Ninja Commando
is a vertically scrolling run and gun video game developed by Alpha Denshi and published by SNK for the Neo Geo arcade and home systems in 1992. It was released for the Neo Geo CD in 1994.
Gameplay
The overall gameplay is similar to this of the run-and-gun classic Ikari Warriors, with the players battling their way up the top-down perspective screen. The players can choose between three ninja characters, all with differing abilities. Each of them has fighting game-style input commands that unleash their scroll-based ninpo special moves. As usual in the genre, the game's stages end with boss battles.Plot
An elite group of three young Ninja Commandos from around the world must team-up to stop the villain Spider and his Mars Corporation from using a time machine to destroy the past and control the future. The three heroes chase after their enemy in seven time periods, including the Sengoku period in Japan, Ancient Egypt, the Stone Age, China in the era of Three Kingdoms, and World War II.Release
Ninja Commando was originally released for the Neo Geo arcade machines on May 29, 1992. The Neo Geo CD version was released on October 31, 1994.The game was re-released on the Wii's Virtual Console in North America on July 14, 2008. It was also re-released in December 2008 as one of five games in the PlayStation 2 game compilation ADK Damashii.