Ninja Gaiden for the arcade

I'm glad the NES game was better than the Arcade game.

The NES game totally owned the arcade game.

I tried playing this on MAME a few months ago when I was big into Ninja Gaiden XBOX, and I had to play some Ninja Spirit to get the bad taste out of my mouth.

The arcade game was just fucking awful. It was not a good beat-em-up, nor was it a good Ninja Gaiden. Slow, plodding, repetitive.

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Originally Posted by Kidnemo

Could you fun up the walls, flip off them, then grab the guys heads and throw them?

It's been a while...

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Nay.

This game totally rocks, but it is not humanly possible to beat the final stage.
That is all.

*Shakes his head "no" as a circular saw decends*

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Originally Posted by Shinobi128

It does have forced scrolling. The last time I played this was many moons ago when I was a kid, so I thought I would revisit the game through mame.

It is fun up until the final stage, where it just gets annoying, specifically these two bosses. What is even more annoying was the checkpoint system they used, where as if you'd die at the final boss, you'd have to go through a bunch of enemies and the next to last boss before you got the chance to fight him again. There is also the single hit deaths.

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Ah, I remember the pain well. However, it really wasn't truly single hit deaths. The enemies at that part took 3 energy units when they hit you. Of course, since 3 units was the default setting, well, you died. If the arcade operator had it set to 4 or the max 5 units, you'd survive that.

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

I'm with sleeve. This game is a classic, and I would have rather had this on the Xbox version than the three NES games. I played the hell out of the Lynx port even.

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App;es and oranges, my friend. Two entirely different games. Both good on their own merits

Those guys at the final stage of the arcade Ninja Gaiden are royal fucknuts. When the default setting is 3 HP per life and that's exactly what one hit takes off, it is Cheese Factor- a strike against it in my book. Two HP a pop wouldn't have been so bad.

Background interactivity was one outstanding feature of this- not just the running up walls but also the hanging kick. Plenty of stuff littered around the stages gets broken during each stage.

I wish Tecmo would've released a sequel to the arcade version of NG with more weapons such as Kusari-gama (sickle/chain) and the ability to grab enemies from behind Double Dragon style (this could be used to set up some gruesome attacks, like slashing an enemy's throat to finish him off).

I read somewhere it was going to be in the XBox game, so when I heard it was "just" the NES games, I was slightly disappointed. I always liked this game, even though the NES games were better.

I always believed that the NES version was originally a completely different game that was made in tandem and somehow got stucked with the same title. I really can find anything in common between the two other than the design of the first stage, the Jason-lookalikes and Bloody Malth (who vaguely resembled the last boss in the Arcade version).

With that said, I prefer the NES version myself. Mainly because the version I'm more familiar, but also because I could never get used to the Arcade version myself. It had a few good ideas, but the execution was very half-assed. I rather break neon lights on my own rather, not throw some bad guy in it with a half-assed throw.