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I have tried several times to enjoy the Arcade Ninja gaiden and just can't. I don't find it fun at all. Its got really nice graphics and a great continue screen. But I just can't have fun with it. And to me there has yet to be a better Ninja Gaiden game then NES 1 or 2.
This is probably my favorite oldschool arcade beatemup. Very underrated and sadly outshined by it's console counterpart. I was furious when the NES version hit and it was a different game. My friend tells me he has ninja gaiden, one of my faves at the time, and then he fires it up, and it's a shonobi rip-off. Yup, I'm still bitter.
I really don't see how NES Ninja Gaiden is a Shinobi rip-off. Aside from both being side-scrollers, they look and play nothing alike.
I liked the arcade game but it's not on my favorite beat 'em ups list and the NES games blew it away. I think Tecmo Knight is better as far as Tecmo beat 'em ups go.
Shinobi was merely a Rolling Thunder ripoff anyways. :)
And I'm grateful the NES game didn't take after the arcade one. Instead of getting a sup-par port of a ho-hum game, Tecmo made one of the best action-platformer series ever. Ladies and Gentlemen, everybody won in that situation.
I wouldn't use the word "merely". Shinobi is 100x better than the original Rolling Thunder. ;)
The original Shinobi is one of my favorite arcade games of all time. But it's pretty obvious it borrows heavily from Rolling Thunder, even if it does improve on the formula along the way.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater
I'm not denying the similarities in gameplay.
I didn't really care for the first Rolling Thunder but I loved the sequels.
Shows how much Frogacuda knows. Ninja Gaiden for the NES plays nothing like Shinobi. If anything, they were ripping off Castlevania (same gameplay system and everything).