This run is timed so precisely! No unnecessary shurikens thrown, no unnecessary enemies killed. You just ran past everything, like a true Ninja should!
I've only beaten this game once back in the 80's at a 7-11, Could never do it again and i used to play it alot. stage 4 is when shit starts getting real hard.
As a kid in the 80s,I spent like 5 bucks in quarters on the first 3 stages but that's cause the arcade I was playing at was at high difficulty cause of dip switches, which makes sense
hell yeah man. i still remember the level of amazement and hype, when i saw the bonus stage for the first time. first time i seen a video game in First-Person-Perspective. and i used to play with those little plastic ninja army men that i earned with tickets from playing skee-ball at the pizza joint/mini-golf. haha.
Wow the music the sound effects the bonus stage the moves and special powers👍🏻💯😁💥 such amazing memories and to be taken through the game was like WOW MAN such a wicked trip down memory lane 😁👍🏻😁 VIVA LA ARCADE GENERATION
I remember this in the arcade and it was sooooo damn hard! You make it look easy! Great job. I never once beat this game in the arcade and I made it to the masked man after relentless attempts only to fail every time against him lol.
Hard? Are you kidding me? LMAO! Too easy. One quarter, game finished. Maybe you should find a new hobby? I'm sorry, but this game is very, very easy. And like seriously, super easy.
@@jillianhillborn Not really. It's not one of the hardest game ever (Ghouls 'n Ghosts is a more lot difficult) but this game is not easy at all (like most arcade games anyway, except if you allow people to use as much credits as they want), especially if you want to clear it with only one life, it require some training. Someone that never played the game won't finish it easily, it'll require several attemps and it's normal). And yeah, lots of players never saw level 4 because of the level 3 boss.
@@PetSounds38 Why would it be a fake? Even I managed to one-life the game : ua-cam.com/video/7-b6FhwxQoQ/v-deo.html Compared to games like Ghouls 'n Ghosts (which is the hardest arcade game I played until now) and Toki, I would say Shinobi is quite easy. But if you saw some details, feel free to share because I didn't remember to have seen something weird in his video.
Nice to know that Mandara doesn't shoot if the statues are not far of him. I had personally notice the shoot pattern was different before all the statues dissapear so I had to wait until they leave the screen.
yeah, if you go fast enough he dont shoot, but i never really gave it much though about the distance, that makes more sense. you can also make him start shooting again if you start attacking the statues from the back side.
It can also be defeated the regular way. Definitively not on the first life (possible but very hard) but each retry in Shinobi reduce the boss life gauge of 1 hit, and it can be reduced until 5 hits max. So, at the second try, statues require 7 hits for each (instead of 8). Third try, they require 6 hits and starting from Fourth try (and the following ones), they only require 5 hits each to be destroyed.
yeah took me a lot of tries to start landing it over 90% of the time. but that was on crt, i tried doing it on a lcd tv and the input lag made it almost impossible. gonna have to re-learn it. and also the last jump of the previous stage, unto the ninja. i can only get that jump like 40% of the time now becuase of a lag.
@@HieiTF76 beating it the reg way is pretty easy. just run and jump and shoot (shooting top and bottom statues, two times), to get close to the statue and do ninja attack (so all the statues are in frame, so all get attack damage), then haul ass all the way to the left, right next to the electricy, then just start mashing jump and shoot buttons. shooting top and bottom statues.
Normally, using famous characters without permission is a pretty big no-no, however at 0:48 there's def a Spiderman cameo. He does absolutely nothing, to help, just hangs on a wall while a ninja war rages! Jerk.
Never understood why Sega never released this on the Genesis in 89 when it debuted. While Revenge of Shinobi was a great game in its own right, it did not have the arcade feel of this game. Specially given the hardware this arcade game ran on was practically what was used to design the Megadrive. It would of really showed off the capabilities of the system as being able to make an almost arcade perfect version of a very popular game at the time.
At @8:07, you can jump on the middle platerform then directly on the guardian plateform without waiting, that's how I do when I play the game. 99% of the time, he'll throw his weapon and with those jumps, you can jump over the weapon. Here's an example : ua-cam.com/video/7-b6FhwxQoQ/v-deo.html
now i do a jump from the edge (this gets the dude to throw his sword) onto the middle pillar. while in the air i shoot at his legs while coming down unto the middle pillar. then jump from middle pillar behind the flying sword. this is done in two fluid jumps, no more stopping. or you can shoot while jumping off the middle pillar, but depends on where the sword is.
Never got to really play this. I played Revenge of Shinobi and Shinobi 3. They were very different from this though. However, Shadow Dancer was much more like this, and was a ton of fun
Windows Leach, could you please help me by explaining to me how I can get this on my smart phone too? I would love to have it but don't know how to go about getting it. Would really appreciate it! Thanks!!!!
It looks easy but I can asure you it's not. Back in 2000 we had a tournament with a prize of 300$ (it was a lot of money back then) for the winner. I was 8 back then and won against 50 or so guys who were 30 y o +. Good times.
2:14 Somebody told me, that _Everything She Wants_ is everything she sees, I guess I must have loved you, because I said you were the perfect girl for me; Now I'm six months older, and everything you want and everything you see, Is out of reach, not good enough - I dunno what the hell you want from me!...
Porque está programado así. Seguramente Sega quería que la última misión fuera un "todo o nada" donde sin importar cuantas fichas/continues te queden, si perdías todas tus vidas, el juego acababa definitivamente. Posiblemente para hacerlo más intenso y para que demuestres tu habilidad. Y Shinobi no es el único juego arcade en usar este sistema de game over súbito: Wonder Boy III Monster Lair también lo usa; otro juego de Sega respectivamente.
Hard not to be impressed by this run. Sneaking behind the spinning statues to reach the Mandara is brilliant... how'd you come up with that? Is it tough to do?
i seen some other person shoot at the 2-level statue, and jumps into the 1st level statue right as the 2-level statue explodes, and glitches into the statues. from there i seen another person get super close to Shinobis' hit box with the statue and then use the special attack. then i noticed if you shoot the bottom statue twice and then jump as close as possible to the statue and use the special, the bottom statue will explode and you'll glitch behind the 2nd column save like 2-4 seconds (new strat not in vid). once you start bouncing right and then left, and when he bounces back to the right, i hit on the joy stick, and he bounces into the next column. you can just start mashing buttons and SOMETIMES he'll bounce to the next column OR bounce back out. so doing the way i do, i can get through 100% of the time, instead of 50% with just mashing. the hardest part is getting as close as possible to the statue and doing the special move. i've been wanting to do a tutorial for it, so more people can speedrun this game. best time i've gotten is 19 secs, or with 2:41 left on clock with my newest strat, which is 6 secs faster than the strat in the vid.
Thanks for the help. That boss gives me a hard time. Planning I playing through this game soon...I just got Retroarch working on my crt. with their "runahead" feature most games have no input lag or even less lag than original hardware
@@riggel8804 It can also be defeated the regular way. Definitively not on the first life (possible but very hard) but each retry in Shinobi reduce the boss life gauge of 1 hit, and it can be reduced until 5 hits max. So, at the second try, statues require 7 hits for each (instead of 8). Third try, they require 6 hits and starting from Fourth try (and the following ones), they only require 5 hits each to be destroyed.
@@HieiTF76 thanks man. I'm playing through x-men arcade right now. Working on a one coin playthrough. Do you think it's reasonable to beat shinobi on one coin?
You get an extra life by NOT shooting any enemies in the Genesis version of Shadow Dancer. Safe bet there... just let the bonus stage play out without firing and you get a freebie with no effort.
nope. just me playing on mame with a madcatz TE fightstick on a 32" sony trinitron CRT. i have updated a few strats on a some levels and im pretty sure a sub 11 minute run is possible. but from the jump at @05:44 till the end of Madara is extremely hard (i hold down certain inputs before the start of level) and i have failed so many times its insane. i also dont use save states ( i dont know how, lol) so everytime i mess up i hard reset.
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This run is timed so precisely! No unnecessary shurikens thrown, no unnecessary enemies killed. You just ran past everything, like a true Ninja should!
I saw one or 2 bullets shot out and didnt hit a target but only cause I know the A.i could be funny at times
I LOVE the way the soundtrack is so clear. Great video.
Even in back in the day at the arcades. I never watched anyone played this good
I've only beaten this game once back in the 80's at a 7-11, Could never do it again and i used to play it alot. stage 4 is when shit starts getting real hard.
one of my favorite game ever !
As a kid in the 80s,I spent like 5 bucks in quarters on the first 3 stages but that's cause the arcade I was playing at was at high difficulty cause of dip switches, which makes sense
Ken-Oh: "Meet me in the empty room at the end of this stage- wait, let ME get there first!"
It's just so wonderful to hear that sound again.
When I was a kid my pediatric dentist had Shinobi, My Hero, Poll Position and Tron cabinets. Needles to say I loved going to the dentist.
Exquisitely performed. Nostalgic game. Reminds me of my childhood
hell yeah man. i still remember the level of amazement and hype, when i saw the bonus stage for the first time. first time i seen a video game in First-Person-Perspective. and i used to play with those little plastic ninja army men that i earned with tickets from playing skee-ball at the pizza joint/mini-golf. haha.
Wow the music the sound effects the bonus stage the moves and special powers👍🏻💯😁💥 such amazing memories and to be taken through the game was like WOW MAN such a wicked trip down memory lane 😁👍🏻😁 VIVA LA ARCADE GENERATION
I remember this in the arcade and it was sooooo damn hard! You make it look easy! Great job. I never once beat this game in the arcade and I made it to the masked man after relentless attempts only to fail every time against him lol.
haha, thats how i got so good because theres no continues once you start mission 5. so there was a LOT of starting over from the begining.
Hard? Are you kidding me? LMAO! Too easy. One quarter, game finished. Maybe you should find a new hobby? I'm sorry, but this game is very, very easy. And like seriously, super easy.
@@jillianhillborn Not really. It's not one of the hardest game ever (Ghouls 'n Ghosts is a more lot difficult) but this game is not easy at all (like most arcade games anyway, except if you allow people to use as much credits as they want), especially if you want to clear it with only one life, it require some training. Someone that never played the game won't finish it easily, it'll require several attemps and it's normal).
And yeah, lots of players never saw level 4 because of the level 3 boss.
Very good fake dude
@@PetSounds38 Why would it be a fake? Even I managed to one-life the game : ua-cam.com/video/7-b6FhwxQoQ/v-deo.html
Compared to games like Ghouls 'n Ghosts (which is the hardest arcade game I played until now) and Toki, I would say Shinobi is quite easy.
But if you saw some details, feel free to share because I didn't remember to have seen something weird in his video.
OMG OMG OMG .. so many memories just stormed in !
I loved this game on mame. First time I played it was back in 2007. I could only beat it with save states lol.
I abused them too! ☻
Every time you save the little girl, I can’t help but thinking that she will say MICHAEL.
The first arcade game I ever remember seeing as a kid. My uncle and his buddies used to play it at the local gas station.
Nice to know that Mandara doesn't shoot if the statues are not far of him. I had personally notice the shoot pattern was different before all the statues dissapear so I had to wait until they leave the screen.
yeah, if you go fast enough he dont shoot, but i never really gave it much though about the distance, that makes more sense. you can also make him start shooting again if you start attacking the statues from the back side.
You dont know but you are a legend.
Nice speedrun, I've beaten this game a lot of times, but never really tried to optimize it time-wise like that. Nice
5:22 This track easily can be hit song for R&B, Funk, Boogie Funk, Freestyle, City-Pop :)
Masterful and a joy to watch. I played this back in the day. Could never get the Buddha glitch to work consistently though.
It can also be defeated the regular way. Definitively not on the first life (possible but very hard) but each retry in Shinobi reduce the boss life gauge of 1 hit, and it can be reduced until 5 hits max. So, at the second try, statues require 7 hits for each (instead of 8). Third try, they require 6 hits and starting from Fourth try (and the following ones), they only require 5 hits each to be destroyed.
yeah took me a lot of tries to start landing it over 90% of the time. but that was on crt, i tried doing it on a lcd tv and the input lag made it almost impossible. gonna have to re-learn it. and also the last jump of the previous stage, unto the ninja. i can only get that jump like 40% of the time now becuase of a lag.
@@HieiTF76 beating it the reg way is pretty easy. just run and jump and shoot (shooting top and bottom statues, two times), to get close to the statue and do ninja attack (so all the statues are in frame, so all get attack damage), then haul ass all the way to the left, right next to the electricy, then just start mashing jump and shoot buttons. shooting top and bottom statues.
Normally, using famous characters without permission is a pretty big no-no, however at 0:48 there's def a Spiderman cameo. He does absolutely nothing, to help, just hangs on a wall while a ninja war rages! Jerk.
5:32 sequence blows my mind
Interview with Shinobi : TOOP, TOOP, TOOP, TAKE, TAKE, TOOP, OWW, OWW, OWW
Thank you for destroying a game that I pumped many a quarter playing. Good memories as wall as frustrating ones!
@5:59 I didn't know you could "ow""ow""ow""ow""ow""ow""ow""ow""ow""ow" you're way through there!
Mike JP I don't recall that either
Secret technique: The Way of "Hey..."
I think you played that game how it was intended. That is; minimal contact, stealth, and speed. Well done!
All those Ninja hostages were dressed in Pink. No wonder they were easily captured.
Fantastic run brotha! First time actually seeing this game beaten. :)
I'm that they have this on the Sonic Classic collection.
Never understood why Sega never released this on the Genesis in 89 when it debuted. While Revenge of Shinobi was a great game in its own right, it did not have the arcade feel of this game. Specially given the hardware this arcade game ran on was practically what was used to design the Megadrive. It would of really showed off the capabilities of the system as being able to make an almost arcade perfect version of a very popular game at the time.
Your skills are extraordinary!
Amazing run
how did this game have such based weapons, kicks, sword strikes, crawl, kick and dual-level via jump, back then, crisp controls, and good music
last time I played this was probably 1990. I wonder how many tries it took to finish it. I remember the difficulty.
When you fail the bonus mission because it's quicker and you know you're untouchable.
Bu kadar hızlı ve etkileyici oyuna hiç şahit olmadım
One of the hardest games as a kid
Welcome to bonus stage.....doing nothing is the bonus. Awesome run.
Awesome!
Love it
At @8:07, you can jump on the middle platerform then directly on the guardian plateform without waiting, that's how I do when I play the game. 99% of the time, he'll throw his weapon and with those jumps, you can jump over the weapon.
Here's an example : ua-cam.com/video/7-b6FhwxQoQ/v-deo.html
now i do a jump from the edge (this gets the dude to throw his sword) onto the middle pillar. while in the air i shoot at his legs while coming down unto the middle pillar. then jump from middle pillar behind the flying sword. this is done in two fluid jumps, no more stopping. or you can shoot while jumping off the middle pillar, but depends on where the sword is.
This gane was cool
0:42 the JAM
Respect.
Never got to really play this. I played Revenge of Shinobi and Shinobi 3. They were very different from this though. However, Shadow Dancer was much more like this, and was a ton of fun
You are a winner.
You mean
_A winner is you._
@@KishorTwist i think he meant wiener.
@@zyfeislife8771 Nah - 'YOU ARE A WINNER - HAHAHA!!!'
i have it on my smartphone now...thanks To mame !
Windows Leach, could you please help me by explaining to me how I can get this on my smart phone too? I would love to have it but don't know how to go about getting it. Would really appreciate it! Thanks!!!!
Unknown Amazing Chap You can download Happy Chick app. It has Shinobi on it
the very first game i could beat on one credit. did manage a 1 credit no ninja magic run once.
Anybody know what he's saying when performing ninja magic?
Whayaaaaaaaa ^^
Wtf this game took me 30 years to complete.
Tremendo 👍
The ninjas with the red and blue suits are clearly versions of Spider man. Especially since they can climb walls.
Or... is Spider-man a version of ninjas with red and blue suits.... #MindBlown
Well....Spider man has been around since the 60's and this game was released in the 80's...so i'm going with no to your question.
@@captaindan1000 he was just pulling your pisser. Don't be a caveman.
craig cotter if you have a problem with being a caveman, then you don't need to be one yourself and leave such vulgar trolling comments.
Revenge of that Shinobi farts on this games breakfast.
Nah. Nothing can match the pacing and intensity of the original. This game got everything right.
It looks easy but I can asure you it's not. Back in 2000 we had a tournament with a prize of 300$ (it was a lot of money back then) for the winner. I was 8 back then and won against 50 or so guys who were 30 y o +. Good times.
Soundtrack 👌👌👌👌
Mission 1. Pizza Hut Mission 2. More pizza
It was Prawn Cocktail crisps for me back in 1987...
I'd say 5-10 seconds could've been shaved from the final time by not using magic, except for Mandara boss.
yeah, theres some new strats im trying to learn. im gonna break that 11 minute wall, and hop into the 10's.
Insanity！
2:14 Somebody told me, that _Everything She Wants_ is everything she sees,
I guess I must have loved you, because I said you were the perfect girl for me;
Now I'm six months older, and everything you want and everything you see,
Is out of reach, not good enough - I dunno what the hell you want from me!...
Failed gloriously on that Bonus Stage
Gotta go fast. Playing out the Bonus Stage is slow.
It's a speedrun, fool!
nice
Dude... You should go back in time and beat the game on one quarter just to see everyone's reactions! 😜
Having some trouble with those bonus stages lol? :)
So you've played this once or twice before right 👌
En la fase 5 no me deja continuar alguien sabe por qué? SALUDOS fenómenos
Porque está programado así. Seguramente Sega quería que la última misión fuera un "todo o nada" donde sin importar cuantas fichas/continues te queden, si perdías todas tus vidas, el juego acababa definitivamente. Posiblemente para hacerlo más intenso y para que demuestres tu habilidad. Y Shinobi no es el único juego arcade en usar este sistema de game over súbito: Wonder Boy III Monster Lair también lo usa; otro juego de Sega respectivamente.
Growing up was such a disappointment. I was hoping ninjas would play a much bigger role in my everyday life.
There's at lease one ninja watching you just outside the corner of your eye at all times.
Hard not to be impressed by this run. Sneaking behind the spinning statues to reach the Mandara is brilliant... how'd you come up with that? Is it tough to do?
i seen some other person shoot at the 2-level statue, and jumps into the 1st level statue right as the 2-level statue explodes, and glitches into the statues. from there i seen another person get super close to Shinobis' hit box with the statue and then use the special attack. then i noticed if you shoot the bottom statue twice and then jump as close as possible to the statue and use the special, the bottom statue will explode and you'll glitch behind the 2nd column save like 2-4 seconds (new strat not in vid). once you start bouncing right and then left, and when he bounces back to the right, i hit on the joy stick, and he bounces into the next column. you can just start mashing buttons and SOMETIMES he'll bounce to the next column OR bounce back out. so doing the way i do, i can get through 100% of the time, instead of 50% with just mashing. the hardest part is getting as close as possible to the statue and doing the special move. i've been wanting to do a tutorial for it, so more people can speedrun this game. best time i've gotten is 19 secs, or with 2:41 left on clock with my newest strat, which is 6 secs faster than the strat in the vid.
Thanks for the help. That boss gives me a hard time. Planning I playing through this game soon...I just got Retroarch working on my crt. with their "runahead" feature most games have no input lag or even less lag than original hardware
@@zyfeislife8771 Holding diagonal left/down allow the player to be sure to go through the statues and not bouncing back out of them from the left.
@@riggel8804 It can also be defeated the regular way. Definitively not on the first life (possible but very hard) but each retry in Shinobi reduce the boss life gauge of 1 hit, and it can be reduced until 5 hits max. So, at the second try, statues require 7 hits for each (instead of 8). Third try, they require 6 hits and starting from Fourth try (and the following ones), they only require 5 hits each to be destroyed.
@@HieiTF76 thanks man. I'm playing through x-men arcade right now. Working on a one coin playthrough. Do you think it's reasonable to beat shinobi on one coin?
doo!, doo!, hey!, doo, hey!, hey!, doo!, doo!, hey!, doo!, doo!, ...ok i should stop this
The instructions for the bonus stage is "shoot all enemies!" ... What you are doing is the opposite of shooting all enemies!!!
shooting the enemies makes you stay in the bonus stage longer, which adds more time onto the speedrun.
You get an extra life by NOT shooting any enemies in the Genesis version of Shadow Dancer. Safe bet there... just let the bonus stage play out without firing and you get a freebie with no effort.
5:58 LOL!
The graphics are incredible but i still prefer the nes tengen version. All the other versions seem sloppy.
do a special bonus run
OOK! OOK!
Bonus round no throwing stars why....???
goes quicker
top game!!
Is he saying "hey stupid"?
Always thought this game was very similar to "Rolling Thunder" but I didn't like it as much.
When I was a child I believed that this game is a copy from Shadow Dancer
Shadow Dancer is the sequel of this game.
@@Hektols More like a rubbish clone...
人を大切しろ!愛新持栄隊総館超久保田勉ゲーム新大臣!地方活性化大臣!規制緩和大臣!仕事対策大臣!会社改革大臣!安全・自殺対策大臣!
Is this tool assisted?
nope. just me playing on mame with a madcatz TE fightstick on a 32" sony trinitron CRT. i have updated a few strats on a some levels and im pretty sure a sub 11 minute run is possible. but from the jump at @05:44 till the end of Madara is extremely hard (i hold down certain inputs before the start of level) and i have failed so many times its insane. i also dont use save states ( i dont know how, lol) so everytime i mess up i hard reset.
It's fucking impressive man. Well done. One of my all time favourite games
@@zyfeislife8771 don't know how?? Wtf
My kind of gameplay!!!
لعبه حلوه اوى جدا جدا جدا جدا جدا و اتمنى ان احصل عليها في غوغل بلاي لكي احملها في هاتفي
Link deste jogo alguém tem ai
제이앤이다온다온해김다온
6 minutes☺
Probably the worst ending to a video game I've ever seen.
Should play on hard
lol tf first boss so easily
U got it on easy
cheats enable
Cc
Who the hell would want to play this on youtube gaming? Go outside. Get a life.
y the salt? I know this was 5 months ago but still
Who the hell would want to look UA-cam videos? Go outside. Get a life.
...and then COVID-19 happened!... #GoInsideStayInside