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INTRODUCTION:
As the most famous graduate of a secret oriental Ninja school, you had been invited back to the annual graduation ceremony and prize-giving. Having enthralled the junior classes at the assembly with your tales of international ninjiing, you were just about to move on to handing out prizes to the seniors when there was a flash of Dark Ninja Magic and Bwah Foo made an unscheduled appearance.

Few of the pupils realised who Bwah Foo was, but within a ninja-second you had identified him and realised that this once-illustrious graduate of the Ninja school had turned to the Dark Ways. Transfixed by Bwah Foo's Holding Magic, you were unable to move a muscle oven twitch a tendon as Bwah's henchmen led away the entire junior class.

Then the evil Foo issued his personal challenge to you. With one mighty bound he somersaulted onto the speech-giving platform and thrust his face in front of yours. "Why if it's not Joe Musashi", he sneered, "Old Goody - Two Shurikens himself. Well, well, well." (Clearly the quality of teaching on the Dark Side has slipped abominably, you thought to yourself, as Bwash Foo ranted on in clipped baddie-speak, the like of which was normally reserved for second-rate pantomimes is seaside towns.)

"... well, well, well. It's gold I want", Foo continued, "all the gold in the School's coffers. And if I don't get my gold by Wednesday evening I'll kill every last member of the Junior Class and THEN you'll be sorry." And with a maniac crackle and a flash of green Ninja Magic, he was gone.

REVIEW:
Bwah Foo has kidnapped the children from the junior classes from the Ninja school and want’s the school’s gold for delivering them back …there is a problem, though - the school is nearly out of gold, so it looks like it is going to be up to you to bring the children back and defeat Bwah Foo.

Now Wednesday evening is drawing close and with it the deadline set by Bwah Foo for the delivery of the ransom. You have found his hideout, and it's time to put those ninja skills to good use on the side of truth, beauty and justice.

In order to reach Bwah Foo's lair you must fight your way through five missions. Each mission is divided into three or four stages, packed with highly-mobile henchpersons, a handful of the kidnapped Ninja children and one of Bwah's big bosses who must be defeated before you can pass onto the next mission.

The rescue has to be achieved before Bwah Foo's deadline expires, so there's a time limit in which a section has to be completed. All the children found in a mission has to be rescued before you can confront the boss at the end of each mission. Just walk past the kids and your Ninja Magic causes them to be beamed back to Mummy and Daddy. Then you must defeat the boss in a fight to the death and you can move to the next mission, with time left on the clock converted to useful points.

Saving Ninja children earns the eternal gratitude of the parents, but more importantly also confers points. Rescue several sprogs, and you earn a power-up weapon that is more deadly than the shuriken. Use these weapons well and remember that when the going gets really tough you can call on the power of the Ninja Magic once per level - use it wisely!

For completing a stage you will have to find all the children. On the bottom of the screen you can see how many there is on every stage, and when you have found them all, the message “Go on to next stage” will appear. If you get close to the enemies you are able to punch and kick, but mainly you will throw shuriken stars to defeat the enemies.

You can not see all of the screen, but by holding down fire button and pressing up/down you can do a leap between the ground and higher/lower platforms. You will need to do this to find all of the hidden children. Pressing space bar will activate the ninja magic that will eliminate all enemies on the screen.

This is a huge and highly playable platform game. While not 100% graphically perfect it is still good looking with colorful scrolling backgrounds and nice in game music. The controls are good and the game provides a good challenge in finding all the children on every stage, and figuring out how to defeat the bosses.

The game was published by Virgin Games Ltd in 1989.

Rating = 90%

This is a Beta Disk version made by Slider / Viktor Drozd in 2016 and it features trainer option + an extra loading screen made by 4thRock based on original SEGA screen. It can be downloaded here: https://vtrd.in/release.php?r=4ef3f03e8ca52a0f5aa72c88a67096bf