This game was released in 1988, yet it still looks awesome 👌

Thank you Lord, for making me an 80s kid and letting me enjoy 80s 90s arcades through my childhood. Great video 👍🏻👊🏻

This was one of my favorite arcade games back in the day.

I know that this original version was designed to be a beat em up quarter drainer in the arcades, but I'm so glad Tecmo went a different route with the NES version

I sunk so many quarters into this game. Definitely one of my favorites at the time.

I love how as you move the character he keeps moving his head to look in front and behind him at all times. Ninja AF

We had this exact arcade at our house when we were kids. The previous owners left it for us. Sister ended up breaking it and dad sold instead of fixing it. I was so mad.

Se me metió un recuerdo al ojo... ;) Sin duda nuestra infancia fue de lo mejor

Downloaded this classic on the PS4 last night. Oh the memories its 1988 all over again. Thank you Playstation. Also thank you for posting. 👍😎

Damn we really lived back then in the arcades. So many great games to choose from in the 80s and 90s.

Well? I am glad that he made it across the ocean in a rowboat. Ninja Style! I have many fond memories of this game.

First time I saw this game I said to myself: this is going to be expensive to beat.

Timing, patience and angles is everything on this game. Managed to clock it with one credit back in the day, fantastic graphics and gameplay for the time.

no matter how advanced 2022 games are, this 1 still the best

Uno de los mejores intros.... como corre en la lluvia y saca su espada. Como previamente se escucha el filo....bellos recuerdos de una buena infancia...✌️

8:41 Duuuudes and duuuudettes, no they didn't add the Road Warriors!! Just keep watching. LOD!

Como olvidar ese gran juego!! Hasta siempre 80's.

8:55 Iron Man Black Sabbath.... Excelente Juego y Grandes Recuerdos de mi Adolescencia.....!

when I was a kid, I always thought the 1st boss was saying "that's good!!"

Level 3 was my favorite! I love the Vegas scenery combined with the cheesy lounge music! It just seemed way more fun crashing through all the different objects on this level.

Esperábamos a salir del colegio ITST e hibamos a la 4ta avenida en San Pedro Sula a jugar esta arcada que tiempos aquellos eran de miedo .

Gran juego! Recuerdos de mi infancia!! El mejor

This brings so many memories! I was lucky enough to buy this on the PlayStation 4 store:)

Recordare toda mi vida la primera vez que vi la intro de ese juego. Alucine total!!!!

That man sat down at the local sushi restaurant for a lunch break before clocking back in for another long day of murdering.

Es uni de los juegos que nunca pude terminar con una moneda...muy complicado

I remember playing this at the bowling alley in Yokosuka, Japan. My aunt worked there and it was rare I would visit her. It was always a holy grail for me as a kid.

Played this in daycare when I was a kid! Fun times!

Good memories. I don't think I ever beat it as a kid. This game was a total quarter hog!

0:56 so... he killed Rick from Splatterhouse?

Loved this game. Artwork is amazing and this hasn't aged at all. Truly a masterpiece during the quarter machine video arcade era. Best of it was the texture and "feel" of this game. The punches and hits you make on the enemy was so juicy and satisfying.

I used to love this game as a kid. You had Jason Voorhies looking baddies and ninjas. Great graphics, settings and combat too.

This game...so may memories...Used to play it all the time as a kid even though I was pretty terrible at it...could never get past the third stage. Such a good game though.

Muy buen juego ninja gaiden arcade el original un clásico. Saludos a todos desde México.

Mi juego favorito de mi adolescencia!

The music went well with the game being a hit. I miss Ninja Gaiden.

Man!!! That' was my favorite game and that iron man intro was one of my favorite parts.

Spent a small fortune in quarters playing this back in 1988. Still my favorite Arcade game. Would love to have a copy made to work in my Nintendo.

That continue screen with the saw coming down. Ahh good times 🤘😝🤘

Másetro Ryu Hayabusa 40:55

True story: It was 88, I was in third grade. Went to this small arcade near my school and saw this game. I was enjoying watching another guy play and then saw the game over screen... from that moment, and until 1993 I would literally search for this game first thing when entering any arcade. If it was there, I’d get the f out in panic.

The opening I thought was the same as NES (Ryu's dad dies in battle)

One of Bosses in this game is the Road Warriors who were a real Wrestling Tag Team. They were Animal and Hawk. They wore face paint and had shoulder pads with spikes on them.

Gran juego, hoy vi tu vídeo y que mal juegas! En mis tiempos con una ficha terminaba ese juego y con todos los trucos.. saludos en 2021

You can tell it's a great game by the early JoJo references I wasn't aware about this version, thought the NES/Famicom was the first one

Uno de los juegos beat em all más difíciles en su momento, a diferencia de otros se su género donde los golpes de los protagonistas tenian prioridad porque eran más rápidos y los enemigos se acercaban solos para recibir su paliza, este juego era difícil porque los golpes del ninja eran lentos y no tenía un "ataque de emergencia" para salir de situaciones difíciles en las que te rodeaban, los enemigos se acercaban pero tenías que medir bien tus golpes y ángulo del escenario para que no te atacarán entre cada ataque, nunca pude terminarlo con una sola ficha por su enorme grado de dificultad.

That intro used to make me think this game had something to do with the Friday the 13th movies.

I just played this on the original cabinet at my local arcade yesterday, awesome fun game!

I remember that the first time I saw this game was when I was a kid in Moscow airport. I was so captivated by intro of this game that I wanted to find this game again. I searched and searched and searched l couldn't find it. Then finally,vI quit. And only recently when I am already 41 age old KZfaq suggested mr visiting certain game video, and here I found it!

The first fight with the twin Road Warriors style wrestlers the music changes to a knock off of Black Sabbath's Iron Man. Fun detail.

Wow, I completely forgot that this was an arcade. Thank you for this.

i remember the horror of seeing that game over screen as a little kid in the 90s. good times.

I love the extent they go to with the visual detail in the old arcade games compared to the console games of the same era.

Me da tristesa que ninja gaiden está en el olvido, casi la mayoría de la gente no conoce este juego, pero es un juego que de verdad deberían de conocerlos, todos los ninja gaiden están buenos. Pero mis favoritos de todos los ninja gaiden son el ninja gaiden black de xbox clasico y el ninja gaiden 2 de xbox 360 sin la censura y nada que tiene los sigma

Love this game but the NES version is a classic. Hard AF!

La música de la primera etapa es buenísima!!

I always liked the way Tecmo wore their metal influences on their sleeves.

Excelente juego, me trae muchos recuerdos

Never got tired of those screams as you do those somersault throws !

One of the best arcade game of my entire life!!

Much like Double Dragon's elbow...the Neck Toss is the move!!!

Still Cold Ryu Was Put Through Some Stuff I Swear

The game over buzz saw scene followed by the ohh ohh ohh and the 8bit music was funny

Ninja Gaiden on NES: Stylish late 80s anime/OVA with limited animation but slick action Ninja Gaiden in arcades: Cheesy American action movie with stuntmen pretending to know kung fu

_Loved_ this game. Remember plunking quarters down the slot at the local pizza place in Houston after baseball games.

Last stage had a lot of Jojo references like stone mask, or pillar man in a wall ;)

Finally, I found you, legendary game!

The Road Warriors. I remember my emotion when I seen that at a Las Vegas arcade.

La de veces que fui con 13 años a jugar a este juego con las vueltas del pan... Hay que ver, lo que se encarecía el pan...

Si en este juegazo salieran los personajes de Ninjago, los enemigos sí los harían llorar. Ja ja ja ja ja ja ja ja😂

Las mejores canciones la misión 1 el casino y la misión 6 los tengo en mi celular los escucho ninja gaiden

Juego muy bueno

I remember going to the pizza shop in Astoria, Queens dropping quarters on this

Ojalá y team ninja nos dé una noticia sobre un nuevo ninja gaiden pronto

Anyone else notice the portraits of the pillar men on the walls in the last stage?

in Trinidad I was the boss of this game .love all the versions.

Guy must've thought his hockey mask was gonna beat a ninja wielding a sword.

This game was brought down by it's soundtrack and the recycled boss enemies. In a game with only 6-7 levels, you shouldn't be using the same boss guys over and over again. This is one of the rare cases where the Nintendo version of the game was far better than the arcade version.

34:20 I think Hirohiko Araki is gonna sue someone

En mi infancia como me gustaba ese gran gran juego!! Lastima que era muy dificil, quizas por eso me gustaba tanto

I fucking love this Ninja Gaiden arcade game I downloaded on my PS4

Brutal, que grandes recuerdos.

Oh my god 👀 this brought me back

Juegazo me lo terminaba con una ficha bonita infancia

This is almost as tough as the NES versions!!! I love how it's a beat em up. I can never play enough arcade action games. I want to play them ALL.

Black Sabbath's Iron Man song while fighting off The Legion Of Doom from WWF/WWE. I love it

That Tom Cruise style running animation looks a bit funny considering how slowly he's moving

This game was fun. But you better be able to pull off the flying throw consistently.

Gee, I sure could go for a cool glass of IceCeCrem.

When I was younger I couldn't get enough of this game in the Arcade's... I always wanted this game on Sega Genesis... But if you are a Xbox Series X/S owner like myself... You can relive the Glory of this game with the Antstream Gaming Service on the Xbox Store...👏🧐💯🥂

Damn, this was my favorite game to play. I'd kill to play this again!

And then Nintendo got ahold of this game, completely changed it, and made it near impossible to beat.

There is some deep occult symbolism going on in this game.

14:30 Same evening, the Cirque du Soleil management wondered why the "Los Tres Malabaristas" artists were missing, and their backup trio "Los Payasos Picantes" were gone, too.

it was one of my favorite arcade games when I was 10yo. I used to play in a bar where people usually spent one coin to finish the game. The bar owner saw it was not given so much money as he expected. So him asked to a guy to modify the game difficult. It didn't help lol and sadly the arcade was removed from the bar -sad history :-(

Still to this day don't understand that pose of ninja butt in the air but like that

I was 10ys old, It was summer break, we were at the nashville KOA. 1980?

29:15 - So, you mean to tell me, this massive criminal organization went to the trouble of -renting a billboard-, so those two guys could -pretend to be part of it-, in some wacky scheme to -ambush a ninja-? And how did the logistics of that work?! Did they take turns standing and kneeling? Did they spend so many hours a day pretending to be the billboard just in case he happened by, or did they wait until they knew he was in the area to get up there? This whole situation is very confusing!

Does the level 2 boss fight music (bosses look like The Road Warriors/Legion of Doom) sound like ironman from black sabbath?

Un juego al que le temía muchísimo, porque la ficha no me duraba más de un par de minutos 🤣 se veía divertido pero sumamente difícil, gracias por dejarme ver el recorrido completo, veo que también le sufriste. Pero con continúes infinitos solo es cosa de paciencia. Saludos.