Evereyone is "Oh Ryu is cool" and whatnot, but no one talks about the old Japanese boat rower, that old man took Ryu by boat from Japan to the US and back and just rowing.
Same! When I got the NES version, I was hoping for some kind of similarity or at least a beat em up type. But the NES version turned out to be a difficult platformer. In time, I learned to appreciate it. I love the arcade and actually bought the cab almost 20 years ago dirt cheap.
My mom's car caught fire by the mall. So me and my friend waited for a ride at the arcade. Had about $10. We almost got the end and ran out of coins. The last seconds of countdown some dude came over and gave us a full handful of quarters to finish this game. It was so cool putting our initials In the high score, and coming back for months to check in on it!
So the NES Ninja Gaiden was a pretty serious tale, while the arcade version is...Ryu Hayabusa goes to America, beats people up and does random shit? Also shoutouts to the Pillar Men
Guess taking down a cult that wanted to either rule or destroy the world according to Nostradamus' prophesies isn't half bad either; it set Ryu up to better handle the real insanity in later games (and I'm not talking about the overall difficulty.)
I would have loved to be present for the briefing on this ninja mission. "SO RYU, WE HAVE A JOB FOR YOU" "I'm listening. " "SO YOU ARE TO TRAVEL FROM TOKYO TO NEW YORK. IN A ROWBOAT. "Uh huh" "NOW YOUR DESTINATION IS ACTUALLY MUCH FURTHER WEST THAN NEW YORK. BUT WE'RE SENDING YOU TO NEW YORK TO START WITH THEN SEND YOU BACK IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION. BECAUSE WHY NOT?" "I see." "NOW THERE IS AN ENTIRE ARMY OF MUSCLE CLAD BADDIES WHO ALREADY KNOW YOU'RE COMING AND WILL RELENTLESSLY ATTEMPT TO KILL YOU. THEY'RE EASY TO SPOT SINCE APPARENTLY THEY ALL SHOP AT THE SAME COSPLAY STORE." "Gotcha" "NOW YOU WILL BRING YOUR SWORD..." "Naturally. " "BUT YOU ARE NOT TO USE IT AND WE EXPECT YOU TO DISPATCH THIS ENTIRE DEATH SQUAD WITH YOUR BARE HANDS." "Makes perfect sense so far." "NOW YOU'RE BEING TIMED..." "Of course I am." "...WHILE OPERATING IN BROAD DAYLIGHT WITH ZERO STEALTH IN NINJA GARB THAT WILL MAKE YOU STAND OUT LIKE A SORE THUMB..." "Loving this plan." "...AND YOUR FINAL OBJECTIVE IS TO TAKE OUT A TWELVE FOOT TALL CULT LEADER WHO CAN BENCH PRESS A BUICK AND CARRIES TWO GIGANTIC SWORDS WHILE YOU YOURSELF HAVE TO FIGHT WITH YOUR BARE HANDS." "I see." "WOULD YOU LIKE TO HEAR WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF YOU'RE CAPTURED?" "And ruin the surprise?"
I love how this series managed to adapt itself well between the NES games, the Xbox games, and this one while having their own distinct identities and reasons to play them.
Thank you for the trip down memory lane. I'm from NyC and used to see this in the Astor Place barber shop as a kid. Nostalgic af. Never got to play it through so this is fantastic
He probably got his bankroll from the jewels in the stage before after going to a pawnshop. Then he ran it up to pay the bill at the time. And the stacks of chips make for welcoming folks in Vegas😂
Holy shit I would never have guessed Ryu had the guillotine throw going back this far. That's some straight dedication to character consistency on Tecmos part.
Man I sooooo miss the 80s Dude your a bad ass.....I haven't played since it was in the arcades(yes kids we had this place called a arcade where many cabinet games you could play for a quarter to fifty cents) I couldn't get past the 2nd stage.
Played this in an arcade with my grandpa when i was about 5 and it had the craziest graphics (ninjas with huge biceps). The game over screen was so scary at the time but i would have kept putting quarters in if i had the money.
Never even got far on mame, forget about the arcade at age 7-10. some of these enemy designs are creepy af. The blonde swamp guy with extra abdominal muscles is..unnerving
Yep, this game even had the run up the wall into a helm splitter (when you have the sword). It's cool seeing how Team Ninja adapted some elements from the series when they were designing the 3D reboot.
This takes me back to being a kid! The Arcade version of Ninja Gaiden was SO much better than the Nintendo version but they both hold their rightful place in 80’s awesomeness and nostalgia! 🔥🔥
The first Ninja gaiden game this was one of my favorite arcade ever. I think I first played it in 1988 in the local pizzeria. We never got a home console version of this. Blue Ninja/ Red Ninja.
@@apap1586 Correct, in Europe and Australia 'Ninja Gaiden' was called 'Shadow Warriors' , so the Amiga version is probably overlooked a lot when searching for it. And ofcourse the Amiga was far bigger over here than it was in the US.
@@apap1586yeah, the Commodore Amiga was a computer, not a console. Big in the UK, and presumably Europe too, but not nearly as mainstream popular in the US as the NES was.
31:55 We have now come full circle. Sadly, that means this is where we must part, but I hope you will return to play again some day. A wave of the hand now, and as the curtain falls I am gone. Lowering my head, I dream that I am home. Until we meet again, Sayonara.
You could play if you really wanted to within the next 5 minutes.. Emulators abound, MAME rom easy to find. Get a bluetooth controller and voilà. You could play even in your phone.
Oho, nicely done! Glad to see the influence on Itagaki's 2004 game noted! Yeah, that last 1UP (stage 6-2) feels like a sadistic joke on the designers' part. edit: or maybe a L2P? "You don't wanna rely on getting this one, buddy!" 😎
This is one of my favorite arcade games. With the revival of beat em ups, I always thought that a modern, ultra gory take on this would be good. Like, build in a sword swing into the 3 hit basic combo. This game gets slaughtered compared to the NES variant, but as an arcade game, it was great for its time. Think it won arcade game of the year in the US in 88.
This an awesome game! At the beginning of every stage, Ryu jumps right through the screen and the screen literally breaks. That exact scene is actually my WhatsApp profile pic! 😊
It’s actually called Ninja Ryukenden, which means “Story of the Dragon Sword Ninja”. I guess the renamed it “Ninja Gaiden” in the States to tie it into the impending NES release.
My favorite way to play this game (and 64th Street) is to go out of my way to break every possible background object. Probably not the best idea if you're going for a no-death clear though. I think my best game was stage 5.
I forgot how tiny his legs are in that first cutscene! I wonder if it was a ram issue or something, cos they otherwise got the proportions fine in the game itself...
You can tell the design team was Japanese. A ninja rampaged through US cities without a single gun being fired at him. _Clearly_ not a team familiar with the country.
I remember this game. Didn’t the arcade have a needless button on top of the joystick that you hit in order to jump up on the crossbars and stuff like that?
I remember that. I think I thought this was just a Shinobi game when I was a kid and didn't connect it to the story of trying to save Ryu's father, Joe.
Can't tell if you're just making a joke, or actually going for a spot of antisemitic trolling, given that your profile pic is literally Jesus being crucified. If it's the former, rock on, but if it's the latter, you should educate yourself, because the hexagram has been used by multiple religions over the millenia, and has seen occult usage too. Per Wikipedia: "The hexagram, like the pentagram, was and is used in practices of the occult and ceremonial magic and is attributed to the 7 "old" planets outlined in astrology. The six-pointed star is commonly used both as a talisman[7] and for conjuring spirits and spiritual forces in diverse forms of occult magic. In the book The History and Practice of Magic, Vol. 2, the six-pointed star is called the talisman of Saturn and it is also referred to as the Seal of Solomon.[8] Details are given in this book on how to make these symbols and the materials to use. Traditionally, the Hexagram can be seen as the combination of the four elements. Fire is symbolized as an upwards pointing triangle, while Air (its elemental opposite) is also an upwards pointing triangle, but with a horizontal line through its center. Water is symbolized as a downwards pointing triangle, while Earth (its elemental opposite) is also a downwards pointing triangle, but with a horizontal line through its center. Combining the symbols of fire and water creates a hexagram (six-pointed star). The same follows when combining the symbols of air and earth. Both hexagrams combined are called a double-hexagram. Thus, a combination of the elements is created."
Evereyone is "Oh Ryu is cool" and whatnot, but no one talks about the old Japanese boat rower, that old man took Ryu by boat from Japan to the US and back and just rowing.
IKR? Talk about a iron man.
and not even to USA west coast but the east coast
@@JLH111176 You're right, LOL
@@roderickroberts9917 I would had been more afraid of the Old man than of Ryu
@@EternalRoman for real.
I remember the great ninja infestation of the 1980s. Every big city was just crawling with them. It was a rough decade.
We were tough back then.
I remember bro. It was nuts. Even turtles were doing ninjutsu.
With insane weapons and in every color imaginable
White house was no exception
@@mjorge0alves I remember two Bad Dudes saved Regan from ninjas back in those days. And they were not afraid of sloped roof tops.
I miss the good 'ol days of fighting bodybuilders in hockey masks on the roofs of ice cream shops.
It was a special time.
or you know....wh_te ninjas.🤷🏽♂
That throw felt amazing as a kid. I remember being disappointed in the NES version at first. But then it grew on me.
Same! When I got the NES version, I was hoping for some kind of similarity or at least a beat em up type. But the NES version turned out to be a difficult platformer. In time, I learned to appreciate it.
I love the arcade and actually bought the cab almost 20 years ago dirt cheap.
Haahh!!
I loved this game!!!
My mom's car caught fire by the mall. So me and my friend waited for a ride at the arcade. Had about $10. We almost got the end and ran out of coins. The last seconds of countdown some dude came over and gave us a full handful of quarters to finish this game. It was so cool putting our initials In the high score, and coming back for months to check in on it!
I love a happy ending to a tragic story. Big props to the dude with the quarters!
What a Chad.
Ahh, yes the classic strategy of waiting for the enemy to come down to your level.
After decades, only today did I realize that the music playing in the second stage bosses is Iron Man by Black Sabbath.😲😲😲
IIIIII AMMMM LUCKYYYY RABBIIIIIIIT
So the NES Ninja Gaiden was a pretty serious tale, while the arcade version is...Ryu Hayabusa goes to America, beats people up and does random shit?
Also shoutouts to the Pillar Men
Love nes ninja Gaiden 1 and 2. Better gameplay and style than the arcade.
Like go to casino and clown house and stuff lol!!
Guess taking down a cult that wanted to either rule or destroy the world according to Nostradamus' prophesies isn't half bad either; it set Ryu up to better handle the real insanity in later games (and I'm not talking about the overall difficulty.)
Ain't got time to sit through 5 minute cutscenes at the arcade! There's some goon with a roll of quarters right behind you!
That damn continue screen used to give me nightmares as a kid. Scared AF!
Ryu is such a jerk beating up all those Jason cosplayers at Comicon.
'Akebono, Lord Humongous, and The Road Warriors join a death cult and do the J-O-B to a pair of ninjas' is something only the 80s could provide.
I would have loved to be present for the briefing on this ninja mission.
"SO RYU, WE HAVE A JOB FOR YOU"
"I'm listening. "
"SO YOU ARE TO TRAVEL FROM TOKYO TO NEW YORK. IN A ROWBOAT.
"Uh huh"
"NOW YOUR DESTINATION IS ACTUALLY MUCH FURTHER WEST THAN NEW YORK. BUT WE'RE SENDING YOU TO NEW YORK TO START WITH THEN SEND YOU BACK IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION. BECAUSE WHY NOT?"
"I see."
"NOW THERE IS AN ENTIRE ARMY OF MUSCLE CLAD BADDIES WHO ALREADY KNOW YOU'RE COMING AND WILL RELENTLESSLY ATTEMPT TO KILL YOU. THEY'RE EASY TO SPOT SINCE APPARENTLY THEY ALL SHOP AT THE SAME COSPLAY STORE."
"Gotcha"
"NOW YOU WILL BRING YOUR SWORD..."
"Naturally. "
"BUT YOU ARE NOT TO USE IT AND WE EXPECT YOU TO DISPATCH THIS ENTIRE DEATH SQUAD WITH YOUR BARE HANDS."
"Makes perfect sense so far."
"NOW YOU'RE BEING TIMED..."
"Of course I am."
"...WHILE OPERATING IN BROAD DAYLIGHT WITH ZERO STEALTH IN NINJA GARB THAT WILL MAKE YOU STAND OUT LIKE A SORE THUMB..."
"Loving this plan."
"...AND YOUR FINAL OBJECTIVE IS TO TAKE OUT A TWELVE FOOT TALL CULT LEADER WHO CAN BENCH PRESS A BUICK AND CARRIES TWO GIGANTIC SWORDS WHILE YOU YOURSELF HAVE TO FIGHT WITH YOUR BARE HANDS."
"I see."
"WOULD YOU LIKE TO HEAR WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF YOU'RE CAPTURED?"
"And ruin the surprise?"
@@joekerner2020 excellent explanation of Ryu's East coast to West coast beat down tour!😂🤣😂🤣
I love how this series managed to adapt itself well between the NES games, the Xbox games, and this one while having their own distinct identities and reasons to play them.
These guys from tecmo were black sabbath fans wow. Amazing gameplay I have never seen nothing from this game so far
They just straight up put The Road Warriors in the game lol. ruclips.net/video/b56iK4WNGr4/видео.html
91 this was in a corner store, blew many quarters, always got love for it.
Thank you for the trip down memory lane. I'm from NyC and used to see this in the Astor Place barber shop as a kid. Nostalgic af.
Never got to play it through so this is fantastic
Wise Ninja 🥷 Say "better to swing from pole than sit on it".⛩️
uhh... wut?
Ryu looks so dope in his pink suit playing roulette.
He probably got his bankroll from the jewels in the stage before after going to a pawnshop. Then he ran it up to pay the bill at the time. And the stacks of chips make for welcoming folks in Vegas😂
He also knew the wheel well enough to make sure he didn’t break the bank and attract unwanted attention from casino managers 😂
Holy shit I would never have guessed Ryu had the guillotine throw going back this far. That's some straight dedication to character consistency on Tecmos part.
Fun arcade game but it kicked my ass when i first played it when i was 9 years old.
It was brutal on the nes
@@brianmeen2158 true, but it was i had fun playing it, because the music was soooo good.
6:52 Totally-Not-Iron-Man
Loved this in the arcade! Just found it in the ps store.
good times playing at the arcades the continue give me chills and nightmares as a kid thinking about that buzzsaw coming for u
I like how it captures the BQE in New York City; that's a real highway I 278.
Dude I loved this game ...and the arcade superman game, and the Amazing spiderman arcade game, Shinobi arcade game, Bad dudes arcade
Man I sooooo miss the 80s
Dude your a bad ass.....I haven't played since it was in the arcades(yes kids we had this place called a arcade where many cabinet games you could play for a quarter to fifty cents)
I couldn't get past the 2nd stage.
Played this in an arcade with my grandpa when i was about 5 and it had the craziest graphics (ninjas with huge biceps). The game over screen was so scary at the time but i would have kept putting quarters in if i had the money.
The Amiga conversion was absolutely great. The music was an upgrade from the arcade too.
Never even got far on mame, forget about the arcade at age 7-10. some of these enemy designs are creepy af. The blonde swamp guy with extra abdominal muscles is..unnerving
I love how the throws in this game kinda served as the basis for Ryu's modern-day guillotine throw. Now *that's* attention to detail.
Yep, this game even had the run up the wall into a helm splitter (when you have the sword). It's cool seeing how Team Ninja adapted some elements from the series when they were designing the 3D reboot.
This takes me back to being a kid! The Arcade version of Ninja Gaiden was SO much better than the Nintendo version but they both hold their rightful place in 80’s awesomeness and nostalgia! 🔥🔥
It was a rare gem of quality 🥰
Never been passed that little casino area…
I remember playing this at Happy Joes Pizza in Iowa in 91 ❤🙏
Oh i remember This game, it's so tough.
This game was hard AF when I first played it at Van Dyke Sports Center at 8.
The first Ninja gaiden game this was one of my favorite arcade ever. I think I first played it in 1988 in the local pizzeria. We never got a home console version of this. Blue Ninja/ Red Ninja.
There was an Amiga version; the music of which was awesome. (look up Shadow Warriors Longplay (Amiga) [50 FPS] ).
@@Asphodellife probably was in Europe. I'm from the United States so we probably didn't have that counsel. Over here it's called Ninja gaiden..
@@apap1586 Correct, in Europe and Australia 'Ninja Gaiden' was called 'Shadow Warriors' , so the Amiga version is probably overlooked a lot when searching for it. And ofcourse the Amiga was far bigger over here than it was in the US.
@@apap1586yeah, the Commodore Amiga was a computer, not a console. Big in the UK, and presumably Europe too, but not nearly as mainstream popular in the US as the NES was.
31:55 We have now come full circle. Sadly, that means this is where we must part, but I hope you will return to play again some day. A wave of the hand now, and as the curtain falls I am gone. Lowering my head, I dream that I am home. Until we meet again, Sayonara.
That flying judo throw was clutch.
Well, now I understand why there is a "Ninja Karaoke" not far from the Plaza Casino in Las Vegas.
IM FROM BRITAIN BOUGHT PCB JAMMA BOARD FOR THIS TO PLAY ON SUPERGUN BACK ABOUT 20 YRS AGO STILL HAVE IT NOW ALL BUBBLED WRAPPED UP.
Before his 2D adventures, his time in Dead or Alive, or his X-Box gauntlet, Ryu Hayabusa was a beat-em-up Chad.
I never realized how much different this arcade game was from the NES version
Other countries thinking everyone in the U.S. walks around looking like Jason Voorhies😂😂😂😂
A sumo wrestler popping out a viking bar lol. i love this game.
That music is so metal 😊
I miss these being part of the Ninja Gaiden remakes.
One of my favorite games
Music in Round 3 is Awesome
Ryu skinning the cat on those beams!
The beautiful days
I wanna play this so bad
You could play if you really wanted to within the next 5 minutes.. Emulators abound, MAME rom easy to find. Get a bluetooth controller and voilà. You could play even in your phone.
Oho, nicely done! Glad to see the influence on Itagaki's 2004 game noted! Yeah, that last 1UP (stage 6-2) feels like a sadistic joke on the designers' part. edit: or maybe a L2P? "You don't wanna rely on getting this one, buddy!" 😎
This game was telling Shinobi to hold its Sapporo.
90s hand drawn, superior to 2030 🤖 👾
This one was the first arcade I finished at one coin only. Ah, memories...😊
This is one of my favorite arcade games.
With the revival of beat em ups, I always thought that a modern, ultra gory take on this would be good. Like, build in a sword swing into the 3 hit basic combo.
This game gets slaughtered compared to the NES variant, but as an arcade game, it was great for its time. Think it won arcade game of the year in the US in 88.
Now I gotta play this on the switch
Well…that’s what happens when you let sumo wrestlers into Viking bars…
This an awesome game! At the beginning of every stage, Ryu jumps right through the screen and the screen literally breaks. That exact scene is actually my WhatsApp profile pic! 😊
You must be an actual ninja!
It’s actually called Ninja Ryukenden, which means “Story of the Dragon Sword Ninja”.
I guess the renamed it “Ninja Gaiden” in the States to tie it into the impending NES release.
My favorite way to play this game (and 64th Street) is to go out of my way to break every possible background object. Probably not the best idea if you're going for a no-death clear though. I think my best game was stage 5.
7:00 Legion of Doom
24:24 27:24 Pretty nice Pillarmen references!
I can't wait for the movie to come out! I wonder who they'd cast in it...?
The ‘Road Warriors’ being stage 2 bosses😂
The enemy uses masonic imagery and are lead by John Calvin. Well done Japan.
Programmers of arcade have own hell
I’d love to have a bowl or cone full of IceCeCrem.
I never knew this existed.
Sure looks like Ryu was trying to beat some WWF Superstars to win a championship belt.
Bruh he killed the Splatterhouse guy
I forgot how tiny his legs are in that first cutscene! I wonder if it was a ram issue or something, cos they otherwise got the proportions fine in the game itself...
Anyone else notice they were driving on the wrong sides of the road?
Never seen the arcade version and don't care for that but love the NES Ninja Gaiden I, II and III.
You can tell the design team was Japanese. A ninja rampaged through US cities without a single gun being fired at him. _Clearly_ not a team familiar with the country.
I find it funny there is a street light woth a sign underneath it in the mountains with no road😅
The level 4 music sounds like Keith Emerson wrote it
I remember this game. Didn’t the arcade have a needless button on top of the joystick that you hit in order to jump up on the crossbars and stuff like that?
I remember that. I think I thought this was just a Shinobi game when I was a kid and didn't connect it to the story of trying to save Ryu's father, Joe.
But his death scene is the coolest part…….
Right? The continue screen is iconic. I think he should've ended the video with one death in a different run, just to show it off.
Thanks
Cool they made an arcade game based on the classic NES game.
Ryu gunna clean up san fran 😅 good needs it
0:45 - Ryu thiccccc. Bwahahahahaha
Does this mean Ryu Hayabusa is a Joestar?
Ryu had beef with Dio from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure?
A música do segundo chefe parece "iron man" do Black sabbath 😁🤘
Shadow Warriors
how about some of that ICE CE CREAM
Mermaid men with twelve packs?
This is one of those times when the NES version is better than the arcade version.
Está en dificultad fácil, me acuerdo que hace treinta años solo se jugaba con 2 barritas de energía y dos vidas
También me acuerdo que la máquina solo tenía dos botones y había que llegar con vidas al lago para poder pasar al menos con una vida
1面クリア後の寿司屋での挿絵 違和感ありすぎ
あの格好で、、シュール
Last boss got a Star of David rug - trying to say something? Lol
Can't tell if you're just making a joke, or actually going for a spot of antisemitic trolling, given that your profile pic is literally Jesus being crucified. If it's the former, rock on, but if it's the latter, you should educate yourself, because the hexagram has been used by multiple religions over the millenia, and has seen occult usage too. Per Wikipedia:
"The hexagram, like the pentagram, was and is used in practices of the occult and ceremonial magic and is attributed to the 7 "old" planets outlined in astrology.
The six-pointed star is commonly used both as a talisman[7] and for conjuring spirits and spiritual forces in diverse forms of occult magic. In the book The History and Practice of Magic, Vol. 2, the six-pointed star is called the talisman of Saturn and it is also referred to as the Seal of Solomon.[8] Details are given in this book on how to make these symbols and the materials to use.
Traditionally, the Hexagram can be seen as the combination of the four elements. Fire is symbolized as an upwards pointing triangle, while Air (its elemental opposite) is also an upwards pointing triangle, but with a horizontal line through its center. Water is symbolized as a downwards pointing triangle, while Earth (its elemental opposite) is also a downwards pointing triangle, but with a horizontal line through its center. Combining the symbols of fire and water creates a hexagram (six-pointed star). The same follows when combining the symbols of air and earth. Both hexagrams combined are called a double-hexagram. Thus, a combination of the elements is created."
Is that the dude from Splatterhouse?
what was the point of the 2 giant swords on final boss
How'd Tecmo get away with 8bit Iron Man?
this is why no one likes Ninja's, they just show up in your city one day, kick everybody's asses, then leave.
Hawk and Animal were the L2 bosses? Lol.
0:34 忍者龍剣伝 _(Ninja Ryuukendan)_
(You won't see this type of title like this in the U.S. version.)
"Ryuukenden."