By whoisjohn on Skatehive
I am a product of what I consider to be the golden age of gaming when every couple of years the advancement in gaming technology was just blowing us away. I am referring to NES to Genesis to Playstation years and one of the standout games for me during that time was a Genesis (Megadrive) game I mastered called Shinobi. If you ever played the original game you will understand that The Messenger is intentionally modeled after that game https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/the-messenger-2018/images/6/6b/KeyArt1.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1200?cb=20190203082849 src The game is quite basic and maybe is intentionally pixelated to look like old school gaming. The controls are tight and simple and there are some annoying aspects of the game that they likely threw in there on purpose such as enemies that are off screen will automatically respawn if you join that part of the screen again. https://www.newgamenetwork.com/app/uploads/2025/10/tm103.jpg src They creators are almost certainl