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Ninja Gaiden

Cinematic between-stage cutscenes brought film-style storytelling to fast console action games.

Released 1988 Developer Tecmo Platform NES Genre Platformer Era 8- and 16-bit

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Ninja Gaiden inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Lives and Continues 1978Continuous Scrolling Playfield 1980In-Engine Cutscene 1984Momentum-Based Platform Control 1985

The Ninja Gaiden series in this dataset

1988
Ninja Gaiden this page
2005

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