Lost In Translation/Ninja Commando

About The Game
Ninja Commando is an arcade video game.

3 ninjas are sent on a mission to stop a madman named Spider from trying to use a time machine to mess with history. The game is almost like a tongue-in-cheek reworking of "Time Soldiers", which Alpha Denshi made 5 years earlier, with ninjas as the protagonists this time.

Additional Technical Information
Players : 2

Control : 8-way joystick

Buttons : 3

=> [A] Shoot, [B] Somersault, [C] Ninja tricks

Trivia
Released in April 1992.

Tips and tricks
The more you press the A button repeatedly, the more firepower you'll produce.

Press the A and B button together to fire shuri-ken (star-shaped blades). Unlike the main firepower, which is only straight ahead, the shuri-ken can be fired in all directions by moving the joystick in the opposite direction of which you wish to aim (example : to fire to the left, move the joystick to right and vice versa). This is also the best way to deal with a few of the bosses here : for example, on the stage set in feudal Japan, there are two giant sumo wrestlers who appear as sub-bosses. The main firepower seems to only have minor effect on them, but the shuri-ken are much more effective.

The C button is for firing magical bursts of energy. One drawback is that, similar to "Final Fight" this can cause a little of your life energy to be drained, so it should be used very carefully.

Staff

 * Produced & Directed By:
 * Tsutomu Maruyama (Tsutomu Maruyana)


 * Executive Producer:
 * Kazuo Arai

Director of Software:
 * Eiji Fukatsu


 * System Programmers:
 * Makio Chiba
 * Satoshi Okada (SNK)


 * Programmers:
 * Ryu Hiroyuki
 * Yuji Noguchi


 * Character Designers:
 * Tsutomu Maruyama (Tsutomu Maruyana)
 * Shinji Moriyama (as Sinji Moriyama)
 * Takasi Hatono
 * Hidemi Nagatomo
 * Hideyuki Kusano


 * Music Composed By:
 * Yuka Watanabe

Ports

 * Consoles :
 * SNK Neo-Geo CD (1994)