Samurais & Ninjas

[kiwimike]

Last Ninja was the first one I remember, but the two I loved especially were Tenchu and Bushido Blade

[Bluce_Ree]

There was a game called Samurai for the Speccy. It was a top down turn-based strategy game. A bit like Rebelstar but not as good, or as nice looking. But it was still pretty decent.

Ninjas were in it too as the ranged units you could hire.

[pratty]

As mentioned in the Switch thread, if you pre-orded the digital version of Samurai Shodown on the Switch early next year, you also get the Samurai Shodown 2 Neo Geo Pocket Colour game.

[DPrinny]

The best (the best the best) of Ninja games

Shinobido 1/2, basically the same game, two has some extra stuff and is a VITA EXCLUSIVE!!
Its a successor to Tenchu in every way, only downside is it lacks maps.
Mystical ninja Geoman, hard games, but lots of fun
The ninja (master system), budget game, but good
Tenchu series, avoid the awful Wii version
Shadow warrior, DONT MESS WITH LOW WANG!!
Ninja assault, wait do ninjas use guns?
Red ninja, actually, bollocks to that game its terrible

Samurais and that
Samurai Jack, its a cartoon tie-in, its actually decent (he got back in the end)
Last blade, video game pixel art at its best, 2D fighting at its best
Samurai warriors, well I had to include it didn't I?
Second Samurai, the first never clicked with me, the 2nd one on MegaDrive is a great action platformer for two players
Way of the samurai, open ended do as you please game

[pratty]

Muramasa: The Demon Blade was a highly regarded Samurai-ish game. I owned it briefly and while it looked beautiful I found the gameplay a bit repetitive.

[kiwimike]

Oh how could I forget one of my old favourite Sega Master system games?! Kenseiden....thats a great wee game, despite my bad spelling of it

[c0nfu53d]

Ninja Warriors Again SNES (or saviours on the switch remaster)

Ninjas are awesome and cyborg ninjas even more so.



Also Shadow Warriors on GB. I seem to remember a double dragon style fighter with the same name which was pretty good too.

[Antiriad2097]

Also Shadow Warriors on GB.

Also on Spectrum now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl213Z34wVM

[paranoid marvin]

Well, there's the bizarrely named Ninja Scooter Simulator (Metrocross clone).

As has been mentioned, Usagi Yojimbo is a good 8 bit title to seek out and Lords of the Rising Sun was an interesting Cinemaware title (though some of the mini-games were a bit rubbish). Ninja was a fun Mastertonic budget title (with a great soundtrack). Ninja Masster was an utterly abysmal Speccy Decathalon-style game (with some interesting digitised sound effects).

Probably one of my favourites from back in the day though was Bad Dudes vs Dragon Ninja which was a great 2 player fun arcade game

[GarryG]

'Sword of the Samurai' for the PC. One of the first PC games I had, along with 'Ancient Art of War.'