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Virtually every Genesis owner owns or has at least played The Revenge of Shinobi. Hailed as a 16-bit classic, it was one of the early titles that showed off what the console was capable of, and it cemented the Shinobi series as a major Sega franchise. Sega-16 takes a comprehensive look at how it was made, with insight from several members of the development team. Read the full article for all the details.
This is Sega-16's 1600th published article! :rock:
Interesting that someone new at Sega did such a great job.
Excellent feature for one of my favorite games!
As for the numbering: If Cyber Shinobi is Shinobi II then that's because Revenge of Shinobi actually is called Super Shinobi in Japan while Shinobi III is Super Shinobi II in Japan.
I didn't realize this series of articles is older. Hope it's leading toward Streets of Rage(especially 2, despite how much info is already out there), Pirates! Gold, and the Mutant Leagues. Speaking of the latter, I guess this(headed by one of the lead developers of the original) is still in development, in spite of the kickstarter failing: http://www.mutantfootballleague.com/
As for this one, am I the only one bothered by Warama taking the blame for the copyright infringement? Tell your artist to use what you give him, then blame him for it being on point? Either way, that original revision came out pretty awesome, and should be a crowning piece in any collection(the type of thing that probably should be ridiculous in price nowadays, alongside the Moonwalker with Thriller in it).
Great article. And I like how SMS Shinobi is mentioned as an evolutionary step towards the type of design in RoS. I think it often gets dismissed nowadays as just a watered down arcade port.
Love the article! I rememeber when first I launched Revenge of Shinobi...
"Ey... That's not like the arcade! Mmffff!!!"
after some minutes...
"Dammit!!... Arcade? What arcade? This games is so amazing!!!"
... anyway, I hope the Arcade Shinobi ports is finished someday! :_)
It will :)
Articles like this is why this website is one of my favorite on the internet. Great stuff.