The Ninja Warriors

Available Platforms: Amiga, PC Engine

The Ninja Warriors is a coin-up for two players created by Taito in 1988.

Year	1989
Genre	Beat-'em-up
Rating	77/100 based on 6 Editorial reviews. Add your vote
Publisher	Virgin Games
Developer	Random Access
OS supported	Win7 64 bit, Win8 64bit, Windows 10, MacOS 10.6+
Updated	20 March 2021

Game Review

The Ninja Warriors is a coin-up for two players created by Taito in 1988. The game was ported to numerous home computer platforms by Virgin Games.

The Amiga port was programmed by Random Access (also known as The Sales Curve as publisher label), the same development team of S.W.I.V. and Silkworm.

The ninjas of the game are two fighting robots, created by Earth's resistance, to free the world from the evil dictator Bangler. The warriors can use their swords, shuriken, and of course, their fantastic agility to eliminate the army of the tyrant. Besides the regular opponents, armed with a knife and guns, you will be attacked by all sorts of mini-bosses. Occasionally, you will also have to face a tank.

Porting the game was not an easy task, considering the original arcade was using 3 screens. Random Access opted for a sort of letterbox format, reducing the size of the sprites. The result is excellent. If we add hi-quality sounds and the fantastic Dynamic Loading System - that allows the game to load resources from the disk without interruptions - we can only appreciate the developers' work.

Review by: Manu
Published: 3 October 2020 6:56 am