I'm glad, time when we have to throw coins just to play 5 minutes, is over. Good PC. I was so happy back then in mid 90's when PC's got mainstream, and very soon powerful thanks to 3dfx accelerators. I'm so glad, coin-arcade machine era is over.
@IgaKoga lol, nope. It would developed independaly, and same fast. Even if coin machines would not exists at all. Or be completly free. Home consoles would be sufficient.
Great game, and great Amiga conversion too. I feel that this game is often overlooked in the evolution of beat 'em ups, as most people just leap straight from Double Dragon to Final Fight, but this was the game which first introduced breakable objects, attack combinations, and grisly game over screens. It deserves way more love.
Never crashed for me, playing it at a friend's house, it was the main reason I wanted an Amiga. Shame the game doesn't have both sound and music at the same time but otherwise a great conversion, certainly a master piece when compared to the Amiga versions of both Double Dragon and Final Fight. In fact probably one of the best scrolling beat-em-ups on the Amiga alongside the excellent conversion of Golden Axe. [edit] Although the timelimit on coop is a bit too fast and therefore can't really enjoy the game unless you use infinite credits (and that requires you to play and lose all but 1 credit by repeatedly jumping down the hole mid way through the first stage. Which is kinda annoying having to do each time you want to play the game. [edit2] Oh and it's a shame the Amiga version has no music for Stages 4, 5 and 6 and instead just repeats the music for Stages 1, 2 and 3 again.
i'm a 80s baby and i love these retro games and all but i love the funny random game logic where you're walking and suddenly the road ends and there's a bottomless pit/cliff infront of you
I used to have it on the Amiga too. Unlike many (perhaps most) arcade game conversions on the Amiga, it was very well done indeed. The music on the Amiga is fantastic.
I have the soundtrack on Vinyl with the other NES Ninja Gaiden's. Also this game has the greatest "insert coin" screen and Game over death sound. "MOO!"
Funny how as kids we didn’t even think of arcade games as computers as the graphics looked so unbelievably different than any game running on a computer..
Very true. When I first happened to read about what was inside an arcade machine, and that they were essentially just another type of computer with massive circuit boards of chips inside, it was quite a revelation. Until that point, it didn't occur to me that an arcade machine was based on similar technology to a home computer.
@@nebularain3338 When I said based on similar tech, I meant very broadly speaking. Some home systems like the PC Engine in Japan shared some chips with arcade machines I think, but what I really meant was that they were recognisably computer boards, like the ones in home systems, just the specifics of the chips are different. As I said, I didn't previously have any idea of what they would look like inside.
The future Ninja Gaiden . He was sent to America to kill some demonic cult to gain the right of the Dragon sword etc. Love the game over screen though jesus
This was one of my favorite games in the day. Used to play it in the pizzeria under the name NINJA GAIDEN. I'm surprised the Sega Genesis didn't pick it up.
@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays Yes I played it. It's Like one or two levels. Sega could have gone for this game; should have gone for Bad Dudes and Rastan as well.
Never seen that title before. I remember seeing it as Ninja Gaiden. Used to go down to the Jiffy-mart by my house and pump my allowance into that game.
Jojo references: * stone masks and Wham at 22:35; * Santana(looking a bit more like Baoh) at 23:23; * Kars, aptly next to a wall full of stone masks, at 25:45; * AC-DC, I guess (hardest one to recognise) at 25:56 on the right.
We also see the Queens in the Round 3 background complete. The Amiga version had the Queen of Clubs have as her bottom half a copy of the Queen of Diamonds. Here the Queen of Clubs is solid.
If you can tell here, the "Round 3 Clear" screen has Ryu Hayabusa in a light purple suit, four bunny girl hostesses fawning over him (the next time the Hero has it this good would be "Dragon Quest VIII" I believe) while racking up wins on Roulette. You wonder if the African-American guy is either cheering Ryu on (no doubt because he staked Ryu) or getting concerned Ryu's winning too much (because he's the "pit boss" wanting to make sure no ninja tricks were used at the table).
Does anyone know why it doesn't load properly on arcade box with 33000 games. I even downloaded the mame file again and added it to mame folder but same result. I get a blue and grey game error screen that basically looks like dos print. Then any button you press just brings you back to the mame games list. Do I need to hook up something like the switch arcade stick for it to recognize a specific game code? Right I just have it hooked directly up to my tv using the ps1 controllers it came with.
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