I was so good at it that used to have a crowd behind watching my gameplay. Sometimes, if l died towards the end, an older guy (teenager) would drop a coin in to keep me going. Those sweet moments...
Well you need to know that i was one of those guys whod get out 25 crnt coin so that whoever was advancing would still keep on going. My curiosity to see other chapters, graphics and enemies was too much. So wouldn't mind doing that since i wasnt as accurate as other dudes.
Haha. My 17 yo son was just watching me play this and he was saying how my games are lame because we can't play online with people. I was trying to explain to him what an arcade was like and how it was social. I didn't explain it very good and he didn't get it. I should have him read your comment. That would help.
@@riggel8804 And there wasn't much trash talk because you were playing right next to your opponent. So if you did say something, you were gonna have to step outside and settle it. Most people just took their loss and the walk of shame.
@@goodhumourwagon , actually, my crew talked a lot of shit. We were absolutely brutal. We had a Street Fighter 2 belt with an oversized buckle on it that that weekends winner would get to wear all week to facilitate trash talking. We never got physical over it. It was fun.
@@Ghostmaker-c4u It’s precisely because you need to ‘Die and retry’ to learn the patterns that it makes it a difficult arcade game = a game that would viciously swallow your money. An easy game is one where you could reach the end with only 3 credits as soon as you start
I had the highest score in my home town. I could special nearly every round.. one of the few arcade games that held onto the high score (at least in our arcade).
Denmark, aalborg in the late 80s. I had to siphon coins out of my pops piggybank to go play at the arcade. He only caught me once :) Loved this game to no end.
@@jeffdoyle Yep, me too. Testament to the design of the game. Even after you figure out how to clock it, it still keeps you coming back to figure out how to special as many rounds as possible.
My uncle used to take me and his then girlfriend to the cinema here in São Paulo like in 92 or 93. I was like six and remember that he used to beat this with 1 or 2 credits. He is 56 now, I showed him this and he told me that he discovered emulators like 8 years ago and still play this and some other arcade games from time to time. What a legend.
The arcade cabinet I used to play this on as a teenager was so freakishly loud. When you used the 'Ninga Magic' you had to prepare yourself. I miss low rent, scruffy coin-op arcades and all the noises and social bustle that came with them. It was so much fun beating someones score only to come back a few weeks later to find you'd been usurped and then have to try and beat their score again. A lot of the time you'd never even met the people on the scoreboard but it was great knowing that when you came back you'd still have top spot... for a while. (I do understand I sound like an old bastard... I only feel 35!)
Those were the best days! Those pizza shops! I spent so many quarters on Karnov, Forgotten Worlds, Mario Bros, Strider, Ghouls n Ghosts, Rush n Attack, Super Hang On, OutRun. I could stand for hours and watch a good player beat difficult bosses.
+Man Beadle Nowadays there's online leader boards and online multiplayer. Quite a few of these classic arcade games have been ported to more modern systems. The arcade Shinobi was ported to the PS3 and Xbox 360 on the Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection. Granted it may not be the same kind of experience that you would get in a real arcade but at least the modern console ports of these arcade classics are closer to arcade game than the ports on the systems of the time.
For me it was this game and the NeoGeo machine. But for the NeoGeo, probably because I was so tall I was right next to the speakers. And I use to play a lot of games and see how far I could get with one quarter without continues. Had a friend that spent a roll of quarters in Sengoku to get the high score and didn't even finish the game. Next week I beat it on one quarter and took down his score. He was a little pissed.
I remember when this game's speakers would blast my ears in the arcade whenever I used a magic attack. In looking back, this was the first arcade game that hooked me.
Timeless classic! Amazing soundtrack, very challenging, good graphics and fun gameplay. The way a video game it should be. There is an idea in the game which i really like a lot. If u spend all your lifes in the last level, the game ends, which means that you have to start from the beginning, no matter if you have credits or not.
WOW. This brought back a lot of after school memories at the liquor store dumping whatever quarters I could find to play this, and Bad Dudes next to it.
Tengo casi 50 años, pero este juego me remonta a mi ciudad Antofagasta, Chile, a....1988!!! jajajaja, fui uno de los primeros de la ciudad que lo terminó. Qué buenos recuerdos. Aguante Arcade!!!!
+TheCodedtestament I still remember i was like 10 years old when i play it first time i died all 3 lives in the first level. Then i mastered it up without shooting !
I was 8 year old in 1987. I learned about this video game Shinobi after my dad took me to Coney Island, it was there that I've learned about this game and it was later ported to the Sega master system and I immediately begged my dad to buy this game for me. I still have this game in my possession and it has great sentimental value.
+Reggie Rodriguez i was 9 in 1987 i didnt start playing this until a year later i played the crap nintendo port of shinobi and you can tell it was unfinished by the look of it i unlocked this on the sega genesis collection on PS3 and i downloaded it on the wii as well its been almost 30 yrs since this game came out...
referral madness The next time youre on here on youtube in the search engine type in "shinobi nes playthrough"the crap port that came out for the nes was tengen it was a unlicensed game by the look of the game it basically looked unfinished....
Trying to pass any stage without using a projectile takes great skill. I tried it, its extremely difficult I did it once on the first stage. Whoever is playing this game is a straight up master!!
The easiest stage to beat without using a projectile is the the stage right before the 2nd boss with the scuba gear ninjas. I can beat 4 stages consistently without using projectiles. The first stage and the scuba gear ninjas stage is definitely the easiest to beat
Man... I freaking Love,love,love this game! Because as a kid the bonus theme kept clicking in my head over and over and over until I got a MP3 player and I downloaded the bonus theme so whenever I felt like listening to it.... I can! Thank god for MP3 devices
Finishing the whole game without throwing any star was possible only mele hits with right positioning ! Each round you got 10k extra points for this ! My uncle owned an arcade games spot in the late 80s me and my brother killed this game for at least one year. One of the greatest games ever !
I used to be able to clock this with one life and get 100% on all the bonus rounds. Loved this game. There's also a much faster way to cheese the final boss.
Honestly I am thoroughly impressed by these graphics. A lot of these game I mostly knew from the nintendo ports, and clearly they didn't match up. I guess I'd forgotten the fact that Arcades were king and home consoles just tried to to their best to get as close as possible.
+ninji522 A time when there was something called an arcade. Home consoles would either try to be as close as possible or do a kind of game that you wouldn't see in an arcade. A time when PC gaming was very different from console gaming.
Ya well- NES was “Pretty Good For Home Electronics in 1983” but time quickly passes by. Also arcade games aren’t as near as cost sensitive as consoles so they have lots of ROM space for big colorful sprites
Played this as a kid in the late 80s. They had it in the student center in college where I finally beat it! I was able to get it on my laptop at one point, but let’s face it. Not the same. Loved this game and really miss those times!
Great memories going to the laundermat/gas station and playing this or just plain watchin other kids play the game because I sucked and mi mom didn't like me hoggin all the quarters. Everything in life was fascinating in the 80s. Even a visti to a shitty little gas station was fun. Nowadays you hardly absorb anything in life.
Gas stations, 7-11’s, laundromats, anywhere where they at arcades, we were there all day playing and eating Doritos and drinking Dr Pepper. 80s were indeed the best ever. 😞
my dad was playing this in the 80s with his friends and now he has taught me how to play I remember when I was a kid I was surprised how he knew everything, all the patterns and stuff
I can remember being addicted to this Arcade game. It wasn't quite the same when it came out on the consoles a couple of years later. You soon got bored of it. Now I come to think about it, I haven't seen Arcades here in the UK for a long time. They used to be in the sweet shops where the we would meet after school to compete against each other. I guess the authorities took the decision that this was a bad influence on kids.
Modern computers/consoles killed off Arcades. Most urban arcades were heavily gambling machine oriented in the first place and those that do still exist are usually 100% gambling. Seaside resorts retain large numbers of arcades, but the percentage of video game cabinets in them has dropped significantly with most being gambling machines, coin pushers (with tickets and prizes in) and grabbers and the like.
5:16 - Classic OST. Great memories with the good ol' quarters based arcade machines. Man I miss those days. “Mission One - Finish. Welcome to Bonus stage.”
in mame i could finish it with 1-2 lives in extreme hard....... once i found an arcade with the shinobi in the list. i started it.... finished it after....35 minutes..... with one credit and when i stood up i saw over 20 kids starring at me ..... like something amazing.... priceless....
Agree. I came here to listen to it again, after probably 20 years since l heard it last. I could still remember some of it. It's also the game's intro song.
As a Kid I used to daydream about going to the arcade to play this game. With how advanced game mechanics are today, I truly wonder why I used to struggle with such a simple game back then! LOL
I feel you becouse of great games like GTAV,but as for my opinion it is the only game i played the most until this day =) the soundtrack is also on my mp3 too.Witch is mega awesome! much respects King
@King I can think of other games that are far better than this game. The Ninja Warriors for example, or even Shinobi 3. But this is a good game. However saying the best game ever... That's going to be subjective.
I was completely hooked on this arcade game, I remember when I'd get frustrated or there were people waiting to play I'd take a break & play gauntlet for awhile but I'd be thinking about Shinobi the whole time
Had the proper arcade version of this in my garage a few years back .... they was no hard or easy setting . This guys gaming wS good work and all one 1 life !!!
“As a ninja, my goal is to strike through all of my foes, not leave a single trace, and stealthily complete my mission. Which is why I brought this gun.”
This was my favorite game back in 88-89. I was 12-13 years old and was afraid of a police raid because minors were not allowed in pool halls. I thought this game was all I wanted.
I used to play this in the really early 90’s on arcades as a kid. I distinctly recall the sound of untying a hostage. That level 2 wall climber reminds me of SpiderMan.
0:29, Mission 1: PURSUE THE TERRORISTS 3:34, Mission 2: ENTER THE ENEMY'S HIDEOUT 6:53, Mission 3: ATTACK THE LOGISTIC BASE 13:50, Mission 4: DESTROY THE ENEMY NINJA GROUP 18:18, Mission 5: DEFEAT THE BEHIND-THE-SCENE NINJA
I still remember the first time i played Shinobi .. The arcade near the habour in Ramsgate in England, july 88 😀 Fkin hell i spent piles of cash on that game, even when i went back to Denmark again 😄
Mind blowing gameplay, impressive genius. I liked that too much! He played very well and I appreciate his game mechanics and style and attitude. Plus..no mention of any name in the end of game, humble. No outro, simple! pure best!
In the crappy PC/DOS version, you can only bump an enemy 3 times before YOU die. If that was the case in the arcade, this dude would have never beaten it...
@@OlJackBurton: The only thing that interests me about the PC/DOS version of _Shinobi_ is the OST remix by Tony Williams, which sounds even better to me than the original composition from Yasuhiro Kawakami.
Kids from the same age of mine were annoying at the arcades. They were around me and watching me playing this, and eventually asking me to use the "rayaaaaaah power" (LOL). They took all my concentration on the game. Anyway, for me, it was a good childhood time!
I remember my childhood We were so excited to play it and maybe I have seen the first 3 or 4 missions. There is half of the game that I just discovered. How many coins into the cabinet!!! Omg
Shinobi looks like a great champion of the game how you are playing so confidently with so much confidence never taking any chance it's very difficult for me to play like this it's impossible
That is actually the exact thing that bothers me the most about this game, that he's not wearing a mask. Great game, but half the time the guy doesn't even looked like a ninja. Just a guy in pajamas with an Uzi...
"Contrary to popular belief all ninjas don't wear and bare a mask". Only the ones who don't want to show or reveal themselves publicly or to thee enemy.
If you get through the stage without using a single shuriken, you get a 20000 points bonus. The player did it in a few stages, definitely the first two.
Thanks for the upload, I travelled back in time, I almost forgot about this game. I used to skip school and play this. I remember blue and green ninjas were hard to beat back then and the music is so soothing like I am back literally. How time flies!
I remember where all the machines were located .Shinobi was in the lobby of Wal Mart where the carts were in my hometown. The 3D bonus stage was unbelievable at the time , it was the first game I remember like that .
i remember playing this game as a kid in my daycare. Went from trash to eventually finishing the game‼️ When i get my own house im adding this to my game room idc what i gotta do to get it🔥
![Shinobi Longplay (Arcade) [60 FPS]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/tyoQ7m6BGZU/mqdefault.jpg)
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I first saw this game 30 years ago, and the awesome music stuck with me ever since. Just one reason why I absolutely loved Sega's arcade games.
I love the music too did you know you can actually buy it on vinyl? I saw it on Google
SEGA, Capcom, Data East. Made some of the best arcade games.
4 years later after you posted: Shinobi's music is amazing. It's stuck in my mind since my childhood.
The Sega Master system version of Shinobi is a lot better.
@@tonyp9313 The Master System version was good but not a patch on the arcade original.
I was so good at it that used to have a crowd behind watching my gameplay. Sometimes, if l died towards the end, an older guy (teenager) would drop a coin in to keep me going. Those sweet moments...
Well you need to know that i was one of those guys whod get out 25 crnt coin so that whoever was advancing would still keep on going. My curiosity to see other chapters, graphics and enemies was too much. So wouldn't mind doing that since i wasnt as accurate as other dudes.
Haha. My 17 yo son was just watching me play this and he was saying how my games are lame because we can't play online with people. I was trying to explain to him what an arcade was like and how it was social. I didn't explain it very good and he didn't get it. I should have him read your comment. That would help.
@@victor.elkins You obviously didn't live in the 80's.
@@riggel8804 And there wasn't much trash talk because you were playing right next to your opponent. So if you did say something, you were gonna have to step outside and settle it. Most people just took their loss and the walk of shame.
@@goodhumourwagon , actually, my crew talked a lot of shit. We were absolutely brutal. We had a Street Fighter 2 belt with an oversized buckle on it that that weekends winner would get to wear all week to facilitate trash talking. We never got physical over it. It was fun.
Kids nowadays have no idea how HARD these games were. Every stage a nightmare.
Not all kids, I'm 14, I played this on an emulator, it's fun, but hard, since you can only get hurt once in the level.
These games where easy. Just learn the patterns.😂
@@IncredibleMan12308 crazy how game that use to be in a cabinet now fits on an iPhone or iPad.😂
This was not hard. Legend of hero tonma was with final boss...there was a lot pf harder games then shinobi...
@@Ghostmaker-c4u
It’s precisely because you need to ‘Die and retry’ to learn the patterns that it makes it a difficult arcade game = a game that would viciously swallow your money.
An easy game is one where you could reach the end with only 3 credits as soon as you start
My favourite game of all time...takes me bk when gaming was really fun and pure
lewis MontanA , mine too! 💯
@@burrger2007 It's a great one quarter game - when you learn everything, pop in one, and you beat it. Similar to Golden Axe.
I had the highest score in my home town. I could special nearly every round.. one of the few arcade games that held onto the high score (at least in our arcade).
Denmark, aalborg in the late 80s. I had to siphon coins out of my pops piggybank to go play at the arcade. He only caught me once :) Loved this game to no end.
@@jeffdoyle Yep, me too. Testament to the design of the game. Even after you figure out how to clock it, it still keeps you coming back to figure out how to special as many rounds as possible.
No words but simply one of the greatest classics of all time.
Ohhh really?
My uncle used to take me and his then girlfriend to the cinema here in São Paulo like in 92 or 93. I was like six and remember that he used to beat this with 1 or 2 credits. He is 56 now, I showed him this and he told me that he discovered emulators like 8 years ago and still play this and some other arcade games from time to time. What a legend.
The arcade cabinet I used to play this on as a teenager was so freakishly loud. When you used the 'Ninga Magic' you had to prepare yourself. I miss low rent, scruffy coin-op arcades and all the noises and social bustle that came with them.
It was so much fun beating someones score only to come back a few weeks later to find you'd been usurped and then have to try and beat their score again. A lot of the time you'd never even met the people on the scoreboard but it was great knowing that when you came back you'd still have top spot... for a while.
(I do understand I sound like an old bastard... I only feel 35!)
Computers are more common
Those were the best days! Those pizza shops! I spent so many quarters on Karnov, Forgotten Worlds, Mario Bros, Strider, Ghouls n Ghosts,
Rush n Attack, Super Hang On, OutRun. I could stand for hours and watch a good player beat difficult bosses.
+XTRABIG That was almost more than 3/4 of all of the fun - watching the other players and trying to beat them, or their scores afterwards :)
+Man Beadle Nowadays there's online leader boards and online multiplayer. Quite a few of these classic arcade games have been ported to more modern systems. The arcade Shinobi was ported to the PS3 and Xbox 360 on the Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection. Granted it may not be the same kind of experience that you would get in a real arcade but at least the modern console ports of these arcade classics are closer to arcade game than the ports on the systems of the time.
For me it was this game and the NeoGeo machine. But for the NeoGeo, probably because I was so tall I was right next to the speakers.
And I use to play a lot of games and see how far I could get with one quarter without continues. Had a friend that spent a roll of quarters in Sengoku to get the high score and didn't even finish the game. Next week I beat it on one quarter and took down his score. He was a little pissed.
I remember getting this for Christmas 1989, when I was 6. Probably one of the greatest moments in my life.
Did your parent buy you the cabinet bro omg I had the master system port
@@michaelmicoowoods712 I had the master system II console already as my dad got it a few years ago
Wow it really was special you lucky guy
The master system port was a really good port of this arcade classic.
I was also 6 Christmas 89 and got this!!! Wow!!!
I remember being so excited to play this arcade game when I was a kid.
Me too!
I remember when this game's speakers would blast my ears in the arcade whenever I used a magic attack. In looking back, this was the first arcade game that hooked me.
This is the best player of shinobi I've watched play. So composed! Best game ever growing up in the 80's. No phones, no interruptions. Just pure joy!
Timeless classic! Amazing soundtrack, very challenging, good graphics and fun gameplay. The way a video game it should be. There is an idea in the game which i really like a lot. If u spend all your lifes in the last level, the game ends, which means that you have to start from the beginning, no matter if you have credits or not.
I still KEEP ON playing this timeless arcade classic every now and again and at times there's nothing like it.
How to use the power???
WOW. This brought back a lot of after school memories at the liquor store dumping whatever quarters I could find to play this, and Bad Dudes next to it.
Villamor78 i remember bad dudes
I remember playing Shinobi at the VFW bar in Madrid, IA when I was a kid!
@@WuPac216 I'M BAD!!! stage clear!!
This and Double Dragon.......
Tengo casi 50 años, pero este juego me remonta a mi ciudad Antofagasta, Chile, a....1988!!! jajajaja, fui uno de los primeros de la ciudad que lo terminó. Qué buenos recuerdos. Aguante Arcade!!!!
Era uma boa época mesmo, amigo. Não era fácil terminar esse jogo...
Yo nunca pude terminarlo en Santiago Pudahuel donde la abuela elsa. Saludos
@@cout879 é verdade
This was such a great game when i played it at the arcade,when i was a kid. Still holds up very well after all those years.
+TheCodedtestament I still remember i was like 10 years old when i play it first time i died all 3 lives in the first level. Then i mastered it up without shooting !
I was 8 year old in 1987. I learned about this video game Shinobi after my dad took me to Coney Island, it was there that I've learned about this game and it was later ported to the Sega master system and I immediately begged my dad to buy this game for me. I still have this game in my possession and it has great sentimental value.
+Reggie Rodriguez i was 9 in 1987 i didnt start playing this until a year later i played the crap nintendo port of shinobi and you can tell it was unfinished by the look of it i unlocked this on the sega genesis collection on PS3 and i downloaded it on the wii as well its been almost 30 yrs since this game came out...
referral madness The next time youre on here on youtube in the search engine type in "shinobi nes playthrough"the crap port that came out for the nes was tengen it was a unlicensed game by the look of the game it basically looked unfinished....
Trying to pass any stage without using a projectile takes great skill. I tried it, its extremely difficult I did it once on the first stage. Whoever is playing this game is a straight up master!!
The easiest stage to beat without using a projectile is the the stage right before the 2nd boss with the scuba gear ninjas. I can beat 4 stages consistently without using projectiles. The first stage and the scuba gear ninjas stage is definitely the easiest to beat
I was thinking that as well..
Man... I freaking Love,love,love this game! Because as a kid the bonus theme kept clicking in my head over and over and over until I got a MP3 player and I downloaded the bonus theme so whenever I felt like listening to it.... I can! Thank god for MP3 devices
The good old days
I know right 👍👍👍
old is gold :)
NEVER COME BACK
Wish I could go back in time.
@@angeleyes79gs i miss those days
Finishing the whole game without throwing any star was possible only mele hits with right positioning ! Each round you got 10k extra points for this ! My uncle owned an arcade games spot in the late 80s me and my brother killed this game for at least one year. One of the greatest games ever !
nice of shredder and spiderman to make an entrance :)
+Ashar Pervez Tu hermana!!!
Some memory
Super Shredder...
that days where incredible
You forgot also arnold and madmax gangs
I used to be able to clock this with one life and get 100% on all the bonus rounds. Loved this game. There's also a much faster way to cheese the final boss.
I've always liked the sword and shield guy's death animation, looks like he just lost all his money on a bet.
BWAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
@@ericblue5436 that was funny XD
Excellent image 😀😀
or dumped by girlfriend
or he just finished eating but just realized he left his wallet at home
or he just missed an important bus
I used to love playing this at the arcade.
😁👍🏼
Honestly I am thoroughly impressed by these graphics. A lot of these game I mostly knew from the nintendo ports, and clearly they didn't match up. I guess I'd forgotten the fact that Arcades were king and home consoles just tried to to their best to get as close as possible.
+ninji522 A time when there was something called an arcade. Home consoles would either try to be as close as possible or do a kind of game that you wouldn't see in an arcade. A time when PC gaming was very different from console gaming.
Ya well- NES was “Pretty Good For Home Electronics in 1983” but time quickly passes by.
Also arcade games aren’t as near as cost sensitive as consoles so they have lots of ROM space for big colorful sprites
Sega Master System port was great
I remember that old arcade smell from playing this game so much, I was only 8 and I would beat this game with 2 quarters
I have this on my pc arcade classics collection and I love it to the MAX and I'll NEVER stop playing it till the end of all my time.
Iae tem como jogar no emulador do PlayStation 2 no pen drive, tô atrás dessa relíquia até hoje, no cell e meio complicado
I would play this arcade classic for nearly more than 3 hours as a kid. Fun times =)
Played this as a kid in the late 80s. They had it in the student center in college where I finally beat it! I was able to get it on my laptop at one point, but let’s face it. Not the same. Loved this game and really miss those times!
Great memories going to the laundermat/gas station and playing this or just plain watchin other kids play the game because I sucked and mi mom didn't like me hoggin all the quarters. Everything in life was fascinating in the 80s. Even a visti to a shitty little gas station was fun. Nowadays you hardly absorb anything in life.
Diversity has done a number on us. It's all but over for anything like the 80s to ever happen again.
I wish I had been born two decades earlier so I could experience it myself
Now I would only go to the laundromat or most gas stations near me if I had a death wish.
can confirm when i was a kid shinobi double deagon was all i thought of in 80s then sf2 came along fk me dead
Gas stations, 7-11’s, laundromats, anywhere where they at arcades, we were there all day playing and eating Doritos and drinking Dr Pepper.
80s were indeed the best ever.
😞
my dad was playing this in the 80s with his friends and now he has taught me how to play I remember when I was a kid I was surprised how he knew everything, all the patterns and stuff
I can remember being addicted to this Arcade game. It wasn't quite the same when it came out on the consoles a couple of years later. You soon got bored of it.
Now I come to think about it, I haven't seen Arcades here in the UK for a long time. They used to be in the sweet shops where the we would meet after school to compete against each other. I guess the authorities took the decision that this was a bad influence on kids.
Modern computers/consoles killed off Arcades. Most urban arcades were heavily gambling machine oriented in the first place and those that do still exist are usually 100% gambling. Seaside resorts retain large numbers of arcades, but the percentage of video game cabinets in them has dropped significantly with most being gambling machines, coin pushers (with tickets and prizes in) and grabbers and the like.
There are some longplays I keep watching endlessly. Shinobi is one of them, for some reason.
5:16 - Classic OST. Great memories with the good ol' quarters based arcade machines. Man I miss those days. “Mission One - Finish. Welcome to Bonus stage.”
in mame i could finish it with 1-2 lives in extreme hard.......
once i found an arcade with the shinobi in the list. i started it.... finished it after....35 minutes..... with one credit and when i stood up i saw over 20 kids starring at me ..... like something amazing.... priceless....
ioannis chalkiotis that’s like some Polk high 4tds type story bro.
ioannis chalkiotis and the medal goes to......absolute teets 😂
Only one setting in the UK I think
Did you use a time machine to find such an arcade with kids around it?
@@bormisha I think it was a mame arcade machine.
My dude!!!!! This took me back to the awesome 80’s; playing arcade games after school before heading home. Thanks for posting
...I remember them times.....absolutely the BEST!!!!
I remember when this came out back in the late 80's. It was the Ninja version of Rolling Thunder!
A great game for its time.
Mission 2 stage 2 is probably the best piece of music in any game ever
Agree. I came here to listen to it again, after probably 20 years since l heard it last. I could still remember some of it. It's also the game's intro song.
Rastan had the best arcade music ever
Que gran recuerdo.. Y pensar que lo jugué tanto que pasaba a puro golpe y espada hasta llegar a los jefes ...
Como deseo volver a jugarlo
Seeing you people reminiss about playing this game back in the day is really cool
I think it is cool how the Masked Ninja uses the ninja magics you are able to use in the game.
As a Kid I used to daydream about going to the arcade to play this game. With how advanced game mechanics are today, I truly wonder why I used to struggle with such a simple game back then! LOL
Also, I didn't realize I had gotten this far in the game. I guess I was a BOSS! LOL
Because they where really hard and ahead of there time!!!!
Playing this at the old school arcade and Bayfair mall was the best
Spider-Man always puzzled me
And his shoulder fired canon was funny
Got to play this again at an arcade in Brookfield, IL. Funny how you start to remember things after 20 yrs
This is the best game ever made period^^And Soundtrack endless fun till this day...
King
👍👍
Pretty high up there. I'm a modern gamer and I see the nuisances of this game. Well not so modern, I started with SNES...
King of Hellcore ☠ Maleakh Beatz sorry but I disagree it was good yes best ever?
I feel you becouse of great games like GTAV,but as for my opinion it is the only game i played the most until this day =)
the soundtrack is also on my mp3 too.Witch is mega awesome!
much respects
King
@King
I can think of other games that are far better than this game. The Ninja Warriors for example, or even Shinobi 3.
But this is a good game. However saying the best game ever... That's going to be subjective.
I used to chunk a few quarters just to get to the ninja star bonus. The smooth throwing action was so satisfying.
I used to play this for hours in arcade.. :)
+Doll Maker i still play this 25 years long^^
How many coins did you spend on it?
I was completely hooked on this arcade game, I remember when I'd get frustrated or there were people waiting to play I'd take a break & play gauntlet for awhile but I'd be thinking about Shinobi the whole time
Had the proper arcade version of this in my garage a few years back .... they was no hard or easy setting .
This guys gaming wS good work and all one 1 life !!!
I use to be able to flip this game on a single quarter 38 years ago, lol. A fast paced highly addictive game.
Never got to the end of it back in the day. Great music.
“As a ninja, my goal is to strike through all of my foes, not leave a single trace, and stealthily complete my mission.
Which is why I brought this gun.”
🤣🤣🤣
Sega's crowning achievement right here
Before Sonic.
Nah, too easy.
Came for the nostalgia. This was one of the first games I had on Sega. Miss those times😞
Literally stole change from my moms purse to play this as a kid, addiction is real..
I remember playing this in 2008-2010...
Memories of my childhood. =)
I used to play this so much back in days. I’m so glad I found it for the Switch.
They had it at my local fish and chip shop - would play it after school. Great fun.
Watching American Ninja 2 & playing games like this at the arcade/corner store - good times.
Man I loved the American Ninja movies as a kid! Michael Dudikoff... whatever happened to that guy?
This was my favorite game back in 88-89. I was 12-13 years old and was afraid of a police raid because minors were not allowed in pool halls. I thought this game was all I wanted.
I love this game! So many memories! So many nights playing... Thank you for share!
I used to play this in the really early 90’s on arcades as a kid. I distinctly recall the sound of untying a hostage.
That level 2 wall climber reminds me of SpiderMan.
0:29, Mission 1: PURSUE THE TERRORISTS
3:34, Mission 2: ENTER THE ENEMY'S HIDEOUT
6:53, Mission 3: ATTACK THE LOGISTIC BASE
13:50, Mission 4: DESTROY THE ENEMY NINJA GROUP
18:18, Mission 5: DEFEAT THE BEHIND-THE-SCENE NINJA
A ninja who isn't behind the scenes is probably not much of a real ninja.
@@zemxxi2765except for Joe. He runs down streets in broad daylight murdering terrorists lol
I still remember the first time i played Shinobi .. The arcade near the habour in Ramsgate in England, july 88 😀 Fkin hell i spent piles of cash on that game, even when i went back to Denmark again 😄
The music is classic.
No other soundtrack quite like this one.
Very few arcade game scores conjure up as many good, sweet memories as this one.
You need to play more arcade games
Yeah, a very fine YM2151 work.
Yep! Love it. Gives me a good nostalgic sensation!
I loved the ending music on the game. It was like a movie.
Mind blowing gameplay, impressive genius. I liked that too much! He played very well and I appreciate his game mechanics and style and attitude. Plus..no mention of any name in the end of game, humble. No outro, simple! pure best!
I NEVER knew you could "bump" enemies to death in this game.
He punches or kicks them.
This is a cheat to stop certain enimies firing
In the crappy PC/DOS version, you can only bump an enemy 3 times before YOU die. If that was the case in the arcade, this dude would have never beaten it...
@@OlJackBurton: The only thing that interests me about the PC/DOS version of _Shinobi_ is the OST remix by Tony Williams, which sounds even better to me than the original composition from Yasuhiro Kawakami.
Wth lol
Kids from the same age of mine were annoying at the arcades. They were around me and watching me playing this, and eventually asking me to use the "rayaaaaaah power" (LOL). They took all my concentration on the game. Anyway, for me, it was a good childhood time!
4:53 excelent song , congratulations
Ah, what a memories...
Joe Musashi and Mai Shiranui were the best ninjas of arcades.
19:30 oh my god, you're so mean xD
I remember my childhood We were so excited to play it and maybe I have seen the first 3 or 4 missions. There is half of the game that I just discovered. How many coins into the cabinet!!! Omg
one of the best games of arcade history and the music it's very, very good yeah!!!
Nostalgia setting in. I used to spend my summers in imperial Beach, CA playing this at 7-11
Shinobi looks like a great champion of the game how you are playing so confidently with so much confidence never taking any chance it's very difficult for me to play like this it's impossible
HOW COULD SEGA MAKE THIS MASTERPIECE IN 1987?????
Brilliant game. They had this arcade at our local swimming pool and we'd spend more time playing this than swimming.
Hey bro good game contratulations.
An absolute classic. Even though I always thought the visuals were pretty poor.
7:40 Ummm...I don’t mean to sound perverted, but ummmm...that is a rather interesting way to build friendships...
Oh I thought it was me to lol
Woo-hoo.... These games were all crazy to attract me as I was automatically pulled towards them... I just loved these games of 90's era!!!
This game is a masterpiece.
dang I remember playing this at the local Subway restaurant.. The smell of the sandwiches would always take me back to Shinobi
cool game 👍
These games had as much graphics as COD and GAT back in the day. 30 yrs and younger no laughing. The 70s and 80s babies know what I'm saying.
Awesome! Unfortunately, I keep messing up on the final boss.
This game and ninja gaiden were my fav ninja games. Brings back so many good memories
He is wearing a mask at the beginning but he's not wearing a mask in the game WORST NINJA.
he went out the house without it..
That is actually the exact thing that bothers me the most about this game, that he's not wearing a mask. Great game, but half the time the guy doesn't even looked like a ninja. Just a guy in pajamas with an Uzi...
"Contrary to popular belief all ninjas don't wear and bare a mask". Only the ones who don't want to show or reveal themselves publicly or to thee enemy.
The way you lay the SmackDown on this challenge of an arcade game is amazing
Wow, I've been looking for this game for ages. Great memories flooding back while watching. ❤
The playthrough begins to fall apart when he keeps bumping into everyone over and over again.
It’s a glitch done on purpose so that the cpu doesn’t shoot anymore fir the rest of
that stage
So satisfying to watch! I used to watch my cousin play this (he wouldn't let me play). Brings back great memories!
10:27 why killing all the ninjas without shuriken? I remember people doing this when I was a kid but never knew what was for.
If you get through the stage without using a single shuriken, you get a 20000 points bonus. The player did it in a few stages, definitely the first two.
Thanks for the upload, I travelled back in time, I almost forgot about this game. I used to skip school and play this. I remember blue and green ninjas were hard to beat back then and the music is so soothing like I am back literally. How time flies!
Esto jugaba en mi infancia 😉👍🏼
I remember where all the machines were located .Shinobi was in the lobby of Wal Mart where the carts were in my hometown. The 3D bonus stage was unbelievable at the time , it was the first game I remember like that .
Why do you keep bumping into some of those enemies?
Alex Kenderian Because they stop shooting then :xd
i remember playing this game as a kid in my daycare. Went from trash to eventually finishing the game‼️ When i get my own house im adding this to my game room idc what i gotta do to get it🔥
The King of shinobi 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Kya game thi Yaar .jb main khalta log wait krty thy..champ tha is game Ka..😥😥😥😥 missing My old Days