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Getting your hands on a duplicate of Ninja Five-O for Game Boy Advance would generally cost you numerous bucks in 2024. And that’s simply for a loosened cartridge; total duplicates of Ninja Five-O have actually cost $700 (or even more) on ebay.com in current months. But there will certainly quickly be a more affordable method to play Konami and Hudson Soft’s precious GBA activity side-scroller, many thanks to a re-release from Limited Run Games.
Konami and Limited Run Games announced Wednesday that Ninja Five-O is pertaining to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5 later on this year. Ninja Five-O is working on Limited Run’s Carbon Engine, the very same technology that will certainly run Konami’s Felix the Cat and Rocket Knight Adventures collections — which rise for pre-order March 3-10, incidentally.
Limited Run hasn’t defined when we can anticipate Ninja Five-O’s electronic and physical variations, neither what bonus gamers can anticipate with the re-release beyond a rewind attribute. But for budget-conscious followers of action-arcade games like Bionic Commando, Rolling Thunder, and Shinobi, an official duplicate might be all they require.
Ninja Five-O (called Ninja Cop in various other areas) was initially launched for Game Boy Advance in 2003. Players tackle the function of ninja police officer Joe Osugi, that is entrusted with removing a terrorist company that’s been superpowered by artefacts called the Mad Masks. According to the game’s initial summary, “Ninja Five-O features authentic ninja swords, shuriken throwing stars, ninjutsu magic and a unique Kaginawa grappling hook system to create spectacular acrobatic moves and an innovative fighting style.” That’s right: genuine ninja swords.
Ninja Five-O was well gotten by followers and doubters at launch. GameSpot’s Ryan Davis stated the game included “faux-nostalgic fun [with] some good, challenging ninja action,” while IGN’s Craig Harris commended Ninja Five-O as a “surprisingly great game that almost came out of nowhere.” The game’s “quiet” launch “with relatively no previous hype,” Harris keeps in mind in his evaluation, most likely has something to do with the game’s present rarity. It shows up the Konami of the very early aughts did not have much confidence in the game, which might clarify why Ninja Five-O never ever obtained a launch in Japan.
Regardless, somebody at Konami shows up to have even more confidence in Ninja Five-O currently, and many thanks to Limited Run Games’ participation, it will lastly discover a larger target market.
Limited Run Games’ physical version of Ninja Five-O will certainly be exposed and appeared to pre-order this March.
Source: Polygon
