The Last Ninja (NES) Playthrough

A playthrough of Jaleco’s 1991 action-adventure game for the NES, The Last Ninja. If you were to ask Commodore 64 fans what they thought of System 3’s The Last Ninja games, chances are that the majority would respond with a lot of enthusiasm. The multi-layered gameplay, cutting edge graphics, and fantastic music earned the series a huge following. The first two games in the series won several GOTY awards, and between their various ports, the trilogy ended up selling over twelve million units. Ask NES fans the same question, though - or at least, had you asked the question before James Rolfe brought the Nintendo game to the forefront - and you’d get a very different answer. A handful would say that they loved it on the computer, another handful would shoot you a look of thinly veiled disgust, and the rest would give you a vacant stare. The series begins as Kunitoki, a shogun scheming to steal the sacred ninjutsu scrolls of Koga, lays a trap that wipes out an entire ninja clan.