Nintendo Japan has revealed its March lineup for the Virtual Console and we're more than a little jealous. That's right, The Revenge of Shinobi is on the list and we don't know if we'll ever see it. You see, at one point the boss characters in the game were (very clearly) Batman, The Terminator, Godzilla and Spider-Man and while some of those characters have changed, Sega has never included the game on any Genesis compilations in North America for possible copyright restrictions.
Japan nets a few other exclusives this month, beginning with Koei's New Horizons for the Super Famicom and the classically terrible platformer Takeshi no Ch?senj? from Taito on the Famicom. And in a surprising twist, Japan will play catch up to a few Virtual Console releases already available in North America, including: Sonic Chaos for the Sega Master System and the Famicom puzzler Clu Clu Land.
The first titles to be made available -- releasing on March 3 -- will be Nihon Falcom's Mega Drive RPG, Dragon Slayer Legend of Heroes II and the PC Engine original Space Invaders from Taito. The rest of the titles will gradually release over the course of the month.
Reader Comments (5)
Posted: Feb 27th 2009 6:52PM AndyDelgado said
Does anyone happen to have pictures or videos of the bosses? I would love to check this out.
Posted: Feb 27th 2009 7:11PM Xav de Matos said
Posted: Feb 27th 2009 7:12PM Xav de Matos said
Posted: Feb 27th 2009 7:18PM SitriStahl said
i still have revenge of shinobi on a compilation cart i got for my genesis when i was a kid
keeping retro consoles FTW
keeping retro consoles FTW
Posted: Feb 28th 2009 6:17AM Bowser Rogozhin said
I have the 6 games in 1 cartridge. It has Sonic 1, Revenge of Shinobi, Super Monaco GP and some other games. Pretty awesome.
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