Super hard old arcade game. I died a lot playing it, especially at the end where you drop down on the ninjas. I would have spent 50 dollars beating it in the arcade!
Yeah I died a ton too. I never owned this game but my neighbor called me and said he got this new awesome game but it’s too hard. So I went over and played it on the Turbo Graphix. Man, he was right! I am very good at video games but he found me a true challenge. I only made it to the final boss like twice but he killed me after a few seconds. I always thought the part before him when you are falling down was so difficult. I need to revisit!
When I was young, i was the only one who could finish this game in video game room. It was around mine 11 years old. Yeah , old good games like this , or Slap Fight , or Nemesis, Jackal, Whizz, Rygar , Black Tiger... memories..
Forget anything you've heard. This is the hardest platformer of all time. I'm playing with save states and I still can't even beat the third level. The amount of enemies the game throws at you is just sadistic. How anybody actually fed quarters into this thing back in the day is beyond me.
Not the first time Schlauchi plays this game I dare to say... By the way, the game is awesome, and very beautiful the allusion to the legendary Japanese wolfs and the name _Tsukikage_ (something like Moonshadow, I guess).
Body count: One metric butt-load of ninja Travelers with magic sticks Molemen with pointy sticks Hindu God Ravana Some ghost wolves and fire ghosts 10 foot tall human lizard The lord's musket army 10 foot tall Samurai with 10 foot long swords. A 10 foot tall ninja (I thought these guys were supposed to blend in?) Normal height samurai Mason blocks The turban ninja special forces synchronized kite riding team for the olympics More turban ninja special forces riding kites in training to replace the first team you killed. Giant samurai twins with crippling leg injuries and arthritis. Ghosts of the ninja you killed before. The 50 foot tall Buddhist practitioner of Sokushinbutsu (Mummifying yourself while alive)
--Probably NOT Ravana; he was a rakshasa, not an asura. The boss is NAMED just Asura, so we probably won't get a more specific name. --The samurai "twins" (quite a few more than two) are Ochimusha, same as the original ten-foot-tall ones. Not arthritic, but undead. --You missed the initial form of the Big Bad, the Blind Priest. First shows up escaping your judgement at the beginning, confronts you when you enter the final stage...and is defeated with no real fanfare, because his REAL body is that twisted sokushinbutsu at the bottom of the chasm.
One of those games where you’re the boss, what a classic. I just wish they’d remake this with modern day graphics. The concept and overall storyline of Ninja Spirit is perfect🙌🏾
I've played the TurboGrafx 16 version and to see the Arcade version is awesome! I hope to live long enough to see a sequel (hopefully the sane side scrolling version and not a FPS style game).
I can't believe that music bug. The guy at Irem made a full song for the final boss that got replaced with the regular boss music. That wasn't supposed to happen.
@@deceiver444 The way "Omen, Part 2" was composed would have had it crest right when the fight with the Dai Sokushinbutsu begins. Oddly, the error was replicated in the PC-Engine version; I guess the composer decided that "Kessen"/"Bloody Battle" worked better in some way?
And I thought the PCE/TG16 version was brutal. The arcade version must have been a serious quartermuncher back in the day. The game looks gorgeous with that unmistakeable Irem color palette and art style.
This game was visually gorgeous, and still looks so damn good today (2019), unfortunately it was insanely hard! Actually you could never been hit cause then you would die and loose all your power-ups made it impossible to continue without any boost! It is a pity they made it so frenetic, chaotic and difficult!
Every Irem game was insanely hard, almost impossible on coinops but if you spent hundred of dollars. legend of hero Tonma is almost impossible on the last levels.
Levels give you enough powerups so you get to the boss with most of them. The game is hard but we have enough farming sims today, so this is fresher than ever.
Clearly has cheats enabled, should have died over a dozen times. Crazy thing about this game is how hard it gets after you die trying to get back all the power ups - this is just a steam roll through
That final stage is a deathtrap, poison gas everywhere, samurais on crack, and that monk in the intro that serves as a miniboss. And if that wasn't bad enough, the damn drop into the boss chamber with dozens of ninjas holding their sword up trying to skewer you. I still can't figure out if they were flying up to meet you, or you're just falling past them, although that would mean they would have to somehow been able to hover in midair. There is a definite pattern, but no indication to it until you either get lucky or died a few times to memorize the safe spots
Yeah because on the Turbo just physically touching them gets you killed although you have a few hit points most enemies kill you with one touch. I really really hated the last stage with those Ninjas while you're falling lol
Not gonna lie. I was not expecting the main ninja character to turn into a werewolf after defeating the Grim Reaper final boss at the end of the arcade game.
I think he's supposed to be an okuri-oukami, a benevolent wolf youkai. I'm guessing the Blind Priest was trying to make him into a plain oukami/inugami bringer of ruin.
Do you guys know, i played the pc engine version and i didn't knew that you can switch the powers by pushing the select button.. i had to beat the game with sword and sword only. The ninjas right before the final boss are immune to the sword attack. But i still managed to beat the game after using countless continues. And i thaught this as the HARDEST GAME EVER PLAYED!!!! pst.. if someone reads the comment, i chalange you to try the same in any version
Not many people could finish this game at the local arcade. That was the way you learned how to play the game without spending a lot of quarters or tokens, so I never was able to finish the game. I was only able to finish the first stage. Lot of people could finish Blacktiger/Blackdragon or Shinobi, but not this game.
A master cheater perhaps, I don't know why he/she would pretend to jump and dodge when it's obvious they've turned on invincibility. Take 16:12 for example, that contact with the poison gas would have been fatal but it's not, there are few more notable examples too throughout the video
Maybe you may help me. I was looking for an old Japanese arcade game (circa 1988/90). It was somehow similar to Cadash in terms of gameplay and graphics. You control a ninja able to shoot shurikens and charge the attacks by keeping the attack button pressed. During the game you power-up this skill to the point of being able to cause earthquakes. Any idea about the title? Thanks in advance.
16:49 That appears as far as I go! A single touch form them will kill you! By the time anyone figures out, it will not matter! Edit: Wait, I made it past those one touch one shishkabob ninjas.
Some time it was better spend money in the arcades than buy the game for 8 bits or amiga and st computers from that time, i have seen amiga version and looks good.
![Black Tiger [Arcade] - Full Game Playthrough (no cheats)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Is3DWj2IXrc/mqdefault.jpg)
![Arcade Longplay [1033] Lightning Swords](/img/1.gif)
a timeless classic, it's hard to believe that this game is 30 years old.
Wow it is hard to believe it’s 30 years old. Such a classic and the music is phenomenal
Fantastic art, somehow missed this one back in the day. Love the flairful amalgam of Rygar, Kage and Ghosts'n Goblins on display.
Super hard old arcade game. I died a lot playing it, especially at the end where you drop down on the ninjas. I would have spent 50 dollars beating it in the arcade!
Yeah I died a ton too. I never owned this game but my neighbor called me and said he got this new awesome game but it’s too hard. So I went over and played it on the Turbo Graphix.
Man, he was right! I am very good at video games but he found me a true challenge. I only made it to the final boss like twice but he killed me after a few seconds. I always thought the part before him when you are falling down was so difficult. I need to revisit!
I know right. I died a lot of times playing that game. I haven’t finished the game too.
Finally found its name. Thank you !!! Took me months.
This game's atmosphere is intact three decades later
Like for real. STILL FAVORITE game
Irem had such talented pixel artists
When I was young, i was the only one who could finish this game in video game room. It was around mine 11 years old.
Yeah , old good games like this , or Slap Fight , or Nemesis, Jackal, Whizz, Rygar , Black Tiger... memories..
Forget anything you've heard. This is the hardest platformer of all time. I'm playing with save states and I still can't even beat the third level. The amount of enemies the game throws at you is just sadistic. How anybody actually fed quarters into this thing back in the day is beyond me.
What a beautiful game. Irem does it again. This looks waaaay harder than the turbo grafx version.
Not the first time Schlauchi plays this game I dare to say...
By the way, the game is awesome, and very beautiful the allusion to the legendary Japanese wolfs and the name _Tsukikage_ (something like Moonshadow, I guess).
Body count: One metric butt-load of ninja
Travelers with magic sticks
Molemen with pointy sticks
Hindu God Ravana
Some ghost wolves and fire ghosts
10 foot tall human lizard
The lord's musket army
10 foot tall Samurai with 10 foot long swords.
A 10 foot tall ninja (I thought these guys were supposed to blend in?)
Normal height samurai
Mason blocks
The turban ninja special forces synchronized kite riding team for the olympics
More turban ninja special forces riding kites in training to replace the first team you killed.
Giant samurai twins with crippling leg injuries and arthritis.
Ghosts of the ninja you killed before.
The 50 foot tall Buddhist practitioner of Sokushinbutsu (Mummifying yourself while alive)
Oh my gosh it's worse than a war bulletin! But actually you nailed the situation in this game! Freaking insane!
--Probably NOT Ravana; he was a rakshasa, not an asura. The boss is NAMED just Asura, so we probably won't get a more specific name.
--The samurai "twins" (quite a few more than two) are Ochimusha, same as the original ten-foot-tall ones. Not arthritic, but undead.
--You missed the initial form of the Big Bad, the Blind Priest. First shows up escaping your judgement at the beginning, confronts you when you enter the final stage...and is defeated with no real fanfare, because his REAL body is that twisted sokushinbutsu at the bottom of the chasm.
Not sure how this game hasn't had a remake. Either as a side scroller, or immersive 3D environment. What a beautiful game.
Man used to play this in Mr Video, next to Clapham Common tube station back in the day. Great memories!!
One of those games where you’re the boss, what a classic. I just wish they’d remake this with modern day graphics. The concept and overall storyline of Ninja Spirit is perfect🙌🏾
Insanely difficult back in the day, i barely made it to the 4th stage.
The PC Engine port of this was fantastic.
you mean superior? then, yes. i find the games ported to the console to have better sound quality.
YO that music is BANGIN 🎶👌
I've played the TurboGrafx 16 version and to see the Arcade version is awesome! I hope to live long enough to see a sequel (hopefully the sane side scrolling version and not a FPS style game).
I can't believe that music bug. The guy at Irem made a full song for the final boss that got replaced with the regular boss music. That wasn't supposed to happen.
How do you know that ?
@@deceiver444 The way "Omen, Part 2" was composed would have had it crest right when the fight with the Dai Sokushinbutsu begins. Oddly, the error was replicated in the PC-Engine version; I guess the composer decided that "Kessen"/"Bloody Battle" worked better in some way?
And I thought the PCE/TG16 version was brutal. The arcade version must have been a serious quartermuncher back in the day. The game looks gorgeous with that unmistakeable Irem color palette and art style.
This game was visually gorgeous, and still looks so damn good today (2019), unfortunately it was insanely hard! Actually you could never been hit cause then you would die and loose all your power-ups made it impossible to continue without any boost! It is a pity they made it so frenetic, chaotic and difficult!
Every Irem game was insanely hard, almost impossible on coinops but if you spent hundred of dollars. legend of hero Tonma is almost impossible on the last levels.
Just play the Turbografx/PC Engine version instead. You can take up to 5 hits in that version and it is a great port.
I just downloaded this for the switch and I remember it being so difficult but fun to play!
Levels give you enough powerups so you get to the boss with most of them. The game is hard but we have enough farming sims today, so this is fresher than ever.
Amazing game, ages better than fien red wines. Atmosphere was awesome throughout
Tengo depresión, pero meubiera gustado vivir y morir como un shinobi
Pro Cheat longplay - Pause at 12:36 exact... you will see how he got touched by sword but still not die.
Clearly has cheats enabled, should have died over a dozen times. Crazy thing about this game is how hard it gets after you die trying to get back all the power ups - this is just a steam roll through
From the point of view of a person who is used to playing this game, it is very disappointing that the use of invincible cheats is exposed.
That final stage is a deathtrap, poison gas everywhere, samurais on crack, and that monk in the intro that serves as a miniboss. And if that wasn't bad enough, the damn drop into the boss chamber with dozens of ninjas holding their sword up trying to skewer you. I still can't figure out if they were flying up to meet you, or you're just falling past them, although that would mean they would have to somehow been able to hover in midair. There is a definite pattern, but no indication to it until you either get lucky or died a few times to memorize the safe spots
Cheating? at some points I believe he got hit like 14:00. still good to watch though.
Yeah because on the Turbo just physically touching them gets you killed although you have a few hit points most enemies kill you with one touch. I really really hated the last stage with those Ninjas while you're falling lol
It was/is a true Irem game. For some reason it reminds me very much of Metal Slug
Not gonna lie. I was not expecting the main ninja character to turn into a werewolf after defeating the Grim Reaper final boss at the end of the arcade game.
I think he's supposed to be an okuri-oukami, a benevolent wolf youkai. I'm guessing the Blind Priest was trying to make him into a plain oukami/inugami bringer of ruin.
Do you guys know, i played the pc engine version and i didn't knew that you can switch the powers by pushing the select button.. i had to beat the game with sword and sword only. The ninjas right before the final boss are immune to the sword attack. But i still managed to beat the game after using countless continues. And i thaught this as the HARDEST GAME EVER PLAYED!!!!
pst.. if someone reads the comment, i chalange you to try the same in any version
Loved this arcade game will have to try and get it"
Not many people could finish this game at the local arcade. That was the way you learned how to play the game without spending a lot of quarters or tokens, so I never was able to finish the game. I was only able to finish the first stage. Lot of people could finish Blacktiger/Blackdragon or Shinobi, but not this game.
IREM MAKE ALOT GOOD GAMES
Would be great to get my hands on a copy of this.
This game is awesome. It's like Legend of Kage, but good.
collision is off :)
hahah yes
the hardest game ever made
18:04 tfw your owner has an epileptic seizure and can't feed you
Schulauchi is a master
A master cheater perhaps, I don't know why he/she would pretend to jump and dodge when it's obvious they've turned on invincibility. Take 16:12 for example, that contact with the poison gas would have been fatal but it's not, there are few more notable examples too throughout the video
that last fall... how? just... how? it doesn't look predictable
Almost sounds like Shinobi
I don't know if all of his runs are tool-assisted/cheated but I still can't help but laugh every time I see "Played by: SCHLAUCHI"
So you're telling me I go through hell and killed buttloads of bad ninjas, only to be trapped in the body of a wolf? Life is so unfair.
Tsukikage was ALREADY a wolf spirit. He was just taking the form of a shinobi killed by the Dai Sokushinbutsu.
Is there any chance to see another Zeewolf Lonplay ;) since the old one is 7 years old.
ofc it wasnt a request ^^ i know how that stuff works ;) It was just a simple Question. Thanks for answering though
*EPILEPSY WARNING AT THE END*
were you playing with invincibility cheat on?
PC Engine hangs very well with the arcade version.
Next time specify that you are using a hack in your video, its obvious af.
At 14.01 slow it down, it seems a knife goes straight through him!
Maybe you may help me. I was looking for an old Japanese arcade game (circa 1988/90).
It was somehow similar to Cadash in terms of gameplay and graphics. You control a ninja able to shoot shurikens and charge the attacks by keeping the attack button pressed. During the game you power-up this skill to the point of being able to cause earthquakes. Any idea about the title? Thanks in advance.
Sounds like Ninja Kazan to me
16:49
That appears as far as I go! A single touch form them will kill you!
By the time anyone figures out, it will not matter!
Edit: Wait, I made it past those one touch one shishkabob ninjas.
SFX sound very similar to the genesis, same sound chip?
Finally
Some time it was better spend money in the arcades than buy the game for 8 bits or amiga and st computers from that time, i have seen amiga version and looks good.
17:49 good thing there was an epilepsy warning
At least the Arcade has a Real Ending lol
This Gameplay is FAKE In the sixth stage you are using immunity.
No cheating, the wall must be built.
@@Arbaal They use save states. This game is almost impossible to complete without dying hundred of times and some collisions are just doubtful...
@@saporob As stated, the wall must be built.
VOMITADAMENTEULTRAMALDITO DE IMPOSIBLE AUN EN EL NIVEL 1
Los dos primeros niveles estaban faciles. El problema es desde el tercero.
Invecibility cheat I guess? There are some moments touching the enemies (normally you die).
ScareScraper Totals of F4 19:53 Penguin Toad
its pretty obvious that you are using an invincibility cheat here.
Floor 4 (Dark-Light Level 2) 15:00
The White Wolf, eh? Where's the Witcher for a team-up between him and Tsukikage?
Console soundtrack was so much better!
진짜 개잘하네
that was sweosme
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Floor 4 Failed!
minuto 13:49 estas muerto !! eres un fiasco!!
GAME OVER All Players Fainted! Floor Reached F4
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I and the Father are One John 10.30
Hey add me to clan pls
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