Rittai Ninja Katsugeki Tenchu (JP)
What am I seeing here?
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Original PlayStation memory card icons are really small — only 16 pixels square! That’s awfully tiny for today’s screens so I’ve created 2 versions of each icon: one at 32 pixels that is closer to the original size and a much larger one at 256 pixels.
FUN FACT
While it doesn’t have a huge variety of icons like Shinobi-Gaisen that came after it, the original Tenchu did at least feature a very unique singular save icon per region. The Japanese version establishes the trend of “flaming kanji” that would persist across the rest of the series. Meanwhile, the style of the European and North American icon is in line with how the icons look in Shinobi-Gaisen and I kind of wonder if this was a leftover image that Activision hijacked while porting the game to English.
Check out the rest of the series too, there’s a unique little tidbit to discover about each game.
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