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Mirai Ninja

Mirai Ninja, is a side scrolling beat 'em up arcade video game, released by Namco in 1988 exclusively in Japan. Mirai Ninja was adapted into the Japanese live-action film of the same name, which was also…

1 November 1988

Mirai Ninja is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Namco, released 1 November 1988 on Arcade.

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What Mirai Ninja is

Mirai Ninja is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Namco and released in 1988. It is available on Arcade only. It runs on Namco System 2.

The premise, in the publisher's words

A man's body and soul are stolen and used as part of a demon castle. What's left becomes Cyber Ninja. He teams up with the chi students whose cyber-earmuffs show matching red symbols. They fill their swords with ammunition, grab some neo-retro-cyber-antique guns and attack the demon robot expendable ninja squad. Each fight is won by whichever side uses more gratuitous special effects. They slay the Tron-like hover droids, who are destroyed in their shame. There's a showdown with a white-armored guy with dreadlocks, who is later reincarnated by the eclipse and a lot of multicolored lightning. After killing the make-up wearing effeminate spider person, the chi school fires a giant gun at the…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Single player and Split screen.

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When did Mirai Ninja come out?
Mirai Ninja was released on 1 November 1988 for Arcade.

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