Ninja Gladiator
- Ninja Gladiator is a video game from the Transformers Animated continuity family.
Ninja Gladiator is Flippy-Floppy Industries popular fighting game series that has been around 1987, enjoyed a little bit too much by Bumblebee. The game includes a four-armed insectoid and a ninja clad all in black. In the background of at least one stage is the face of the TORQ III computer.
Fiction
Animated cartoon
The plot is that in the year 2021, Brandon "Big Boss" Babel freed five of the monstrous Inhumanoids from below the surface of the Earth.... and only the Ninja Gladiators are able to face these monsters! The AllSpark Almanac II
Bumblebee neglected monitor duty to play Ninja Gladiator, despite being admonished by Optimus Prime. This may have been a mistake, since his negligence allowed Wasp to get the drop on him. The rogue Autobot proceeded to switch places with Bumblebee in an attempt to exact vengeance. Bulkhead later proposed using the game to prove Bumblebee's identity, since his mega-cycles of practice made him virtually unbeatable. Wasp thought so too, and bolted rather than face the challenge. Where Is Thy Sting?
Notes
- The four-armed insect is modeled after Antron from the Micronauts.
- Derrick Wyatt confirmed the ninja as Snake-Eyes on his Twitter account. [1][2]
- Playable characters in the 1987 version of the game include:
- Old Soldier, patterned after Hudson from Gargoyles.
- Big Boss from C.O.P.S., the Hasbro cartoon.
- Felina, a nod to Felina Feral from S.W.A.T. Cats.
- Slaughter Steelgrave from Tomy's Starriors.
- Robik, based on Gizmo from Superbook.
- Miles Mayhem, the leader of V.E.N.O.M. in M.A.S.K.
- Brett, modeled on Turbo Teen.
- HGBG, based on the Hideous giant brain guy from the UK Transformers comic.
