The Legend of the Mystical Ninja

The Legend of the Mystical Ninja is a 1991 action-adventure game released by Konami for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It was also ported to the Game Boy Advance along with Ganbare Goemon 2: Kiteretsu Shōgun McGuiness in 2005 only in Japan. It is the first game in the Japanese video game series Ganbare Goemon to have a western release and the fifth mainline game overall. It has also been released for the Wii Virtual Console in 2007, the Wii U Virtual Console in 2013 (2014 in Europe and Australia), and the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console in 2016. The game was re-released in 2026 via the Ganbare Goemon! Daishūgō compilation.