Sega Ninja (known as Ninja Princess in Japan) is a 1985 arcade game released by Sega. The game features a female ninja who must battle enemy ninjas using throwing knives and throwing stars.
Gameplay is typical of a run and gun game, such as Commando, where the player has to shoot enemies and defeat a boss.
Enemies include samurai, enemy ninja and dogs. The player's normal weapons are an unlimited supply of throwing knives, but power-ups to throwi...
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Sega Ninja (known as Ninja Princess in Japan) is a 1985 arcade game released by Sega. The game features a female ninja who must battle enemy ninjas using throwing knives and throwing stars.
Gameplay is typical of a run and gun game, such as Commando, where the player has to shoot enemies and defeat a boss.
Enemies include samurai, enemy ninja and dogs. The player's normal weapons are an unlimited supply of throwing knives, but power-ups to throwing stars are available. In addition, the player can also turn invisible for a short period of time. While most of the stages are vertically scrolling, a few of the levels add some variety - including a level where the player must scale a wall.
A port of the game, simply entitled The Ninja, was released for the Sega Master System, with some alterations.
Among the changes was the female protagonist being changed to a male ninja called Kazamaru. Other changes include the rearranging of stages from the original Japanese release in western releases...
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