Ryu is puzzled by this, but presses onward. He awakens in a prison cell, where the woman (Irene Lew) frees him and gives him a mysterious, grotesque statue. After battling a large man with an axe in a bar, he is subdued by a woman with a tranquilizer gun. Believing his father dead, Ryu goes to America to carry out this request. In the first game, Ryu receives a letter from his father Joe Hayabusa (renamed Ken Hayabusa in the original localization), saying that should he not return, Ryu is to journey to America and contact a man named Walter Smith. Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom (1991).Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos (1990).The Mega Drive version, which was a beat-'em-up similar to the arcade game, was never released, but was leaked in the form of a pirated version that was still in an unfinished state. The Game Gear version had the widest release of these versions, being available in North America, Europe and Japan (where it was released under the Ninja Gaiden banner instead of the usual Ninja Ryƫkenden), while the Sega Master System version was available exclusively in Europe. Rather than being ports of the previous Tecmo versions, Sega produced three different games that were unique to each platform. There was also a set of licensed versions produced by Sega for their consoles in 1992. Since then, Ninja Gaiden has become Team Ninja's other major franchise, leading to even further sequels and spinoffs. ![]() However, Ryu's presence in Tecmo's Dead or Alive fighting game series helped keep the series alive within the public's consciousness, leading to a revival in 2004 for the Xbox by DOA developer Team Ninja simply titled Ninja Gaiden. The NES version would spawn two sequels, a Game Boy prequel, a couple of stand-alone versions for other platforms and an OVA set after the events of the NES trilogy before Tecmo discontinued the series after the release of the Ninja Gaiden Trilogy compilation for the Super NES in 1995. The series dates back to 1988 with two simultaneously developed games under the same title: an arcade version that was a side-scrolling Beat 'em Up in the vein of Double Dragon, and a more popular console version for the Nintendo Entertainment System, a 2D action platformer notable for being one of the earliest action games to feature cinematic sequences between stages. Ninja Gaiden, titled Ninja Ryƫkenden ("Ninja Dragon Sword Story") in Japanese is an action game series produced by Tecmo (now Koei Tecmo) centering around Ryu Hayabusa, a Ninja from the Dragon Clan, who gets involved with government conspiracies, kicks loads of ass and slaughters legions of supernatural beings along the way. The ninja way knows neither good nor evil.
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