Ninja Gaiden Trilogy is a compilation of the three games in the series previously released for the NES: Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos and Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom
All three games tell the story of ninja Ryu Hayabusa through alternating cinematic cutscenes and levels of 2D side-scrolling action. The graphics and sound are essentially the same as in the originals, but enhanced for the SNES.
Ninja Gaiden Trilogy (Ninja Ryūkenden Tomoe) is a 1995 SNES collection containing the three Ninja Gaiden games for the NES. It is also included as a bonus unlockable in 2004’s Ninja Gaiden for the Xbox. The three games are straight ports and were not optimized for the SNES, but there are several differences from the NES versions. Passwords are included and the cinematic sequences were redrawn. The third game is based on the Japanese version, with infinite continues and lower damage from enemy attacks. The ports have no closing credits. Parallax scrolling was removed from the backgrounds of some levels (Ninja Gaiden III stage 2-1 for example).
Other graphical changes were made to comply with Nintendo’s “Family Friendly” censorship policy at the time (i.e. a pool of blood changed from red to green, and the removal of pentagrams). Some music tracks are omitted (two pieces of music from Ninja Gaiden III and the stage 1–1 music in the Ninja Gaiden II pursuit cutscenes). A degree of censorship was actually removed from certain parts of the script (for example, Jaquio’s “Argh! He’s awake” is replaced with “Damn, he’s awake”).
File Name | Ninja Gaiden Trilogy |
Cart Size | 794KB |
Region | USA |
Version | 1.0 |
Publisher | Team Ninja |
Genre | Platformer |
Platform | Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) |
Release Date | August 10, 1995 |
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