1990s Critics Review Ninja Gaiden Games on Lynx, Game Gear, Master System & Game Boy
79With Ninja Gaiden Ragebound coming out later this month, we’re spending July looking back at the critical impact the franchise had in the early days. Last week, we dug through the Nintendo Entertainment System trilogy, so now it’s time to look at a few of the lesser known Ninja Gaiden games, including the Lynx port of the arcade brawler, the exclusive Game Gear release, the Game Boy game spin-off made by the people who gave you Shadow of the Ninja and the hidden Sega Master System gem that everybody has forgotten about. That’s a lot of Ninja Gaiden, but are any of these games actually worth playing? To answer that question, I decided to flip through the pages of Electronic Gaming Monthly, ACE, Computer & Video Games and more classic magazines that reviewed these games back when they first came out. So grab your throwing stars, because we’re digging into the portable entries in this episode of Ninja Gaiden Review Crew!
0:00 – Introduction
1:07 – Commercial: Atari Lynx (U.S.)
1:38 – Ninja Gaiden (Lynx)
5:33 – Ninja Gaiden (Game Gear)
9:31 – Commercial: Game Gear vs. Game Boy (U.S.)
10:05 – Ninja Gaiden Shadow (Game Boy)
13:34 – Ninja Gaiden (Sega Master System)
17:19 – Commercial: Ninja Gaiden Handheld (Tiger)
17:52 – Question of the Day
Ninja Gaiden Review Crew 1: • 1990s Critics Review the Ninja Gaiden Tril...
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