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NINJA WARRIORS BY TAITO CORPORATION TV
The Amiga version has some pretty funny cheat codes that allude to various movies and TV shows, like “may the force be with you” and “genesis of daleks”. The ZX Spectrum version is also relatively decent but the CPC port is too slow. These were ported by Sales Curve, who had a reputation for excellent conversions. Both of the console versions are somewhat letterboxed to retain the feel of the original, but it’s even more squished in the computer releases.
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The Commodore 64 version is actually pretty decent for the hardware, and the Atari ST and Amiga versions come fairly close to the original version, at least moreso than the PC Engine version. It’s actually really amazing that Taito would let their musical team waste time and money to put together something this ridiculous, but at least it’s a unique extra.Īlthough neither of these console ports made it outside of Japan, The Ninja Warriors was ported to several home computers. The whole thing is narrated (terribly) in English with Japanese subtitles.
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This music somehow inspires the hero to create the ninja robots to kill the president, setting in motion the plot to the game. He finds these initials in the neon lights of a club, where he sits down and watches Zuntata put on a concert, which consists of more cheesy still photos set to the music of the first stage. One character heads out to a bar to meet up with someone and finds them dead, with the initials ZTT written in blood (ZTT are the initials for Zuntata).
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The story begins in a board room, where the terrorists are considering their plans to overthrow the government.
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This is an extremely tongue-in-cheek cinema scene featuring still photos of the Zuntata crew dressed up in costumes and injecting themselves into the game’s plot. There’s an option on the menu screen in the Mega CD version that reads “Zuntata”. So while the core game still isn’t that great, the Mega CD is definitely the best of the ports. There are a few difficulty settings, as well as the ability to set the Jump command to an additional button. Included as redbook audio on the CD are perfect recordings of the arcade soundtrack, as well as a completely rearranged version. You can continue where you left off when you die, although you only have three credits. The Mega CD port released a few years later fares better, that’s more faithful than the PCE version. The rest of the music is pretty decent, too. The main theme music, a catchy bit called “Daddy Mulk”, features some strange robotic synth voices that easily identify the game as a product of the 80s. The soundtrack was composed by Hisayoshi ”OGR” Ogura. When you reach the final stage and corner your target, a bomb hidden inside your ninja causes it to self destruct, taking down the entire mansion, thus revealing your quest to be a suicide mission. This all actually ties into the plot – the president of your nation, the evil alien looking guy Banglar, is corrupt, and a group of terrorists led by a guy named Mulk has sent the ninjas in to assassinate him. If your chest gets banged up, your mechanical chassis is left exposed, and when you run out of life completely, you fall to your knees and explode. If you take too many blows to the head, your mask and face peel away to reveal a cyborg skull similar to The Terminator. Since the ninjas are technically robots, they take battle damage.