NINJA GAIDEN TRILOGY (SUPER NINTENDO SNES)

Ninja Gaiden Trilogy (Ninja Ryūkenden Tomoe) is a 1995 SNES collection containing all three Ninja Gaiden games for the NES. It is also included as an unlockable bonus in 2004's Ninja Gaiden for Xbox. All three games are direct ports and have not been optimized for the SNES, but there are several differences from the NES versions. Passwords are included and cinematic sequences have been redesigned. The third game is based on the Japanese version, with infinite continuity and less damage from enemy attacks. Ports do not have closing credits. Parallax scrolling has been removed from the backgrounds of some levels (Ninja Gaiden III stage 2-1 for example). Other graphical changes were made to comply with Nintendo's "Family Friendly" censorship policy at the time (i.e. a pool of blood changed from red to green and the removal of pentagrams). Some music tracks are omitted (two pieces of Ninja Gaiden III music and the music for stages 1-1 in the Ninja Gaiden II chase cutscenes). Some degree of censorship was actually removed from parts of the script (e.g. Jaquio's "Argh! He's awake" is replaced with "Damn, he's awake.").