Lost In Translation/Ninja Spirit

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Ninja Spirit
Manufacturer	Irem
Released	1988
Control Method	8-way Joystick 4 Button(s)
Main CPU	V30 (@ 8.000 MHz) Z80 (@ 3.580 MHz)
Sound CPU	Stereo YM2151 (@ 3.580 MHz) DAC
Video Details	Raster (Horizontal) 384 x 256 pixels 55.00 Hz 512 Palette colours
Screens	1
ROM Info	22 ROMs 1,703,936 bytes (1.63 MiB)
MAME ID	nspirit · nspiritj

About The Game

Ninja Spirit is a side-scrolling arcade video game.

You take control of a ninja who has the ability to make shadow duplicates which trail your movements, and attack at your command. In your path are armies of ninjas, samurais and demons who are constantly out to kill you.

Trivia

Released in August 1988.

This game is known in Japan as "Saigo no Nindou".

Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Image Fight : G.S.M. Irem 1 - D28B0012) on 21/01/1989.

Tips and tricks

• Self defense - Shurikens and other projectiles can be deflected by your sword after you have collected the power-up scroll allowing you to swing your sword in an arc. When walk along, you can shield yourself with this by holding the stick up, and swinging your sword.

• Defeat the first boss with ease - Assuming you have collected the sword powerup and have both shadow duplicates, position yourself in the center of the screen while the boss is rising from the ground and do a super jump (hold up and jump). When you land on the ground, you should have your shadows flatting in mid air above you. Select the sword and hold up and continuously slash - you will damage the demon and his flames will get blocked by your barrage of attacks.

Ports

Consoles

NEC PC-Engine (1990)

Computers

Atari ST (1988)

Commodore C64 (1990)

Amstrad CPC (1990)

Commodore Amiga ("Ninja Spirit", 1990, Mediagenic)

Soundtrack Releases

Album Name	Catalogue No.	Released	Publisher	Comments
Image Fight -G.S.M. IREM 1-	D28B-0012	1989-01-21	Pony Canyon, Inc.	CD version.
Ninja Spirit	15A3-3	1988-12-21	Alfa Records	CD version.
Image Fight -G.S.M. IREM 1-	25P5-0012	1989-01-21	Pony Canyon, Scitron	Cassette version.
Ninja Spirit	15A5-3	1988-12-21	Alpha Records	Cassette version.

External Links

• Sinclair ZX Spectrum version of Ninja Spirit at the World of Spectrum

References

The contents of this page are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
The sources used include MAME (version 0.113u2) and history.dat (revision 1.28 - 2008-10-18).
Please see http://www.arcade-history.com for credits.