The mix of beat 'em up and platforming/swinging is amazing!

it always crashed on amiga

@@Glockhead1 It never crashed for me. I still have my original copy from 1991 and it still works perfectly from start to finish.

Never crashed for me, playing it at a friend's house, it was the main reason I wanted an Amiga. Shame the game doesn't have both sound and music at the same time but otherwise a great conversion, certainly a master piece when compared to the Amiga versions of both Double Dragon and Final Fight. In fact probably one of the best scrolling beat-em-ups on the Amiga alongside the excellent conversion of Golden Axe. [edit] Although the timelimit on coop is a bit too fast and therefore can't really enjoy the game unless you use infinite credits (and that requires you to play and lose all but 1 credit by repeatedly jumping down the hole mid way through the first stage. Which is kinda annoying having to do each time you want to play the game. [edit2] Oh and it's a shame the Amiga version has no music for Stages 4, 5 and 6 and instead just repeats the music for Stages 1, 2 and 3 again.

I'm glad, time when we have to throw coins just to play 5 minutes, is over. Good PC. I was so happy back then in mid 90's when PC's got mainstream, and very soon powerful thanks to 3dfx accelerators. I'm so glad, coin-arcade machine era is over.

@IgaKoga lol, nope. It would developed independaly, and same fast. Even if coin machines would not exists at all. Or be completly free. Home consoles would be sufficient.

@IgaKoga respect for greedy rats? Never!

I thought that was "NOOOOOOOO!"

I used to have it on the Amiga too. Unlike many (perhaps most) arcade game conversions on the Amiga, it was very well done indeed. The music on the Amiga is fantastic.

Very true. When I first happened to read about what was inside an arcade machine, and that they were essentially just another type of computer with massive circuit boards of chips inside, it was quite a revelation. Until that point, it didn't occur to me that an arcade machine was based on similar technology to a home computer.

Arcade games had a lot of extra (and expensive) hardware, which is why they were so powerful, and more advanced than anything on the home market.

@@nebularain3338 When I said based on similar tech, I meant very broadly speaking. Some home systems like the PC Engine in Japan shared some chips with arcade machines I think, but what I really meant was that they were recognisably computer boards, like the ones in home systems, just the specifics of the chips are different. As I said, I didn't previously have any idea of what they would look like inside.

Technos did actually develop a version for the Genesis, but it was never finished, unfortunately. Footage of the game exists online :)

@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays Yes I played it. It's Like one or two levels. Sega could have gone for this game; should have gone for Bad Dudes and Rastan as well.

@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays Technos? You mean Tecmo?

This is the Japan version.

@@nehemiahpouncey3607 No, it isn't. It is the European version. The Japanese version was named Ninja Ryukenden.

Well Jason was popular back then.

It's not Ryu Hayabusa in this version. That character was only in the NES games.

@@nebularain3338 Oh? I had thought that retroactively applied to the arcade version too.

@@theodorehsu5023 Nope. They're just nameless ninjas in the arcade game.

#stratch #hotel

Yes 🙂

Yes, but in Europe it was called Shadow Warriors since the word "Ninja" had lead to controversy in the UK at the time.

Europe was so paranoid back then.

It was supposed to: the two tall guys were portraying pro wrestling tag team Road Warriors, who actually used Iron Man as their entrance theme.