Despite its beginnings as an arcade title, many fans remember Ninja Gaiden thanks to its console trilogies. The first three Ninja Gaiden games on NES stand as some of the most challenging and demanding action-platformers of all-time, and the same can be said of the series’ revival as a character action game during the 6th and 7th console generations. After a long period of dormancy, Team Ninja would rebirth the Ninja Gaiden franchise with an initial game on Xbox, following it up with two sequels for the Xbox 360 and Wii U. And, thanks to Team Ninja’s pivot into its own brand of Soulslikes, Ninja Gaiden‘s DNA is still felt in the developer’s games more than two decades later.