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Ninja Warriors, The

Description

You are either a male or female ninja. Use your daggers and ninja stars limited supply, can be replenished during gameplay to defeat military personnel, monsters, and various other "bad guys". At the end of each level there is a Boss to defeat.

Ninja Warriors, The was produced by Taito in 1988.

Taito released 486 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1967. Taito was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Taito during the time period Ninja Warriors, The was produced include: Tokusyu Butai UAG, Full Throttle, Contintental Circuit, Exzisus, Wardner No Mori, Bonze Adventure, Chase H.Q., Chuka Taisen, Cloud Master, and Fighting Hawk

Specs

Name	Ninja Warriors, The
Developer	Taito (Japan)
Year	1988
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	8892
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Fighting
Fighting Style	Scrolling Fighter
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	unique
Game Specific	Ninja Warriors, The Pinout
Dipswitch Settings	Ninja Warriors, The Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)
# Simultaneous Players	2
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Joint
Control Panel Layout	Multiple Player Ambidextrous
Controls	Joystick: 8-way Buttons: 2 - Dagger, Ninja Star
Sound	Amplified Stereo (two channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard

Video Clips

The Ninja Warriors arcade ending

Game Introduction

Play as one ninja or together with a friend to kill as many foes as possible. Basic play is accomplished by moving towards the right. However, you can go up or down stairs to various other levels.

Ninja Warriors, The KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.17 (3 votes)

Fun Factor: 3.33

Overall Like	3.33
Fun (Social)	3.33
Fun (Solo)	3.33
Collector Desire	3.33

Technical Rating: 2.94

Gameplay	3.33
Graphics	3.67
Originality	2.00
Sound/Music	2.00

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

Images

Cabinet Information

The game is housed in a large cabinet. The top portion is 33 inches deep by 33.5 inches wide. The whole cabinet is 72 inches tall. There is a version from Taito of Japan c1987 with three monitors. The action is spanned across the monitors giving the game a "wide-screen" effect, which also adds to the gameplay.

The side art shows male and female ninjas crouching with daggers in both of their hands.

Miscellaneous

Licensed to Romstar for US manufacture and distribution.

This game was converted by Virgin Mastertronic to the following platforms: Spectrum, Amstrad, C64, Atari ST, Amiga.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Ninja Warriors, The Census

There are 15,272 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,670 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,971 machines (7,000 unique titles).

Common - There are 27 known instances of this machine owned by Ninja Warriors, The collectors who are active members. Of these, 19 of them are original dedicated machines. 8 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 3 active VAPS members with a Ninja Warriors, The machines for sale. There is one active VAPS member with an extra Ninja Warriors, The circuit board for sale.

Wanted - There are 6 active VAPS members currently looking for Ninja Warriors, The.

This game ranks a 8 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 10 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Flyers

Technical

The three-screen version Taito 1987 uses Dual 68000 CPU's and a Z80 with YM2610 for sound.

Other games that run on this hardware include Darius and Darius II/Sagaia.

Manuals

Pinout and DIP Switch Settings - Ninja Warriors, The Manual — **Pinout and DIP Switch Settings**
(2 pages, 359 kB File)

Ninja Warriors The Manual - Ninja Warriors, The Manual — **Ninja Warriors The Manual**
(18 pages, 260 kB File)

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