Here’s a free 80s-style ninja heist game where you race in splitscreen to loot a daimyo’s castle | Gaming Video

Back in December, a bunch of cool games had the extreme impoliteness to sneak onto digital shelves while we were losing our hair, souls and marbles covering various gaming award shows. One of those games was Escape From Castle Matsumoto – which can be excused, admittedly, because it’s a game about ninjas, and we expect ninjas to be sneaky.

It’s a free split-screen pixel art heist oddity in which two ninjas race to be the first to loot a daimyo’s castle. While scouring the mansion in your half of the screen, you can lay traps and obstacles for the rival shinobi. If push comes to shove comes to roundhouse kick, you can also fight them directly.

It’s kind of nifty. It looks like it’s from the 80s. Here’s a video.

I had a play just now and can (re)confirm…more

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