Mirai Ninja

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Mirai Ninja
Box artwork for Mirai Ninja.
Developer(s)Namco
Publisher(s)Namco
Japanese title未来忍者
Release date(s)
Genre(s)Beat 'em up
System(s)Arcade
Players1-2

Mirai Ninja is a beat 'em up arcade game that was released by Namco in 1988 only in Japan. It runs on Namco System 2 hardware and is based on a Japanese movie of the same name, which was released earlier in the year.

[edit] Plot of the movie

A man's body and soul are stolen and used as part of a demon castle. What's left becomes Mirai Ninja. He teams up with the chi students whose cyber-earmuffs show matching red symbols. They fill their swords with ammunition, grab some neo-retro-cyber-antique guns and attack the demon robot expendable ninja squad. Each fight is won by whichever side uses more gratuitous special effects. They slay the Tron-like hover droids, who are destroyed in their shame. There's a showdown with a white-armoured guy with dreadlocks, who is later reincarnated by the eclipse and a lot of multi-coloured lightning. After killing the make-up-wearing effeminate spider person, the chi school fires a giant gun at the demon castle spider cyber robot. It blows up.

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