With animated, full-color cutscenes, playing the Ninja Gaiden games was almost like watching an anime. It makes perfect sense that, in 1991, Tecmo decided to pull Ryu Hayabusa out of the NES and ...

to the awesome cutscenes and silky-smooth gameplay. But rest assured that like the original, Ninja Gaiden II's difficulty level is nothing to scoff at. This game eats 8-bit novices for breakfast ...

the addition of anime-style cutscenes and dialogue would give Ninja Gaiden a level of presentation that was almost unheard of in home console games. Following a successful trilogy on the NES, the ...