Ninja Commando (c) 1992 Alpha Denshi.
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.

>>> TECHNICAL DETAILS
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SNK Neo-Geo MVS hardware
Game ID : 0050
Main CPU : 68000 (@ 12 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Z80 (@ 4 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM2610 (@ 8 Mhz)
Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 320 x 224 pixels
Screen refresh : 59.19 Hz
Palette colors : 4096
Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 3
=> [A] Shoot, [B] Somersault, [C] Ninja tricks

>>> TRIVIA
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Released in April 1992.

>>> TRICKS AND TIPS
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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.

>>> DESIGNERS / PROGRAMMERS / STAFF
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Produced & directed by : Tsutomu Maruyama (Tsutomu Maruyana)
Executive producer : Kazuo Arai
Director of soft wear : 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

>>> GAME PORTS TO OTHER SYSTEMS
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* Consoles :
SNK Neo-Geo CD (1994)

>>> OTHER GAME RESOURCES
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Game's rom.
Machine's picture.