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description	Ninja Kid (Gegege no Kitarou) is a NES platformer published by Bandai. As with Super Mario Bros 2, Ninja Kid went through some significant changes for its US release.	jyanncorp
developer	TOSE	jyanncorp
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game_name	Ninja Kid	[Importer]
game_name_jp	Gegege no Kitarou: Youkai Daimakyou	thevoice
game_name_us	Ninja Kid	jyanncorp
giantbomb_url	https://www.giantbomb.com/ninja-kid/3030-9191/	jyanncorp
mobygames_url	https://www.mobygames.com/game/nes/ninja-kid	thevoice
platform	nes	[Importer]
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publisher	Bandai	thevoice
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tags	action, anime, fighter, horizontal, manga, platform, sideways	jyanncorp
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wikipedia_url	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja_Kid	thevoice
year	1986	thevoice
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__long_description	Ninja Kid is a ninja-themed action platformer from Bandai. However, in Japan, it is called Gegege no Kitarou: Youkai Daimakyou ("Gegege no Kitarou: Great Ghost Haunts of Evil Men") and is based on a manga and anime about a young youkai (Japanese ghost or spirit) trying to prevent an all out war between the youkai and the humans. Bandai was very much in the licensed game market back in the NES era, and so would produce many games based on popular anime licenses. Though keen to increase sales by publishing the game overseas, Bandai felt the Gegege no Kitarou license had little to no recognition in the States, so they changed a considerable amount of the resources to create a ninja-themed game instead, as ninjas were popular at the time. Bandai's earlier game Chubby Cherub had also undergone a similar process for its localization.	jyanncorp

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developer	Tose TOSE	thevoice
disable	Merged	[System]
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year	1986 1986	thevoice
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__info	This is the Japanese release of Ninja Kid.	thevoice

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