Ninja Gaiden Shadow Warriors

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Re: Ninja Gaiden Shadow Warriors

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The spectrum is a UK computer and in that time period the word 'ninja' was not allowed.
So can the game's authors please rename it to Hero Gaiden and change the title screen also...for decency's sake.

Really? What about Ninja, Ninja Warriors, Dragon Ninja, Last Ninja II, Ninja Massacre, Ninja Scooter Simulator, Ninja Hamster etc. then?
Alessandro, maybe you miss the story about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? ;)

Yes, they were renamed to Hero Turtles in UK. Some guys decided that ninja is a bad guy, a stealth assasin (which is mostly true) so positive characters in a movie for children can't be called ninja.

But it was just a case with these turtles, it wasn't generally forbidden to use the word "ninja" ;)
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Re: Ninja Gaiden Shadow Warriors

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Ralf wrote: Thu Feb 08, 2018 1:28 pm Alessandro, maybe you miss the story about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? ;)
Of course not :) I already knew it. But it was, as you pointed out, a Turtles-related matter, which only affected our beloved box of wonders because a couple of licensed games were made for it. And quite good, too ;)
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Re: Ninja Gaiden Shadow Warriors

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There were some really weird censorship laws in the UK. What surprised me is for art house/high art you could get away with almost anything but for stuff to be consumed by us plebs the rules were fairly strict on what you could or couldn't put on flim/tv and to a lesser extent print.

Like for example if you were to put on some sort of pop out theatre performance with ninjas, nun chucks and advertise it. That would have been fine because its culture. But if you were to try and broadcast that for general consumption it would not have been permitted.

The whole idea behind the censorship was to keep the general public protected. But if you were considered to be a privileged class you could do as you liked (in the 80s anyway) things had relaxed a fare amount. My memory of it was 'one rule for them and one rule for us.' :lol:

There was a friend of the family, that always had a copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover since it was published. Nobody cared, but for sure if we had a copy in our house during the period of its ban it would have been a different matter.
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