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Ninja Spirit Ninja Spirit - Japanese Logo - Katakana / Kanji

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Description

Fight all enemies as they come on screen. Grab certain power-ups for better fire power and get some that give you a "spirit self" that will make you two or three times as deadly.

Ninja Spirit was produced by Irem in 1988.

Irem released 87 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1978. Irem was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Irem during the time period Ninja Spirit was produced include: Mr. Heli No Dai-Bouken, Battle Chopper, Battle Bird, Kaiketsu Yanchamaru, Kid Niki: Radical Ninja, Image Fight, Saigo No Nindou, Tsukikage (The Legend Of The White Wolf), Meikyuu Shima, and Vigilante

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Cabinet

Specs

Name Ninja Spirit
Developer Irem (Japan)
Year 1988
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 8891
Class Wide Release
Genre Scrolling Fighter
Monitor
Conversion Class Irem
Dipswitch Settings

Ninja Spirit Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)

# Simultaneous Players 1
# Maximum Players 2
Gameplay Alternating
Control Panel Layout Single Player
Controls
  • Joystick: 8-way
  • Buttons: 3 [AttackJumpChange Weapons]
Sound Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles
  • Upright/Standard

Game Play

In addition to collecting power-ups for additional ''ninjas'' you can power up your weapons with blue icons. For example, collect one for the ninja stars and instead of shooting them in a straight line, they go four ways. Collect one for the bombs and you'll throw three or four at a time, causing massive damage.

Ninja Spirit KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 5.00 (1 vote)

Fun Factor: 5.00

Overall Like 5.00
Fun (Social) 5.00
Fun (Solo) 5.00
Collector Desire 5.00

Technical Rating: 5.00

Gameplay 5.00
Graphics 5.00
Originality 5.00
Sound/Music 5.00

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

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VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Ninja Spirit Census

There are 14,717 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,455 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 164,291 machines (6,886 unique titles).

Uncommon - There are 13 known instances of this machine owned by Ninja Spirit collectors who are active members. Of these, It is an original dedicated machine. One is a conversion in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 11 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There is one active VAPS member with an extra Ninja Spirit circuit board for sale.

Wanted - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for Ninja Spirit.

This game ranks a 4 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 2 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

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