Game

Shadow Dancer 1989

Developed by Team Shinobi

  • Platform, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Arcade, Action

Shadow Dancer is an action platform game developed by Sega for the Sega System 18 arcade system in 1989. A port of the game was published by Sega for the Sega Master System, and ports to several home computers were published by U.S. Gold. It was the first sequel to Shinobi, alongside The Revenge of Shinobi. A similar game titled Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi was released for the Sega Mega Drive, which features an entirely different set of stages. A terrorist group is planting numerous time bombs throughout the city. The player, a ninja master accompanied by a canine partner, sets out on four missions to dismantle the bombs and destroy the criminal syndicate behind these acts. The young Ninja battles together with his faithful pet dog. In the center of the city, a group of terrorists are committing known to man, including the planting of time bombs throughout the metropolis. Our youthful hero and his canine companion courageously set out to gather all the explosives placed by the evil gang and annihilate the syndicate that manipulates them

PlatformHack and slash/Beat 'em upArcadeActionmartial artsninjamagicside-scrollingsteamdoghigh scorebonus stagea.i. companioncover systemanimal weaponryArcade, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum, Linux, Atari ST/STE, PC (Microsoft Windows)

Log it

Sign in to log this.

Character

Plot-driven, earnest, resolved and unpretentious.

  • character-ledplot-driven
  • earnestironic
  • resolvedopen-ended
  • unpretentiousprestige
  • gravecomic

Who loves it, who doesn't

No profiled raters yet.

Where do you stand?

Answer first; then see how everyone, and your circle, split.

  • “Has Shadow Dancer aged badly?”

    Sign in to answer.

    Be the first to answer.

Ask the title

A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.

YesNoUnclear