Kamen no Ninja: Akakage

Kamen no Ninja Akakage's only video game adaptation is a fairly straightforward side-scrolling action platformer. Your character Akakage is equipped with a sword, shuriken, boomerang, a variety of bombs and ninjutsu techniques to combat enemy ninja, warlords and kaiju. You don't start with all of them, they are acquired by finding red hearts throughout the stages to talk to old man Tomizou. Akakage can also call for help from his allies Aokage and Shirokage.

The game is based on an anime of the same name that was released in the same time period, which in turn is based on a much older live-action tokusatsu (superhero) TV show about a masked vigilante ninja that helps people (similar to, say, Zorro or the Lone Ranger. Or Kamen Rider for that matter).