Ninja Gaiden
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Ninja Gaiden is a 1992 hack and slash platform game developed by SIMS and published by Sega for the Master System, with license from Tecmo. The game stars Ryu Hayabusa and is part of the Ninja Gaiden series, although it features a plot not connected to any of the other Ninja Gaiden games. Due to the discontinued support of the console in Japan and North America because of its bad sales, the game was only released in Europe, Australia and other PAL territories, bearing the Ninja Gaiden label instead of the Shadow Warriors one that was usually used for the series by the time in PAL releases.
From Wikipedia's article Ninja Gaiden (1992 video game), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
Controls
This is a PC game: it uses the keyboard the way it did under MS-DOS, and the mouse where the game supports it. Click the game screen first so it gets your key presses.
Many DOS games start with a menu or ask a question first — read the screen and answer with the keyboard. Arrow keys, Enter, Space, Ctrl and Alt are the usual game keys.
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Controls
This is a PC game: it uses the keyboard the way it did under MS-DOS, and the mouse where the game supports it. Click the game screen first so it gets your key presses.
Many DOS games start with a menu or ask a question first — read the screen and answer with the keyboard. Arrow keys, Enter, Space, Ctrl and Alt are the usual game keys.
3.5 Good job
Players 78 · 266 votes
No critic scores found for this game: this is the players' rating.
Review scorecard
- Graphics 3.5 out of 5 Overall fallback
- Sound 3.5 out of 5 Overall fallback
- Control 3.5 out of 5 Overall fallback
- Fun Factor 3.5 out of 5 Overall fallback
Overall fallback: Players 78 · 266 votes. The same 78/100 overall rating fills missing categories using the face scale; these are not separate category scores. Player rating; no critic scores available.
What the reviews talk about
Key wordshecticexcellentatmospherictoughresponsivesmooth
What the critics said
Another reviewer Chris Knight stated that the game is "great to look at, the music and in-game effects are nicely atmospheric, and above all, the controls work a treat."
— Sega Force, 1992
One Mean Machines reviewer Rob, stated that the game "boasts excellent graphics," compared its animation quality to Prince of Persia, and praised the responsive controls, "range of weapons and moves" that add replayability, and "large size" of the game.
— Mean Machines
From the Reception section of Wikipedia's Ninja Gaiden (1992 video game) article, under CC BY-SA 4.0. The words are the critics'; their full reviews are on the publishers' pages.
Scores
- Computer and Video Games 81%
- GameZone 86% ;
- Consoles + 87%
- Joypad 90%
- Mean Machines 1992 83%
- Player One 93%
- Sega Force 1992 90%
- Sega Force Mega 1994 90%
- Sega Master Force 1993 90%
- Sega Pro 90%
- Zero 1992 90%
From the review table of Wikipedia's article. The face takes, first that applies: the Metascore for this platform, GameRankings' average, our average of the critics (one number per publication, a panel averaged), one review alone, the players' rating. Critics and players are never mixed.
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