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The Misadventures of Tron Bonne

1999 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ2634792 ↗
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The Misadventures of Tron Bonne is a 1999 action-adventure game developed and published by Capcom for the PlayStation. Released in Japan in 1999 and in North America and Europe in 2000, the game is part of the Mega Man Legends (Rockman DASH) series, and is also a prequel and spin-off of the first Legends game. Rather than focusing on the heroic protagonists of the series, the game follows series antihero Tron Bonne, sister of the criminal Bonne family of air pirates. The Japanese version included PocketStation support, whereas the North American and European version did not.

Gameplay

Unlike other games in the Mega Man series, MTB bears three distinct play styles, each related to a specific mission. Players are tasked with completing (with gradual difficulty) "moving-box" puzzle stages (containers of various contents in Teche and Primiki Harbor), a Descent-like adventure stage, and several action stages similar to the remainder of the Mega Man Legends series (robbing a bank near Gold City and exploring the Nakkai Ruins themselves). Another gameplay aspect is a collection mission built into one of the action missions, located in Sart Farm, where the player must gather pigs, cows and horses. Players can choose freely among the three stage types at any time, but each level may only be cleared once. The only exception is the Nakkai Ruins, which can be explored anytime, however the player may only collect Diana's Tear (by defeating the boss) once (afterwards the boss room will be empty).

Instrumental in the game's story is the interaction between Tron and her army of forty loyal Servbots.

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