NINJA LEMON PARTY - Shinobi (Arcade): Part 2
5Sucks to be one of the ninjas who got handed scuba equipment and a sword and told to lie down in knee-deep ocean water until nightfall.
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Shinobi (忍) is a side-scrolling hack-and-slash action game produced by Sega, originally released for arcades in 1987. In Shinobi, the player controls a modern-day ninja named Joe Musashi who has to stop a terrorist organization named Zeed who are kidnapping the students of his clan.
Shinobi was a major commercial success in arcades; after topping the monthly Japanese table arcade charts in December 1987, it went on to become America's highest-grossing arcade conversion kit of 1988 and again one of America's top five conversion kits of 1989. Shinobi was later adapted by Sega to their Master System game console, followed by conversions to other platforms such as the Nintendo Entertainment System, PC Engine, and various home computers, as well as downloadable emulated versions of the original arcade game for the Wii and Xbox 360. A port of the arcade game joined the Nintendo Switch in January 2020 through the Sega Ages series. The success of Shinobi inspired the development of various sequels and spin-offs of the Shinobi series.
The controls of Shinobi consist of an eight-way joystick and three action buttons for attacking, jumping and using ninjutsu techniques (also called "ninja magic" in the game). In addition to the standard walk, the player can perform a crouching walk by pressing the joystick diagonally downward. The player can jump to higher or lower floors by pressing the jump button while holding the joystick up or down. The protagonist Joe Musashi's standard weapons are an unlimited supply of shurikens, along with punches and kicks when attacking at close range. Rescuing certain hostages in each stage will grant him an attack upgrade. When powered up, his throwing stars are replaced by a gun that fires large, explosive bullets, and his close-range attack becomes a katana slash. Musashi's ninjutsu techniques can only be used once per stage and will clear the screen of all enemies, or in the case of enemy bosses, greatly damage them.
The player controls a modern-day ninja named Joe Musashi who has to stop a criminal organization called "Zeed" who are kidnapping the children of his ninja clan. Through five missions (consisting of three stages in the first mission and four stages each in the rest), Musashi must make his way to Zeed's headquarters and free all the hostages in the first two or three stages before confronting the boss at the final stage of each mission.
In Japan, Game Machine listed Shinobi on their December 15, 1987 issue as being the most-successful table arcade unit of the month. In the United States, Shinobi was the highest-grossing arcade conversion kit of 1988, and again one of the top five conversion kits of 1989.
The arcade game received critical acclaim. Clare Edgeley of Computer and Video Games noted that it was one of several popular "martial arts simulation" games at London's Amusement Trades Exhibition International (ATEI) show in January 1988, along with Taito's Ninja Warriors and Data East's Vigilante; she said it plays similarly to Ninja Warriors, but that Shinobi also has elements from Namco's run-and-gun shooter Rolling Thunder (1986), introduces bonus stages, and is more challenging overall. She praised the "clean colourful graphics" with large "well defined" sprites, and the action gameplay for being fast-paced and challenging, concluding that the game is "well worth playing." Nick Kelly of Commodore User rated it 8 out of 10, also noting similarities to Rolling Thunder but said Shinobi looks good, "plays brilliantly" and "combines several kinds of shoot'em and beat'em up action in one well-thought-out, well-executed game." Retrospectively, Black Belt magazine in 2003 called Shinobi "one of the best martial arts arcade games of the 1980s."
Wikipedia contributors. Shinobi (video game). Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. June 27, 2021, 12:26 UTC. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shinobi_(video_game)&oldid=1030679639.