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Sengoku Ninja Tai

1981 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2025
Entity authorityQ7450592 ↗
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Sengoku Ninja Tai (戦国忍者隊,Japanese: The Sengoku's Greatest Ninja) is an arcade video game released by Data East in December 1980. Also known as Ninja, Sengoku Ninja Tai was the second game released for the DECO Cassette System, following Highway Chase, also released in December 1980. The objective of the game is to shoot ninjas before they reach the top of a castle.

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The public source identifies “Sengoku Ninja Tai” as 1981 video game. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Sengoku, Ninja and video.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1981-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Sengoku, Ninja and video providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Sengoku Ninja Tai” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.