There was a point in time in the U.S. when Revenge of Shinobi's soundtrack was arguably the best video game soundtrack ever created for any home console ever. The SNES hadn't been released yet, and there were not too many games available on the Genesis yet. My friend and I ditched afternoon classes to go buy the game and play it at my house, and we never got past the first level. We just sat there, dumbstruck, listening to the stage one music over and over and over.
@@tommylakindasorta3068 Yeah, video game soundtracks were magical back then. Now it all sounds like generic action movie music. The soundtrack that blew me away back then was Super Castlevania IV.
Definitely one the golden jewels of the pre-Sonic Genesis library. It, along with Strider, Ghouls 'n' Ghosts, Castle of Illusion, Thunder Force 3 and MUSHA made the Genesis a must-own for any arcade gaming fan back then and represented the closest we've been to arcade at home up to that point. Going from NES to this level of graphics and sound at home was simply incredible. I was in love with the Genesis from the minute I saw it a friends' house and they booted up Altered Beast for me. The system hardware itself looked so so incredibly cool for the time too... and the ergonomic 3 button pad! I was obsessed with Sega and getting one of my own after that. I didn't have enough money to buy it until shortly after Sonic came out though. Sonic is another game that made a huge impression and cemented my love for Sega. Sonic was a pack-in, but Revenge of Shinobi was the first Genesis game that I bought. Streets of Rage was the second and was another mind blower. Those were some awesome times! Thanks for brining back those memories for me with your vid!
This is one of my favorite Genesis games. Fighting Batman disguised as Spiderman is one of the greatest memories from my childhood. While I have to agree on a technical level that Shinobi 3 is a better game, it will never top the sheer nostalgia and pure zany madness of Revenge of Shinobi. Awesome stuff.
I had this game soon after it was released. I LOVED it. I spent countless hours playing this amazing game. One of my all time favorites. I had the version that included Spiderman, Godzilla, and Rambo. But, Batman was replaced by the bat creature guy.
Revenge of Shinobi heck yeah! Easily, the best early Genesis game, and should have been the pack-in title instead of Altered Beast. Deserves to be in the same league of recognition alongside MMX, Alien Soldier, Hagane etc, fantastic game. It's challenging as hell but very rewarding to master, I recommend learning where all the secret items are and playing the game trying to keep your power-up using the shield if you have to because they tear up the bosses. This series is sadly ignored by the masses because of course, it's not Castlevania or Mega Man, but honestly go figure is anyone surprised? Love both franchises but Shinobi all day for me.
The only thing about this game is no sprint ability, but they fixed that in Shinobi 3. ROV is an 1989 game, so I can understand why there would be limitations back then.
The 1987 first installment is one of my favorite games of all time. I live near the coast and a travelling 'carnival' would roll into town during school holidays with various arcade games. When there was a strong wind off the sea i could hear the games from a good distance away and couldn't wait to get there to play Shinobi.
I imported my Megadrive, I think in 89, from Japan and it came with Shinobi. Loved the graphics and the music. It was like lightyears ahead of everything I had seen before.
Just had a Shinobi session a few hours ago... The soundtrack is fabulous and Stereo Audio was a big deal back then that my childhood TV couldn't handle. 😎
this game is perfection to me. i don't see anything wrong with it at all. And that's simply because it's just so freakin fun! there's an intellectual skill that's involved with it in the sense that you actually have to think about how it is you must proceed in order to advance through each level unscathed, as opposed to just being a fast paced run and slash like its third installment. for this reason i truly think it's the best one in the series. don't get me wrong, shinobi 3 is a fantastic game, but it's simply not as engaging as its predecessor in my opinion. And i couldn't have said it better myself when you said it captures the quintessence of the system during the late 80's. it just carries that beautiful... raw arcade pizza shop feeling and sprite work that makes you want to hang it up on your wall and just stare at it in appreciation.
Spot on. This was a GAME CHANGER for 10 year old me and all my friends when the Genesis was first acquired by a mutual friend. It really felt like an arcade game at home. And Shinobi was so fucking unforgiving, so having this version be so OP was really nice in the NES "hard for no reason" era
I had just gotten a NES (late to the party) a few months before this game came out and I knew I didn't have the money to get one so I lived vicariously through my more affluent friends...I actually never played RoS until I got the Sega Genesis collection on the Switch.
I got a Mega SG earlier this year as I missed out on a lot of Mega Drive games growing up (mostly a Nintendo kid until the Saturn came out). This was my first purchase, and after playing it through I have to as it is in my top 5 Genesis games. It's just stellar. Thanks for the great overview!
The Skeleton Dinosaur in place of Godzilla was actually on a cartridge. My first introduction to Revenge of Shinobi was through 6-Pak which as the name suggests has 6 Sega Genesis games in one cart. I'm surprised that was the rom they ended up using for the Wii Virtual Console.
That 6 Pak ACTUALLY had the 4th revision of the game (revision 2 was the most common back when it launched outside Japan... Batman and Rambo got axed on that revision, it was a miracle to find a revision 1 were you could find Batman and Rambo in the game, revision 3 only added the Spider-Man Copyright, revision 4 replaced Godzilla with the skeleton dinosaur and revision 5... which is the Wii re-release onwards, recolored Spider-Man... of all pop-culture characters that appeared in the game, The Terminator was the sole survivor of this funny not respecting copyright stuff).
@@PikangsFutaba I got a good chuckle to see Terminator in the game. I haven't booted up my genesis in years, but I think there was even a Spider-Man copyright mentioned in the game which made me wonder when I'll see the character.
Have fun it's a phenomenal game, challenging as hell but keep pushing forward, it's rewarding to get better at it. Master the double jump and the 90 degree knife throw.
@@retrosoul8770 Thanks. It's kicking my butt so far. Tough game but never felt cheated by cheap game mechanics. It's one of those games where I just need to get better. Will keep at it!
I forgot to mention that in case you haven't noticed yet, there are these hidden power up boxes all throughout the game. But sadly they're not in the most intuitive locations so I'd just google a video showing where all of them are haha, they're super useful! Extra ninjutsu and such. Also you may want to use a guide to get through the maze at the end haha, it's pretty insane, probably the only real flaw of the game.
This is an absolutely YES. Fantastic game. Great video as always. A couple of notes: You don’t collect spells. Any of the four ninja magics is selectable from the start with limited usage, usually once per life/stage. Also, the Labyrinth stage is actually pretty bad unless you’ve brushed up on Japanese numbers, which will give you a clue if you’re heading in the right direction (unsure if this was modified in later versions but it hasn’t been in my cartridge).
This is like the 4th or 5th Genesis game I played I think, at the time I didn't own a Genesis I actually would rent the system and games. This one almost convinced me not to wait for the SNES. Just a fantastic game in my opinion.
I was a Nintendo kid growing up, but the one time I rented a Genesis from Blockbuster I got this and it absolutely blew me away. I almost converted, then SNES came out and well...
Despite you owned a SNES as a kid I think it's great you can point out how the other consoles of that era had great games. Sadly many other big TH-camrs have remained ignorant fanboys. Keep up the good work!
SNESdrunk is an amazing TH-cam channel, the content is relevant and fun for me and oddly enough every day I watch I end up having a great rest of my day... Unfortunately SNESdrunk doesn't seem to beg for subs or likes like most channels out there so you're gonna have to subscribe to this one any way you can. 💗
AHHHHH glorious Revenge of Shinobi, Sega 1989. And you've forgot the most important complaint to be made about the game, the Godzilla stage part 1. That jump... let it haunt all of our collective childhood's and retro gaming adulthood's as well, that and the final boss fight if lacking on lives can be also a pain. And you're definitely right, Yuzo Koshiro was The Man, right before the works of Rare, Koji Kondo on Mario games and Nobuo Uematsu in Final Fantasy, than him was the evolution of music in old 68000 sound chips and I'd argue equally as important for SFC sound formats off Snes.
Happy to see that you like this game. It's one of my favorites on the Genesis and one of the first games I got for it back in 1990. It can be brutally difficult and the final maze stage SUCKS, but it's a great game overall.
Yup, at my country there was a point were ONE gaming magazine of that time had to make a very detailed map of the maze that an old woman asked as she was used to play the game with her grandson, it was a blessing for said old woman and everyone who used to buy those gaming magazines back then were TH-cam wasn't a thing.
I love this game. I still own a copy of the 1.0 version. I always used to pretend the first boss was Shedder from TMNT. The you had the Bruce Lee dudes, the Rambos, The Hulkinator, Spider-Man, Batman, Godzilla.... so awesome.
Sega sort out a SHINOBI COLLECTION. It could have the original versions of the games plus new remakes of some, it not all of the games. The remakes could have new aesthetics and enhanced music and sound plus tweaks to gameplay and controls. Classic/Retro Game Collection's with Remakes isn't a bad idea, we probably need to see more of them...A Shinobi collection would be great, I would buy it without thinking.
Yep, this and the arcade original are (in my mind) THE two definitive titles of the franchise. III(1993) is good, but in my neighbourhood everyone had already sold their Genesis to buy an SNES, and I never played III until a year ago on Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection (thus, it just doesn't have anywhere near the same appeal to me as II does).
even though the first streets of rage was released in 1991, it still feels like 80s Sega and a companion to this game. playing one of them always makes me want to play the other right after.
Man, so many of the games in this series are so cool aesthetically and gameplay wise. The ps2 and 3ds entries are also awesome. I hope we get a retro throwback version of it sometime soon, maybe made by wayfoward or inti creates
This game is known as The Super Shinobi in Japan, and the boss fights is the one that I remember in this game though. The title screen features Sonny Chiba from the Japanese TV series Kage no Gundan (in the Virtual Console version, the title screen was altered to look less like Chiba) The inclusion of Spider-Man was a cross-promotion for the arcade game Spider-Man: The Videogame.
This one and Shinobi 3 are my favorite Genesis Games, played them back when I was a little boy and beat the hell out of them, really difficult, that last labyrinth level is hell.
The Spider-Man turning into Batman thing is actually a reference to Kamen Rider. The first two enemies that the original Kamen Rider fought were Kumo Otoko and Komori Otoko, whose names literally translate to "Spider Man" and "Bat Man" respectively (and yes, Toei did eventually get the rights to the actual Spider-Man). Since then, several more seasons would reference them by having the first enemy be spider themed and the second be bat themed.
I just bought this a week ago on the PS3 store, only because it was on sale. This was also my very first time playing it. Well, I scroll down my TH-cam home list, and here this video pops up.
Either Sega Lord X got Sega-drunk or SNES Drunk got so drunk under the influence became Sega Lord X...Either way Both channels are awesome... Long Live Sega Long Live Gaming..🎮🔥👍
@SNES drunk - helpful tip - it IS on the Genesis Mini, each and every one of them made, but you have to change the language to Japanese or Trad. Chinese to switch to the JP menu + lineup.
Wait? Are you kidding me? Every Gen mini has every regions games???? If so that changes everything! That means we can play Alien Soldier, Shining Force 2, and Musha then? Though SF2 will be in another language...
This is probably the best game on my Sega everdrive (want to upgrade to the mega sd) to not be played yet. I didnt get a Dreamcast until like 05, and I never liked the genesis as a kid (all the games i played were also on SNES or had super floaty controls), I have a lot more Sega consoles now (except ironically a dc), and actually I think I prefer Sega to SNES now (I grew up without either, all my video game introducers still look down on sega), except in RPGs and controllers. Turns out sega is it's own awesome experience (just like turbo grafx and Sony). Weirdly I have more Sega consoles than any other company.
Good game, but Shadow Dancer on the Genesis has always been my favorite. If I had to give a specific reason why I’d just chalk it up to the bonus stage music. GG Shinobi also had good music that was actually done by Yuzo
Botza Brand shadow dancer has always been my favourite. I love all the Shinobi games but sd just feels best for me. I’ve also never played another game where u can set ur dog on people, that’s fucking badass
Yes. Good God yes. One of me fave games. Been playing it since I were a kid. Though weirdly, only played Shadow Dancer and Shinobi 3 recently 🤔 And yeah, I agree with everything you said 🤘🏻
It was my first genesis game and the first one I finished, the labyrinth in the end is a nightmare and there are good and bad ending, which for the time was amazing.
As long as there’s fans of great GAMEPLAY over all else(even though this game has great visuals,soundtrack,difficulty curve)this game will FOREVER be worth many playthroughs throughout the years of your life!
The graphics look great! Being a G-Fan I like the Godzilla cameo. It looks exactly like the Mosugogi suit, minus the dorsal plates of course. Even though the sprite didn't have Godzilla's signature dorsal plates I guess it looked so much like the '64 suit that TOHO probably threatened to sue the hell outta the game company.
Best game in the genesis Library and I like to say I'm happy to own the Original 1.00 Version CIB. Correction (3:47). Sega classics version as of 1.03 was the version that changed Monster-G "Godzilla" to the skeleton Dinosaur, Also included in the Sega 6-Pak Cart.
Jesus, I did a double take when you said it wouldn't be on the genesis/mega drive mini (at least in the US) - my mega drive came with with 2 compilation cartridges Mega Games 2 + 3. Mega Games 2 had Revenge of Shinobi, Streets of Rage and Golden Axe which is pretty amazing. Imagine what the counterpart would be today on modern consoles. Anyway, it should've a guaranteed inclusion for the Genesis Mini and I would like to act all pissed off and indignant about it, but - honetsly- chances are if you're reading this you have an emulator and you know yourself it's not really a big deal.
There was a point in time in the U.S. when Revenge of Shinobi's soundtrack was arguably the best video game soundtrack ever created for any home console ever. The SNES hadn't been released yet, and there were not too many games available on the Genesis yet. My friend and I ditched afternoon classes to go buy the game and play it at my house, and we never got past the first level. We just sat there, dumbstruck, listening to the stage one music over and over and over.
Very good soundtrack. Solstice (NES) is still my pick, though.
@@peterplaysbass was that the only game you had? lol
@@DjAether8 You young whippersnappers will never understand. Now get off my lawn! :-)
@@tommylakindasorta3068 Yeah, video game soundtracks were magical back then. Now it all sounds like generic action movie music. The soundtrack that blew me away back then was Super Castlevania IV.
Shinobi > Ninja Gaiden
Yeah, I said it. You know I'm right.
Everyone! Let's try to have a great rest of our day.
I'm going to try, but my day sucks... :(
I will definitely have a great day.
I have to work until late hours but Ill try my best! >D
Gureeto daze.
It's my first day of holidays so mission accomplished!
Every Shinobi is worth a play. Especially the 16 bit Shinobi's.
Shinobi Is Top Tier Far As Ninjas Go!!!!!(Let's Jus Keep It Real🕺🏾)
Yeah, you nailed it, when I played this soon after it came out, it felt like I was playing a real arcade game in my friend's house, freakin' awesome!
Definitely one the golden jewels of the pre-Sonic Genesis library. It, along with Strider, Ghouls 'n' Ghosts, Castle of Illusion, Thunder Force 3 and MUSHA made the Genesis a must-own for any arcade gaming fan back then and represented the closest we've been to arcade at home up to that point. Going from NES to this level of graphics and sound at home was simply incredible. I was in love with the Genesis from the minute I saw it a friends' house and they booted up Altered Beast for me. The system hardware itself looked so so incredibly cool for the time too... and the ergonomic 3 button pad! I was obsessed with Sega and getting one of my own after that. I didn't have enough money to buy it until shortly after Sonic came out though. Sonic is another game that made a huge impression and cemented my love for Sega. Sonic was a pack-in, but Revenge of Shinobi was the first Genesis game that I bought. Streets of Rage was the second and was another mind blower. Those were some awesome times! Thanks for brining back those memories for me with your vid!
Shinobi 3 is an awesome game.
My favorite game on Genesis. Totally 80's ninja action.
This is one of my favorite Genesis games. Fighting Batman disguised as Spiderman is one of the greatest memories from my childhood.
While I have to agree on a technical level that Shinobi 3 is a better game, it will never top the sheer nostalgia and pure zany madness of Revenge of Shinobi. Awesome stuff.
I had this game soon after it was released. I LOVED it. I spent countless hours playing this amazing game. One of my all time favorites. I had the version that included Spiderman, Godzilla, and Rambo. But, Batman was replaced by the bat creature guy.
Revenge of Shinobi heck yeah! Easily, the best early Genesis game, and should have been the pack-in title instead of Altered Beast. Deserves to be in the same league of recognition alongside MMX, Alien Soldier, Hagane etc, fantastic game. It's challenging as hell but very rewarding to master, I recommend learning where all the secret items are and playing the game trying to keep your power-up using the shield if you have to because they tear up the bosses.
This series is sadly ignored by the masses because of course, it's not Castlevania or Mega Man, but honestly go figure is anyone surprised? Love both franchises but Shinobi all day for me.
The demon that replaces Batman in certain versions of the game actually bears a striking resemblance to the Manga/Anime character, Devilman.
The ost of this game is absolutely outstanding. One of the very best from the 16 bit era.
100% agree on Shinobi III being apart of the best games on the Genesis. That game is near perfect.
Shinobi 3 is one of the best games period. It transcends console brands.
Shinobi 3 is definitely best. I think it’s overshadowed by Revenge’s nostalgia.
No gripes about this game?
I think I truly will have a great rest of my day!
The only thing about this game is no sprint ability, but they fixed that in Shinobi 3. ROV is an 1989 game, so I can understand why there would be limitations back then.
The 1987 first installment is one of my favorite games of all time. I live near the coast and a travelling 'carnival' would roll into town during school holidays with various arcade games. When there was a strong wind off the sea i could hear the games from a good distance away and couldn't wait to get there to play Shinobi.
I imported my Megadrive, I think in 89, from Japan and it came with Shinobi. Loved the graphics and the music. It was like lightyears ahead of everything I had seen before.
Just had a Shinobi session a few hours ago... The soundtrack is fabulous and Stereo Audio was a big deal back then that my childhood TV couldn't handle. 😎
“Sonic, shoot em ups, and-ninjas.”
You crushed the alliteration before it could breed.
this game is perfection to me. i don't see anything wrong with it at all. And that's simply because it's just so freakin fun! there's an intellectual skill that's involved with it in the sense that you actually have to think about how it is you must proceed in order to advance through each level unscathed, as opposed to just being a fast paced run and slash like its third installment. for this reason i truly think it's the best one in the series. don't get me wrong, shinobi 3 is a fantastic game, but it's simply not as engaging as its predecessor in my opinion. And i couldn't have said it better myself when you said it captures the quintessence of the system during the late 80's. it just carries that beautiful... raw arcade pizza shop feeling and sprite work that makes you want to hang it up on your wall and just stare at it in appreciation.
Spot on. This was a GAME CHANGER for 10 year old me and all my friends when the Genesis was first acquired by a mutual friend. It really felt like an arcade game at home. And Shinobi was so fucking unforgiving, so having this version be so OP was really nice in the NES "hard for no reason" era
I had just gotten a NES (late to the party) a few months before this game came out and I knew I didn't have the money to get one so I lived vicariously through my more affluent friends...I actually never played RoS until I got the Sega Genesis collection on the Switch.
I think that you are the best reviewer on the web, maybe because you have read a lot Nintendo Power. As always, great Job!!!
I vote we get SNESdrunk's doggo cosplaying as the pup from Shadow Dancer.
I got a Mega SG earlier this year as I missed out on a lot of Mega Drive games growing up (mostly a Nintendo kid until the Saturn came out). This was my first purchase, and after playing it through I have to as it is in my top 5 Genesis games. It's just stellar. Thanks for the great overview!
It doesn't matter how busy I am. If I see a new SNES drunk video, I watch it.
The Skeleton Dinosaur in place of Godzilla was actually on a cartridge. My first introduction to Revenge of Shinobi was through 6-Pak which as the name suggests has 6 Sega Genesis games in one cart. I'm surprised that was the rom they ended up using for the Wii Virtual Console.
That 6 Pak ACTUALLY had the 4th revision of the game (revision 2 was the most common back when it launched outside Japan... Batman and Rambo got axed on that revision, it was a miracle to find a revision 1 were you could find Batman and Rambo in the game, revision 3 only added the Spider-Man Copyright, revision 4 replaced Godzilla with the skeleton dinosaur and revision 5... which is the Wii re-release onwards, recolored Spider-Man... of all pop-culture characters that appeared in the game, The Terminator was the sole survivor of this funny not respecting copyright stuff).
@@PikangsFutaba I got a good chuckle to see Terminator in the game. I haven't booted up my genesis in years, but I think there was even a Spider-Man copyright mentioned in the game which made me wonder when I'll see the character.
Woohoo! Great timing, Drunk! Just picked up the Sega Genesis Classics cart on Switch and Revenge of Shinobi is in there. Will play it today!!!
Have fun it's a phenomenal game, challenging as hell but keep pushing forward, it's rewarding to get better at it. Master the double jump and the 90 degree knife throw.
@@retrosoul8770 Thanks. It's kicking my butt so far. Tough game but never felt cheated by cheap game mechanics. It's one of those games where I just need to get better. Will keep at it!
I forgot to mention that in case you haven't noticed yet, there are these hidden power up boxes all throughout the game. But sadly they're not in the most intuitive locations so I'd just google a video showing where all of them are haha, they're super useful! Extra ninjutsu and such. Also you may want to use a guide to get through the maze at the end haha, it's pretty insane, probably the only real flaw of the game.
Thank you for acknowledging the name Mega Drive! :)
This is an absolutely YES. Fantastic game. Great video as always. A couple of notes: You don’t collect spells. Any of the four ninja magics is selectable from the start with limited usage, usually once per life/stage. Also, the Labyrinth stage is actually pretty bad unless you’ve brushed up on Japanese numbers, which will give you a clue if you’re heading in the right direction (unsure if this was modified in later versions but it hasn’t been in my cartridge).
Yup, this game is still worth playing. It's a classic!
IMO both Shinobi games are top five Genesis games for me. Revenge is one of the best 2d action games ever. Stunning achievement for such an old title.
There's 3 Genesis Shinobi games
Can't forget Shadow Dancer. Thats a good one too
That copyrighted material is hilarious.
That was a thing in the original Shinobi arcade game too, though Sega dialled it up to the max here.
This is like the 4th or 5th Genesis game I played I think, at the time I didn't own a Genesis I actually would rent the system and games. This one almost convinced me not to wait for the SNES. Just a fantastic game in my opinion.
I was a Nintendo kid growing up, but the one time I rented a Genesis from Blockbuster I got this and it absolutely blew me away. I almost converted, then SNES came out and well...
Of course Revenge of Shinobi is worth playing.
🕺🏾I Agree Wit U Migdo 100%
I only played "The G.G. Shinobi I + II" on the Sega Game Gear but even there the music/sound gameplay was freaking awesome. Loved the game!
I love your videos! Please keep up the awesome work!
You’re right, I even find that floaty jumping to have some charm. Can’t wait to play it.
Its a kunai attack not shuriken. I love its sequel so much
Oh wow that's a game I remember owning and loving before I sold my Genesis for a SNES. I couldnt remember the name. Thanks !
After Altered Beast, my second game was Last Battle. I never finished it. It was too hard for me at 10 years old.
This was one of my favorite games back in the day.
"Batman was changed into Illidan Stormrage*" Fixed! lol.
Very 90's but it works so well. Still enjoyable today 😊
Despite you owned a SNES as a kid I think it's great you can point out how the other consoles of that era had great games. Sadly many other big TH-camrs have remained ignorant fanboys. Keep up the good work!
SNESdrunk is an amazing TH-cam channel, the content is relevant and fun for me and oddly enough every day I watch I end up having a great rest of my day... Unfortunately SNESdrunk doesn't seem to beg for subs or likes like most channels out there so you're gonna have to subscribe to this one any way you can. 💗
AHHHHH glorious Revenge of Shinobi, Sega 1989. And you've forgot the most important complaint to be made about the game, the Godzilla stage part 1. That jump... let it haunt all of our collective childhood's and retro gaming adulthood's as well, that and the final boss fight if lacking on lives can be also a pain. And you're definitely right, Yuzo Koshiro was The Man, right before the works of Rare, Koji Kondo on Mario games and Nobuo Uematsu in Final Fantasy, than him was the evolution of music in old 68000 sound chips and I'd argue equally as important for SFC sound formats off Snes.
One of the best sega mega drive / genesis game and the music is so awesome
I want to recommend the 3DS Shinobi game if you like this and Shinobi III
Happy to see that you like this game. It's one of my favorites on the Genesis and one of the first games I got for it back in 1990. It can be brutally difficult and the final maze stage SUCKS, but it's a great game overall.
Yup, at my country there was a point were ONE gaming magazine of that time had to make a very detailed map of the maze that an old woman asked as she was used to play the game with her grandson, it was a blessing for said old woman and everyone who used to buy those gaming magazines back then were TH-cam wasn't a thing.
Great game play fantastic music super graphics definitely a classic and a must play if you've not played it before ☺
I love the OST for this game, great start to finish.
Good to know all of the fun license factors in this.
I used to go into the options and just listen to the music. I appreciated the music even as an 11 year old kid.
i love the way you wish us a great rest of our day
Love this game! I think it's the best of the whole series. That first stage music and graphics are amazing
I love this game. I still own a copy of the 1.0 version. I always used to pretend the first boss was Shedder from TMNT. The you had the Bruce Lee dudes, the Rambos, The Hulkinator, Spider-Man, Batman, Godzilla.... so awesome.
Sega sort out a SHINOBI COLLECTION. It could have the original versions of the games plus new remakes of some, it not all of the games. The remakes could have new aesthetics and enhanced music and sound plus tweaks to gameplay and controls. Classic/Retro Game Collection's with Remakes isn't a bad idea, we probably need to see more of them...A Shinobi collection would be great, I would buy it without thinking.
I have the original game still. And it's still my favorite Shinobi game.
I think the original Shinobi got it right as well; the arcade/PC Engine versions are excellent.
Yeah, I think Shinobi got it right from the very first game.
Yep, this and the arcade original are (in my mind) THE two definitive titles of the franchise.
III(1993) is good, but in my neighbourhood everyone had already sold their Genesis to buy an SNES, and I never played III until a year ago on Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection (thus, it just doesn't have anywhere near the same appeal to me as II does).
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My favorite game on the Genesis as a kid. Beat it for the first time today 25 years later.
Best game on the system!
i LOVED this game as a kid. the mix of city and traditional looking Japan blew my mind
even though the first streets of rage was released in 1991, it still feels like 80s Sega and a companion to this game. playing one of them always makes me want to play the other right after.
The night club stage, the moment thousands of kids found out what epilepsy was.
As a Sega Genesis kid I approve of this video.
Your reviews keep getting better and better, makes me wish you review modern games as well.
Man, so many of the games in this series are so cool aesthetically and gameplay wise. The ps2 and 3ds entries are also awesome. I hope we get a retro throwback version of it sometime soon, maybe made by wayfoward or inti creates
Yuzo Koshiro made some fantastic music with the Genesis sound chip
So true. The Shinobi theme is incredible.
RoS was easily one of my favorite Genesis games. Gameplay, music, graphics, it had it all...
One of my favorite games ever. That soundtrack
The Chinatown music sounds as good or better than anything else on the console, and it was released in 89.
Another great video!! Now time to play some Shinobi on my phone!!!
This game is known as The Super Shinobi in Japan, and the boss fights is the one that I remember in this game though. The title screen features Sonny Chiba from the Japanese TV series Kage no Gundan (in the Virtual Console version, the title screen was altered to look less like Chiba) The inclusion of Spider-Man was a cross-promotion for the arcade game Spider-Man: The Videogame.
This one and Shinobi 3 are my favorite Genesis Games, played them back when I was a little boy and beat the hell out of them, really difficult, that last labyrinth level is hell.
The Spider-Man turning into Batman thing is actually a reference to Kamen Rider. The first two enemies that the original Kamen Rider fought were Kumo Otoko and Komori Otoko, whose names literally translate to "Spider Man" and "Bat Man" respectively (and yes, Toei did eventually get the rights to the actual Spider-Man). Since then, several more seasons would reference them by having the first enemy be spider themed and the second be bat themed.
Love this game! Great review.
Nice review! On my mini now thanx to Project Luna! 🖖
I just bought this a week ago on the PS3 store, only because it was on sale. This was also my very first time playing it. Well, I scroll down my TH-cam home list, and here this video pops up.
Either Sega Lord X got Sega-drunk or SNES Drunk got so drunk under the influence became Sega Lord X...Either way Both channels are awesome... Long Live Sega Long Live Gaming..🎮🔥👍
Damn Right it's worth playing.
@SNES drunk - helpful tip - it IS on the Genesis Mini, each and every one of them made, but you have to change the language to Japanese or Trad. Chinese to switch to the JP menu + lineup.
Wait? Are you kidding me? Every Gen mini has every regions games???? If so that changes everything! That means we can play Alien Soldier, Shining Force 2, and Musha then? Though SF2 will be in another language...
This is probably the best game on my Sega everdrive (want to upgrade to the mega sd) to not be played yet. I didnt get a Dreamcast until like 05, and I never liked the genesis as a kid (all the games i played were also on SNES or had super floaty controls), I have a lot more Sega consoles now (except ironically a dc), and actually I think I prefer Sega to SNES now (I grew up without either, all my video game introducers still look down on sega), except in RPGs and controllers. Turns out sega is it's own awesome experience (just like turbo grafx and Sony). Weirdly I have more Sega consoles than any other company.
Good game, but Shadow Dancer on the Genesis has always been my favorite. If I had to give a specific reason why I’d just chalk it up to the bonus stage music.
GG Shinobi also had good music that was actually done by Yuzo
Botza Brand shadow dancer has always been my favourite. I love all the Shinobi games but sd just feels best for me. I’ve also never played another game where u can set ur dog on people, that’s fucking badass
Yes. Good God yes. One of me fave games. Been playing it since I were a kid. Though weirdly, only played Shadow Dancer and Shinobi 3 recently 🤔
And yeah, I agree with everything you said 🤘🏻
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It was my first genesis game and the first one I finished, the labyrinth in the end is a nightmare and there are good and bad ending, which for the time was amazing.
I love these intros never change
It's on the Genesis Collection for Switch.
As long as there’s fans of great GAMEPLAY over all else(even though this game has great visuals,soundtrack,difficulty curve)this game will FOREVER be worth many playthroughs throughout the years of your life!
Nothing more peaceful than a new SNES (sega) Drunk episode. Thx!
i know right? i love to watch them in the morning before i have to leave. they're just short enough that they wont make me late
Like this blog about Sega game, you should make more about Sega it will be different and good ones to watch 👍
The graphics look great! Being a G-Fan I like the Godzilla cameo. It looks exactly like the Mosugogi suit, minus the dorsal plates of course. Even though the sprite didn't have Godzilla's signature dorsal plates I guess it looked so much like the '64 suit that TOHO probably threatened to sue the hell outta the game company.
A heralded classic by true vintage gamers, God I loved this game. It was probably the game that helped convince me to like Sega as much as Nintendo.
Best game in the genesis Library and I like to say I'm happy to own the Original 1.00 Version CIB.
Correction (3:47). Sega classics version as of 1.03 was the version that changed Monster-G "Godzilla" to the skeleton Dinosaur, Also included in the Sega 6-Pak Cart.
I loved this game when I was a kid and Soldiers of fortune(the chaos engine)
This is one of the defining games of my childhood. Never knew the dragon boss was supposed to be godzilla LOL
That Night Club level man.... it's Hell for my eyes.
You should call it SegaStoned to go along with SNESDrunk. Also, killer video!
I only use the notification Bell for you and Friday Night Arcade. Love your content
Thanks, Friday Night Arcade is fantastic, that's good company to be in
Jesus, I did a double take when you said it wouldn't be on the genesis/mega drive mini (at least in the US) - my mega drive came with with 2 compilation cartridges Mega Games 2 + 3.
Mega Games 2 had Revenge of Shinobi, Streets of Rage and Golden Axe which is pretty amazing. Imagine what the counterpart would be today on modern consoles.
Anyway, it should've a guaranteed inclusion for the Genesis Mini and I would like to act all pissed off and indignant about it, but - honetsly- chances are if you're reading this you have an emulator and you know yourself it's not really a big deal.
But it was released in the Genesis collection on PS4, Switch and XB1.
I still wortout to "like a wind" from this game. There are some stellar guitar versions on TH-cam
I have a Genesis Mini at my work, and this is on there.