 Ninja Gaiden III : The Ancient Ship of Doom was developed and released by Tecmo , who also did the previous two games in the series , Ninja Gaiden and Ninja Gaiden II : The Dark Sword of Chaos . It was released in Japan on June 26 , 1991 ( 1991 @-@ 06 @-@ 26 ) for the Famicom under the title Ninja Ryūkenden III : Yomi no <unk> ; it was released in North America for the NES in August 1991 . It was ported to the Atari Lynx in 1993 by Atari , and then Tecmo re @-@ released the game as part of its Ninja Gaiden Trilogy Super NES compilation in 1995 . It was released for the Wii 's Virtual Console service in North America on February 18 , 2008 ( 2008 @-@ 02 @-@ 18 ) . 
