Ninja Gaiden Shadow Warriors
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That is a really clever conversion. Must have taken ages. I agree with the earlier comment would be great to see this done with Nirvana or the bifrost* engine.
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did they decompile the original? and extract level data n stuff?
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I played it a bit.
And it's a great game! I like very much that they didn't made it monochrome (which would be the easiest path when converting from Gameboy mono) but added some colour.
The game difficulty is also all right. You are able to complete levels and win with the bosses but it doesn't come at first time.
I also miss boss energy bar. But it was absent in GB version too.
A little note - at some moment there was a version with some bugs circulating. Be careful to download current version from first post at the compo site.
And it's a great game! I like very much that they didn't made it monochrome (which would be the easiest path when converting from Gameboy mono) but added some colour.
The game difficulty is also all right. You are able to complete levels and win with the bosses but it doesn't come at first time.
I also miss boss energy bar. But it was absent in GB version too.
A little note - at some moment there was a version with some bugs circulating. Be careful to download current version from first post at the compo site.
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I cannot download it from there Is there an alternative link?
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Try loading this game in 48 kB mode
A very nice little touch, that I believe none of the games from classic era had.
A very nice little touch, that I believe none of the games from classic era had.
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The spectrum is a UK computer and in that time period the word 'ninja' was not allowed.
So can the game's authors please rename it to Hero Gaiden and change the title screen also...for decency's sake.
So can the game's authors please rename it to Hero Gaiden and change the title screen also...for decency's sake.
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Really? What about Ninja, Ninja Warriors, Dragon Ninja, Last Ninja II, Ninja Massacre, Ninja Scooter Simulator, Ninja Hamster etc. then?
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Been playing it and it's a great game. Difficulty is spot on, good sense of "one more go"!
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Alessandro, maybe you miss the story about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?The spectrum is a UK computer and in that time period the word 'ninja' was not allowed.
So can the game's authors please rename it to Hero Gaiden and change the title screen also...for decency's sake.
Really? What about Ninja, Ninja Warriors, Dragon Ninja, Last Ninja II, Ninja Massacre, Ninja Scooter Simulator, Ninja Hamster etc. then?
Yes, they were renamed to Hero Turtles in UK. Some guys decided that ninja is a bad guy, a stealth assasin (which is mostly true) so positive characters in a movie for children can't be called ninja.
But it was just a case with these turtles, it wasn't generally forbidden to use the word "ninja"
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Of course not I already knew it. But it was, as you pointed out, a Turtles-related matter, which only affected our beloved box of wonders because a couple of licensed games were made for it. And quite good, too
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There were some really weird censorship laws in the UK. What surprised me is for art house/high art you could get away with almost anything but for stuff to be consumed by us plebs the rules were fairly strict on what you could or couldn't put on flim/tv and to a lesser extent print.
Like for example if you were to put on some sort of pop out theatre performance with ninjas, nun chucks and advertise it. That would have been fine because its culture. But if you were to try and broadcast that for general consumption it would not have been permitted.
The whole idea behind the censorship was to keep the general public protected. But if you were considered to be a privileged class you could do as you liked (in the 80s anyway) things had relaxed a fare amount. My memory of it was 'one rule for them and one rule for us.'
There was a friend of the family, that always had a copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover since it was published. Nobody cared, but for sure if we had a copy in our house during the period of its ban it would have been a different matter.
Like for example if you were to put on some sort of pop out theatre performance with ninjas, nun chucks and advertise it. That would have been fine because its culture. But if you were to try and broadcast that for general consumption it would not have been permitted.
The whole idea behind the censorship was to keep the general public protected. But if you were considered to be a privileged class you could do as you liked (in the 80s anyway) things had relaxed a fare amount. My memory of it was 'one rule for them and one rule for us.'
There was a friend of the family, that always had a copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover since it was published. Nobody cared, but for sure if we had a copy in our house during the period of its ban it would have been a different matter.