The six best and least realistic ninja video games of the 80s – Reader’s Feature

Shinobi – ninjas were very big in the 16-bit days (Sega)

The late 80s and early 90s were a great time for ninja games, but as a reader points, they weren’t always the most authentic or plausible.

There was once a time when video games made sense. You had a plumber who ‘fixed’ pipes, hedgehogs ran fairly briskly, and spaceships that shot down aliens. Then, sometime in the 1980s somebody looked at the concept of a ninja and decided that this wasn’t nearly stupid enough.
And so began the age ‘ninja nonsense nunchuk-ery’.

Suddenly, every arcade game was full of these not-so-secret clans. One minute, games were about things like space invaders and rescuing princesses. Then suddenly, everythin...