Games
Activision purchased the rights to this game from Sony Music Entertainment, who originally published the game in Japan. However, Activision sold the rights to the Japanese game publisher From Software in 2004.
From Software's rights agreement does not include games previously published by Activision. From Software licensed distribution of Fatal Shadows to Sega and Tenchu Z to Microsoft.
Currently From Software has the rights of the Tenchu series.
| Title | Release | Platforms | Developer | Publisher | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tenchu: Stealth Assassins | 1998 | PlayStation | Acquire | Sony/Activision | |
| Tenchu 2: Birth of the Stealth Assassins | 2000 | PlayStation | Acquire | Activision | |
| Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven | 2003 | PS2, Xbox, PSP, Mobile phone | K2 | Activision/From Software | |
| Tenchu: Shadow Assassins | 2008 | Wii, PSP | Acquire | From Software/Nintendo |
| Title | Release | Platforms | Developer | Publisher | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tenchu: Fatal Shadows | 2004 | PS2, PSP | K2 | From Software/Sega | |
| Tenchu: Time of the Assassins | 2005 | PSP | K2 | From Software/Sega | |
| Tenchu: Dark Secret | 2006 | Nintendo DS | Polygon Magic | From Software/Nintendo | |
| Tenchu Z | 2006 | Xbox 360 | K2 | From Software/Microsoft | |
| Shadow Assault: Tenchu | 2008 | XBLA | From Software | From Software |
There was an additional Japan-exclusive release for Tenchu on the PlayStation. One hundred of the best competing levels designed with the level editor of Tenchu: Shinobi Gaisen (an expanded version of Tenchu re-released in Japan) were put together to form a stand-alone, non-story based expansion set called Tenchu: Shinobi Hyakusen. The engine and game fundamentals remained unchanged. Shinobi Hyakusen is still famous for the hardest level settings among Tenchu fans, especially because of the tight time limits and the overall lack of the items, excluding the caltrops and the throwing stars. No North American or European versions were released however.
Several games were also ported to mobile phones with graphic changes. This includes: Tenchu: Ayame's Tale 3D which was released for The Sony Ericsson mobile phone series and Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven by TKO-Software and Digital Bridges which was released for mobile phones in 2005, although it used two-dimensional graphics.
Read more about this topic: Tenchu
Famous quotes containing the word games:
“At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)
“As long as lightly all their livelong sessions,
Like a yardful of schoolboys out at recess
Before their plays and games were organized,
They yelling mix tag, hide-and-seek, hopscotch,
And leapfrog in each other’s way all’s well.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“The rules of drinking games are taken more serious than the rules of war.”
—Chinese proverb.