Ninja Gaiden (arcade game)

Ninja Gaiden
North American arcade flyer
DeveloperTecmo
Publishers
Tecmo
DirectorH. Iijima
ArtistShinobu Iwabayashi
WriterH. Iijima
ComposersMikio Saitou
Ichiro Nakagawa
Ryuichi Nitta
Tamotsu Ebisawa
SeriesNinja Gaiden
PlatformsArcade, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, ZX Spectrum, Atari Lynx
Release
October 1988
  • Arcade
    • NA: October 1988
    • EU: December 1988
    • JP: February 1989
    MS-DOS
    • NA: 1990
    • NA: February 15, 1991 (re-release)
    C64
    • WW: 1990
    Amiga, Atari ST, CPC, ZX Spectrum
    Lynx
    • NA: May 1991
    • EU: 1991
GenreBeat 'em up
ModesSingle-player, multiplayer

Ninja Gaiden, released in Japan as Ninja Ryūkenden (忍者龍剣伝; lit. 'Ninja Dragon Sword Legend') and in Europe as Shadow Warriors, is a 1988 beat 'em up video game developed and published by Tecmo for arcades. It was first released in North America and Europe in late 1988, and then in Japan in February 1989. It was the first game released in the Ninja Gaiden franchise. The arcade game was a major commercial success in North America, becoming the highest-grossing arcade conversion kit of 1989 in the United States. A significantly different game of the same name for the Nintendo Entertainment System was developed in parallel and released the same year.


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