Legend of Hero Tonma

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.

Legend Of Hero Tonma
Japanese arcade flyer of Legend of Hero Tonma.
Developer(s)	Irem
Publisher(s)	Irem
Platform(s)	Arcade, TurboGrafx-16
Release	Arcade: 1989 TurboGrafx-16: February 1993NA
Genre(s)	Platform
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer
Arcade system	Irem M72

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,^[1] in North America on September 24,^[2] (delisted on March 30, 2012; returning in September 2013), and in PAL regions on September 28.^[3] The game was then released for the Wii U Virtual Console in Japan on March 18, 2015,^[4] and in North America and Europe on October 12, 2017.^[5][3]

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.^[6]