Lost In Translation/Ninja Commando
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| Manufacturer | Alpha Denshi Co. |
| Released | 1992 |
| Control Method |
8-way Joystick 4 Button(s) |
| Main CPU | Neo-Geo 68000 (@ 12.000 MHz) Z80 (@ 4.000 MHz) |
| Sound CPU | Stereo YM2610 (@ 8.000 MHz) |
| Video Details |
Raster (Horizontal) 320 x 224 pixels 59.19 Hz 4,096 Palette colours |
| Screens | 1 |
| ROM Info | 20 ROMs 8,454,144 bytes (8.06 MiB) |
| MAME ID | ncommand |
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
Cabinet and Artwork
Neo-Geo arcade cabinet.
Ninja Commando marquee.
Ninja Commando flyer.
Back of the Ninja Commando flyer.
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Ports
- Consoles
- SNK Neo-Geo CD (1994)
Soundtrack Releases
| Album Name | Catalogue No. | Released | Publisher | Comments |
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| The Way Of The Exploding SID | CZCD 027[1] | 2007-07-20 | Binary Zone Interactive | 2 CD version. |
