The Revenge of Shinobi (Genesis) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
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- A playthough of Sega's 1989 ninja-themed action-platformer for the Sega Genesis, The Revenge of Shinobi.
Played through on the normal difficulty level. I got the good ending in this playthrough, but at 37:36 I included the bad ending.
The Revenge of Shinobi (or "The Super Shinobi" in Japan) was the sequel to Sega's 1987 arcade game "Shinobi," and as a title designed specifically for the Sega Genesis, it featured a fair number of changes to make it better suited to the home console format.
Shinobi itself was an excellent game, but on the NES and Master System, it did come across as a bit insubstantial. The Revenge of Shinobi, however, added quite a bit to the original formula. Stages are now much larger and somewhat less linear, and the mechanics are better fleshed out. Joe has his standard shurikens at his disposal but he can also now fling them in a spread shot from a double jump, and he has his choice of several magic spells with a wide assortment of effects, ranging from life gauge refills to the destruction of everything on-screen in an instant.
The Revenge of Shinobi is no slouch in its difficulty, but instead of demanding twitch-reflexes to the extent than Shinobi did, Revenge requires a bit more strategy and planning. Plotting the optimal path though a stage and knowing when to defend and when to attack are much more important in this one - especially when it comes to the extraordinarily difficult boss sequences. Once you learn the patterns, the strategies become clear, but the game makes you fight tooth-and-nail to make progress. It's not quite as hard as Ninja Gaiden, but by the time you manage to clear that merciless final stage, you'll feel like Rocky as he finally reaches the top of the mountain.
But speaking of Rocky, The Revenge of Shinobi is loaded with a ton of fun (albeit unlicensed) cameos of stars from comics and 80s action movies - Rambo shows up as a standard enemy, and The Terminator, Godzilla, Batman, and Spider-man all show up to lay down some pain in the boss encounters, and Sonny Chiba's mug adorns these title screen demo. Way back, this was some exciting stuff to find in a game, and it's still extremely cool to come across it all now.
And finally, it would be unfair to not address the presentation when talking about Revenge of Shinobi. This was one of the first releases for the Sega Genesis at the end of 1989, and it blew away most of its direct competition on the system that year. The 2D graphics are stunning for a home game of the time - the sprites were huge and colorful, the level of detail in the backgrounds was second-to-none, and animation was far more fluid than we had ever seen in the 8-bit era. In avoiding the gimmicky tricks of games like Super Thunder Blade and Space Harrier, The Revenge of Shinobi has aged far more gracefully than many of its contemporaries, and not being a port of an arcade game (like Golden Axe or Ghouls'n Ghosts) allowed it to avoid feeling like a scaled-back, cut-down version of a game meant for more powerful hardware. In this way, The Revenge of Shinobi reminds me a lot of ActRaiser on the SNES. The sound design does much the same for the game, in large part thanks to Yuzo Koshiro's amazing work on the soundtrack... and coincidentally enough, he also was responsible for ActRaiser's music ;) The music is a unique mix of traditional Japanese instruments and composition tropes infused with a heavy American rock aesthetic, and the result is one of the best soundtracks to ever blare from the Genesis's FM synth chip. Shakushachis and kotos mixed with heavy guitar, synth brass, and 80s-style power drums might sound iffy on paper, but Koshiro's work speaks for itself here. And when it kicks into its occasional fits of dance hall music, holy hell. That's something to behold. Stage 4-2's theme is in a league of its own.
The Revenge of Shinobi was one of the earliest Sega Genesis games to truly show the potential of the new 16-bit hardware back in 1989, and it is a true testament to the quality of its design that when the system was retired nearly ten years later, RoS still had the distinction of being one of the platform's best games.
Amazing stuff.
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This soundtrack has lived rent free in my head for like 20 years
30 years for me 😅😅
Same man.
When it's crunch time at work, the labyrinth music plays in my head and I get shit done in no time.
"My lover" is my favorite
It's so hypnotic and beautiful
20 years ?????? Jesus i'm old.
Where else are you going to find a ninja fighting Rambo, a Hulk Terminator, Batman, Spiderman, Godzilla, a night club ninja, and a brain in a vat to save his lady? Nowhere but Shinobi, baby! Love this game!
And kunoichi nuns!
While enjoying the masterpiece soundtrack while surfing the good and old nostalgia from those who were kids back there like myself ❤️🙏😎
& the Main Character himself is Sonny Chiba.
Dont forget Bruce Lee
Loooool
The into of the game with the Ninja blocking the stars is awesome 👌
That ninja is modeled after Sonny Chiba too.
I think, its Sho Kosugi
@@MrZillas Sonny Chiba from one of his many movies. I mean look at all the rest of the IPS's this game ripped off on it's first revision, Spiderman, Batman, Terminator, Rambo, Godzilla amongst them.
@@johngriswold4303 sadly Sonny Chiba died of COVID-19
@@Bloodreign1 Spider-Man wasn't really a rip-off, Sega had the license for it back then, hence why he was never changed until 1994 when the license expired.
My favorite Genesis game of all time. Nothing beats this soundtrack.
Composed by Yuzo Koshiro, who later did the score for Super Adventure Island, ActRaiser, Beyond Oasis and Streets Of Rage. What’s your favorite Yuzo Koshiro score?
@@danalong1237, my favorite score was the Streets of Rage series.
@@danalong1237 ActRaiser!
Actually shinobi 3 had a way better soundtrack and streets of rage
@@danalong1237 ,Streets of Rage and Shinobi for sure
Sega finished out 1989 with a barrage of amazing new 16-bit titles, but Joe Musashi's first console-exclusive title might just be the very best one of the bunch. It's hard to overstate just what an impact this game made!
Couldn't have said it better myself! Shame later releases had to make the licensed characters look more like expies - Though Sega managed to acquire the rights for Spider-Man for a while.
It's definitely tough, in a rewarding way!
And as a further testament you're playing these games legitimately without cheats, are that death in Stage 3 while making use of the Mijin Ninjutsu. Other examples I can think off the top of my head are in the Beauty and the Beast game for SNES, Marvel Land and Wolverine: Adamantium Rage.
@@jasonmorgan661 No, I didn't - I gave this vid a like.
@@jasonmorgan661 Me? Why would I? Lol
Didn’t make more games Sagar
I think say goes dead I think Saegers dead
I think this game really encapsulate the charm of the Genesis.
I had it on a 6 to 1 cartridge with Sega Soccer, Columns, Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Monaco GP, Streets of Rage and this. Really a great cartridge that really shows all the greatness of the console
I got this on one of my Mega Games cartridges (think it is the second one).
Six Pack
My Six Pack had Sonic 1, Revenge of Shinobi, Streets of Rage, Columns, Super Hang-On, and Golden Axe.
Yup, I had a six-pack which had this, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage, Columns (lamest), Super Hang-On and Sonic… It came with my Genesis
@@bigdaddyjh2002 had this same exact cartridge , it came with the Genesis 2nd model , the “slim” one. Great hand me down gift from my pops!
As a retro gamer how could you not love REVENGE OF SHINOBI, it's a classic and has its spot in the retro gaming hall of fame. This game rocks 💪😎
36:58 damn, those retro visuals with authentic synthwave music is so pure. *love it!*
It's not Synthwave. Synthwave is modern slop that sounds like what an 11 year old thinks the 80's were like.
This game blew my mind as a young fella...incredible graphs, music and outlandish bosses, so addictive and fun.
It may be 30 years old (and I turned 36 on Friday) but hearing Terrible Beat is a classic Boss Theme I can still get behind.
38 here and this nostalgia is gold ❤️
1 more year and you'll be 40...
@@gnggng.All approaching that age now
It does has a Terrible Beat.
It is a classic
R i p to the actor of the game start cover, Sonny Chiba
this game was super impressive for being made in 89. the graphics, level design, gameplay design and bosses were all really well made
16:30 this level had a double "Life" package you could pick up(was in a suicide spot) which means you could pick them up, die which would restart the level and keep farming lives forever lol. i found out as an 8 something year old the bonus lives you could stack went up to 99
i never finished the game because i always got lost in the final level which seems like a maze even now and there was no saving your progress for the next session
All I remember about this game, which is one of the first games I remember playing, is how hard it seemed to me as a kid. I didn't even know what any of the icons meant and died over and over. Still, great memory.
Same
i never got past 10 minues!
Back in the day, this was like one of the best games you could get. Excellent graphics, great gameplay, and a killer soundtrack.
Ahhh the memories as a kid back in the late 80s early 90s... played the hell outta this game!
this was the golden age of video games and arcades. the final boss was a freak that whipped his hair, never got to the end. I always played it at someone else's house
Perfect soundtrack, perfect gameplay, perfect graphics. This game was made with such care and it shows, and it will for decades to come. Probably the best Genesis game ever.
I had Revenge of Shinobi in early 90s on my Mega Drive. I remember, I played Revenge on Shinobi in our local German department store, people surrounded me and watched me play it through! :D I was also often in the arcades around this time (during the 90s) and had a quite a bunch of of people gathering around me watching me play Mortal Kombat 3, Street Fighter 2/3, Killer Instinct and more. 16bit are the greatest gaming times!
This game right here was what put on the path of the Shinobi for life. I'm currently 33 years old, but man this game is always special for me. Good gameplay!
Me too man, 38 here and when I started playing again on a Xbox one emulator I almost cried. ❤️
The Chinatown track is still one of my favorites from Yuzo Koshiro. Loved the level too because I use to go to Chinatown here in Chicago, IL.
my childhood!! Took me ages to master double jump!!
I remember the wind blowing the leaves and the parallax scrolling blew me away!
Yep. And loved it even more in Shinobi 3.
i remember watching my mom play this for hours. that intro is still fire
I played this game 10 years later after is realease in Sega Genesis, and it still felt epic.
Took me 30 years to finally beat the game! (thank you Nintendo to put this game on the Nintendo Switch Online! I coukd fonally beat it with the saving data point whenever we want). It did make my day!!!
my childhood man this brings back memories! I'll be 45 this year wish I can go back. That final boss with the flat iron perm with tho used to tear me up! lol
This game was one of my first games. I played it in '99 when I was only 3 years old. Such good times!
This was the Genesis game that made me want the console so badly...literally just the opening had me freaking out so badly "it looks so real!"
True definition of walkthrough. Made it look easy
This game is full badassness. I've tried to play it recently and it seems harder than when I was a kid.
same here. and I played in easy
And what about the sea stage 🤬🤬🤣🤣🤣
same!
Get's significantly easier with practice. I guess that could be said about a lot of games from that era, but memorization is especially key for this one
This game inspired me when I was a little kid. I loved ninjas. Every halloween and in between I'd dress up as one. The greatest time during my childhood was after the Mortal Kombat movie. I used to play Reptiles theme song on repeat and run around the room like a madman. Good times.
This game brings back memories. I was like 10 yrs old and my dad bought me a sega genesis and it came with 3 games and this was one of them. I definitely played the shit of it after school each day.
This was heaven back there. Mega Drive was like have an Arcade in your living room while most people were playing Super Mario on a 8 bit console. Top 5 Gênesis games right here and also brilliant sound tracks ever
26:43 Spiderman turns into Batman. xD
This game is full of cameos. There is a T-800 Terminator, Godzilla, Spider-man, Batman and alot of Rambo clones armed with flamethrowers. The guy dressed as a Ninja at the title screen is none other than Sonny Chiba, the Japanese actor famous for his various Ninja roles in Japanese and American movies back in the 80s and 90s.
Actually Kung fu movies(bizarre cause he IS actually Japanese) but there were ninja movies also which starred an actor named Sho Kosugi. He and his son later did voices in the Tenchu games also.
@@ShadowMoon878 how did they not get copyright infringement? did sega somehow pay for all those cameos? the other cameos seem slightly off but close, where the spiderman is far too accurate. this if my first time ever seeing this much of this game, i wasnt a sega fan back in the day.
@@tigerroadperformance Sega would make revisions to the game that would cut out copyright characters, except Spiderman. Sega at the time had the license to Spiderman games, so they put a copyright notice before the title screen, and voila, the rest is history.
dafaq i just watch.
The idea of A shirtless Terminator whos skin turns green like Hulk- throwin car parts at you is bad ass. Me bein a Terminator guy, i love that. I noticed his resemblance to Arnold growin up but i didnt realize that it was originally designed to be Terminator. And i respect this game much more now than i did when i was a kid therefore.
This game has been on my mind as a recurring memory for over 20 years. I just happened to search "Sega ninja game" and here we are.
Some jumps are so damn hard!! Thank God for the rewind feature in the sega collection 😅
They even had the local sun make an appearance at the end. The creators were clearly geniuses and awake before most.
masterpiece! even now i don't feel the graphic is old.
Sprites age like fine wine, polygons age like milk.
@@Bloodreign1 I'm looking specifically at the PS1, N64 and Saturn, because they aged like cream cheese compared to the NES, SNES and Mega Drive!
@@dinohermann1887 Agreed, but sprites on the PS1 and Saturn look amazing!
@@Bloodreign1 Haha, great comment, my thoughts exactly! Sprites > Polygon based games!
I love how dramatic and foreboding the first level theme is. Really fits with the “Japanese forest at night” setting and is definitely a welcome break from the stereotypical “Asian” music that most video game levels with that setting tend to use.
One of my favorite genesis games of all time. Boss music was so sick and gameplay was phenomenal.
Man these fucking sound effects take me screaming back to a time when I would ditch school for the old Mega Drive games.
Thank you for sharing, didn't get pass the first stage back then.
This ninja has some serious skills, taking on marvel, DC, skynet... and to think about all the copy right infringement lawsuits... probably the most expensive game in history
I remember when I was still on elementary school how I was looking forward to checkout this game with a friend. Each Friday afternoon during school half time break I could stay at his place and he had an Mega Drive with Shinobi!
Most of the time when we got at his place there we like 10 min left to play in order to get back to school.. so I never actually go enough time to really play them. But I enjoyed to briefly look and just wait for next week to take another look:P
Thanks for the upload bro, really bring my childhood happiness back
The music was perfect
I had forgotten how amazing and time correct the music was.
Thank God no commentary!!
That's interesting. I hear from many people that say they enjoy non-commentary streams and play through videos.
I remember I started streaming God of War without a mic and many people told me they enjoyed it more that way.
Remember watching my older brother and his mate play it so much that I was physically sick on te carpet during the water level. Great nostalgia though ✌️
This was one of my favorite games as a kid for my Sega. I hated it at first because I thought it was to hard but as I got older I loved it
29:14 ahhhhhh this beat stuck in my head since childhood.
Thanks for the posting the video.
😊😊😊😊😊
Been playin this sense it came out on the Sega six pack back in the dayy 🤺
Absolutely iconic intro, though I could barely get to level 3 😄.
All 3 Shinobi games on the Genesis are amazing. The original Shinobi on the Master System was great for the 8-bit Era. This is one of Sega's best frachises up there with Sonic, Streets of Rage, and Golden Axe series'
Loved playing this on the mega drive yrs ago great fun
I absolutely LOVED THIS GAME & Soundtrack back in the day. Omg this brings back so many amazing memories. I love the slow song in the Playlist.
Ya'll talking about how good is the Music. this game has the best sound effects in a side scroller, that power-up sound!
The final boss always creeped me out, the twisted and creepy grand master fighting you with his hair while your forced to watch the ceiling slowly coming down on your girlfriend, knowing she will intact die if your not fast enough.
I never understood why he throws his hair. Never could dodge it either.
You get 1 reprieve if you have trouble killing him quickly, a switch in the wall on the left, or right, brings the ceiling in the cell up a bit, giving you a little more time to finish the last boss. Of course that only works once, so if you are too slow, the girl dies.
you get infinite shurikins if you set it to double 00 and then wait for like 30 secs to 1 min and it will make a noise and turn into the infinite symbol
Kids will NEVER know how dope video games were to us 80s and 90s babies!!
1989 saw 3 generations of gaming at once with the Genesis coming out, the original NES, and the Atari 2600 still going. Great times 👍
Fighting the last boss while he’s laughing trying to keep your girlfriends alive was my first ever anxiety attack
Excellent playthrough! I have always been a fan of Nintendo but this game is awesome and one of the best platform ever. The soundtrack is simply outstanding. This is art.
The music on this game is amazing.
Version 1.0 is the original and best with all the IP ripoffs for characters and bosses before they had to change them.
The bad thing it’s impossible to know what version you get
I remember going to my moms friends house with her and playing this on her sons Sega Saturn CD when I was 8 years old-ish. Finally found it!
I have always wanted to beat this game. Last boss gets me everytime.
This, golden axe, dick tracey, streets of rage, mortal kombat, and this sonic 2 in 1 were my child hood. I was 8 when i got a gamecube, but i still played my sega until it finally died when i was in middleschool (mom got it before i was born)
Surprised how well these games hold up compared to a lot of early 2000's releases
Damn right!
Some sound effects were in streets of rage in this game
Damn .... 20 years ago ... Childhood was Paradise 😞😞♥️♥️♥️😎😎
20 years? More like 33 years.
I remember in like 3rd grade, my homie Andrew would let me hold his sega games because i was late to the video game world and only had 2 games. He was this cool asian kid who had all the best games and this was one of them. I didnt know what i had ny hands on at the time. I wonder whatever happened to that kid
He became the shinobi.
I remember playing this when I was 3 years old. There was this ninja guy who blocked something with a sword and there was a boss that changed colors the more you hit it. Glad to see my memory was on the money. 😂
Revenge of Shinobi (The Super Shinobi) is ABSOLUTELY AWESOME and STUNNINGLY AMAZING
On the mega drive with ABSOLUTELY STUNNING Graphics and Gameplay 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
Honestly, the soundtrack for this game was and still is top notch!!! I hope they erase that Saturn version and make a new Shinobi 4 for all platforms today.
I think there was one on 3DS that was supposed to be to be kind of mediocre
I always remember this game. I played this when i was still in my kindergarten uniform. But unfortunately i never been able to finish this game as i always lost in those labyrinth doors in stage 8
Level 1 soundtrack takes me back to age 9 with crystal clarity.
Also, I personally never went near level 2 wthout the boo-boop jumping turned on. You have my respect.
Shinobi one of the best Mega Drive / Genesis game 🕹👍
came to watch this video game after hearing the news about the death of my brother, because I remember when i used to be a kid i used to always watch him play this game on SEGA, so i thought it's a good way to remember him
The furthest i rember seeing this too was against the Dinosaur/Godzilla as thats as far as my brother got. I always had to use infite shurikens. 1st time ive seen the ending
I could not beat the final stage, this game has balls. ❤
I had this game on my Genesis. Have it on my PS4. I think I have it on my Xbox 360 too. I've never beaten the game. This is the first time I've seen the ending in 32 years.
Thank you for your expert play.
I have this game on “Sega Genesis Classics” for the PS4 and also on Sega CD five game compilation disc.
I remember always putting 00 for the number of shurikens and wait till it shrinks and turn into the infinite sign
One of best game of all times
26:28 I totally forgot Spider-Man was a boss lmao
Me too lol
Spider-Man/Batman, Godzilla, Terminator, a brain in a jar. They don't make em like they used to
@@GreenyFoolbrain in a jar. You mean Krang, right?
Incredible soundtrack!
i Loved this game... Thanks a lot!
25 years later it stills bothers me that when you kill the bad guys they explode and dissapear instead of just laying dead
Possibly due to technical limitations. The Genesis (and pretty much every other home video game system) could only handle so many sprites on the screen at once. Sometimes they’d cheat by converting sprite based graphics to background tiles and vice versa, but this had its own set of limitations (background images would sometimes have “bounding boxes” around the edges that made them appear jagged and blocky).
@@leroyvisiongames2294 your are the best! Thanks for that info its very logical , those doubts that one kept since childhood has been answered! Thanks again buddy!
@@leroyvisiongames2294 Tell that to robocop vs terminator, people literally turned inside out and exploded in a gush of guts and spray when you so much as shot them in the toe LOL
Revenge of Shinobi is definitely one of the hardest yet incredible titles for the Genesis! Though the cart I got is pretty much like this, it's the version where Rambo's bald (Though the flamethrower and bandanna make him look like Drake from Aliens) and Batman's replaced by the Devilman expy. However, the expies of Terminator, Spider-Man and Godzilla are unaltered. (Though in Spidey's case, Sega DID get the rights to use him in most of the later releases)
Pooichi
I still have this somewhere from back when along with shadow dancer ,
I vaguely recall being able to jump into the machine with the brain in the jar and giving it a few hits with the sword
I remember i got the worst ending the first time and i thought to myself, well thats it. The game was tough. Played many years after to get the best ending.
There is actually a trick to make that last battle a lot easier. Do you see that black "gap" in the wall on the left side of the room? If you throw a shuriken/dagger into that hole, it greatly slows down the speed of the descending ceiling, giving you a lot more time to beat the boss.
@ 0:58 I remember the year 19XX. That was the year that we made contact with beings from Saturn, Jerry Springer almost became President of the U.S., and Pizza Pockets were declared the healthiest food on the planet. Good times.
Excellent playthrough as usual.
Tyvm!
My favorite memory of gaming on a Saturday night
I played this as a kid and never made it past the waterfall level, never knew there was so much more after that id never got to see
I loved this game growing up.
The last stage is such a hell
Almost impossible without a guide!
I’m from back in the day and believe it or not that’s how I got through over a decade later in the late 2000’s after losing it in 95.
Ah, back in the day...
This game is legendary but we're all blinded by nostalgia with it as those controls are incredibly stiff and the checkpoints incredibly unforgiving.
The checkpoints were perfectly consistent with 8 and 16 bit difficulty curves, and the controls were fine. If the platforming is what pissed you off, just turn on the boo-boop jumping and take a chill pill. I got a little dry towards then end, sorry.
Coolest game ever.
Love this game! Shadow run sega genesis version was my favorite.
I see you were quick enough that you didn't have to use the "shuriken jamming" trick in the final battle.
I’m 23 years old and I had alotta late nights with this baby game was Hella fun