The Legend of the Mystical Ninja

The Legend of the Mystical Ninja
North American SNES cover art
DeveloperKonami
PublisherKonami
DesignerShigeharu Umezaki
ProgrammersNobuhiro Matsuoka
Yasuo Okuda
Toshinori Shimono
Koji Yoshida
ArtistsTakeshi Fujimoto
Setsu Muraki
Kumiko Ogawa
Takeo Yakushiji
ComposersKazuhiko Uehara
Harumi Ueko
SeriesGanbare Goemon
PlatformsSuper NES, Game Boy Advance
ReleaseSuper NES
  • JP: July 19, 1991
  • NA: February 1992
  • PAL: 1994
Game Boy Advance
  • JP: April 21, 2005
GenreAction-adventure
ModesSingle-player, multiplayer

The Legend of the Mystical Ninja is a 1991 action-adventure game released by Konami for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It was also ported to the Game Boy Advance along with Ganbare Goemon 2: Kiteretsu Shōgun McGuiness in 2005 only in Japan.

It is the first game in the Japanese video game series Ganbare Goemon to have a western release and the fifth mainline game overall. It has also been released for the Wii Virtual Console in 2007, the Wii U Virtual Console in 2013 (2014 in Europe and Australia), and the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console in 2016. The game is set to be re-released in 2026 via the Ganbare Goemon! Daishūgō compilation.