Ninja Gaiden (Arcade)

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1. 10 (3)
2. 9 (1)
3. 8 (2)
4. 7 (2)
5. 6 (2)
6. 5 (2)
7. 4 (0)
8. 3 (0)
9. 2 (0)
10. 1 (1)

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• Rating:5

  Your Ninja Gaiden is in another Castle

  By rhetayk | Review Date: May 16, 2021 | PS4

  The arcade edition of Ninja Gaiden was originally released pretty closely to the NES classic of the same name. However, instead of featuring the insanely hard but amazing platforming gameplay of the 8-bit classic, this v... Read Full Review

  1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
• Rating:6

  Decent effort

  By croromano | Review Date: Jan 18, 2021 | AMI

  In comparison to the better known console version, this game is a traditional beat'em up game similar to Double Dragon in which the player walks from left to right while battling numerous enemies. Only if all foes are di... Read Full Review

  1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
• Rating:5

  This is not Ninja Gaiden. It's slow, boring and forgettable.

  By RyugGomba | Review Date: Nov 18, 2011 | ARC

  The Good: .This is the first Ninja Gaiden game ever .Two player co-op .Pretty visuals .Best game over screen ever The bad: .Combat is slow, shallow and sometimes isn't very responsive .Enemies become cheap, kill... Read Full Review

  0 of 0 users found the following review helpful
• Rating:7

  Ninja Gaiden Arcade is as challenging as the games that would later come after it.

  By Asagea_888 | Review Date: Mar 17, 2010 | ARC

  I'll bet a lot of you don't know that the Ninja Gaiden franchise began its life cycle as a 1989 arcade game. Having actually played it a few times as a kid, it was an interesting experience, but the Nintendo games were ... Read Full Review

  0 of 0 users found the following review helpful
• Rating:9.3

  When I was playin Ninja Gaiden on my NES in 1991 i thought that it was difficult. But when I got to the arcade version..

  By C-Bizkit | Review Date: Mar 29, 2006 | ARC

  When I was playing Ninja Gaiden on my NES in 1991 I thought that it was difficult. But when I got to the arcade version in 2006 I realised that I was wrong. The arcade version is a lot more difficult than the NES versio... Read Full Review

  3 of 3 users found the following review helpful