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1987 video game

1987 video game

The Ninja Warriors
The Ninja Warriors arcade flyer.jpg

Arcade flyer
Developer(due south) Taito
Publisher(s)
  • JP: Taito
  • NA: Romstar[2]
  • EU: Electrocoin[3]
Director(s) Masaki Ogata
Producer(s) Yojiro Suekado
Designer(s) Hiroshi Tsujino
Yukiwo Ishikawa
Programmer(s) Daisuke Sasaki
Writer(southward) Hiroshi Tsujino
Composer(s) Hisayoshi Ogura
Platform(s) Arcade, Amiga, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, PC Engine, Mega-CD
Release
  • JP: Late 1987
  • European union: January 1988[1]
  • NA: March 1988[ii]
Genre(due south) Shell 'em up
Mode(southward) Single-player

The Ninja Warriors ( ニンジャウォーリアーズ ) is a side-scrolling crush 'em up video game adult and released by Taito in 1987. The original arcade game situated i display in between projected images of two other displays, creating the appearance of a triple-wide screen. Ports were released for abode systems including the Amiga, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, PC Engine, and Sega Mega-CD.

A remake and a sequel, The Ninja Warriors Again, was developed by Natsume and released in 1994, followed by its remaster The Ninja Warriors Once Again released in 2019.

Gameplay [edit]

The Ninja Warriors presents side-scrolling hand-to-hand combat. Players take control of Kunoichi (player 1) or Ninja (player two) and fight wave after wave of Banglar forces across six levels. Button 1 attacks with a brusk-range kunai slash, while button 2 fires long-range shurikens that are limited in supply.

Plot [edit]

The game is based in a dystopian futurity where Banglar, the President of the United States in 1993, issues martial law on the nation, with the military having total control over the law.[4] A group of anarchist scientists led by Mulk decide that it is time to revolt against the authorities. Knowing total well that approaching the military themselves could be considered an all out suicide mission, the scientists create two androids that can sustain various forms of damage in order to do the mission for them. The robots, code named "Kunoichi" (ruby female) and "Ninja" (blue male), are sent past the scientists in order to end Banglar'due south tyranny once and for all.

Evolution and release [edit]

The game's arcade cabinet is unique due to its three contiguous screens (one screen in the usual identify for an arcade game, and ii more than screens in the cabinet beneath, reflected by mirrors on either side of the middle screen) which created the event of a single, "triple-wide" screen, depicting ninjas.[5] The aforementioned cabinet was as well used for Darius and Darius II and Konami used a similar format for its 10-Men arcade release (half-dozen players). The music was composed by Hisayoshi Ogura and Taito's in-house band Zuntata. Pony Canyon and Scitron released the 2 soundtracks for the game in 1988 and 1991,[6] [7] while farther arrangements were released in 1993[viii] and by Zuntata Records and Taito in 1988 and 2009.[9] [10]

The game was ported to various personal computers: the Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, Sinclair Spectrum 128K, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC. Home panel versions of the game were released exclusively in Nihon for the NEC PC Engine and Sega Mega-CD. A version for the Arcade Archives serial on the PlayStation 4 was released in September 2017.[11] A new port based on the 1994 version titled The Ninja Warriors: Once Again was released in 2019 on Nintendo Switch. It features new artwork and ii new playable characters.[12]

Reception [edit]

In Japan, Game Machine listed The Ninja Warriors on their April 1, 1988 outcome every bit beingness the third most-successful upright arcade unit of the calendar month.[25] Information technology went on to become Nihon's eighth highest-grossing defended arcade game of 1988.[26]

The arcade game received positive reviews. Clare Edgeley of Computer and Video Games reviewed the arcade game upon release, noted that it was one of several popular "martial arts simulation" games at London'due south Amusement Trades Exhibition International (ATEI) bear witness in January 1988, forth with Sega's Shinobi and Data East's Vigilante; she said it plays similarly to Shinobi, but that Ninja Warriors has a three-monitor cabinet similar Darius (1986). She praised the large screen, "great" graphics, and fun gameplay, but said Shinobi and Vigilante were more challenging.[i] Nick Kelly of Commodore User rated information technology 8 out of 10, also noting similarities to Shinobi, only preferring Ninja Warriors for its graphics and large screen. He said information technology was highly playable, "gorgeous looking" and technologically "a successful step" forwards.[22] Your Sinclair gave information technology a brief positive review, recommending readers to look "out for information technology."[18]

The domicile conversions also received mostly positive reviews, especially its 16-bit versions such as the ones for the Amiga. In 2010, CraveOnline featured the game (the arcade, SNES and Sega CD versions) on the list of height 10 ninja games of all time.[27] In 2008, GamesRadar featured Kunoichi as the best assassinator in the video game history: "She cut a memorable figure, rocking the huge blonde ponytail and bright-red shozoku. On top of that, she wasn't only a ninja - she was a ninja Terminator. It's hard to imagine a ameliorate assassin than that".[28] In 2006, Akiman drew her as his daughter of the month for the Japanese mag GAMAGA.[29] Robert Workman of GameZone included Ninja and Kunoichi on his 2011 list of "best video game ninjas": "These guys are due for a render – and hopefully a better hyped ane than Kage got a few years ago on DS?"[30]

Legacy [edit]

Natsume developed a 1994 follow-up for the Super NES too known as The Ninja Warriors, or The Ninja Warriors Again in Japan. A remake of the Super NES game for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 was released in 2019.

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Arcade Action". Computer and Video Games. No. 77 (March 1988). February 1988. pp. xc–three.
  2. ^ a b Akagi, Masumi (13 October 2006). アーケードTVゲームリスト国内•海外編(1971-2005) [Arcade TV Game List: Domestic • Overseas Edition (1971-2005)] (in Japanese). Nihon: Amusement News Bureau. p. 136-7. ISBN978-4990251215.
  3. ^ "Video Game Flyers: Ninja Warriors, The, Electrocoin (UK)". The Arcade Flyer Annal . Retrieved 12 April 2021.
  4. ^ a b Crash, Issue one.ninety, folio 52.
  5. ^ a b Your Sinclair, Consequence i.90, page 91.
  6. ^ "D28B-0001 | The Ninjawarriors -G.Southward.M. TAITO 1". VGMdb. Retrieved 2013-10-xx .
  7. ^ "PCCB-00074 | The Ninja Warriors". VGMdb. Retrieved 2013-10-20 .
  8. ^ "PCCB-00116 | Ninja Warriors Complete Album". VGMdb. Retrieved 2013-10-xx .
  9. ^ "ZTTL-0024 | Z-REPLICA Vol.1 DADDY MULK THE NINJA WARRIORS". VGMdb. Retrieved 2013-10-twenty .
  10. ^ "ZTTL-9016 | The Ninja Warriors arrange sound tracks". VGMdb. Retrieved 2013-10-20 .
  11. ^ "Playstation Store -- Arcade Archives: The Ninja Warrior". Retrieved 2018-09-05 .
  12. ^ "Ninja Warriors Again for Switch officially titled The Ninja Warriors: Once Again, launches worldwide in 2019". Retrieved 2018-09-05 .
  13. ^ a b ACE 27 (December 1989).
  14. ^ Amiga Activeness v (February 1990).
  15. ^ Amiga Computing Vol ii No 9 (February 1990).
  16. ^ Amiga Format half-dozen (January 1990).
  17. ^ Computer + Video Games 94 (September 1989).
  18. ^ a b Smith, Andy (11 August 1988). "Extended Play... The Ninja Warriors (Taito)". Your Sinclair. No. 33 (September 1988). p. 27.
  19. ^ a b c The Games Machine 26 (January 1990).
  20. ^ The Games Machine 28 (March 1990).
  21. ^ a b Zzap 57 (January 1990).
  22. ^ a b Kelly, Nick (vi May 1988). "Arcades: Ninja Warriors". Commodore User. No. 54 (June 1988).
  23. ^ CU Amiga-64 (December 1989).
  24. ^ Mega eleven (August 1993), page 48.
  25. ^ "Game Car's Best Striking Games 25 - アップライト, コックピット型TVゲーム機 (Upright/Cockpit Videos)". Game Machine (in Japanese). No. 329. Amusement Press, Inc. i April 1988. p. 25.
  26. ^ "Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25: '88 / "Game of the Year '88" Past Game Machine" (PDF). Game Machine (in Japanese). No. 348. Entertainment Press, Inc. 15 January 1989. pp. 10–1, 26.
  27. ^ Top x Ninja Games Of All Time Archived 2011-01-28 at the Wayback Machine, CraveOnline, September 18, 2008.
  28. ^ The Height 7... Assassins Archived 2011-06-16 at the Wayback Automobile, GamesRadar, 2008-02-05.
  29. ^ "Scan of the page in question". Retrieved 2013-10-20 .
  30. ^ Workman, Robert (2011-11-twenty). "The Best Of: Video Game Ninjas". GameZone. Retrieved 2014-06-17 .

External links [edit]

  • The Ninja Warriors at the Killer Listing of Videogames
  • The Ninja Warriors at MobyGames
  • The Ninja Warriors at SpectrumComputing.co.uk
  • The Ninja Warriors - Lost In Translation @ ExoticA
  • Hardcore Gaming 101: The Ninja Warriors

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