The Ninja Warriors 02/1988 Taito
02/1988
The Ninja Warriors (c) 02/1988 Taito.
Two ninjas fight an entire army to destroy an evil dictator in this horizontal action game, which features physical damage on our heroes
>>> TECHNICAL DETAILS
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Board Number : M4300086H
Prom Stickers : B31
Main CPU : (2x) 68000 (ID : K1100325A, K1100312A) (@ 8 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Z80 (ID : K1100313A) (@ 4 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM2610 (@ 8 Mhz), (4x) Volume (@ 8 Mhz)
Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 864 x 224 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 12288
Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 2 (DAGGER, SHURIKEN)
>>> TRIVIA
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Licensed by Romstar for US distribution
The strange resolution of this game was due to the original cabinet which had a wide screen made out of three monitors.
Banglar, the main enemy who looks like Yoda from the star wars films makes a cameo appearance in 'Aqua Jack' 2 years after appearing in The Ninja Warriors.
Brian Chapel holds the official record for this game with 188,900 points.
Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (The Ninja Warriors : G.S.M. Taito 1 - D28B0001) on 21/06/1988.
Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (The Ninja Warriors - Famous Recording Series - PCCB-00074) on 21/10/1991.
Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (The Ninja Warriors - Complete Album - PCCB-00116) on 19/03/1993.
>>> GAME SERIES
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1. The Ninja Warriors (1988)
2. The Ninja Warriors Again (1994, Nintendo Super Famicom)
>>> DESIGNERS / PROGRAMMERS / STAFF
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Produced by : Yojiro Suekado
Directed by : Masaki Ogata
Written by : Onijust
Executive producer : Hisao Yunoki
Director of software : Daisuke Sasaki
Programmers : Yoshihisa Nagata, Yuji Iwasaki, Yoshiyuki Watabe, Masaki Ogata, Daisuke Sasaki
Production designer : Yukiwo Ishikawa
Character designers : Masami Kikuchi, Yoshihiro Wakita, Toshiyuki Nishimura, Taira Sanuki, Shinobu Iwabuchi, Sachiko Yamana, Junji Yarita, Kohzoh Igarashi, Tetsuro Kitagawa, Yukiwo Ishikawa
Assistant character designers : Visual Arts Produtcion, Animation 20, Space Creative
Supervising editor : Tetsuro Kitagawa
Editors : Masami Kikuchi, Yukiwo Ishikawa
Costume designer : Hiroshi Wagatsuma
Hardware designer : Toshiyuki Sanada
Assistant hardware engineer : Satoru Shimomura
Music composed and directed by (Zuntata) : Hisayoshi Ogura
Assistant sound programmer (Zuntata) : Naoto Yagista
Sound editor (Zuntata) : Yasuhisa Watanabe
Sound hardware designer : Tsukasa Nakamura
Publicity supervisor : Hisayoshi Nakane
Game designed by : Onijust
>>> GAME PORTS TO OTHER SYSTEMS
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* Consoles :
NEC PC-Engine (1989)
Sega Mega CD
* Computers :
Sinclair ZX Spectrum (1989)
Commodore C64 (1989)
Amstrad CPC (1989)
Commodore Amiga (1989)
Atari ST (1989)
>>> OTHER GAME RESOURCES
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Game's rom.
Machine's picture.