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.

Screenshots

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 (2855)
A classic action adventure.	DOS	Macintrash (2633)

Critic Reviews

Zzap!	Commodore 64	Aug, 1987	94 out of 100	94
Raze	Atari ST	Feb, 1991	92 out of 100	92
Commodore User	Commodore 64	Jul, 1987	9 out of 10	90
Pixel-Heroes.de	Commodore 64	Jan, 2004	9 out of 10	90
Amiga Action	Amiga	Feb, 1991	85 out of 100	85
Amiga User International	Amiga	Feb, 1991	81 out of 100	81
Amiga Joker	Amiga	Jan, 1991	75 out of 100	75
Amiga Force	Amiga	May, 1993	71 out of 100	71
Amiga Computing	Amiga	Mar, 1991	Unscored	Unscored
Retro Gamer	Commodore 64	Aug, 2008	Unscored	Unscored

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
US Release C64?	6	S Olafsson (53437) Jul 28, 2017
The Last Ninja Nostalgia Tribute	3	Fabio Barzagli (3) Aug 19, 2007

Trivia

Cancelled ports

The Last Ninja was advertised and previewed in most major Sinclair ZX Spectrum magazines. The game ran into a number of problems and System 3 ended up developing and releasing Last Ninja 2 instead for the Spectrum. In issue 54 of UK gaming magazine Crash it is claimed that the first game was half finished. The game (or possibly its follow-up) was also 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
• Game Art Beyond
  • In 2018, The Last Ninja was selected as one of the biggest classics on the Commodore 64 by the creators of the C64 graphics collection Game Art Beyond. Last Ninja was honoured with a high resolution title picture in a special C64 graphics format called NUFLI, along with a new interpretation of the Last Ninja (Level 1) theme.
• 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

• AtariMania (Pre-release: System 3, UK, Atari ST) (For Atari ST: game entry database; downloadable release; game packaging; advertisement; manuals; magazine reviews; additional material.)
• Commodore 64 Boxed Sets (For C64: game packaging digitalisations. Include box, manual, brochure, additional material.)
• Hall of Light (For Amiga: game database entry; digitalised manuals; game packaging; screenshots; additional material.)
• Lemon 64 (For Commodore 64: game entry database; advertisement; magazine reviews; music; documentation; cover art; additional material.)
• System 3 game site (Game page on developer's website)
• Wikipedia: The Last Ninja (article in the open encyclopedia about the game)