When did Tobal No. 1 come out?

Tobal No. 1 was released on 2 August 1996 for PlayStation.

Tobal No. 1 (1996) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Tobal No. 1

Fighting game with a unique quest mode, from Square. The publisher enlisted the help of Seiichi Ishii, who had previously worked on both Tekken and Virtua Fighter. On these strengths, Square helped Ishii start…

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What Tobal No. 1 is

Tobal No. 1 is an adventure game developed by Bird Studio and released in 1996. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Fighting game with a unique quest mode, from Square. The publisher enlisted the help of Seiichi Ishii, who had previously worked on both Tekken and Virtua Fighter. On these strengths, Square helped Ishii start his own development company, Dream Factory, and Tobal No.1 is the first game from the developer. The game offers some 3D movement for more behind-the-back attacks that fighting games released around the same time. Tobal also introduced an interesting grapple move, which allows you to grab your opponent and, depending on your button execution, throw them in a myriad of ways. The game features Gouraud-shaded players displayed in hi-res mode (640x480) and shipped with an included Final…

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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Tobal No. 1 holds a critic score of 87 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1996 averaged 70, so it scored 17 points above the year average.

Cheats and codes

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