The Last Ninja

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Description

You are the last living member of your ninja clan after they were brutally slaughtered. Now, you seek to exact revenge on the evil shogun responsible.

The Last Ninja is an action/adventure game set in medieval Japan. The game is shown in isometric view, and the eponymous ninja can walk in four directions, jump, fight the enemies and collect necessary items on his way.

While fighting, the ninja can use several different blows and block. There are a couple of weapons to find, including smoke bombs and shuriken.

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Promo Images

Alternate Titles

• "Ninja Remix" -- Amiga / Atari ST title

Part of the Following Groups

• Last Ninja series
• Theme: Ninjas

User Reviews

The Last Pixel-Master	DOS	Tony Van (2665)
A classic action adventure.	DOS	Macintrash (2462)

Critic Reviews

Raze	Atari ST	Feb, 1991	92 out of 100	92
Pixel-Heroes.de	Commodore 64	Jan, 2004	9 out of 10	90
CU Amiga	Amiga	Jan, 1991	85 out of 100	85
Amiga Action	Amiga	Feb, 1991	85 out of 100	85
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	Commodore 64	Sep, 1987	10.2 out of 12	85
Amiga User International	Amiga	Feb, 1991	81 out of 100	81
Amiga Format	Amiga	Feb, 1991	78 out of 100	78
64'er	Commodore 64	Aug, 1987	11 out of 15	73
Happy Computer	Commodore 64	Apr, 1986	61 out of 100	61
Amiga Power	Amiga	May, 1991		33

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
US Release C64?	5	Edwin Drost (288) Mar 26, 2017
The Last Ninja Nostalgia Tribute	3	Fabio Barzagli (3) Aug 19, 2007

Trivia

Cancelled port

The Last Ninja (or possibly its follow-up) was being ported to the Tandy Color Computer 3, and even mentioned in Tandy's catalogues. The project facing difficulties, Steve Bjork was called in to help before the game was finally canceled. As a recently recovered development version shows, the CoCo port was already at an advanced state when it was scrapped. For information and pictures, refer to Allen Huffman's site.

Delayed port

In 1988, Marc Rosocha had an conversion of Last Ninja ready for Atari ST and Amiga computers. But this was not released until 1990 with Ninja Remix, with featured extended graphics and was completely programmed from scratch.

Awards

• Computer and Video Games
  • May 1988 (Issue #79) - Golden Joystick 1988 Award: Runner Up category Game of the Year
• Retro Gamer
  • September 2004 (Issue #8) – #90 Best Game Of All Time (Readers' Vote)
• ZZAP! 64
  • Newsfield Reader's Awards 1987 - Best Arcade Adventure (Readers' Vote)
  • Newsfield Reader's Awards 1987 - Best Graphics (Readers' Vote)

Related Web Sites

• System 3 game site (Game page on developer's website)
• Wikipedia: The Last Ninja (article in the open encyclopedia about the game)