Mega Drive Longplay [189] Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master 

I remember when my grandma surprised me and bought this game for me after seeing how much I loved it when I rented it! I still have the game as it holds a special place in my heart! I miss my grandma!

That horse riding stage was fresh af for it's time very cinematic and engaging! Revolutionary for a game at that time!

Everybody's talking about the music! Yes! It's great! But... Can we mention the graphics!? This game is BEAUTIFUL!!! ♥

One of the BEST Games ever, hands down

oh man the music in this game is amazing!!!!!

Level: Expert Shurikens: 00 This is going to get interesting.

huge detailed sprites, smooth as butter animation, killer soundtrack,engaging gameplay--this game is still as fun to play today as it was during the days of the Genesis. A true video game masterpiece!!

I swear I can feel the breeze in the opening stage to this day. Such an important milestone in 16-bit gaming, and all gaming for that matter.

37:51 My favorite videogame set piece ever: the high stakes, the lighting, the music change, the cherry blossom petals falling. An absolute masterpiece.

This and Streets of Rage II, absolutely blew my MIND as a kid. The special moves, the music, the bosses, the beautiful stages, I just couldn't believe what I was playing. 1996-98 my brothers and my cousins used to trade video games with us, a wonderful time. Halcyon days.

Shinobi 3 has some of the best video game soundtracks ever.

Wow, I can't get over how incredible the music on the surfing stage is.

This game should be awarded the best game music ever!!!

5:52 : everything about this section is badass. The music, the horse, the sounds - everything!!!!

Improves everything from Revenge of Shinobi. Almost looks like a NeoGeo game, the OST is amazing.

After more than 20 years it still is one of my favorite games.

Oh shit. This is game of my childhood. Dat great soundtrack, omg!!!

Definition of a classic. Takes me back to sitting in front of the tv with my brother playing this over and over 🔥

back in 1993 the stone falling stage was so stunningly beautiful, almost surreal!

The horse stage is my favorite ♥️ This is an excellent game. Graphics & music 👍 Controls are so easy and precise, it’ll be your fault if an enemy hits you.

Este juego cuando lo tuve por primera vez en mis manos dije "esto es una verdadera obra de arte"...28 años despues sigo pensando y diciendo lo mismo.

Um dos melhores jogos que joguei no Mega Drive. Este merecia um remake!

This game kicks so much ass! Love the OST as well.

Best game of my childhood hands down. Amazing graphics, design and soundtrack is absolutely outstanding.

One of the best speed running 16-bit games and my personal favorite game from the era. The ability to double jump and spread the knives at a 90 degree, angle, the running katana slash with the invincibility frames, the air kick. It's amazing discovering where you can use certain mechanics to kickass better, like being to slash Godzillas face from standing on his hand, and the samurai from stage 1. I wish you didn't cheese the Shadow Master though...because that's an brilliant 16-bit boss fight.

When I had to leave the game on and go to school in order to save 😂

That's it! I'm plugging up my Sega.

Stage 3 creeps me out. It's like looking at a 36-bit Tricell Laboratory.

That kabuki boss stage is awesome. I love how the music changes all of the sudden, indicating that he's about to get serious.

So much to love in here. Great graphics, one of my fav soundtracks, excellent gameplay and difficulty catered to all.

Watching this is making me think about everything that happened in life since I played this.

Deu uma vontade de chorar agr... Nostalgia bateu forte😢

The palallax-scrolling-effects are awaome for a 16 bit console... Respect!!!

God, I forgot how precise you need to be in that final level. Plus, no human enemies. It's just you and the boss, and a labyrinth that ensures you've become shinobi enough to face him. I had so much trouble with this game when I was like 7, but I still love it to this day.

I remember picking this up day one... It was an entire nother level of awesomeness.

When I played this as a kid I remember the falling rocks level was so hard. So many good memories

2:07 The daylight to darkness to torchlit transition is SO good!

I'll never forget this game😢

I could never get past round 6 in this game!! It was so frustrating jumping form rock to rock! Arggh I still have anger issues regarding it

the sound design and the use of layering for distance effect for the horse level was mind blowing for 1993 !

Yo, who's dropped by here, after the announcement from SEGA, yesterday!? Finally, some love for even this forgotten classic, after years of just Sonic and Yakuza!

This, along with Quack Shot and Castlevania: Bloodlines, are my favorite games for Mega Drive/Genesis! :D

A work of art. As close to arcade you can come on a home console. Really love the graphics.

Shinobi 3 has great graphics and so well designed. Played the heck out of it in the 90's with my friends

I always loved this game during my 90's childhood, especially the music of it!

Shinobi should be considered in next Mortal Kombat games

I remember when my brother and I first got this game and we heard the music begin on stage 1. It was a wow moment for us. Sadly he is not here with us anymore. I miss him...

stage 2 epic music...

My love for this game began when I watched a friend 1 life this game, couldn't believe he was able to pull it off. Then again he had the game for a little while, enough time to master it. Years later I have my own boxed copy, have not played it in awhile, and never managed to beat it.

One of the best SEGA Genesis games for sure!

replaying this now and I'm blown away how well designed this game is today. incredible work.

i miss this game so much

I don’t know if people know this, but this game has a story that could make for a great anime OVA. Here, I’ll explain: 1:16 This is the first level of the game. We start at the hidden village of the protagonist where he fights minions and goons. 4:23 The journey takes him into a hidden cave where he fights a giant mutated warrior. This begs the question: why is he mutated? 5:55 This riddle forces him to leave his hidden ninja village and outside its territory using one of his modes of transportation, his loyal steed. He fights other enemy ninjas along his way. 7:27 This takes him to his first encounter of one of the enemy’s many secret bases of operations, a hidden military facility that hides a lot of secret weapon experiments. 10:09 The boss of this hidden military facility is a weaponized brain. 11:05 This takes him deeper, where he discovers an entire underground facility where they use biological weapons to create genetically mutated monsters and weapons of mass destruction. 15:07 The boss of this facility, I believe, is a monster that was a result of remnants of biological weapon waste and failed mutated monster experiments. I actually felt sorry when I defeated this monster. He just wanted to protect his territory and be left alone. 15:56 This takes the hero to another facility overseas where he uses a really cool mode of transportation, a surfboard (this is one of the coolest levels I played in this game). This is one of the many enemy bases that creates high-tech weapons. 23:11 The protagonist himself sets the forest on fire to destroy this evil secret military base. He even delves inside to plant bombs everywhere. Where the first facility deals with creating mutated soldiers with inhuman experiments, this base deals with creating highly advanced mecha suits and weapons of mass destruction. 31:46 Of course, the place falls apart and this is the part where the hero escapes the falling debris while also fighting a tengu (obviously another genetically modified/mutated soldier). 35:45 This takes him to his enemy’s boss’s final and secret mansion where it’s rigged with traps. And I bet the kabuki soldier was the boss’s right-hand man. The boss himself has fled his base and into his secret battleship in the sky the size of a small city that is equipped with all the weapons he created to terrorize the world and rule it with tyranny. 39:08 Of course, our hero will follow the final boss to the ends of the earth to stop his evil master plan to take over the world. So he destroys the battleship from the outside and the inside. 47:23 We finally meet our final boss of the game. He is not even human. He is some form of a highly advanced super soldier resulting from his own highly advanced alien/mutated experiments to become the ultimate life form. 49:02 Our hero defeats the enemy, saves the world, and looks upon the horizon to the fallen battleship. He rides off into the sunset, back to his home and disappears. Unless evil should rise its ugly head again, he will remain hidden within the shadows, watching.

My favorite Shinobi game

The shinobi series holds a spot in my heart no matter what it was the first shinobi that got me to training in real ninjutsu then two made aware of the series world building then 3 came out and just crushed it on the whole setting in round 3 "body weapon" you clearly see that it's no longer the year 19XX but far or shortly into the future and zeed have been up to some very bad stuff, long live the ninja master!!!!

man i almost cried over this ... playing this game daily for years . OLD IS GOLD

BEST GAME EVER.

Man, I remember playing this back in the day on my Genesis! Hearing the soundtrack brings back many memories!

37:54 the best boss transition music ever

One of my all time favorite games ever! Thanks for bringing back such good memories as a kid.

The Ninja Master returned? Damn these ninjas! I didn't even knew he was on vacation! Great gameplay!

Round 3's Boss "Body Weapon" has to be one of my favorites in the whole series.

I have literally spent years trying to remember the name of this game based only on a white ninja and a elevator level with machine guns

From the graphics to game mechanics to the soundtrack this was a fucking amazing game

discovered this game today on the genesis I bought, 2 years ago. (never had one before). dude this horse riding scene shocked me. it looks fuckin awesome and cinematic. the soundtrack, control scheme, level design and everything is awesome. would love to own the original cartridge but it's too expensive. Im playing with an everdrive for the mega drive.

I love the guys at 7:39. Riot shields, wearing what looks like a blast suit and wielding a...boomerang. Truly the pinnacle of weapons technology.

This video game had possibly the music on the Sega Mega Drive. All this music sounded fascinating to me, and it brings back a lot of memories when I was a kid.

Anytime someone asks me "why Sega over Nintendo?" I just send them a link to this game and they're response is "Holy 💩!" This is Sega at its finest right here, Shinobi 3 has the best music, graphics, presentation, and gameplay ever

The 3rd level of this game gives me the effing creeps!

My first mission game..thank you brother for sharing. I'm happy to watch again and I'm completed in this life.What a music.

Timeless game, you can put it on right now and play it. Masterpiece.

Every level has variety , a challenge - wasn’t the same crap . It has uniqueness. This game holds a special part in my childhood . Beat this game so many times

When he set the game to Expert and 0 Shurikens, I was like "YES!". Only way to play this game.

One of my favourite games of all time. Good old times.

IMO one of the best looking platformers for the genesis ever

On the "traps" level boss you can actually attack him while he's tranformed to the feathers too by striking in the middle wich will make him change form immediately. Also, you don't have to run: just stand in the corner, then when he comes near enough start jumpkickinging him 5-6 times in a row. Rinse and repeat after his come back from his feathered transformation.

My reaction to after I finally bought this game off of eBay: Yes

This is a game i've loved as a kid and i love now, despite that it was released a long ago (the same year i was born). I never played a game better than this one. Even though i have several favorite games on pc, Shinobi III is still my ultimate favorite. Too bad i couldn't find other games from these series in my childhood..

nostalgia

Took me so long to find this. I played it at my cousins when I was 8. I tried Google every which way of explaining the first level. 29 now. Sheesh time flies.

I love this game!I remember in my 9 years go to school with my red megadrive and play! My favorite part i think is the stage of body armor. Surg!

This game was rediculously fun. The guy speeding up at 7:10 is ingraved into my memory, that was the ultimate dbz-move...

Its so sweet when the Character goes right and left so fast xD

I remember getting this for Christmas one year. Me and my two brothers stayed up for days trying to beat game

Such a great soundtrack! FM synthesis perfection!

I just finished this game this morning, it took me 4 hours lol, but the music, levels, and graphics make me really nostalgic. Very cool game

Man I loved this game, the music is orgasmic

Isso ai jogado numa tubão no começo dos anos 90, era uma perfeição.

*This game was way ahead of its time!*

I bet all of you commenting here are in your late thirties 😁😁

I like seeing playthroughs on the hardest difficulty and u did it with ease... Respect man most gamers can't do this

Why do you keep to joe mushashi dancing nervously in so strange way sometimes in gameplay? I dont get it. By the way great game. I still have it from 1993!

One of my favorite games growing up I never got past the level of the following rocks in the winged boss of that level and I always thought that that was the ending boss. Seeing the very end of this game just blew my mind

GO SHINOBI GO!!!!

Hoy he soñado con este videojuego de casi 30 años, me encantaba!!

The soundtrack for this game is a classic as well. Probably my favorite soundtrack from sega games. Oh, about the player: he is using cheats all right. He is invisible for the enemies.

You could tell whoever was playing this no doubt has beaten this game countless times!

Truly an excellent game, one of the Gen's absolute best. I liked to play using only melee, with no shurikens at all. You get bonus points at the end of the round for doing so. My favorite is definitively the 2nd level on horseback, with enemy ninjas floating down from giant kites.

This game got Amazing music 🎶. One of my favorite games. Remember rushing back from school to get in the mood and advance in the game ...

Here SEGA did what NINTENDON'T