History VideoGame / TheNinjaKids

* FourElementEnsemble: As if one couldn't tell by their ninja magic. Hanzo is water, Sasuke is wind, Akane is fire and Genta is earth.

** Sasuke - wears yellow and is a LightningBruiser

** Genta wields a ''sansetsukon'', [[FightingWithChucks a three-section staff]].

%%* BlowYouAway: Sasuke

** Akame - wears red and is a FragileSpeedster

%%* DishingOutDirt: Genta

%%* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin
* FlashOfPain: As a nod to most Creator/{{Konami}} arcade brawlers, bosses flash white when hit and [[TurnsRed turn red]] when low on health.

* FollowTheLeader: This game is pretty much Taito's answer to Konami's ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTheArcadeGame'' beat'em up that came up one year earlier and was a smashing success. Let's see: up to four players multiplayer, four colour-coded ninjas that fight with different weapons (although in TNK they're mostly blades), the ability to throw scenery elements against the enemies, plus one of the levels (a burning apartment complex) is remarkably similar to the first level in the TMNT game.

%%* MakingASplash: Hanzo

%%* PlayingWithFire: Akame
%%* RocksFallEveryoneDies: One of Genta's special moves is named "Rock Fall" and does just that.
* RunningGag {{Satan}}: The final boss, drawn in a very serious style that [[NonstandardCharacterDesign contrasts]] with the general wackiness of the game.

* BlowYouAway: Sasuke

* DishingOutDirt: Genta

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin

* MakingASplash: Hanzo

* PlayingWithFire: Akame
* RocksFallEveryoneDies: One of Genta's special moves is named "Rock Fall" and does just that.
* [[RunningGag The]] {{Satan}}: The final boss, drawn in a very serious style that [[NonstandardCharacterDesign contrasts]] with the general wackiness of the game.
* ShoutOut: The third boss is basically the Power Loader from ''Film/{{Aliens}}''.

* TimeStandsStill: The "Time Stop" ability.
* TopHeavyGuy: The [[GiantMook giant mooks]] are this. DO YOU FEEL OUR POWER, indeed.
* WallCrawl: Seen for example at the beginning of level 2.
* XRaySparks
* ZombieApocalypse: The graveyard in level five is pretty much this. Level three had you facing them at a construction site.

%%* DishingOutDirt: Genta

%%* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin

%%* MakingASplash: Hanzo

%%* PlayingWithFire: Akame

%%* XRaySparks

* ColourCodedMultiplayer

* DishingOutDirt: Genta

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin
* FlashOfPain: As a nod to most {{Creator/Konami}} arcade brawlers, bosses flash white when hit and [[TurnsRed turn red]] when low on health.

* FollowTheLeader: This game is pretty much Taito's answer to Konami's TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles beat'em up that came up one year earlier and was a smashing success. Let's see: up to four players multiplayer, four colour-coded ninjas that fight with different weapons (although in TNK they're mostly blades), the ability to throw scenery elements against the enemies, plus one of the levels (a burning apartment complex) is remarkably similar to the first level in the TMNT game.

* MakingASplash: Hanzo

* PlayingWithFire: Akame

* XRaySparks

** Characters from earlier Taito titles like ''VideoGame/BubbleBobble'' and ''VideoGame/PockyAndRocky'' appear as background elements.

** Characters from earlier Taito titles like ''VideoGame/BubbleBobble'' and ''KikiKaikai'' appear as background elements (graffiti, pictures...).

* FlashOfPain: As a nod to most {{Konami}} arcade brawlers, bosses flash white when hit and [[TurnsRed turn red]] when low on health.

* XmeetsY: It's ''Series/SesameStreet'' meets ''TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTheArcadeGame'' meets ''GoldenAxe''.

''The Ninja Kids'' is a side-scrolling [[ArcadeGame arcade]] BeatEmUp made in 1990 by Creator/{{Taito}}. It received no ports until its inclusion in the ''Taito Legends'' CompilationRerelease in 2005. The story is about an evil sect trying to summon "The Satan" on July 1999 (as foretold by Nostradamus), and only a group of four ninja can stop them.

* XmeetsY: It's ''SesameStreet'' meets ''TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTheArcadeGame'' meets ''GoldenAxe''.

** '''[[color:blue:Hanzo]]''' - JackOfAllStats
** '''[[color:gold:Sasuke]]''' - LightningBruiser
** '''[[color:red:Akame]]''' - FragileSpeedster
** '''[[color:green:Genta]]''' - MightyGlacier

* ElementalPowers: The ninjas' special moves are based upon the four elements.
** MakingASplash: Hanzo
** BlowYouAway: Sasuke
** PlayingWithFire: Akame
** DishingOutDirt: Genta

* {{Expy}}: An unintentional one (maybe...). Several people noted that Genta looks a bit like [[SesameStreet Bert]].

* ShoutOut: The third boss is basically the Power Loader from ''{{Aliens}}''.

* {{Engrish}}: Various examples, such as the constant saying of "The Satan" and such lines as "HERE IS A GRAVEYARD OF YOU!"

* MolotovCocktail: Some enemies look like stereotyped Middle-Eastern terrorists who attack by throwing molotovs. When you defeat them, they [[HoistByHisOwnPetard explode]].

* Acrofatic: The fat mafiosi attack by, among other things, cartwheeling over you.

* AcroFatic: The fat mafiosi attack by, among other things, cartwheeling over you.

* FlashOfPain: As a nod to most Konami arcade brawlers, the end-of-level bosses flash white when hit and [[TurnsRed turn red]] when low on health.
* FollowTheLeader: This game is pretty much Taito's answer to {{Konami}}'s TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles beat'em up that came up one year earlier and was a smashing success. Let's see: up to four players multiplayer, four colour-coded ninjas that fight with different weapons (although in TNK they're mostly blades), the ability to throw scenery elements against the enemies, plus one of the levels (a burning apartment complex) is remarkably similar to the first level in the TMNT game.

''The Ninja Kids'' is a side-scrolling [[ArcadeGame arcade]] BeatEmUp made in 1990 by {{Taito}}. It received no ports until its inclusion in the ''Taito Legends'' CompilationRerelease in 2005. The story is about an evil sect trying to summon "The Satan" on July 1999 (as foretold by Nostradamus), and only a group of four ninja can stop them.