Endless Backlog Retrolog: Ninja Gaiden (1988)

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Endless Backlog Retrolog: Ninja Gaiden (1988)

Added: 11.02.2014 3:15 | 7 views | 0 comments

Cutscenes are now standard fare in game design but back in 1988 a game incorporating cinematic scenes to tell the story was practically unheard of. Enter Tecmo's Ninja Gaiden, one of the greatest side-scrolling action games of the 8-bit era and possibly ever. Ninja Gaiden is part of a trilogy of games that first released on the Nintendo Entertainment System and I will be looking at the first of the three in this Retrolog.