Sasuke vs. Commander

The player controls Sasuke, a ninja dressed in blue who moves left and right across the bottom of a vertically oriented screen and throws kunai. The game alternates between two types of levels, and the player begins the game with three extra lives and the ability to only throw one kunai at a time.

The first level type, the ninja stage, takes place on a background portraying two large trees on the left and right edges of the screen with a road between them leading to a Japanese castle in the distance. Groups of ninjas dressed in red appear in puffs of smoke and attack Sasuke by throwing shuriken down the length of the screen at him while leaping back and forth between the trees, moving closer and closer to Sasuke with each successive leap and giving the player less time to react to their unpredictable shuriken attacks. Sasuke is killed and loses one of his lives if the shuriken strike him, but he can either dodge the shuriken or throw kunai at them, with the second option being risky because kunai will sometimes destroy and fly through the shuriken, and other times be destroyed by the shuriken as they fly through Sasuke's kunai. Sasuke must kill enemy ninja by hitting them with kunai, and when killed, they become purple corpses and fall down the screen which can kill Sasuke by falling on top of him; the corpses are indestructible and can only be dodged.

Although few English language materials refer to the game, the Japanese arcade trade newspaper Game Machine lists it as being the 10th most popular arcade game in 1981 based on income, tied with Space Invaders and Missile Command.

It has since become better known as one of SNK's earliest releases, as well as one of the first arcade games to include multiple boss fights, along with Phoenix and Cidelsa's Destroyer of the same year.