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

Keyboard controls

LynxPlayer 1
D-pad↑↓←→
BZ
AX
Option 1A
Option 2S
PauseEnter

Hotkeys

  • 1 Quick save state
  • 2 Quick load state
  • 3 Change save slot

Gamepads are detected when you press a button. Remap any key from the emulator’s Controls menu (gear icon).

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Keyboard controls

LynxPlayer 1
D-pad↑↓←→
BZ
AX
Option 1A
Option 2S
PauseEnter

Hotkeys

  • 1 Quick save state
  • 2 Quick load state
  • 3 Change save slot

Gamepads are detected when you press a button. Remap any key from the emulator’s Controls menu (gear icon).

Emulator help & troubleshooting

3.5 Good job

Players 78 · 266 votes

No critic scores found for this game: this is the players' rating.

Review scorecard

  1. Graphics 3.5 out of 5 Overall fallback
  2. Sound 3.5 out of 5 Overall fallback
  3. Control 3.5 out of 5 Overall fallback
  4. 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.

Full reviews

GamePro face key

  1. 1.0Wake me up when it's over0+ out of 100
  2. 1.5Wake me up when it's over+ thumbs-up40+ out of 100
  3. 2.0Could be better50+ out of 100
  4. 2.5Could be better+ thumbs-up60+ out of 100
  5. 3.0Good job68+ out of 100
  6. 3.5Good job+ thumbs-up75+ out of 100
  7. 4.0Great job!80+ out of 100
  8. 4.5Great job!+ thumbs-up85+ out of 100
  9. 5.0Outstanding!90+ out of 100

GamePro named the five whole-number faces; a thumbs-up adds half a point to the same caption. GamePro’s original rating-face design, adapted from Ryan Quintal’s 2018 vector recreation; cleanup for YouConsoles.

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