Ninja Gaiden (TurboGrafx-16) Playthrough - NintendoComplete

A playthrough of Hudson’s 1992 action-platformer for the NEC PC Engine, Ninja Ryukenden. Tecmo’s 1988 Ninja Gaiden (also known as Ninja Ryukenden in Japan/Shadow Warriors in PAL territories) was one of the NES’s seminal classics, and it’s a game that’s still remembered fondly... and sometimes with a barely-contained sense of rage... by most anyone that played it when it was still fresh. It marked a huge departure from the 1988 arcade release of the same name, and it ended up a much better game because of it. Instead of playing itself off as an uber-violent Double Dragon clone, the NES version of Ninja Gaiden was a fluid, fast-paced 2D platformer with a multitude of special weapons, brilliantly realized story cutscenes, and a level of difficulty that would make the best players fling controllers across the room. It was everything you could want from a big budget action game of the era, and beating it really became a point of pride for players, much like Batman and Battletoads