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silent_passenger

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Great a retro gamer lover!

G&G was so hard, I couldn't play too much, the arcade machine was a waste of coins :LOL:
Yes as far as I remember Shinobi was the first one. I'm remembering another good arcade ninja game
Shadow Dancer:
Oh, I remember that game! I always thought that was another Shinobi sequel but it seems it's more like a clone. :D
 

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Yeah I already have Strider thanks
I mistook your "I haven't played the reboot" for I don't own the reboot...I guess if I took every comment like that we'd all have 500 game librarys instead of thousands :LOL:
and look what I found: a Ninja Gaiden hacked rom with Leonardo from TMNT :LOL:
Leo Gaiden
Looks more like King Kong hacked with Leonardo :ROFLMAO:

I would have used Raphael personally haha.
I was looking for a Shinobi reboot and I found there was one for ps2, I missed because I didn't own that console. Don't know if is good or bad
They have Ninja Gaiden for PS3, I own it...and its horrible, pretty sure that got ported to PC. The original Shinobi was ported to PC back in the IBM era, can't say if you can still play it without an emulator or OS sandbox these days unless you have an older PC...or where to find it offhand, but I'm sure it wouldn't be hard.
WIi is great console and easy to hack too :LOL: I think you can find it for few bucks today.
The console maybe, the games are probably another story entirely like most systems heh.
Nintendo Scope. how
Thats about how it looked, except more alien lol.
I think I saw that Area 51 cover art but never seen the game itself.
I only bought it (well stole it actually) because it was fun at the arcades, with the guns of course :LOL:
I am a geek - especially when we're talking about retro gaming
Thats always welcome here my friend ;)
I think Shinobi was the first - before Ninja Gaiden or Strider. Played Shinobi in arcades quite a lot - another hard-as-hell game. Not quite like Ghosts and Gobblins, but not very far from it.
They're all hard, I think Shinobi is easier than Strider tbh, at least the modern port. Only because you get stuck at checkpoints (first boss brutalized me numerous times) and you can't go back...particularly at boss points.

I was smart enough never to bother with Ghosts and Goblins at an arcade, I played it for NES before I found it with an insert coin on the screen :ROFLMAO:
G&G was so hard, I couldn't play too much, the arcade machine was a waste of coins :LOL:
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Shadow Dancer
Part of the shinobi series actually.
Oh, I remember that game! I always thought that was another Shinobi sequel but it seems it's more like a clone. :D
Is is, I was just reading the wiki for a reboot.
Just checked on Wiki - that is in fact Shinobi sequel.
N/M lol.
Thanks for the GA(s)

Shit luck as usual since I only enter one or two ever haha.
I wonder how using the gyro on a joycon to emulate a lightgun/wiimote would fare. :unsure:
You just said go read 5 more wiki pages.

A gyro on what to emulate how? :LOL:
 

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They have Ninja Gaiden for PS3, I own it...and its horrible, pretty sure that got ported to PC
 

WhatNitrous

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Held hostage vic? :LOL:

Ya, thats the one (y)
Another good old ninja game i played on Atari :

Thats not Ninja technically, I owned it for NES and I've seen it as a GA from Gala too so I know its on PC in some form or another. Arcade collection or standalone game I'm not sure, tried like hell to win it, along with Burger Time :LOL:
 

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Fair enough.
Technically, the game ported perfectly, runs fast, loads instantly, controller support, achievements, etc... But the game itself is an example of how someone can generally not understand what they are doing. Let's leave the visual part aside, what can you ask for from a game that didn't make it to the Dreamcast? But the terrible camera, bad controls (they just don't understand why the right stick is needed), plus the high difficulty, which requires not only skill (because everyone can and should be killed with one a+x combo), but mainly because everything done crookedly and annoying. Also the idiotic save points that are placed randomly, there is no logic here at all and it's especially maddening that even though the game is clearly divided into levels there is no save between them and you can suffer a lot and kill a boss and then stupidly fall into the pit at the beginning of the next and repeat from the previous level again. Good game, I hate it so much.
 

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Nah, man, I'm Xiaomi.
Show me :LOL:

I was honestly guessing at how it was pronounced to be honest lol.
Technically, the game ported perfectly, runs fast, loads instantly, controller support, achievements, etc... But the game itself is an example of how someone can generally not understand what they are doing. Let's leave the visual part aside, what can you ask for from a game that didn't make it to the Dreamcast? But the terrible camera, bad controls (they just don't understand why the right stick is needed), plus the high difficulty, which requires not only skill (because everyone can and should be killed with one a+x combo), but mainly because everything done crookedly and annoying. Also the idiotic save points that are placed randomly, there is no logic here at all and it's especially maddening that even though the game is clearly divided into levels there is no save between them and you can suffer a lot and kill a boss and then stupidly fall into the pit at the beginning of the next and repeat from the previous level again. Good game, I hate it so much.
I've obviously never played the version your talking about, because on NES it was a 2D side scroller and it was two buttons and a d-pad :ROFLMAO:
 

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I've obviously never played the version your talking about, because on NES it was a 2D side scroller and it was two buttons and a d-pad :ROFLMAO:
In fact, Sigma is a continuation of the NES trilogy (plus the spin-off Dead or Alive). but the connection there is very difficult to find with the naked eye. At least they tried to transfer to 3d enemies. And they managed to make a good spin-off on the DS with an interesting approach to control, you have to play by holding the DS vertically, like a book, and methodically destroy enemies and the touchscreen with a stylus.
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this one is good.
 
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