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In the "Cross Review" of the game magazine Famitsu it received 6, 7, 8 and 7, for a total of 28 out of 40.
In the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by the magazine Family Computer Magazine,it scored 19.68 out of 30, as shown below.
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).
The NES version was rereleased in 2016 for the Wii U Virtual Console, but only in Japan.
She praised the graphics and gameplay, and considered it to be a worthy successor to Capcom's side-scrolling arcade hit Ghosts 'n Goblins (1985).
Allgame editor Brett Alan Weiss praised the game, commenting "though not as good or as influential as Ghosts & Goblins or the Mega Man series, Capcom's lesser known Trojan is still a fine game with a nice variety of levels to traverse and an interesting mix of enemies to battle".
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.
Allgame editor Brett Alan Weiss praised the game, commenting "though not as good or as influential as Ghosts & Goblins or the Mega Man series, Capcom's lesser known Trojan is still a fine game with a nice variety of levels to traverse and an interesting mix of enemies to battle".
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