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Legend Of Kage, The

Description

An heroic ninja attempts to rescue a princess while fighting a variety of enemies including samurais and ninjas.

Legend Of Kage, The was produced by Taito in 1985.

Taito released 486 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1967. Taito was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Taito during the time period Legend Of Kage, The was produced include: Starforce, Field Day, Cosmopolis, Zeke's Peak, Victorious Nine, Fairyland Story, Go Go Mr. Yamaguchi, Gyrodine, Mat Mania, and N.Y. Captor

Specs

Name	Legend Of Kage, The
Developer	Taito (Japan)
Year	1985
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	8406
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Scrolling Fighter
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	Taito Classic
Game Specific	Legend Of Kage, The Pinout
Dipswitch Settings	Legend Of Kage, The Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Alternating
Control Panel Layout	Single Player
Controls	Joystick: 4-way (up, down, left, right) Buttons: 2 - AttackJump
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard
Bezel	Legend Of Kage, The Bezel Image
PCB	Legend Of Kage, The PCB Image

Video Clips

Legend of Kage (Arcade)

Game Play

Kage, the heroic ninja, can do it all...climb trees, leap, sword-fighting, hurl shuriken, and even gain limited magical powers by obtaining randomly-appearing crystal balls. Follow him through forests, up fortress walls, and over farmed fields while he slashes his way through common ninja, samurai, foot soldiers, and yes...even wolves. Finally, he encounters the stage bosses from Asian mythology (and martial arts films) with characters ranging from extremely skilled master ninja to the fire-breathing "Twin White Monks", as well as other magical opponents.

Legend Of Kage, The KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 2.95 (2 votes)

Fun Factor: 3.10

Overall Like	3.00
Fun (Social)	1.00
Fun (Solo)	3.50
Collector Desire	3.50

Technical Rating: 2.79

Gameplay	3.50
Graphics	3.50
Originality	2.50
Sound/Music	0.50

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

Images

Trivia

The word Kage is pronounced "kaa-gay" and it means "shadow" in Japanese.

Miscellaneous

COPY OF: Kage No Densetsu

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Legend Of Kage, The Census

There are 15,264 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,669 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,973 machines (7,000 unique titles).

Common - There are 28 known instances of this machine owned by Legend Of Kage, The collectors who are active members. Of these, 4 of them are original dedicated machines. 2 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 22 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 3 active VAPS members with a Legend Of Kage, The circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - There are 4 active VAPS members currently looking for Legend Of Kage, The.

This game ranks a 6 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 5 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Flyers

Additional References (logged in members often see more)

3D Model (External): Upright (7096fd6d-0132-49cf-af04-0e1fc8c9db6b)

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