 Prior to its North American release, the game was retitled "The Legendary Axe" and was displayed with the other PC Engine games and the console itself at the 1989 International Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada.Later in 1989, NEC retooled Hudson Soft's console and renamed it the TurboGrafx-16 for its imminent North American release.NEC sought third-party support to develop the console; since they were purely a hardware developer, they lacked the ability to develop any software or games.