Trojan (video game)
| Trojan | |
|---|---|
North American arcade flyer | |
| Developer(s) | Capcom |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Director(s) | Takashi Nishiyama |
| Designer(s) | Takashi Nishiyama |
| Platform(s) | Arcade, MS-DOS, Nintendo Entertainment System, PlayStation 2, Xbox |
| Release | Arcade NES |
| Genre(s) | Hack and slash, beat 'em up |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
| Arcade system | PlayChoice-10 |
Trojan, released in Japan as Tatakai no Banka, is a 1986 hack and slash video game developed and published by Capcom for arcades. It was released in North America by Romstar and Capcom. Directed by Takashi Nishiyama, 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. It has also been likened to Capcom's Ghosts 'n Goblins (1985), which has similar side-scrolling action gameplay elements.
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). Nintendo released the version in arcades on the PlayChoice-10. 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; an incomplete version has since been leaked from a collection of Townsend's ZX Microdrive disk files. 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.