Nishiyama, the game includes beat 'em up and hack-and-slash elements. It is a spiritual successor to the beat 'em up Kung-Fu Master (1984), which was designed by Nishiyama at Irem before he left for Capcom, where he evolved its gameplay concepts with Trojan.[5] It is also considered a spiritual successor to Capcom's Ghosts 'n Goblins (1985), which has similar side-scrolling action gameplay elements.[3]

A Nintendo Entertainment System port was released the same year as the arcade version. It included a one-on-one fighting game mode, for the first time in a Capcom game, making it a precursor to Nishiyama's work on Capcom's Street Fighter (1987).[5] A version for MS-DOS was also released during the same year. A ZX Spectrum version was programmed by Clive Townsend for Elite Systems in 1987 for their Durell publishing line of games, but was never released; a ROM has since been leaked from a collection of Townsend's ZX Microdrive disk files.[7] The arcade version was later included in Capcom Classics Collection Vol. 1 for PlayStation 2 and Xbox. The NES version was rereleased in 2016 for the Wii U Virtual Console, but only in Japan.[8]

  1. ^ "Trojan at Capcom's archive". Capcom (in Japanese). Archived from the original on October 26, 1997.
  2. ^ a b c Akagi, Masumi (13 October 2006). アーケードTVゲームリスト国内•海外編(1971-2005) [Arcade TV Game List: Domestic • Overseas Edition (1971-2005)] (in Japanese). Japan: Amusement News Agency. p. 112. ISBN 978-4990251215.
  3. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference CVG was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ a b "Video Game Flyers: Trojan, Capcom (USA)". The Arcade Flyer Archive.
  5. ^ a b c d Kalata, Kurt (January 29, 2019). "Trojan". Hardcore Gaming 101. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  6. ^ "Trojan". The International Arcade Museum. Retrieved 15 Oct 2013.
  7. ^ "Video Footage of the unreleased ZX Spectrum Port of Trojan". YouTube. 22 February 2010. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21.
  8. ^ "闘いの挽歌 | Wii U | 任天堂".