Your Favourite Retro Ninja Game

**Streets Of Rage** · 21-03-2003, 11:56 PM

Your Favourite Retro Ninja Game, anything from 32 bit or before the only constraint is it has to feature ninjas as they are very cool

games like the shinobi series, tenchu, ninja gaiden and others

i personally am going to plump for 2 as i cant decide between them

1) Shadow Dancer - great fun and challenging early megadrive ninja title (is this related to the shinobi series - it seems to be and says something bout shinobi on the box)

2) Shinobi 3 - sublime, the height of the fantastic shinobi series and an amazing fantastic, totally well exectuted piece of genius

now its over to you lot, power of the ninja

**Rabasaurus** · 22-03-2003, 12:08 AM

Hmmmmm, Shinobi or Shadow Warriors on C64

**lordcookie** · 22-03-2003, 12:11 AM

Shinobi 3 is certainly up there, but I would go for The Ninja. It was dirt cheap on the SMS (even when it was new), but it was rock hard, and really addictive. The strategic element of the brief invisibility added a new dimension to the game. Plus the music was pretty good too.

**Rabasaurus** · 22-03-2003, 12:14 AM

Do ninja characters count, but not necesarily being a ninja game?

Example - Dark Seal had a Knight, Wizard, Bard and Ninja and I always used the Ninja. Same goes for Captain Commando, always chose the ninja.

**Streets Of Rage** · 22-03-2003, 10:22 AM

u can take it how u like, hmmm i wonder if those samurais in streets of rage 2 count as ninjas

they were only enemies but still

**chocklo** · 22-03-2003, 03:39 PM

Originally Posted by Rabasaurus

Do ninja characters count, but not necesarily being a ninja game?

Example - Dark Seal had a Knight, Wizard, Bard and Ninja and I always used the Ninja. Same goes for Captain Commando, always chose the ninja.

I always used the knight on Dark Seal - one of my favourite coin-ops.

Oh, back on topic anyway - there's been quite a couple of ninja games that I really liked at the time, but haven't stood the test of time so well - mainly due to their lack of depth. Such games include Ninja in USA, Dragon Ninja (Bad Dudes) and Ninja Warriors.

My favourite is probably Revenge of Shinobi.