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.
@@troyforce2 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.
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.
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.
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.
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!!!!
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.
+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....
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
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
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 !
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
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.”
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. 😞
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.
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
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!
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 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.
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 😄
My brother-in-law and I were reminiscing about our childhood and Shinobi, Double and original Street Fighter 1 came up… then I realized we aren’t in the 80’s anymore but now in 2024 and got the internet and UA-cam! Watched all of them and brought back memories at the liquor store as a kid!! Karim the store owner would get irritated that I would bring in a food stamp, buy five .5c Laffy Taffy’s and get 3 shiny quarters back! “Hey! That is for food! Not games…” 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😩😩😩🤣😂🤣😂
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.
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....
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 used to pop the top of controlled panel and stick my hand in for free credits.Or used a straw in the out side of deposit slot box.One of the best games.
lol I used to do the same thing. 😂 Also on some of the games the coin return slot had the little latch flap that would be missing and you could take your finger and put it in the while putting a nickel or penny in the coin slot and when it would drop down to the coin return slot you could flick it back up through the coin return and it would give you a credit. The game attendant at the pizza parlor we were doing this at came over to the Championship Sprint game we were doing this on, he got suspicious because we were playing the game for hours and he said they better not be any pennies in the coin box. He opened up the coin box and found a bunch of pennies and nickels and kicked us out of the place. 😂
“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.”
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.
When I was a kid, and my father was getting his PH D in Criminal Justice at Cal State Hayward (now EastBay), The Student union lounge had an arcade there, and this was the premier game they had. I loved going and seeing the students play this game. Nostalga time and memories.
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 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🔥
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 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
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.
Oh my ! I used to play this game in the late 80's in an "arcade palace" (well, actually, it was more of an open truck trailer with a few arcade machines). How many coins I lost trying to get the boss!
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.
como olvidarlo, este juego me trae recuerdos y no presisamente por el juego en si. si no por la situacion en que estaba pasando en ese momento y esto era lo unico que me hacia olvidar de mi situacion en ese momento
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.
nothing better than going to barri island or porthcawl for day and playing arcades 80s best. shinobi track and field, time soliders, bubble bobble, outrun , mr wardner, commando, roc n rage. list goes on and on.
Wow... I don't know what impressed me the most, if completing the game with 1 life or only using the ninja magic twice! I used to fail to complete the 5th mission at the arcade, I reached the final boss only 2 or 3 times but that masked bastard always had the last laugh!
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.
![RoboCop Longplay (Arcade) [4K]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/XGhKWXo-0ZU/mqdefault.jpg)
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.
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.
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...
@@troyforce2
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
No words but simply one of the greatest classics of all time.
Ohhh really?
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!!!
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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
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.......
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....
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
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
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 love playing this at the arcade.
😁👍🏼
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!
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
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..
Wow, I've been looking for this game for ages. Great memories flooding back while watching. ❤
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 !
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 use to be able to flip this game on a single quarter 38 years ago, lol. A fast paced highly addictive game.
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 remember that old arcade smell from playing this game so much, I was only 8 and I would beat this game with 2 quarters
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.”
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.
😞
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.
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
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
They had it at my local fish and chip shop - would play it after school. Great fun.
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!!!!
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
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.
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!
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
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!!!!
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.
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 😄
I would play this arcade classic for nearly more than 3 hours as a kid. Fun times =)
Seeing you people reminiss about playing this game back in the day is really cool
Sega's crowning achievement right here
Before Sonic.
Nah, too easy.
My brother-in-law and I were reminiscing about our childhood and Shinobi, Double and original Street Fighter 1 came up… then I realized we aren’t in the 80’s anymore but now in 2024 and got the internet and UA-cam! Watched all of them and brought back memories at the liquor store as a kid!!
Karim the store owner would get irritated that I would bring in a food stamp, buy five .5c Laffy Taffy’s and get 3 shiny quarters back!
“Hey! That is for food! Not games…”
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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
I used to chunk a few quarters just to get to the ninja star bonus. The smooth throwing action was so satisfying.
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.
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!
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?
I used to pop the top of controlled panel and stick my hand in for free credits.Or used a straw in the out side of deposit slot box.One of the best games.
lol I used to do the same thing. 😂
Also on some of the games the coin return slot had the little latch flap that would be missing and you could take your finger and put it in the while putting a nickel or penny in the coin slot and when it would drop down to the coin return slot you could flick it back up through the coin return and it would give you a credit. The game attendant at the pizza parlor we were doing this at came over to the Championship Sprint game we were doing this on, he got suspicious because we were playing the game for hours and he said they better not be any pennies in the coin box. He opened up the coin box and found a bunch of pennies and nickels and kicked us out of the place. 😂
“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.”
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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.
This is the best game ever made period^^And Soundtrack endless fun till this day...
King
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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.
Got to play this again at an arcade in Brookfield, IL. Funny how you start to remember things after 20 yrs
I love this game! So many memories! So many nights playing... Thank you for share!
When I was a kid, and my father was getting his PH D in Criminal Justice at Cal State Hayward (now EastBay), The Student union lounge had an arcade there, and this was the premier game they had. I loved going and seeing the students play this game. Nostalga time and memories.
Literally stole change from my moms purse to play this as a kid, addiction is real..
There are some longplays I keep watching endlessly. Shinobi is one of them, for some reason.
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 !!!
Not sure why you keep bumping the enemies.
I think it is cool how the Masked Ninja uses the ninja magics you are able to use in the game.
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 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.
Nostalgia setting in. I used to spend my summers in imperial Beach, CA playing this at 7-11
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?
Never got to the end of it back in the day. Great music.
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 used to play this so much back in days. I’m so glad I found it for the Switch.
I could have bought a house or paid my way through a college tuition with the money I wasted on these games.... And I regret nothing.
4:53 excelent song , congratulations
Favorite sega arcade game back in the late 80s
HOW COULD SEGA MAKE THIS MASTERPIECE IN 1987?????
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
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
I remember playing this at a 7-11 in Chicago. The good old days. Life seemed simpler then…
19:30 oh my god, you're so mean xD
Oh my ! I used to play this game in the late 80's in an "arcade palace" (well, actually, it was more of an open truck trailer with a few arcade machines). How many coins I lost trying to get the boss!
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.
como olvidarlo, este juego me trae recuerdos y no presisamente por el juego en si. si no por la situacion en que estaba pasando en ese momento y esto era lo unico que me hacia olvidar de mi situacion en ese momento
This game is a masterpiece.
I remember playing this in 2008-2010...
Memories of my childhood. =)
one of the best games of arcade history and the music it's very, very good yeah!!!
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.
Hey bro good game contratulations.
My grandmother would give me quarters to play this at the 7-11 "mini-arcade" in Berwyn, Illinois in the late 1980s!
Ninja giraya, alcançar o que é bonito, e que a felicidade, nao se compra, shinobi.
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
nothing better than going to barri island or porthcawl for day and playing arcades 80s best. shinobi track and field, time soliders, bubble bobble, outrun , mr wardner, commando, roc n rage. list goes on and on.
1:39 peter parker, go back to your own arcade machine
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!!!
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
Wow... I don't know what impressed me the most, if completing the game with 1 life or only using the ninja magic twice!
I used to fail to complete the 5th mission at the arcade, I reached the final boss only 2 or 3 times but that masked bastard always had the last laugh!
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.
Ah, what a memories...
Joe Musashi and Mai Shiranui were the best ninjas of arcades.
Awesome! Unfortunately, I keep messing up on the final boss.
It was 1989 I first saw this game, into a bus station.
Esto jugaba en mi infancia 😉👍🏼
dang I remember playing this at the local Subway restaurant.. The smell of the sandwiches would always take me back to Shinobi
Why do you keep bumping into some of those enemies?
Alex Kenderian Because they stop shooting then :xd