Ninja JaJaMaru Legendary Ninja Collection (PS4)

Eight games, one disc, and a franchise that most of us in the West never knew existed. The Ninja JaJaMaru Legendary Ninja Collection Limited Edition for PlayStation 4 is a Strictly Limited Games exclusive with 2,000 individually numbered copies, bringing the complete JaJaMaru saga to your PS4 library with a colorful game manual included.

This collection traces JaJaMaru's journey from his 1985 Famicom debut through five Famicom sequels, a hand-colored Game Boy adventure, a Super Famicom entry, and the 2022 comeback title. The RPGs have been translated into English for the first time, which means games that were essentially locked behind a language barrier for over 30 years are now fully playable. The Game Boy title received a meticulous frame-by-frame colorization that preserves the original while adding new vibrancy.

What matters here is the preservation angle. These aren't emulated ROMs dumped onto a disc with a generic menu. This is a curated collection that respects the source material, from the early side-scrolling platformers to the top-down RPGs to the modern multiplayer entry. Each game represents a different era of Japanese game design, and playing them in sequence is like watching a studio evolve in real time.

Two thousand copies sounds generous until you remember this is a global release covering a franchise with dedicated fans across Japan, Europe, and North America. For PS4 collectors who value disc-based compilations of historically significant series, this belongs on the shelf.