15 Obscure, Weird and Bad Games From the '80s Ninja Boom | Kim Justice
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Between TMNT, Michael Dudikoff and Sho Kosugi, ninjas were everywhere in the 1980's. Thanks to this, we got some great games! And some really not great ones. If you want to see Ninjas riding around on BMX's, Scooters and Surfboards, various Ninja Turtles rip-offs and various other bits of obscure computer ninja weirdness, you've come to the right video. Enjoy!
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How many of these not very well known Ninja titles have you had the pleasure of playing? Was it upsetting for you? The Kim Justice team would like to hear from you.
The 80's was one of the biggest reason why I was obsessed with ninjas. Please stay with us, Kim. Your videos are awesome.
if you want to know more about the nija craze and some other martial arts frauds theres an excellent channel 'thepinkman' - he's done some amazing funny mini docs on these phenomena from the 80's and 90's - also stuff about very early ufc!
@AllBoxingTalkAndNews - thepinkman pulled all his videos down a few months ago unfortunately. His series on serial bullshitter Frank Dux was brilliant.
@@Ben-xl7ft wtf? he was a bit mental tho...
Nina by Mastertronic. Wow. A classic. Have it on the Commodore 64 and I've completed it , I am pretty sure. I like how the knife only make a hit if the tip makes contact with the enemy. A little bit of strategy there. Ow, and the sword. Great animation. Awesome.
I used to regularly spend ages browsing Spectrum games in my local shop armed with 1.99 or 2.99 in shrapnel. However the first time I saw Ninja Scooter Simulation I knew there was no need to browse further.
Robin ah the days you could buy a game at the corner shop with spare change.
@@sargonsblackgrandfather2072 PS2 collecting is great right now. Just got SSX3 for £1.50. The bargains are still out there.
Trivia you may already know: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles rip-offs flooded the comic book industry in the late 1980, before the comic was a cartoon, movie, or videogame. People saw how TMNT became a huge hit despite being printed in black and white on crappy paper and suddenly there were dozens of comics with names like "Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters." This was particularly annoying because TMNT was a parody of Frank Miller's Daredevil and Ronin comics, and these rip-offs were selling themselves as parodies of a comic that was already a parody.
I heard from somewhere that Power Pachyderms was a TMNT ripoff made by Marvel themselves; if true, then they parodied someone who was parodying them, they literally created a parody of a parody of their own comic.
@@handsomebrick EC Comics did something slightly like this. Mad Magazine was so popular that there were many knock-off competitors hitting the market (including, of course, "Cracked"). So, EC decided to produce their own Mad knockoff called "Panic." This pissed off Harvey Kurtzman, the main creator of Mad, so when he left the company they got the guy who did "Panic" to take over Mad Magazine.
@@noneofyourbusiness4616 That is hilarious, and probably intentionally to boot, I love that.
"Games that can be completed in less than 5 minutes" seems like a great idea for an episode.
The Genesis version of Dark Castle, the Amiga version of Savage, Two Worlds, Shackled...
how about ninja golf on Atari 7800? It came out in 1990 though.
That's a really fun game! Only discovered it last week, but I've been having a lot of fun with it. A really fun twist on Kung Fu Master.
This is litterally an article I did in my book :D
LARRY!
@@burntreynolds1068 He doesn't talk to me anymore, in fact he only wrote once more after the interview to call me "trolling stupid"
omfg, Ninja Scooter Simulator made be laugh. I always wanted a simulation of those real life Ninja Scooters.
Kai Temple on the ZX Spectrum comes to mind which I'd place in this list.
I had the misfortune of buying that one. God, it was awful, especially those parts where the game just decided to flip the screen upside down when you least expected it.
I remember a really slow and stodgy game called Ninja Master that had appalling digitised speech on the C64
KingofPotatoPeople you have qualified
Being an American, I didn't have these microcomputers growing up, so it's always fascinating to me to see what I missed out on; the good, the bad, AND the ugly. Thank you for all the hard work you put into these videos.
Very proud to have a copy of Ninja scooter simulator for the speccy on me self. Me and me mate use crack up on how random it was. Shame all those other Ninja games never saw the light of day.
Ninja Pacman, Advanced Ninja lawnmower simulator,, Horace goes to Ninja school, Jack the Ninja, Ninja Willy, Ninja ending story,, Manic Ninja and we'd all like to have played Auf Wiedersehen Ninja.
Ninja scooter for the Amstrad was a great, fun game.
2:40 I was Hoping... LITERALLY HOPING that if this was going to feature Oddball Ninja Games that NINJA HAMSTER would appear... MY PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED! (Side note, I was TERRIBLE at this game but I ALSO LOVED IT!)
Ace vid - what a time it was to be a young lad in the video rental shop with his dad on a Friday night, shelves resplendent with Horror, adventure and martial arts video covers staring back at you. Meals on Wheels, Armour of God and other Jackie Chan flicks were a regular treat!
Ninja Scooter tip 'just go straight to complete' reflects the total lack of play testing back in the day :)
Avenger by Gremlin Graphics on the C64 was excellent. I persevered with that game to completion without cheats.
Avenger was a great game! I had it on my MSX. It was based on The Way of the Tiger series of adventure game books.
".... Why would they crack it otherwise?" Oh, you'd be surprised. They even cracked type in games! It was all about being the first to crack whatever.
From what I heard, they'd even crack games before they were actually released somehow. That's how we ended up with the prototype of the Amiga version of Pac-Land which is totally different from the final release.
The Simon Wai prototype of Sonic 2 also originated from a pirate cart
Always quite liked Avenger on the Speccy back in the day although I never realised the map was so frustratingly huge!
Yeah, you really need a map to complete that one. I would never have done it without using a map from some magazine back in the day.
I actually liked that Mastertronic "Ninja" game. The BGM is catchy on the Atari and still OK on the C64.
The Atari ST version is decent too.
Ahhh yes. When ninjas fight, they only come at the hero one at once. For bonus points they should be prancing about in an odd way while waiting.
I loved playing through Ninja Massacre. I got it on the Quattro Combat tape that had 4 games on it.
fun fact: in the movie surf ninjas: when the younger brother is supposedly playing the surf ninjas game gear game, you can clearly see the cartridge is actually "columns"
yes, i owned it as a babychild and watched it many times because my mom wouldn't let us watch any violent movies.
fun fact 2: she had no problem with us being allowed to play Doom on our PC.
Ninja boom, does this imply that it's now over? Why does nobody tell me these things😭
It's never over. NEVER! I am going to watch American Ninja: The Annihilation. My girl thinks it's Netflix and Chill tonight but it's actually NINJA TIME
Absolute gold, well done Kim. This has really cheered me up.
BMX NINJA WHERE ARE YOU?!
Now do the good ninja games vid - stuff like Saboteur, Avenger and of course The Las Ninja!
@Lassi Kinnunen she...shes a she now. Just a heads up mate. Before you get all the sjws attack you for an innocent mistake over a few letters they declare as 'violent' if got wrong. Deadly serious.
@@orderofmagnitude-TPATPGrow up mate.
Haha I knew that ninja scooter would be in here lol
BMX Ninja Gang, where you at?
Here !
I got Ninja Scooter Simulator for my birthday one year on the Amstrad. I seem to remember the entire game being set at night and being able to do tricks like spinning jumps. I think I really enjoyed it.
If I was a ninja I'd be a Master BMX Bionic Ninja who defended the supermarket, just like my heroes. \o/
Oh man, the 80s ninja boom. :) At one point I had seen EVERY ninja and ninja related movie from our local VHS rental shops. :)
I can vividly remember International Ninja Rabbits from my local computer shop. Always used to look at it and wish my dad would buy it. He never did and seems like he made the right call haha. Great video.
I could listen to your voice all day, Kim Justice. Thanks!
I had (and i think still have) ninja massacre for the spectrum. I seem to remember i really liked it back in the day. I will have to get it out again and see if it still holds up.
spodula I love the sound track to that game, CpC 464
Indeed, that time on the Amiga was fantastic to be alive in. It is true that the Amiga hosted many fine games that still echo through the halls of time as classics. But it also played host to mountains of nasty crud like this. Really takes me back...
At 10.46 the ninja seems to have extremely dangly balls.
Speaking of Ninja games, ever heard of the Taito arcade game The Ninja Kids? A pretty fun even if maybe too "simple" beat them all 4 players game.
Ahh Shoot 'em Up Construction Kit. I wish I still had my copy of Robocop & Terminator vs Ninja I made on it. Hours of fun making the game.
Regarding CD32 Surf Ninjas, I personally find myself fascinated in licensed games that clearly don't give a fuck about the source material. Rambo for the NES and Dragon Heart for the Game Boy are sort of similar in that regard.
Ninja (Mastertronic) is very good game for 1986. Although fighting is lacking, variety of weapons, moves and exploration made it very enjoyable. And the music is excellent, especially on Atari 8 bit!
It is fair to say that I have absolutely no recollection of the particular delightfully insane games mentioned here...it is fair to say that back in the day I preferred to play shoot-em-ups or platformers that did not involve having to punch anything. I think that by and large, back in the day, playing any kind of beat-em ups involved sometimes dubious collision detection, whether or not hardware sprites were involved, or even if whatever bitchen' custom graphics architecture was employed in the good ol' days of proper arcade machines. Basically, if I had a spaceship that could shoot stuff at other spaceships, then the chances of besting the enemy was mostly reliable. As a side note though...thinking of the later years of true Bullet Hell, like Raiden and such...where...were...the...WINGMEN? What insane dictator could elect to spend whatever insane amount of capital on building so many adversaries, many of them taking up an entire screen (esp. with the later Raiden & such games)...why would such a dictator do that, if there was just one aircraft that was taking on his entire military resources? And also give out free weapons upgrades along the way...WHYYYYYYYYYY? It is Friday, and I am happy.
Really enjoyed this :-) my first thought was, predictably trio the punch. I tried to complete it on mame once but the save state ended up getting corrupted, the second player was a ninja who i think was the best character, and you fight ninja's alot in game anyways good list!
I just added a type-in game by Adam Waring to the spectrumcomputing website (eventually), School's Out! Great to see he kept on coding :)
Bwilliant video. Bwings back alot of memowies. Thank you!
"Stoik"
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a lot *
Damn Kim what’s your intro music from? It drives me crazy every time.
Its great isn't it. I asked before but didn't get a definitive answer.
@@pappachook A lot of the intro is from an old VHS intro for some kids TV releases I think. I know I had some tapes with it on, but I can't remember which ones they were sadly.
I think I read it's a BBC thing from back in the day. I don't remember it personally though
It is the BBC Video intro music , well one of the versions. So when you have played an old BBC show on your VHS back in the day, that's where the memory comes from!
Its the 1980s BBC home video ident.
The Speccy Ninja Scooter Simulator isn’t too bad!
I remember making my own "games" with Shoot Em Up Construction Kit
Furthermore, are there enough games for the Amstrad PCW for you to do a video on? If you need help I'm sure p5ychofox could point you in the right direction!
I remember asking my mum for a copy of The Last Ninja on my C64 one Christmas. She got me that Ninja game from Mastertronic.
It was pretty good to be fair, for a budget title anyway.
I saw 80s ninja boom and gave a thumbs up :)
...i'll watch it all next lunch break :)
The American Ninja series of films were bloody hilarious to watch (not sure if subsequent games were ever made).
great video, i must admit i really loved ninja scooter simulator on amstrad when i was a kid... the music was amazing too haha
Shadow Knights was great. The controls were tight, the level design was great for the time and it was just hard enough to give you a good challenge without becoming frustrating. One of the first PC games I beat as a kid way back when.
yknow what was a good ninja game? Mercenary wars on the gameboy. loved it as a kid. nice video :)
Ninja spirit at the arcade was fantastic!
Death stars? Throwing death stars?.... Shuriken or throwing stars!
Love your intro music and clip so much I subscribed don’t know how it’s made but it’s spot on nostalgic greatness
Codemasters' games all seem to have that weird vibrato tone in their music.
Thanks Kim, excited about this!
Unfortunately I played most of these vaguely related Nija games in the Speccy. Completely forgot about Bionic Ninja which wasn't that bad for the time. I don't think I ever paid 7.99 for them like you did with the Ninja Rabbit game.
I did buy Kung Fu Master though at full price 😞
I liked Ninja scooter simulator on the speccy as a kid.
Probe were also responsible for the ST and Amiga ports of Outrun, the less said of which the better.
Ninja attack looks a lot better game than almost the rest of the games.
Top video as usual. Only remember a few of these.
After feeling rather let down with Ninja, Ninja Scooter Simulator, BMX Ninja and Ninja Hamster on my Speccy, I was pleasantly surprised with Ninja Massacre! And it was cheap too!
Although I still don't know why I kept on buying games with the word ninja in them after the first four I got were a bit shit... :P
The only one on the list i have played is Ninja on Commodore 64😀
I remember playing Ninja Rabbits and International Ninja Rabbits on the PC. Believe it or not I kind of enjoyed the latter game. Thought it had nice graphics. Of course, the graphics where pretty much the only saving grace, the gameplay was horrible. The ninja rabbits game was bought on the EDOS label, a forgotten in-store duplication system that could be seen as the Steam of the early 90’s. Maybe fancy covering EDOS some day?
The character is Johnny. JOHN MCCLANE. 26:50
I was thinking of the indie Evel Kneivel game Joe Danger this evening right before watching this.. Ironic one of these you presented seemed almost like an earlier version of it.. Synchronicity
I remember finding International Ninja Rabbits on a shovelware CD with "martial arts" games. Most of the games were horribly limited, and only demo of MK2 and MK3 could provide you some fun... that is, if you could find another player. So I've played way more Ninja Rabbits than a even a bored kid should. Now I think, if that was a demo of the game, or maybe the publisher just put the whole game on the disc, not caring about it's legal status. Good times... [edit] also, just checked, Ninja Rabbits and it's sequel, International Ninja Rabbits, was developed by Flair Software, devs behind Dangerous Streets, Elvira: The Arcade Game and Oscar!
80s Ninja Boom would make an excellent band name
It's a shame that it missed out by being released in 1990, but Ninja Golf for the Atari 7800 would be an absolutely inspired choice as an obscure and weird 'Ninja' game.
It shouldn't work on paper at all but it's actually a very enjoyable game that mixes up elements of Kung Fu Master and a standard golf game. Haha!
7:57 Which button summons the angels?
Great video but could have done with a bit more Ninja
Great video, very poetic ending!
You should please review Ninja Shadow of Darkness for ps1
The 1990 Ninja game from Black System on the CPC was actually a Public Domain game that was first released as a type-in listing. Their authors published many games this way. However, a compilation for the laziest people who didn't bother to type all the DATA lines was released, hence this is why you claim having downloaded a cracked version.
These videos are fascinating & funny, you're very good at making them :) Thanks
Shame you missed out Saboteur and saboteur II from Durell soft. One of the best specy games there was.
you had me at weird and obscure
No mention of Ninja Golf on the Atari 7800? Ninja games don't get much wackier than that.
5000 dollar?!? For making a whole game!?!?!?
Ninja-riffic!
1:00 the entire population of America (or even unBritain) gets triggered by the word Hero instead of Ninja appearing in that logo, Yes, my coloiniasl cousins, the Mother Country was required to refer to the turtles as the Teenage Mutant *Hero* Turtles because Aunt Mary thouht the word Ninja would corrupt the innocent British youth (we were also the country who used to cut out Bruce Lee's scene with the nunchuks from Enter The Dragon, probably to prevent football hooligans turning up at matches with nunchuks of their own)
Ninja Scooter Simulator...
Jim Sterling: You see?! Even back in the olden days of the Zed Ecks Spectrum they had simulator games.... and they were shit back then too!
And I really would love to see the Game Grumps play some microcomputer games!
The main character of Surf Ninjas couldn't look more like John Cena if it tried.
No Ninja Golf? I think it was on the Atari 7800. :o)
I actually loved the original ninja rabbits, or it's the non international one
never been that in to ninjas.
Great vid Kim, really enjoyed it :)
Hero Turtles? Wtf never heard of that one before
Shadow Knight what a great old game programmed by the best of the best. I never played it back then but wish I had. I’m going to try and find the source code.
BMX Ninja...
BMX’s and Ninjas together in a game? SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!
Just starting vid. You better feature Ninja Master on C64. So bad.
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great video!
International Ninja Rabbits is a sequel for Ninja Rabbits, but not much different, although the original had an awful DOS port. Check out my review of it: retrofreakreviews.com/2017/04/15/ninja-rabbits-review/
Ninja golf... 😄
You sound like Terry Jones.
Go watch the movie Eliminators. It's the Citizen Kane of movies with a ninja
Do brits pronounce stoic as stoyk? I thought it was stoh ick. But wtf do I know?