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Lost In Translation/Ninja Warriors, The

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The Ninja Warriors
The Ninja Warriors marquee.
The Ninja Warriors title screen.
The Ninja Warriors control panel.
Manufacturer Taito Corporation Japan
Released 1987
Control
Method 		8-way Joystick
2 Button(s)
Main CPU (2x) 68000 (@ 8.000 MHz)
68000 (@ 8.000 MHz)
Sound CPU Stereo
YM2610 (@ 8.000 MHz)
(4x) Volume Filter
Video
Details 		Raster (Horizontal)
288 x 224 pixels
60.00 Hz
12,288 Palette colours
Screens 3
ROM Info 27 ROMs
6,554,624 bytes (6.25 MiB)
MAME ID ninjaw ยท ninjawj

Contents

About The Game

The Ninja Warriors arcade cabinet.
The Ninja Warriors arcade cabinet.
The Ninja Warriors arcade flyer.
The Ninja Warriors arcade flyer.
Another The Ninja Warriors arcade flyer.
Another The Ninja Warriors arcade flyer.
The Ninja Warriors Japanese arcade flyer.
The Ninja Warriors Japanese arcade flyer.
Another The Ninja Warriors Japanese arcade flyer.
Another The Ninja Warriors Japanese arcade flyer.

Though it's hard to tell from the photo, this arcade game was one of the first to use a 3-screen display. The actual resolution of the game is 3x(288x224) or 864x224 giving a very long horizontal display, hence some of the conversions opting to display the game in the widescreen format.

The main sprite in the arcade version was 91 pixels tall, nearly half the screen height!

Ports

Consoles 
NEC PC-Engine (1989)
Sega Mega-CD
Box art for the Virgin Games port of The Ninja Warriors.
Box art for the Virgin Games port of The Ninja Warriors.
Computers 
Amstrad CPC (1989)
Atari ST (1989)
Commodore Amiga (1989)
Commodore C64 (1989)
Sinclair ZX Spectrum (1989)


Screen Shot Comparison

Title Screen

Arcade title screen.

Amiga title screen.

Atari ST title screen.

Spectrum title screen.

C64 title screen.

CPC title screen.

Mega-CD title screen.

PC Engine title screen.

Intro Screen

Arcade intro screen.

Amiga intro screen.

Atari ST version didn't have an intro screen.

Spectrum version didn't have an intro screen.

C64 intro screen.

CPC version didn't have an intro screen.

Mega-CD intro screen.

PC Engine intro screen.

Ingame Screen

Arcade ingame screen.

Amiga ingame screen.

Atari ST ingame screen.

Spectrum ingame screen.

C64 ingame screen.

CPC ingame screen.

Mega-CD ingame screen.

PC Engine ingame screen.

Sound Comparison

Platform Song Titles Sound Source
Arcade "A.D. 1993" (ftp) "Daddy Mulk" (ftp) "Are You Lady?" (ftp) "Che!" (ftp) "Japanese Smile" (ftp) "Motherless Children" (ftp) "Paradox" (ftp) "Up Stairs" (ftp) "Game Over" (ftp) M1 v0.7.8a6 & MAME 0.125
Commodore Amiga No Yes (ftp) Yes (ftp)  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ? WinUAE v1.4.2a
Atari ST/STE No Yes (ftp) No  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ? Steem 3.2
Sinclair ZX Spectrum (AY) No Yes (ftp) No  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ? Spectaculator 6.25
Commodore 64 / 128 No Yes (ftp) No  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ? XMPlay v3.4.1 (SID plugin rev.25b Feb 19 2007)
Amstrad CPC 464 No Yes (ftp) No  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ? CPCE 1.40
NEC PC-Engine Yes (ftp) Yes (ftp) No  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ? Magic Engine 1.0.0 PR 10
Sega Mega-CD
(Arcade Versions) 		Yes (ftp) Yes (ftp) Yes (ftp) Yes (ftp) Yes (ftp) Yes (ftp) Yes (ftp) Yes (ftp) Yes (ftp) CDDA
Sega Mega-CD
(Arranged Versions) 		Yes (ftp) Yes (ftp) Yes (ftp) Yes (ftp) Yes (ftp) Yes (ftp) Yes (ftp) No No CDDA

External Links


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 1.13a - 2007-03-19).
Please see here for credits.

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