Prerelease:Tomato Adventure
This page details pre-release information and/or media for Tomato Adventure.
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Before the release of Tomato Adventure for Game Boy Advance, it was going to be released under a different name as Gimmick Land for Game Boy Color on an expected release date of Winter 2000 and was shown at Nintendo Space World 2000.
At this time it seems the game was going to be self-published by AlphaDream rather than Nintendo, like their first game Koto Battle: Tengai no Moribito.
In 2020, a mainly complete prototype of the Game Boy Color version surfaced online from the lot check leak. The graphics and music are simpler as a result.
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Details Revealed in Nintendo Online Magazine
These details are from Nintendo Online Magazine No. 42 (2001).
Reception of Gimmick Land and Koto Battle
Toshiharu Izuno notes that internally within Nintendo staff played AlphaDream's prototype of Tomato Adventure (Gimmick Land) and it was very well received, which lead to Izuno wanting to release it as a Nintendo product. This also followed good reception on AlphaDream's previous game Koto Battle.
Tone of Game
Chihiro Fujioka notes he didn't want to give the game a serious tone, and he wanted the game to be both rich in originality and easily understood. Despite this, he states some parts of the game are quirky with dark humor in contrast to the cute-looking visuals.
Gimica Changes
Gimica is a card battle minigame. Izuno notes that in the Game Boy Color version it was originally planned to pick up dropped Gimica cards from the overworld. This was changed so that players would instead obtain them by battling the relevant characters (in Gimica battles) first. Dialog was changed to address the new changes, including the reduction of some text and the addition of more.
Lack of Tomatrio
The Tomatrio characters originally did not exist. Their addition was related to the name change to Tomato Adventure and including characters with a focus. In the lot check leak prototype, this can be confirmed where the Tomatrio are missing. In the place of the signboards with Tomagreen on them is a generic animated signboard instead.
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Name Change
The change of the name from Gimmick Land to Tomato Adventure was a request from Nintendo.
