It was also one of the first games to feature a parental lockout system, allowing censorship and limiting the violence displayed during gameplay. Being one of the first titles announced for the Jaguar before it was launched to the public in November 1993, Kasumi Ninja was created by the same company who previously developed Dracula the Undead for the Atari Lynx in 1991 and had a troubled development process, undergoing through various changes before release. When the elder ninja Gyaku kills two of his fellow elders through black magic and becomes possessed by a powerful demon after breaking the gate to the underworld, it is up to the player in taking the role from any of the playable characters in order to defeat other opponents before Lord Gyaku destroys the Earth.

It was the first fighting title to be released for the Jaguar, and unsuccessfully sought to capitalize on the trend of ultra violent fighting games started by Midway Games's Mortal Kombat in 1992. Initially it was for the Atari Jaguar in North America and Europe on December 21, 1994, and was later released in Japan by Messe Sanoh in July 1995. Kasumi Ninja is a fighting game, developed by Hand Made Software and published by Atari Corporation.

What seemed like a couple of weeks they say what text is wrong and we tweak the location eg this line up 2 pixel's and right 3. When we submitted the game to Atari the game play was ok but they had issues with text in the game. It was just a quick easy thing we could add into the game so the player can gain extra points. The screen showing what you had on the craft was originally a shop screen. Atari had their input into the game and as usual they wanted a mini game adding so I remembered Stardust and going down a tunnel to shoot things. So you could juggle speed vs offensive /defensive upgrades. You would earn credits and then you could buy extra gear for your craft. I think the game was going to be a racing game but morphed into what was released. We pitched the game to Phillips Interactive and they had their ideas what the game should be but they pulled out before the game was started and we did it for Atari. The game change quite dramatically from what the first gem of an idea we had. As we were doing a 3d game Karl West had released 3d games before so it was wise for him to handle the game side of things and myself the rest of things.

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