The G.G. Shinobi | |
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![]() North American cover art by Greg Winters | |
Developer(s) | Sega |
Publisher(s) | Sega |
Designer(s) | Katsuhiro Hasegawa Masahide Kobayashi |
Programmer(s) | Kenji Shintani Yūichi Matsuoka |
Artist(s) | Ryō Kudō Hisato Fukumoto |
Composer(s) | Yuzo Koshiro |
Series | Shinobi |
Platform(s) | Game Gear |
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Genre(s) | Platformer, hack and slash |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
The G.G. Shinobi (ザ・GG忍)[3] is a side-scrolling action game by Sega released for the Game Gear in 1991. It was the first Shinobi game developed specifically for a portable game platform. The player controls the modern-day ninja Joe Musashi, protagonist of previous Shinobi games, as he goes on a mission to rescue four kidnapped comrades from an enemy, gaining control of the other ninjas (each with different abilities) as the game progresses in a manner similar to Mega Man.[4] It was followed by The G.G. Shinobi II: The Silent Fury in 1993. The G.G. Shinobi was one of the first Game Gear games available on the 3DS Virtual Console in March 2012.