THE LEGEND OF THE MYSTICAL NINJA
Feb 20, 2020
4 minutes
Words by John Szczepaniak
It featured a Hokusai-inspired art style and was fine to play, but no one would have expected any great legacy from it. There followed some sequels on the Famicom and MSX2 and then, in the summer of 1991, there was Ganbare Goemon: Yukihime Kyuushutsu Emaki for Super Famicom. It’s hard to imagine but, as of writing this, the game is nearly 30 years old. It’s also hard to tell what Konami’s aspirations were for the title, given that the rudimentary credits list mainly programmers, with a few artists and musicians, almost as if the joyous mechanics within happened without planning. Under the title of ‘Boss’ the credits list programmer Shigeharu Umezaki, previously director on Konami’s Contra
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