tOMBI

E3 - Atlanta, May 1998 –  Sony Computer Entertainment announces the release of an exciting new game, Tombi, from the creative genius of Whoopee Camp’s chief game director, Mr Fujiwara – creator of all time classic platform games such as Megaman and Ghost and Goblins.

Tombi is a completely new direction for Fujiwara-san, who has opted to produce a game that was 100% targeted to young children and early teenagers.  By combining lush, vivid fairy-tale graphics with simple and intuitive gameplay, Tombi should prove extremely popular with children and fans of the ‘platform’ genre.

The central character is a cute, young prehistoric boy called Tombi.   The progression of the game depends on Tombi’s ability to locate certain items and toys, which he then utilises to clear problem areas, whilst jumping, swimming , running and flying past the evil Koma pigs.  
 
Tombi is a combination of platform arcade action, role-playing adventure and lateral thinking via the inventory items and puzzles - the landscape is literally filled with things to do, people to talk to and enemies to knock out.    The role-playing element to Tombi is perhaps its most unique feature.   The viewpoint of the game changes to a top down perspective during the extended RPG sections, allowing a larger view of the townships you visit.  By meeting weird and wonderful characters along the path to success, Tombi learns of new adventures to tackle. 

There are more than 50 unique locations in the game to explore, from mysterious forests, castle remains, sunken ships and beautiful towers that punch the clouds.   Stunning CG movie sequences are displayed when you clear certain key areas or puzzles.  Tombi has been graphically enhanced for the PAL market - gorgeous shading and colour graduations have been introduced to each and every level, plus new animations for Tombi and cool new sound effects. 

Whoopee Camp are converting Tombi into 9 languages:  English / French / German / Spanish / Italian / Portuguese / Swedish and Danish.

Chris Deering – President, Sony Computer Entertainment said:  “Tombi is an extremely enjoyable combination of classic platform action and addictive adventure game puzzles for the young and ‘young at heart’ and we are confident it will be a big summer hit”.

Developer:   Whoopee Camp    Genre:   Platform/Adventure   No. of Players:  1    
Peripherals:  Controller, Memory Card

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