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They had disappeared like sliding shadows on a moonlight roof, and here they come back, Katana in hand, pixel on the belt. The video game ninjas, these mid-high-level mid-spectatures of high-level, had known their golden age in the late 1980s with two sagas that became mythical: Ninja Gaiden On the side of Tecmo, and Shinobi in the Sega clan. Then, after a few memorable battles on consoles, they had withdrawn in the fog, leaving the orphaned players of impossible acrobatics and shurikens with millimeter timing.
