While you were busy throwing birthday parties for Steven Seagal and Haley Joel Osment, Taito was quietly uploading full-motion video games to Steam. You heard me right, both Time Gal and Ninja Hayate (also known as Revenge of the Ninja) are back, and now with an HD makeover. While American gamers missed out on the LaserDisc versions in the arcades, we did get Sega CD ports in the early 1990s. With these new versions available to buy, I wondered what the reception was like back in the day. To answer that question, I decided to flip through the pages of Electronic Gaming Monthly, GamePro, Hyper and more classic magazines to see what the critics said when these games first came out. Prepare to jump through time and be a ninja in this episode of Taito Review Crew.
0:00 – Introduction
0:57 – Commercial: Sega CD (U.S.)
1:29 – Revenge of the Ninja (Sega CD)
5:55 – Commercial: Sega CD (UK)
6:28 – Time Gal (Sega CD)
12:43 – Commercial: JVC XEye (U.S.)
13:15 – Question of the Day
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