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    Default Help Me Identify This NES Platformer [SOLVED: NG3]

    Hey guys, I am hoping to get some help identifying this NES game I rented years ago. I can't remember too much about it, except that it seemed to star a ninja of some sort, it was a side-scrolling platformer, and one level, perhaps level 3, was in a jungle but instead of starting on the left of the stage and moving to the right like usual, you start on the right and move to the left. It was a brain-bender for my young mind to have to do that! Most of the platforming on this stage was up in the canopy above, and falling into the swamp or whatever it was below results in instant death. Help please?

    SOLVED: Game is "Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom"; answer provided by Xexyz.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nz17 View Post
    Hey guys, I am hoping to get some help identifying this NES game I rented years ago. I can't remember too much about it, except that it seemed to star a ninja of some sort, it was a side-scrolling platformer, and one level, perhaps level 3, was in a jungle but instead of starting on the left of the stage and moving to the right like usual, you start on the right and move to the left. It was a brain-bender for my young mind to have to do that! Most of the platforming on this stage was up in the canopy above, and falling into the swamp or whatever it was below results in instant death. Help please?
    Well it kind of sounds like the Jungle level on Ninja Gaiden 2, except in that level you scroll left to right.

    Is this it?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k6Dbhb1mu0

    Or maybe Shadow Of The Ninja?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqxlpSp9uOo

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    It's Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom. Stage three is Jungle themed with a large swamp at the bottom. You start from the right side and scroll to the left.

    Act 3 YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7xvA...eature=related

    Unfortunately it's an unbearable Let's Play video...
    Last edited by Xexyz; 07-17-2009 at 10:46 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Xexyz View Post
    It's Ninja gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom. Stage three is Jungle themed with a large swamp at the bottom. You start from the right side and scroll to the left.

    Act 3 YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7xvA...eature=related

    Unfortunately it's an unbearable Let's Play video...
    Oh man, I completely forgot about that stage in part 3. Man, looks like I need to brush up on my NG 3.

    nz17, is that the one?

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    Or...Ninja Gaiden III! Legend of Kage was fun and it went right to left, right from the left...er...start! If I'd only tried posting AFTER seeing the correct answer! D'oh!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Xexyz View Post
    It's Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom.
    DING! DING! DING! We have a winner!

    Thanks goes out to all of you guys. I've been wondering about that one for a while. Guess not having played Ninja Gaiden III in so long has made me not think it could be from such a popular and favored series, even though I knew the game I was thinking about had a ninja in it!

    It's funny, though - maybe it was because I played it as a kid, but that jungle section seemed so much longer back then! Maybe it was due to all the replaying I had to do through that area.

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