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Ninja Gaiden (Nintendo Entertainment System)
''Ninja Gaiden'', released in Japan as and as ''Shadow Warriors'' in Europe, is an action-platform video game developed and published by Tecmo for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Its development and release coincided with the beat 'em up arcade version of the same name. It was released in December 1988 in Japan, in March 1989 in North America, and in August 1991 in Europe. It has been ported to several other platforms, including the PC Engine, the Super NES, and mobile phones. The story follows a ninja named Ryu Hayabusa as he journeys to America to avenge his murdered father. There, he learns that a person named "the Jaquio" plans to take control of the world by unleashing an ancient demon through the power contained in two statues. Featuring side-scrolling platform gameplay similar to ''Castlevania'', players control Ryu through six "Acts" that comprise 20 levels; they encounter enemies that must be dispatched with Ryu's katana and other secondary weapons. ''Ninja Gaid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tecmo
, was a Japanese video game Video games, also known as computer games, are electronic games that involves interaction with a user interface or input device such as a joystick, game controller, controller, computer keyboard, keyboard, or motion sensing device to gener ... corporation founded in 1967. It had its headquarters in Kudankita, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Chiyoda, Tokyo. Its subsidiary, Tecmo Inc, was located in Torrance, California. Tecmo was formerly known as Tehkan. Tecmo is known for the ''Captain Tsubasa'', ''Dead or Alive (series), Dead or Alive'', ''Deception (video game series), Deception'', ''Fatal Frame'', ''Gallop Racer'', ''Monster Rancher (series), Monster Rancher'', ''Ninja Gaiden'', ''Rygar (arcade game), Rygar'', ''Star Force'' and ''Tecmo Bowl'' video game series. When it was still called Tehkan, the company released arcade games such as ''Bomb Jack'', ''Gridiron Fight'' and ''Tehkan World Cup''. The company was founded on July 31, 1967 as a supplier of cle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ninja Gaiden (arcade)
''Ninja Gaiden'', released in Japan as and in Europe as ''Shadow Warriors'', is a 1988 side-scrolling beat-'em-up game, originally released by Tecmo as a coin-operated arcade video game. It was first released in North America and Europe in late 1988, and then in Japan in February 1989. The ''Ninja Gaiden'' arcade game was produced and released almost simultaneously with its home console counterpart for the Nintendo Entertainment System, although they are different games with only a few similarities. The designer of the arcade game is only credited as "Strong Shima", but Masato Kato, who worked on the NES version, identified him as one "Mr. Iijima". It was the first game released in the ''Ninja Gaiden'' franchise. The arcade game was a major commercial success in North America, becoming the highest-grossing arcade conversion kit of 1989 in the United States. Home versions of the ''Ninja Gaiden'' arcade game were released in Europe under the ''Shadow Warriors'' title in 1990 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Lerangis
Peter Duncan Lerangis (born 1955, in Brooklyn, New York (state), New York) is an American author of children's literature, children's and young adult fiction, best known for his ''Seven Wonders (series), Seven Wonders'' series and his work on the ''39 Clues'' series. Life and career Lerangis's work includes the ''Seven Wonders (series), Seven Wonders'' series, all five books of which made The New York Times Best Seller list for Children's Books. He was also the author of ''The Viper's Nest'' and ''The Sword Thief'', two titles in the ''New York Times''-bestselling children's-book series ''The 39 Clues'', along with the second entry in a four-novella collection, ''Vespers Rising''. This book served as an introduction to a six-book ''39 Clues'' sequel entitled ''Cahills Vs. Vespers'', for which he wrote the third book, ''The Dead of the Night''. His other books include the historical novel ''Smiler's Bones'', the YA novel ''Somebody, Please Tell Me Who I Am'' (with Harry Mazer), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seth Godin
Seth W. Godin is an American author and former dot com business executive. Background After leaving Spinnaker in 1986, he used $20,000 in savings to found Seth Godin Productions, primarily a book packaging business, out of a studio apartment in New York City. He then met Mark Hurst and founded Yoyodyne (named in jest after the fictional Yoyodyne in '' The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension''). After a few years, Godin sold the book packaging business to his employees and focused his efforts on Yoyodyne, where he promoted the concept of permission marketing. Business ventures Yoyodyne, launched in 1995, used contests, online games, and scavenger hunts to market companies to participating users. In August 1996, Flatiron Partners invested $4 million in Yoyodyne in return for a 20% stake. At Yoyodyne, Godin published ''Permission Marketing: Turning strangers into friends and friends into customers''. In 1998, he sold Yoyodyne to Yahoo! for about $30 million [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Worlds Of Power
The ''Worlds of Power'' books are a series of novelizations of video games for the Nintendo Entertainment System released in the early 1990s by Scholastic."8-Bit Lit: Behind the Worlds of Power. ''1up.com''1. Retrieved on November 23, 2008. The series was created by Seth Godin and take creative liberties with their source material. They usually include game hints written upside down at the end of chapters (some also had a tear-out "trading card" in the middle with a tip in mirror writing on the back) and are written in a simplistic, easy-to-read style. Books in the series Books in the series consist of novelizations of # '' Blaster Master'' by A. L. Singer # '' Metal Gear'' by Alexander Frost # '' Ninja Gaiden'' by A. L. Singer # '' Castlevania II: Simon's Quest'' by Christopher Howell # '' Wizards and Warriors'' by Ellen Miles # ''Bionic Commando'' by Judith Bauer Stamper # '' Infiltrator'' by A. L. Singer # ''Before Shadowgate'' by Ellen Miles Junior Edition Books * '' Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greatest Video Games Of All Time This is a list of video games that multiple reputable video game journalists or magazines have considered to be among the best of all time. The games listed here are included on at least six separate "best/greatest of all time" lists from different publications, as chosen by their editorial staffs. List Publications The reference numbers in the notes section show which of the 46 selected publications list the game. # ''1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die'' – 2013 # ''The Age'' – 2005 # '' Collider'' – 2020 # ''Digitally Downloaded'' – 2016 # '' Electric Playground Network'' – 2013 # '' Edge'' – 2000, 2015, 2017 # '' Ele |
