One of the reasons to skyve off School and go down Broadstairs Arcades was the 3 screen Darius cabinet that was there. One day it was gone and replaced by another 3 screen epic. The Ninja Warriors. You controlled one of two Cyborg-Robo-Ninja's scrolling sideways down the dilapidated Cowley Road in Oxford. Waves of stupid foot soldiers with knives run at you into your blades followed occasionally by a soldier with a rifle or a cyborg-robo-ape. Sometimes a pimp with a purple hat would lean out from behind a Datsun Sunny in a garage to have a pot shot too. Now I'm sure I saw that guy down Cowley road once too. I didn't have any shuriken to throw at his head. It might've been Dodgy Andy though. Carrying a Darkstalkers PCB in a Tesco carrier bag.
Later levels had a tank that you could only defeat by shurikening the gunner on a huge airfield. Also there were other robo-ninjas that teleported around like the'd been playing Gaunlet too long. I think they made the same sound effect too.
Ninja Warriors had the most awesome music too. The kind that you'd have copied onto a TDK C90 and listen to on the train. What was cool to was that one of the Ninja's was a chick - with robotits too! Fnarrr!! You wouldn't play as the bloke Ninja 'cos that'd be gay.
Ninja Warriors was ported to the Amiga but didn't have the music. Then the PC Engine. But didn't have 2 players. Then finally the Mega CD - with 2 players and CD music Slice!
There was a SNES version too but was more of a sequel than anything else. That one was 1 player too and the music wasn't as good. Only through the miracle of Mame can you experience the original. Well if you've got 3 monitors anyway. No Damn way.
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