Trio The Punch – Never Forget Me...
| Trio The Punch - Never Forget Me... | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Data East |
| Publisher(s) | Data East |
| Platform(s) | Arcade, PlayStation 2, Mobile phone, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 |
| Release | April 1990 |
| Genre(s) | Beat 'em up |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Trio The Punch: Never Forget Me... (トリオ・ザ・パンチ, torio za panchi) is an arcade game released by Data East in 1990. Chelnov and Karnov were produced by the same director, and the three games are grouped together by Data East as the Deco-gē Trio (デコゲー3トリオ, dekogē torio).
The game was re-released in 2007 as part of Oretachi Gēsen Zoku (オレたちゲーセン族, lit. "We are the game center race"), a series which ported arcade games from the 1980s and 90s to the PlayStation 2. The mobile phone game company G-mode acquired the rights to the game after Data East's bankruptcy, and a mobile phone version of the game has been released for the Vodafone EZweb network. It was later released on the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 consoles on May 19, 2022, as part of the Arcade Archives series.
Though the game was initially planned as a sugoroku game titled TV Sugoroku Trio the Punch (TVすごろく トリオ・ザ・パンチ), the content was completely changed during production into its released form, according to the arcade game magazine Arcadia (Coin Op'ed Video Game Magazine Arcadia). The sheep from this game later appeared in Suiko Enbu: Fuunsaiki as Makoto Mizoguchi's desperation move.