Ninja Commando (1989)

Ninja Commando was released in 1989 for the ZX Spectrum 48K. It was published by Zeppelin Games and developed by Brian Cross, with in-game graphics created by Tink.

The game falls into the arcade maze genre and features side-view 2D graphics. It supports Interface 2 joystick controls and utilizes horizontal screen scrolling. The game is designed for a single player.

The cassette was priced at £2.99. Versions of the game were also released for Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, and Commodore 64 platforms.

It holds an average magazine score of 56.50%. Reviews included 78% from Sinclair User, 70% from C&VG, and scores of 53% and 25% from Your Sinclair.

In the Soviet Union and Russia, the game became widely known through numerous cassette versions cracked by individuals like Pulsar and Aleksej Zolotoverhij. It later received over a dozen TR-DOS conversions by groups such as X-agon and Gladiators. POKE cheats for the game were also featured in the magazine Micro 10.