Ninja Gaiden (arcade game)

Ninja Gaiden
North American arcade flyer
Developer(s)
Publisher(s)
Tecmo
Director(s)H. Iijima
Artist(s)Shinobu Iwabayashi
Writer(s)H. Iijima
Composer(s)Mikio Saitou
Ichiro Nakagawa
Ryuichi Nitta
Tamotsu Ebisawa
SeriesNinja Gaiden
Platform(s)Arcade, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Lynx, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, ZX Spectrum
Release
October 1988
  • Arcade
    MS-DOS
    • NA: 1990
    • NA: February 15, 1991 (re-release)
    Lynx, C64
    • WW: 1990
    Amiga, Amstrad, ST, Spectrum
Genre(s)Beat 'em up
Mode(s)Two-player, co-op

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 side-scrolling beat-'em-up game, originally released by Tecmo as a coin-operated arcade video game.[3] It was first released in North America and Europe in late 1988,[2][1] and then in Japan in February 1989.[2] 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.

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference CU was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b c d Akagi, Masumi (13 October 2006). アーケードTVゲームリスト国内•海外編(1971-2005) [Arcade TV Game List: Domestic • Overseas Edition (1971-2005)] (in Japanese). Japan: Amusement News Agency. pp. 49, 138. ISBN 978-4990251215.
  3. ^ "Ninja Gaiden". The International Arcade Museum. Retrieved 6 October 2013.