European Nintendo downloads: Shinobi takes revenge on bonsai

by JC Fletcher on Aug 7th 2009 3:00PM

Today, we're jealous of European gamers, for one reason: The Revenge of Shinobi. The totally awesome Shinobi sequel isn't on the Virtual Console in North America, and it isn't on the Sega Genesis Collection or Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection. presumably due to the appearance of copyrighted characters (some of which were included without permission the first time!). We could totally be playing it now if we were in Europe (or Australia). Hopefully this release means that Sega is clear to release it in North America as well.

We'd be jealous of Bonsai Barber, which is surprisingly great, but we already have it! And we don't currently need maps of European cities, so the City Transport Map DSiWare games can wait as well.

Bonsai Barber (WiiWare, 1-4 players, 1,000 Wii Points)
The Revenge of Shinobi (Mega Drive, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)
City Transport Map Vol. 1 & 2 (DSiWare, 500 points each)

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Tags: bonsai-barber, city-transport-maps, dsi, dsiware, europe, friday, revenge-of-shinobi

Reader Comments (3)

The opening title sequence + screen of Revenge of Shinobi really freaked me out when I was a kid. It was those eyes - real similar to that 'you gonna get raped' picture. Then I wasn't so desensitised to such things.

My version never had Batman, or maybe it did - not that I would have known, Shinobi being so hard and all, me quitting after a moments frustration.

Revenge of Shinobi, Awesome. I don't recall seeing Batman but I do remember seeing Spiderrman. I managed to make it to the final boss, but I couldn't beat him. Dunno if I want to pick this up on VC if it does indeed come to NA.

Why was Revenge of Shinobi excluded from Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection? Because RoS had enemies that looked like Batman and Spider-Man? And the boss in Shinobi III that looks like Mecha Godzilla was okay? How did THAT make it past the copywrite radar?