- Ninja Commando
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Ninja Commando 
The box art of Ninja CommandoDeveloper(s) ADK Publisher(s) SNK Platform(s) Neo Geo, Play Station 2 Release date(s) - NA May 29, 1992
Genre(s) Shoot 'em up Mode(s) 1 or 2 players Media/distribution ROM cartridge Ninja Commando (ニンジャコマンドー) is a top-down, vertically-scrolling run and gun video game developed by Alpha Denshi and published by SNK. It was first released in May 1992 in cartridge format, and in 1994 for the Neo Geo CD.
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Gameplay
The overall gameplay is similar to this of the run-and-gun classic Commando, with the players battling their way up the top-down perspective screen. The players can choose between three ninja characters, all with differing abilities. Each of them has fighting game-style input commands that unleash their scroll-based ninpo special moves. As usual in the genre, the game's stages end with boss battles.
Story
An elite group of three young Ninja Commandos (Joe Tiger, an American descendant of the Kōga-ryū ninja whose weapons are shuriken, Ryu Dragon, the 23rd descendant of the famous ninja Fūma Kotarō (from World Heroes), who is using ninja magic fireballs in combat, and Rayar Eagle, the female ninja of the group, a British girl who has learned the ways of the Iga-ryū ninjutsu and whose weapon is a bow with flaming spirit arrows) from around the world must team-up to stop the villain Spider and his Mars Corporation from using a time machine to destroy the past and control the future. The heroes chase after their enemy in seven time periods, including the Sengoku period in Japan (where Ryu avenges his ancestor by killing Oda Nobutada), the Ancient Egypt, the Stone Age, China in the era of Three Kingdoms, and World War II.[1]
Reception
Staff members of Game Informer gave the game an overral ratings of 6.75, 8.0, and 8.75 out of 10.[1] In 2010, CraveOnline featured the Ninja Commando in the article Top 10 Ninja Games Of All Time.[2]
Re-releases
The game has been re-released on the Wii's Virtual Console in North America on July 14, 2008 (though the Wii Virtual Console version, like most other Neo Geo games, only allows three continues per player, which makes the game very difficult to complete without saving progress). It was also re-released in December 2008 as one of five games in the PlayStation 2 game compilation ADK Tamashii.
See also
- Ninja Combat
- Ninja Master's -Haoh-Ninpo-Cho-
- Time Soldiers
References
- ^ a b Game Informer 6 (Sept-Oct 1992), pg. 62
- ^ Top 10 Ninja Games Of All Time, CraveOnline, September 18, 2008
External links
Categories:- 1992 video games
- ADK (company) games
- Arcade games
- Cooperative video games
- Fictional ninja
- Fictional special forces personnel
- Neo-Geo games
- Ninja video games
- Run and gun games
- Science fiction video games
- Sengoku video games
- SNK games
- Video games based on Romance of the Three Kingdoms
- Time travel video games
- World War II video games
- Video games set in Africa
- Virtual Console games
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