The Ninja Warriors

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The Ninja Warriors
System(s): Sega Mega-CD
Publisher: Taito
Developer:
Genre: Action

















Number of players: 1-2
Release Date RRP Code
Sega Mega-CD
JP 		¥7,8007,800 T-11024

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The Ninja Warriors (ニンジャウォーリアーズ) is a beat-'em-up originally developed by Taito for the arcades. It was brought to the Sega Mega-CD in 1993 exclusively for Japan. To emulate the three-screen setup of the original arcade game (3 288x224 screens arranged in a horizontal line like with the Darius games), porters Aisystem Tokyo simply capped the screen resolution in software, resulting in the entire game running in a small window.

Playable characters are two androids called Kunoichi (female ninja, red color) and Ninja (male ninja, blue color). Both characters play identically.

As indicated by the boxart, one of the game's main selling points was the soundtrack composed by Taito's inhouse band Zuntata. The game includes both the arcade versions's soundtrack as well as remixed tracks. An exclusive Zuntata mode was also included, which is bascially a movie scene that explains the game's backstory. Members of Zuntata served as actors.

To this day, this is the most faithful port of The Ninja Warriors.

Production credits

Cast
Zuntata

OGR: H.Ogura
Commander: M.Nakanishi
Lee Wong: K.Ishikawa
Bunny Girl: T.Kawamoto

"Prologue" Staff

Director: H.Tonomura
Photographer: K.Matsubara
Lighting: H.Matsui
Music: H.Ogura, T.Kawamoto
Photo Design: M.Nakanishi
Object Design: H.Takahagi, M.Ogata
Screen Play: Y.Watanabe, K.Ishikawa
Make-Up: Y.Chika
Sound Engineer: K.Ohnui
Sound Effect: K.Ishikawa, H.Takahagi
Special Thanks: Office Misumi, Kiryo Video Inc., Take Off, Noah-Project

The Crew

Produced by: Yoshio Imamura
Directed by: Takashi Shiokawa
Written by: Onijust
Director of Software: Mutsushige Tsuji
Character Designers: Shrine, Masayuki Suzuki, Yoko Gotan, Satomi Yokose
Sound Software: Daikoku Hisaya
Music Composed by: Hisayoshi Ogura (Zuntata)
Drama Music Composed by: Tamayo Kawamoto (Zuntata)
Music Arranged by: Junichi Kawaguchi
Synthesizer Manipulated by: Hiroshi Sukegawa, Teruo Konishi, Katsuhisa Ishikawa (Zuntata)
Engineered by: Masao Saotome, Kazuyuki Ohnui (Zuntata)

Musicians

Drums: Atsuo Okamoto
Bass: Naoki Watanabe
Guitar: Takashi Masuzaki
Tsugaru-Shamisen: Katsunari Sawada

Game Checker: Kazuhiko Sugiyama, Tatsuya Kitazawa, Yoichi Sato
Special Thanks: Keishi Itoh, Yuji Koga, Takahisa Horimoto, Tohru Kawaishi, Makoto Saitoh, Pony Canyon Inc., Scitron & Art Inc.
Game Designed by: Eiji Takeshima
© Taito Corporation 1993
All Rights Reserved

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
78 №17, p70/71/72
47 №141, p90[1]
15 №11, p48
61 №4, p24
41 №18, p70/71
30 №8, p44-46[2]
48 №1, p40/41[3]
Sega Mega-CD
 46
Based on
7 reviews
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
Beep! MegaDrive (JP) NTSC-J
73
[4]
Consoles + (FR)
78
[5]
Computer & Video Games (UK) NTSC-J
47
[1]
Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U
58
[6]
Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J
50
[7]
GameFan (US)
88
[8]
Hippon Super (JP) NTSC-J
40
[9]
Mega (UK) NTSC-J
15
[10]
Mega Action (UK) NTSC-J
61
[11]
Mega Play (US) NTSC-U
63
[12]
MegaTech (UK) NTSC-J
41
[13]
Mean Machines Sega (UK) NTSC-J
30
[2]
Sega Force Mega (UK) NTSC-J
48
[3]
Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J
78
[14]
Video Games (DE) NTSC-J
19
[15]
Sega Mega-CD
 53
Based on
15 reviews

The Ninja Warriors

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 File:CVG UK 141.pdf, page 90 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:CVG UK 141.pdf_p90" defined multiple times with different content
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 File:MeanMachinesSega08UK.pdf, page 44 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:MeanMachinesSega08UK.pdf_p44" defined multiple times with different content
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 File:SegaForceMega UK 01.pdf, page 40 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:SegaForceMega UK 01.pdf_p40" defined multiple times with different content
  4. ↑ Beep! MegaDrive, "March 1993" (JP; 1993-02-08), page 24
  5. ↑ Consoles +, "Février 1993" (FR; 1993-0x-xx), page 70
  6. ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "July 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 27
  7. ↑ Famitsu, "" (JP; 1993-03-05), page 1
  8. ↑ GameFan, "Volume 1, Issue 5: April 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 15
  9. ↑ Hippon Super, "March 1993" (JP; 1993-02-04), page 39
  10. ↑ Mega, "August 1993" (UK; 1993-07-15), page 48
  11. ↑ Mega Action, "September 1993" (UK; 1993-08-12), page 24
  12. ↑ Mega Play, "December 1993" (US; 1993-1x-xx), page 77
  13. ↑ MegaTech, "June 1993" (UK; 1993-05-20), page 70
  14. ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 85
  15. ↑ Video Games, "1/94" (DE; 1993-12-19), page 51
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