Commodore User Mar 1988

Cite as: Commodore User Mar 1988
Original: https://archive.org/details/commodore-user-magazine-54
sha256: 584b87ebb51ef55614410583486b2d49a0935031772d0166f7c9851977c1f8b2
Archived: https://archive.org/download/commodore-user-magazine-54/Commodore_User_Issue_54_1988_Mar_djvu.xml
Accessed: 2026-11-06
Licence: © EMAP (at the time of publication); scan hosted by the Internet Archive
Credit: Scan in the Internet Archive item "commodore-user-magazine-54"; the pin is the item's OCR, as DjVu XML.
Notes: The cover prints no issue number; the Internet Archive item numbers it 54. Pinned in archive batch 29 as a lead for Arkanoid (Amiga), Shinobi, Ghostbusters and Gryzor (Contra), found through the Amiga Magazine Rack's index.

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Commodore User reviewed the arcade game in its March 1988 arcades column, at 2 × 10p a play. Nick Kelly found that Sega's latest upright bore a striking resemblance to Atari's Rolling Thunder: the player is Joe Musashi, a lone ninjutsu master, rescuing kidnapped ninja children and fighting their terrorist kidnappers, with a Ninja Magic smart bomb once per life, a boss at the end of each stage, and a bonus stage after it in which the player throws shuriken at ninjas on two platforms. He wrote that Shinobi "doesn't break new ground", but called it a well-thought-out, well-executed game that looked good and played brilliantly, and rated it 8 overall (Graphics 8, Sound 7, Toughness 7, Endurance 8, Value 8).	`p. 103 (image 103), Arcades, "Shinobi", Sega (2 × 10p)p. 103 (image 103)p. 103 (image 103)p. 103 (image 103), the bossp. 103 (image 103)p. 103 (image 103)p. 103 (image 103), the bonus stagep. 103 (image 103), the bonus stagep. 103 (image 103), verdictp. 103 (image 103), verdictp. 103 (image 103), ratings box`	Magazine