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Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom is a side-scrolling action-platformer developed and published by Tecmo for the NES, the third NES entry in the series. Framed for Irene Lew’s murder, ninja Ryu Hayabusa fights through stages with his Dragon Sword and ninpo magic — now able to cling to walls and ceilings — to expose a plot to create BIO-NOID mutants, with cinematic “Tecmo Theater” cutscenes.
How To Play Ninja Gaiden III
Control
Action
D-Pad
Move, crouch, climb; cling to walls and ceilings
A Button
Jump (and wall-jump)
B Button
Attack with the Dragon Sword; hold Up + B to use ninpo (ninja magic)
Start
Pause
About Ninja Gaiden III
Release date
Famicom (JP): June 21, 1991 · NES (NA): August 1991 (not released on NES in Europe)
Developer
Tecmo
Publisher
Tecmo
Platform
NES / Famicom; later Atari Lynx, SNES (Ninja Gaiden Trilogy)
Genre
Action-platformer
Series
Ninja Gaiden (third NES entry)
Modes
Single-player
Also known as
忍者龍剣伝III 黄泉の方舟 (Ninja Ryūkenden III: Yomi no Hakobune) — Japan
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