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Shinobi Legions

1995 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 22, 2025
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Shinobi Legions, known in Europe as Shinobi X, is a 1995 hack and slash platform game developed and published by Sega for the Sega Saturn. The player controls the ninja Sho on his quest to prevent his brother Kazuma from finding and using an ultimate ninjitsu technique that could end the world.

Editorial summary

“Shinobi Legions” enters the record as 1995 video game. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Shinobi, Legions and video can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Shinobi, Legions and video.
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Why this record matters

“Shinobi Legions” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Shinobi, Legions and video provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 22, 2025. The first chronological checks are 1995.

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This entry incorporates text from “Shinobi Legions” 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.