Super Ninja Boy
{{Short description|1991 video game}}
{{Infobox video game
|title = Super Ninja Boy
|image = Super Ninja Boy box art.jpg
|caption = North American cover art
|developer = Culture Brain
|publisher = Culture Brain
|director = Yukio Tanaka
|composer = Akinori Sawa
|series = Super Chinese
|released = Super Famicom/SNES{{Vgrelease|JP|December 28, 1991|NA|1993}}Wii U Virtual Console{{Vgrelease|JP|October 1, 2014}}
|genre = Action RPG
|modes = Single-player, multiplayer
|platforms = Super Famicom/SNES, Virtual Console
}}
Super Ninja Boy {{ref|JPN|JPN}} is an action role-playing game released by Culture Brain for the Super Famicom in Japan in 1991, and the Super NES in North America in 1993. It features random encounters with side-scrolling battles, although some boss battles are fought with a traditional menu-based system. There are also a few platforming sections.
In single-player mode, the main character is Jack. The game can be switched between single player and multiplayer at will, with the second player controlling Ryu. Jack and Ryu share statistics, so one character never overpowers the other.
Super Ninja Boy features a password system to record progress.
It is a sequel to Culture Brain's previous title, Little Ninja Brothers for the NES and contains a few cameos from other Culture Brain's games.
The game was re-released only in Japan on the Wii U Virtual Console on October 1, 2014, followed by the Nintendo Classics service worldwide on January 24, 2025.{{cite web | last=Romano | first=Sal | title=SNES – Nintendo Switch Online adds Fatal Fury 2, Super Ninja Boy, and Sutte Hakkun | website=Gematsu | date=January 24, 2025 | url=https://www.gematsu.com/2025/01/snes-nintendo-switch-online-adds-fatal-fury-2-super-ninja-boy-and-sutte-hakkun | access-date=January 24, 2025}}
Gameplay
Super Ninja Boy combines classic role-playing video game elements with action game elements. The player controls the main character Jack (or two players can control both Jack and Ryu) and randomly encounters enemies on the world map and in dungeons. In side-scrolling battles, the player can jump, punch, throw enemies, use items like shurikens or techniques such as the super jump or fireball. Battles take place in a beat'em up style and end after a specific number of enemies are killed (no matter how many are still remaining on screen). Boss battles are fought in a turn-based RPG style, using the same items and skills as normally.
There are also some 2D platform areas, which play the same as the normal battles without depth (the player can only go right or left).
External links
- {{moby game|id=/super-ninja-boy|name=Super Ninja Boy}}
- [http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Credits_Repository_Archive_01 Composer information for Super Ninja Boy] at SMS Power
Notes
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:{{note|JPN}} Known in Japan as {{nihongo|Super Chinese World|スーパーチャイニーズワールド|Suupaa Chainiizu Waarudo}}.
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{{Super Chinese}}
Category:Action role-playing video games
Category:Multiplayer and single-player video games
Category:Nintendo Classics games
Category:Role-playing video games
Category:Super Nintendo Entertainment System games
Category:Video games about ninja
Category:Video games developed in Japan
Category:Virtual Console games for Wii U
Category:Virtual Console games
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