“The Finest Hour,” “The War to End All Wars,” “Super Nazi Death Time”—whatever you call it, World War II was a major turning point in modern history, and a huge boon to publishers in need of video game ideas. As surely as it’s never not offensive to shoot a Nazi in the face, we will likely never see an end to games based on this global conflict (at least, not until games based on the Canadian-American War hit shelves sometime in the next 40 years…believe me, it’s coming!). As with any video game sub-genre, these WWII titles have lots of things in common, from weapons and enemies to vehicles and campaigns. My favorite WWII game convention, though, has to be the ninjas. I’m not really sure where it started, but ever since some bored programmer thought it would be funny to add a little black-clad revisionist history to whatever French battle strategy sim he was working on, ninjas are as big a part of World War II games as tanks, POWs, and Jerry.

My top five favorite WWII games with ninjas, after the break:

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