Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance (1988) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance

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90 31 December 1988

What Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance is

Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance is an adventure game developed by System 3 Software and released in 1988. It was published by Superior Software Ltd.. It is available on Wii, Acorn Electron, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE, BBC Microcomputer System, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS and ZX Spectrum.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance is an action-adventure video game developed and published by System 3 for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC in 1988 as a sequel to the 1987 game The Last Ninja. The Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, 1990: Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS and NES ports followed in 1989. The NES version of the game was named simply The Last Ninja.

Description from Wikipedia · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1988 averaged 71, so it scored 20 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance launched on 31 December 1988, within three weeks of Keith Van Eron's Pro Soccer, Laser Squad, Cybernoid: The Fighting Machine and Final Fantasy II. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Keith Van Eron's Pro Soccer, Laser Squad, Cybernoid: The Fighting Machine, Final Fantasy II.

Cheats and codes

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Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance — frequently asked questions

When did Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance come out?

Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance was released on 31 December 1988 for Wii, Acorn Electron, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE, BBC Microcomputer System, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS and ZX Spectrum.

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