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Ryu Hayabusa clings to walls between cinema scenes in Ninja Gaiden, Tecmo's NES action that cuts to a story after each stage. The cling, the slash, and the wind scroll of those cutscenes became the trilogy's language.
Jaquio's cult and the statues Ryu climbs are the first game's obstacles. A knocked-down Ryu restarts the climb with little mercy, which is why the wall grip matters.
Tecmo released the game in 1988, and the NES trilogy starts here. This is the home run the catalog treats as the original, the one the later Tecmo sequels are answering.
Same series is the tight name match. Same franchise is the wider family. Same platform is other games on the systems named above.
The series list above is the whole family set in this catalog.
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