Shadow of the Ninja

Shadow of the Ninja
North American packaging artwork
Developer(s)Natsume
Publisher(s)Natsume
Taito (Europe)
Programmer(s)Kazuhiko Ishihara
Artist(s)Shunichi Taniguchi
Composer(s)Iku Mizutani
Kouichi Yamanishi
Platform(s)NES
Release
  • JP: August 10, 1990[1]
  • NA: December 1990
  • EU: July 25, 1991
Genre(s)Platform game
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Shadow of the Ninja, originally released in Japan as Yami no Shigotonin Kage (闇(やみ)の仕事人(しごとにん) KAGE, The Dark Operative: Kage) and later released in Europe and Australia as Blue Shadow, is a side-scrolling action game developed by Natsume for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in 1990. The game revolves around a pair of ninja sent to assassinate a dictator in a futuristic version of New York City. A port was planned for the Game Boy, but was released in a rebranded form as Ninja Gaiden Shadow. A remake, Shadow of the Ninja: Reborn, was released in 2024.

  1. ^ "Family Computer 30th Anniversary Book (supplemental booklet)". Weekly Famitsu (in Japanese). No. 1284. Enterbrain. 25 July 2013.