Ninja Warriors
| The Ninja Warriors | |
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Arcade flyer
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| Developer(s) | Taito Corporation |
| Publisher(s) | Taito Corporation |
| Director(s) | Masaki Ogata |
| Producer(s) | Yojiro Suekado Hisao Yunoki |
| Designer(s) | Hiroshi Tsujino Yukiwo Ishikawa |
| Programmer(s) | Daisuke Sasaki |
| Composer(s) | Hisayoshi Ogura |
| Platform(s) | Arcade, Amiga, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, C64, Amstrad CPC, TurboGrafx, Mega-CD |
| Release date(s) | 1987 |
| Genre(s) | Beat 'em up |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
| Review scores | |
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| Publication | Score |
| CVG | 84% (PC Engine) |
| Crash | 69% (ZX Spectrum) |
| Your Sinclair | 75% (ZX Spectrum) |
| ACE | 830 (Atari ST) 825 (C64) |
| Amiga Action | 77% (Amiga) |
| Amiga Computing | 93% (Amiga) |
| Amiga Format | 88% (Amiga) |
| CU Amiga | 92% (Amiga) |
| Mega | 15% (Mega-CD) |
| The Games Machine | 90% (Amiga) 90% (Atari ST) 85% (C64) 58% (Amstrad) |
| Zzap!64 | 82% (Amiga) 79% (C64) |
The Ninja Warriors (ニンジャウォーリアーズ?) is a side-scrolling beat'em up video game developed and released by Taito in 1987. The original arcade game version used an unusual screen setup that situated one display in between projected images of two other displays, creating the appearance of a triple-wide screen. Versions of the game were subsequently released for a variety of home platforms, including various personal computers, and were mostly well received. A remake known as The Ninja Warriors Again was developed by Natsume and released for the SNES in 1994.
The Ninja Warriors presents side-scrolling hand-to-hand combat. Players take control of Kunoichi (player 1) or Ninja (player 2) and fight wave after wave of Banglar forces across five levels. Button 1 attacks with a short-range kunai slash, while button 2 fires long-range shurikens that are limited in supply.
The game is based in a dystopian future where Banglar, the President of the United States in 1993, issues martial law on the nation, with the military having total control over the law. A group of anarchist scientists led by Mulk decide that it is time to revolt against the government. Knowing full well that approaching the military themselves could be considered an all out suicide mission, the scientists create two androids that can sustain various forms of damage in order to do the mission for them. The robots, code named "Kunoichi" (red female) and "Ninja" (blue male), are sent by the scientists in order to end Banglar's tyranny once and for all.
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