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  • Regarding shadow dancer. Here in England there are versions for the C64, Sinclair Spectrum, AMiga, Atari St and Amstrad cpc series :)

  • love shinobi,loved sega,loved happyconsolegamer reviews.

  • Bare Knuckle and Streets of Rage were the same thing. Bare Knuckle was the Japanese version name for the series and S.O.R. was for the North American audience.

  • Although there's some flaws, the new Shinobi for 3DS game does the series justice.

  • Batman as a boss?

    There's no hope in beating the game now

  • /me sees Batman

    Mother of God...

  • I love the arcade version I could finish it without ever throwing stars or bullets except for the 2nd and 3rd bosses because I could never figure it out I'll try to get the game and record this to post it

  •  a sega game on nes what madness

  • No you are wrong. Sega own the rights to spider-man at the time. he is still in the game. In the beginning of the game you can even see "spider-man and bla bla characters are used bla bla bla Marvel" DC made sega take away batman dho..

  • i loved the streets of rage series. there is a remake of it online somewhere if you can find it now. sega got wind of it and shut that shit down. the final version is the hardest to find....i got it before it got pulled. it is SICK!!!

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  • There was a Amiga 500 Conversion from the Arcade Version, that is pretty close ;)

  • WTF, Justin Bieber is marketing perfume, lol?

  • i mean the one that came out*

  • hey dude u missing the one that game out for THE SEGA SATURN! forgot about that one huh.... its called "Shinobi: Legions" i thought that game was awesome and i still have it along with my Saturn

  • @CamaroWarrior no he isn't missing this game. it is in part 2 of this webisode series.

  • Shinobi 3 was the best out of all of them!

  • @mrkrinkle699 Nah man. You can basically run through it. Good game, but the second one was the best.

  • @mrkrinkle699 Sorry I loved Shinobi 3 but Revenge of Shinobi was the best

  • Yeah I just played Revenge of Shinobi and Shadow Dancer today - really great games! =D

  • @GermanGameRoom So what do you think? Which is better. Out of all the Shinobi games I would definately have to go with Revenge of Shinobi. It the best composed overall out of all of them.

  • @nastynas9000

    They are so different ... I really like both.

    I also bought Shinobi for the PS2 some weeks ago.^^

  • Johnny, great reviews man, thank you SO much. Question about Revenge of Shinobi on Genesis...I want to track down the original version with the DC bosses. Is there anyway to tell if it's the original without playing it? Thanks!

  • @kenbefound Yes, I have the original Revenge of Shinobi. I got one of the earliest Sega genesis consoles. This is back when the core unit came with the game Altered Beast. Revenge Of Shinobi was the second game I got. In the booklet it sayes he is the District: 6 Boss. The book sayes at the bottom of page 14 *Spiderman character is 1989 Marvel Entertainment Group. They gave Spiderman a copyright, but not Batman in my user's manual.

  • Firing up my sonic genesis collection tonight

  • Are you going to this with zelda?

  • Revenge of Shinobi and Shinobi 3 Return of the Ninja Master,2 of my all time favorites!!

  • What is the game at 0:44? It's 2D and it has a character with a green pony tail jumping from one rock platform to a higher rock platform.

  • A surfing ninja that is actually cool? Now that's beyond awesome.

  • Fantastic episode again!

  • I can beet it in one quarter two, somtimes only one life

  • Revenge of shinobi... Best in the series. Still playing it!

  • Shinobi is Awesome :D

  • u could do a castlevania marathon(lol)if u didnt alredy

  • Haha, this may seem like a dumb question, but you do know that you can run in Shinobi III, right?

  • Nice review. What a trip down memory lane. I have played and won Shinobi for MS, Shinobi for GG, Revenge of Shinobi, Shadow Dancer, and Shinobi 3 for Genesis. Then I stopped playing games for years so I never got to play the Saturn and PS2 versions. I sure would love to though, my favorite series of all time.

    Shinobi 3 is my favorite and I've won it more time then I can count. I can still win it without continues to this day.

  • who reads this is cool

    youre vids rock man !!

    (XD )

  • I finished Shinobi (Arcade) on 1 credit. I'm so proud of that feat.

  • Man I love you. Shinobi is my second fav Sega franchise. I'm so glad someone is talking about it.

  • shinobi iii was kind of better than shinobi ii

  • which shinobi games have you beaten please send a message

    that goes for anyone who reads this

  • dude, your shinobi collection is awesome, though you are missing the saturn game, and also the mega drive was released in japan in 1988, just wanted to point that out

  • Epic win @ "There's another level where you're riding a surf board on the waves, fighting ninjas...how can that be a bad thing?"

  • Wow so sega took TIME with Shinobi 3 to get it absolutely perfect.

    If only they did that now (Sonic 06)

  • @kingdommasters they did finally! colors!

  • There actually was a port of the original Shadow Dancer arcade on Amiga....wasn`t a perfect adaptation of course but it was playable and i think it had all of the levels in it if memory serves

  • you missed GG shinobi on the game gear!!

  • @riceboy88 watch part 2 and you'll see it

  • Great job man. I was hooked on Shinobi in the arcade and bought an Sega Master System just for that port!

    I was also extremely happy with the Genesis game Revenge of Shinobi which brought the series to a new level of excitement for me. Shinobi III is also great.

    I was a little let down with the Shadow Dancer Genesis port compared to the great arcade counterpart which was much more like the original arcade Shinobi IMO. It was still decent, but just seemed like they could have done better IMO.

  • Meh. I liked the music on Shinobi 3 the best. It felt really upbeat, and it sounds very ninja-esque. I'd say its one of the best soundtracks on the genesis, on tier with the Sonic games and Streets of Rage games.

  • @evilmajikman I think that the best video game music overall is from the Castlevania Series, mostly Super Castlevania 4

  • Don't forget that Yuzo Koshiro did Legacy of the Wizard, the finest music on the NES! Also, he did Castlevania:Portrait of Ruin recently.

    Looking forward to Part II!

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  • Love your vids BYW!

    Great production value!

    BIG THUMBS UP

  • Did he say there was an NES version of the original shinobi,why would SEGA release it on thier competitions console?

  • There's an unlicensed port, I think

  • I love the shinobi games,Revenge of shinobi was my fav' megadrive(genesis)game,I had the version wit' spiderman & batman.I was dissapointed it wasn't included in the 360's ultimate megadrive collection,but the inclusion of shinobi 3 & the original arcade version made up 4 it somewhat.A totaly new shinobi 4 the 360 & ps3 would be amazin' if done properally!

    C'MON SEGA YOU KNOW IT MAKES SENSE!!

  • awesome review!!!!!!

  • Oh yes, Johnny - Back when 7-Eleven was a cool place to hang play arcade games while chomping on a cherry slurpee ^_^ Sega mesmerized me with the original Shinobi. I must've spent hundreds of dollars in quarters playing that game until I was able to master it from beginning to end. Dec '89 - I was 3 months into the Sega Genesis experience and learned Revenge of Shinobi had just been released. I snatched that bad boy up came home popped it in the Gen - GOD ALMIGHTY The graphics the sound superb!

  • I almost cried with joy - lol I felt Sega outdone themselves from the original Shinobi coin-op!

    Just when I thought things couldn't get any better. Shadow Dancer coin-op had me in awe ! The attaack dog feature complimented your Ninja skills - there was nothing like it in any game I ever played ! I think it was Yuzo Koshiro that got me into importing CDs in the early 1990s. The prices were steep but it was fascinating owning a video game soundtrack on a CD, at the time!

  • i love these games i did not know they made 3d ones

  • Finally yopu get to teh Shinobi Series AWESOME Cant wait for you to cover Ninja gaiden

  • Awesome video! Can someone please tell me what the game at 32 seconds in, with the mech, is??

  • I love Revenge of Shinobi! That's the only Shinobi game I ever played, but it was awesome in the Sega 6-Pack on Genesis.

  • amazing review man..off to watch part two...i never got the chance to experience Shinobi sadly

  • The classic Shinobi series is one I enjoy playing. I have only played the ones released for the Genesis. Do the carts go for a pretty penny now? I would be they do. Great review man! 5 stars for ya!

  • One of the things that should also be mentioned is that you play as Ninja Joe and not his son in the Genesis/Mega Drive version.

  • there is an amiga port of shadow dancer as well!

  • Revenge of Shinobi have got to be my favorite Genesis game. It's really the only Genesis game that I remember finishing.Going back to play it now...it's a lot harder than I remembered it.

  • ok thank you!

    And i fund a copy of shadow dancer as well in my house =P BTW panzer dragoon saga. is rare too? i got a mint one? sorry to go of topic =)

  • There was a homeport of the Shadow Dancer arcade game on the amiga 500 600 2000 and 12000

  • Two days after watching this video I strangely found a mint copy of "Shadow Dancer" at a flea market! It was a bit expensive (7.5€, for me it's a lot even if it came with box and instruction booklet) but I bought it anyway! And I'm obviously not disappointed!

  • Hey HCG

    I Just saw a copy in my home of "The Cyber shinobi" and do you know if that is in the same series as the ohter ones?

    The game was made on Sega master system (Pal)

    If you know?, please type back =)

    Thank you and love the show!

  • Ahh sweet memories!!! Arcade version rules!

  • Oh, no! He forgot the two Shinobi's on the Game Gear! (Which are really good by the way I recommend them.) Besides that great video!

  • Great Video as always mate. :) More Videos please. :) Best Wishes and Time Out. :)

  • Cool vid. Inever got into the shinobi series but I give it props for doing cool things for the action-platformer genre.

  • Awesome, Shinobi gets its moment to shine. Damn I loved this series.

  • when is part two coming? I WANNA SEE PART TWO.

  • Good video. Revenge of Shinobi was one of my favorite games. It was the first game i got when i got my genesis and for some reason i still have it. its the only video game i have left from those days.

  • Oh, no. Not Nightshade. Please not that. What a terrible way to cap off such a great series.

  • Great review. I can't wait to see what you thought of the PS2 games. :D

  • I think this is one of the best reviews you did yet.

    Rock solid.

    I was the only one of my friends who ended Shinobi arcade.

    How you ask? Because the owner gave me unlimited men. It was the only way.

    You could not continue on the end stages.

  • i wonder if alex kidd in shinobi world counts as a shinobi game?

  • Great stuff, I haven't played a Shinobi since the genesis so I'm looking foward to part II to see what they are all about!

  • LOL lets wait for part 2 maybe??

  • God some comments make me laugh so hard.

  • @HappyConsoleGamer Why in this video you use the Arcade Version of Shinobi for Sega at 1:18?

    You got me confused, graphics were not those , that's the Mame emulator Arcade version.

    Do you know if it available that Arcade version of the first Shinobi on any modern console, besides Mame emulator for PC?

    thanks

  • JHONNY YOU ROCK

  • Revenge... is one of my top five games ever! Amazing series of games. Cheers for reviewing them.

  • Awesome memories , awesome review by you Johnny!!!!I'm honored you know!

  • theres cyber shinobi for the ms aswell

  • revenge of shinobi great game apart from the sea level where you had to make a pixel perfect jump.... oh man

  • is it sad that i've spent half my life playing shinobi and never completed any of them.

  • excellent! im a huge fan of batman and i was looking for any game with him in it for a rather large review i want to do. ill have to track down that shinobi game! keep up the great work!

  • This is crazy, I played and loved Revenge of shinobi shortly after the Genesis launch, but never do I recall ever hearing of Shinobi 3, nor have I ever played it! I gotta go check it out.

  • Nice! Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi was a game I used to always play when I was...dumped in Club Med in Bali. They had a Sega Mega Drive there, and whenever the program had an empty slot where there was free time, we took turns playing through the game. I NEVER KNEW THE NAME OF THE GAME UNTIL RECENTLY! That was how much I missed it! Same went for Golden Axe.

  • Excellent review mate, I didn't really expect anything less, you are the man.

  • You got me thinking, I don't think I ever completed Revenge of Shinobi. In fact, I don't think I made it past the first couple of levels. I finished the third one many times but not the second. I knew Spiderman was in it because I remember seeing the credit to Marvel at the start but I don't remember seeing him!

  • i like the new intro :]

  • Also, I wonder if my copy is an original one with Spider Man in?o.o;

  • Only ever played Revenge of Shinobi and could never beat the first level, never played any of the others ^^;

  • sorry to correct you but there was a home version of shadow dancer for the amiga i will send you a video response of the footage

  • Exellent review so far, i love you channel, the production of your channel is amazing i love it, when i watch your channel it takes me back to been a kid again i get really excited everyime you upload a new video its just like getting anew gaming mag when i was 14! and im no 29 lol

  • Yuzo also worked wih Michiru Yamane on Castlevania Portrait Of Ruin for the DS.

    He's been everywhere.

  • @MattTheSpratt The soundtrack to that game is amazing!

  • As soon as Isaw the very I just thought, "oh, they ripped off ninja turtles...."

  • Haha, yeah thought that too, but they're both great games.

  • Hey, how could you leave out Shinobi Legions (Shinobi X) on the Saturn? That game was awesome! There are also a couple original Shinobi games on the Game Gear that don't show up in your line-up there.

  • I guess I'll wait for part 2 to see. The titles I mentioned aren't in your little box display, but I hope you won't neglect them.

  • Tgis review is only part 1, part 2 is coming, maybe it wil be on there.

  • Love the music after the intro. I used to leave the title screen and wait for that music on revenge of shinobi.

  • Hey! Your missing Shinobi X for the Sega Saturn :)

  • An excellent review as always Johnny. I've only ever played Shinobi III. I've played it on the sega genesis collection for the PS2. It is definitely an awesome game even if the last two levels are very annoying.

  • I live in Europe in the U.K. and I have shadow dancer on the master system and it's slower than the arcade but still works out well GREAT VIDEO!!! 5 Stars

  • Man you TOTALLY ROCK! I am a HUGE Shinobi fan, I'm so happy you're making episodes on them! Shinobi III being my personal favorite of all time, I'Ve played them ALL except Nightshade T_T I still can't find it, maybe someday I'll order it on Ebay from a friend of something. Good Episode man! :D

  • Shinobi III is awesome. I wish Sega included Revenge of Shinobi on the ultimate genesis collection.

  • I like Yuzo Koshiro but he butchered the Beyond Oasis and Legend of Oasis games.

  • you really know your games. every time i watch your videos im just blown away at you knowledge of these things

  • Not to be picky but I don't see shinobi legions in your collection. You might cover it in the next part thou idk.

  • Man I remember playing the arcade as well man! 5/5. This is gonna be a great set of videos!

  • Awesome series....the only arcade cab I own and have ever owned is Shinobi....awesome game and brings back so many gas station memories....my cab is pretty rough but the board still looks great...maybe time for a project...

  • Hay happy gamer would you mind telling me what the wresteling game that is your intro is named thanks

  • Saturday Night Slam Masters. It was an arcade game ported to the genesis

  • ive been wondering what the name of those games were. i played the third one when i was little and i loved it.

  • AWESOME!! This is seriously one of if

    not THE best "series history" episode in HCG history!! I also had no idea Yūzō Koshiro did Shinobi 2! I really enjoyed this look back at Shinobi! Great episode!

  • Awesome!  Shinobi is a great series. I was going to look at some Shinobi games, but I guess I'll hold off for a little while :)

  • Awesome as usual dude!

  • wow great video looks like you put a lot of time in to this video and i cant wait for part 2

  • Great review HCG! I never realized that Batman and Spiderman are in the game too. That's really interesting that Sega put them in there without Marvel's permission.

  • Sweet I have Revenge of Shinobi for Genesis but I never noticed Yūzō Koshiro did the music in it. It was pretty good music. Not sure if it's as good as Streets of Rage but that's damn good music!

  • Can't wait for part 2....

  • weres Shinobi game gear. I still own it.

  • dude nightshade I so said you should review that game before when i messaged you thank you man!

  • know what else same with Eswat also there was acarde version and a rework genesis version But I do like both shadow dancer.

  • Hmm, I got Shinobi, Revenge of Shinobi and Shadow Dancer on my Sega Mega-Tech...

    Never played it though.

    After seeing this, I definitely will!

  • I think Yuzo Koshiro only did a small part of the music for Brawl

  • Personally, I like Shinobi 3 the best. Haven't tried most of them, though.

  • @anupsanju

    You don't really need to try any others. Shinobi III really was the best one.

  • Jeez, all I did was say Shinobi 3 was my favorite out of the Shinobi games that I've tried so far. Kinda harsh to give me a thumbs down just because of that. :(

  • thank you so much for making this video and reminding me why you're my favorite video game show on youtube.

  • what game is 0:31??

  • Awesome video man! I remember playing this a lot... My first Shinobi game was Shadow Dancer, that dog was awesome xD

    Can't wait to see part 2!

  • what about the NES shinobi ?

  • Despite owning a Genesis growing up I never got into this series, sadly. Looks really awesome.

  • Extremely competent video this. Awesome work!

  • you bought back a lot of memories for me!...what is your next series review?

  • Great vid. Gonna go back and play Shinobi and Shadow Dancer through MAME.

  • Now ou are reviewing one of my favorite series of games. I'm partial to ninja games and these are very well done.

  • I notice your display is missing the Saturn Shinobi & the Game Gear Shinobis. You aren't going to leave those ones out are you?

  • Kick ass review! :)

  • You had an awesome childhood.

  • great vid as always love the shinobi series and thanks for introducing me to some really cool channels in your other recent vids

  • amazing video, great work! I've got a very soft spot for the shinobi franchise, especially the original arcade game and its master system conversion, so I've really loved this first part :)

  • I have shinobi 3 on genesis

  • Glad to see some game reviews again man.

  • Epic videos man! and i missed some of those shinobi games and looks like i missed out big time! i will have to check them out.

  • i almost bought shinobi on ps2 the other day

  • I may be alone in this, but Shadow Dancer was my favorite in the series. It's a shame it wasn't in Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection :(

  • The PCE version was also missing the sword. :(

  • Awesome!!

  • Koshiro is a genius. His music in Super Adventure Island is sublime.

    Great video, looking forward to the second!

  • Cyber Shinobi on the Sega Master System was my favourite It was badasss :D

  • cant wait for part 2 this was a great episode

  • Revenge is my favorite too and the music is better however the surfing level on Shinobi 3 has one of the best soundtracks on the megadrive/genesis

  • Recently went to vancover and spent a whole day tracking down game deals just so i could take a look!

  • hey i wasnt to sure whether to point this out but on the desk your missing Shinobi X for the sega saturn (also it might have a different name in america im english)

  • This was awesome. I still tendo to play shinobi and shonibi 3 on my ultimate collection

  • i loved shinobi i loved and hated the sms one great game but there was no ending that so pissed me off and i bet it on one life just to make sure there wasnt an ending. revenge of shinobi was my fav too i had the original i didnt know that marvel dc thing if i did i would have kept it

  • OMFG YES MY FAVORITE SERIES OF ALL TIME You are finally reviewing it haha I have been waiting for this hahaha

  • N1 Review i can´t wait for part 2!

    One of the best games for genesis

    I love the stylish art and movements of this game reminds me a bit for ninja gaiden

  • Revenge Of Shinobi is one of my all time favourite Mega Drive games, truly a fantastic action adventure that still holds up. Loving the retrospective Johnny! :)