More Ninja Gaiden?

I just booted up the first one on the VC yesterday to try to beat it...lets just say I ran into some issues in 6-2. As of now I am taking part in the war of ninja vs. birds.

Glad to see this one coming to the North America. I don't think it is as good as the NES version though.

That doesn't look like Ninja Gaiden gameplay to me...

I can't believe I've never seen this version in action. Seems kind of slow paced?

What a quartersucker this game is. Japan can keep it for all I care.

The NES version looks a lot better.

Very different to the Ninja Gaiden Trilogy ( NES/SFC ) looks more like Double Dragon. But I hope more Arcadeclassics are coming like this.

@pixelman: The NES version isn't the same game as the arcade version. The arcade was a beat-em-up, the NES was a platformer.

This friday in Europe:
http://www.nintendo.es/NOE/es_ES/games/consola_virtual_1778.html

I like what I see! Worlds different from the NES one, but the gameplay seems stable enough to seem enjoyable. Side-scrolling beat 'em up indeed. But it looks fine to me.

IceCeCrem?

How ironic: the artwork for the arcade game is the same as the NES boxart, considering they're not the same game, despite having the same name.

I played this on my Atari Lynx back in the day. The level one in the video is almost exactly as I remembered it, in higher resolution and prettier graphics. Only difference I see is that I don't remember having to fight an extra three thugs when I got to the Sumo boss. Also, most of the cut scenes were absent.

That towering figure in screenshot #5 is the boss for the 2nd stage. It unveils three demonic monsters that always kicked the crap out of me, wasting my lives. I usually ran out of continues right around the railroad tracks part of stage 3. Those hockey mask thugs always ganged up on me at this point, most likely due to my poor strategy of advancing as far to the right as the game would let me. Instead of fighting the baddies one or two, possibly three at most, by the time the game halted my progress, I was taking on six or seven baddies at a time. I didn't think things through very well back when I was 14 years old, half the age I am today (28)

LOL on the infamous buzz-saw scene; I remember it well! By the way, do Arcade games give us unlimited "virtual quarters", or does Nintendo place artificial limits of credits/continues?

I remember the arcade game for this: he has a sword in the artwork, he has a sword in the start-up screen, but when you play, you almost never get to use a sword!!!!!!

I kind of like this game anyway, though. It's pretty funny, with a ninja just walking through the streets beating up gangsters.

Jeez these arcade selections are lame. They're all the same ones that were already available on compilation discs.
If they're still not getting the arcade version of BattleToads, they better stop calling it an arcade.