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First Samurai: Development, Reception & Plot
First Samurai, alternatively titled The First Samurai, is a 1991 beat 'em up platform game developed by Vivid Image and published by Image Works. The First Samurai was originally released in September 1991 for the Amiga and Atari ST, and was later ported to the Commodore 64 (reduced graphics), MS-DOS (music during gameplay removed) and the Super Nintendo…
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First Samurai topic overview
The analysis highlights Development, Reception and Plot as prominent areas in the source structure around First Samurai.
Related topics
42
Source areas
6
Connected nodes
48
Extracted relationships
88
Concept neighborhoods
25
Bridge connections
48
What this topic covers Research coverage
Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.
Development · 15 topics
Overview · 11 topics
Reception · 9 topics
Gameplay · 3 topics
Plot · 3 topics
Cancelled version · 1 topics
Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.
Key facts & relationships
High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.
Artist
Paul 'Dokk' Docherty
Designer
John Twiddy
Developer
Vivid Image
Director
Mev Dinc
Genres
Platform, beat 'em up
Mode
Single-player
Explore all related topics Closing gaps
A structured outline of related entities, concepts and subtopics. Open any item to build a new map centered on it.
Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.
Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.
How First Samurai connects Entity context
Entity context groups extracted connections by relationship type. Counts show recurrence in the analyzed source; the examples are research signals, not claims about importance.
The extracted context around First Samurai shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, First Samurai → Amiga, At, Atari ST, British, Cecco, December, Deciding, Dinc, Docherty, Docherty's, Dokk' Docherty, Fruad Katon, I've, If, In, It, John Twiddy, July, Mev Dinc, MS-DOS Another extracted example is First Samurai → Amiga, Amiga Joker, Anyone, Asia-themed, Atari ST, First Samurai's, Furthermore, However, If, Image Works, It, Shadow Dancer, ST Review's Dave Jones, Super Gamer, Super NES, The, The Last Ninja, This. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
First Samurai
Top relations
related to Development· 42
First Samurai → Amiga, At, Atari ST, British, Cecco, December, Deciding, Dinc, Docherty, Docherty's, Dokk' Docherty, Fruad Katon, I've, If, In, It, John Twiddy, July, Mev Dinc, MS-DOS
related to Reception· 18
First Samurai → Amiga, Amiga Joker, Anyone, Asia-themed, Atari ST, First Samurai's, Furthermore, However, If, Image Works, It, Shadow Dancer, ST Review's Dave Jones, Super Gamer, Super NES, The, The Last Ninja, This
related to External links· 4
First Samurai → Amiga Hall, Gamebase, LightFirst Samurai, MobyGamesFirst Samurai
related to Plot· 2
First Samurai → In The First Samurai, Japan
Artist· 1
First Samurai → Paul 'Dokk' Docherty
Designer· 1
First Samurai → John Twiddy
Developer· 1
First Samurai → Vivid Image
Director· 1
First Samurai → Mev Dinc
Genres· 1
First Samurai → Platform, beat 'em up
Mode· 1
First Samurai → Single-player
Important terminology
Frequent words and multi-word phrases across the lead, headings, infobox and body. Useful for terminology coverage.
Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.
First Samurai relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Relationships are represented as Subject → Predicate → Object triples. Confidence describes extraction strength, not the real-world importance of a relationship; lower-confidence rows may be contextual rather than explicit.
TTTA extracted 88 structured relationships around First Samurai. Examples in this analysis include First Samurai → Artist → Paul 'Dokk' Docherty and First Samurai → Designer → John Twiddy. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
Subject
Predicate
Object
Confidence
Src
First Samurai
Artist
Paul 'Dokk' Docherty
1.00
infobox
First Samurai
Designer
John Twiddy
1.00
infobox
First Samurai
Developer
Vivid Image
1.00
infobox
First Samurai
Director
Mev Dinc
1.00
infobox
First Samurai
Genres
Platform, beat 'em up
1.00
infobox
First Samurai
Mode
Single-player
1.00
infobox
First Samurai
Platforms
Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Super NES, iOS
1.00
infobox
First Samurai
Programmer
Raffaele Cecco
1.00
infobox
First Samurai
Publishers
Image Works Ubi Soft (MS-DOS) Kemco (SNES)
1.00
infobox
First Samurai
Release
September 1991: Amiga, Atari ST 1992: C64, MS-DOS 1993: SNES 2011: iOS
1.00
infobox
the edge of a platform
instance of
these blocks determine attributes
0.80
text
the spawn point of entities
instance of
these blocks determine attributes
0.80
text
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Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods
Concept neighborhoods group terms that sit near one another in the extracted graph. They are useful for discovering adjacent language and context, but proximity does not by itself imply a factual relationship.
The concept neighborhoods around First Samurai bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Samurai, Samurai's and Amiga. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
First Samurai
Samurai
Samurai's
Amiga
Development
Game
Vivid
Atari
St
Graphics
John
Expressed
Image
first samurai
Samurai
Samurai's
Amiga
Development
Game
Atari
St
Vivid
Graphics
John
Expressed
Image
beat 'em up
'em
Beat
Platform
Super
Works
Computer
Version
Image
Game
Ios
Vivid
Amiga
platform game
Works
Image
Games
Ios
Samurai's
Vivid
Commodore
Computer
Dinc
Gameplay
Ms-dos
Samurai
vivid image
Vivid
Works
Docherty
John
Expressed
Development
Platform
Cecco
One
Twiddy
Atari
St
image works
Vivid
Beat
Image
Platform
Works
'em
Cecco
Docherty
Ios
Development
One
Commodore
amiga
Version
Atari
Samurai
St
First
Gameplay
Ms-dos
September
Super
Beat
Commodore
Later
atari st
St
Ms-dos
September
Commodore
Gameplay
Port
Super
Graphics
John
Twiddy
Version
Samurai
Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
Semantic bridges connect parts of the graph that would otherwise be more separate. A bridge is a structural signal in this analysis, not a claim that the two topic areas are equivalent.
For First Samurai, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects First Samurai with Development. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.
First Samurai
Nodes49
Edges48
Triples88
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.040816
Components1
Source & methodology
TTTA analyzes the structure around First Samurai to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Development, Reception & Plot, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
