Although the controls are somewhat awkward in that you have to hold down a joystick button to put up the shield, you will soon get the hang of it. Ryu can move in two directions, jump in three directions, and he can also duck. Unlike in most other arcade games that depend solely on the accuracy of your attacks and the agility of avoiding enemies’ attacks, Trojan lets you defend yourself with the shield, the mastery of which is crucial to beating the game. Your character is equipped with both a sword (for offense) and a shield (for defense). You are Ryu, the master of martial arts and sword-fighting, who has decided that a confrontation with Achilles is in order to bring peace and order back to the world.ĭespite a cliché setting that was evidently a rip-off of either the movie Mad Max or the classic Japanese manga Fist of the North Star (probably the latter), Trojan did introduce a new concept of ''defense'' to side-scrolling games.

The banal plot: in a post-apocalyse era, the world is ruled by a vicious warlord named Achiless and his henchmen. One of CAPCOM’s harder to find PC conversions of arcade classics, Trojan was one of the early arcade titles, including Commando, that established CAPCOM as the premier arcade game maker.

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