Ninja Gaiden NES - All Cutscenes

Every cinematic, in order, from the original Ninja Gaiden for the NES. Pretty epic!

[@Comkill117]

It’s pretty simple today, sure, but I can’t imagine how mind blowing these cutscenes must have been in the 80s when this came out. You gotta think of how many console games of the time just had a text screen at the title and maybe an ending image, then in comes Ninja Gaiden with this awesome story that plays out over the course of the whole game. Hell even today it’s still got a really cool tale to tell, and the translation is like actually good which is something not even Metal Gear got back then. An awesome classic game all around!

[@edmerc92]

I remember when the game came out in 1989. Nintendo Power magazine raved about the cut scenes. Totally groundbreaking.

[@Aran_Saijo]

本当に凄かった…。カットシーンがあるのは僅かで、まじかるキッズどろぴー(NESのThe Krion Conquestはカットシーン削除)などがありますが忍者龍剣伝は特に素晴らしかったです。

[@bezoticallyyours83]

I've heard Golgo 13 has cut scenes too, though I've never played it.

[@neilsix]

@@bezoticallyyours83 yup Golgo 13 had some nice looking cutscenes but the way Tecmo sequenced these along with the fun gameplay is unmatched. Golgo 13’s gameplay was tough at certain parts from what I remember

[@bezoticallyyours83]

@@neilsix I'll take your word on that

[@kalender4176]

It's really surprising that an NES game can have about half an hour of cutscenes.

[@cheeseboi588]

It's really surprising that an NES game even has cutscenes.

[@sebastianhernandezvazquez4922]

​@@cheeseboi588what we can say the nes games despite the technical limitations were revolutionary

[@b_side8669]

Yeah & I’m lucky to still have mine from the 80’s

[@KeiFox]

Every time I read Foster's dialogue, I always think of him with Hugo Weaving's Agent Smith voice.

[@shutterbug_713]

Hugo Weaving is a weenie!

[@net34a]

Imagine Ryu gets into Smash with the intro cutscene in HD. I'd lose my shit.

[@d0llr420]

That would be two Guys named Ryu. It could work though.

[@bezoticallyyours83]

That'd be great

[@Legend64]

@@d0llr420 there’s two people named Roy, so ofc it would work

[@Love-Sensibility]

​@@Legend64Roy, Ryu...HiRyu

[@sturdy2179]

Was anyone else terrified to watch these as a kid 😂

[@tenderpawsm473]

Yes! Very much so.

[@KrayzieRoach]

the music didn't help lol

[@crimeson_3505]

Yeah I always got an eerie feeling with this game. One of the reasons I loved it Especially when the 02:00 OST kicked in everytime

[@deceptivm3624]

the soundtrack in the game was off the charts

[@chrisrj9871]

Imagine if 4-2 was literally on the charts in 1990... Imagine if NES music was on the Billboard charts at all! What a world that would have been!

[@derrickdaniels1931]

Damn i miss the 80s... im 42 and this music is still amazing...

[@djefendier1676]

Iya sama. nggak akan terlupakan

[@derrickdaniels1931]

@@djefendier1676 yup... that too

[@thedreamsoldierful]

We should’ve had Ryu as a super smash bros character all along

[@bernardjohnson6322]

GREATEST GAME EVER ! GREATEST SOUNDTRACK OF ALL TIME ON THE NES!

[@murrowboy]

Wait, so 2 and 3 were bad?!

[@bezoticallyyours83]

I always liked the 2nd and 3rd NG games better. This one is fun too.

[@jpetersongaming]

Easily the best soundtrack!

[@randomvideoposter1000]

1:38 what's so special about this that's making me replay this over and over

[@Afroricanz84]

The storylines in this game was incredible to me

[@KevboKev]

I always thought Mr. Smith looked like a wholesome guy. Someone I'd want to share some flapjacks with.

[@FR-yu4ul]

That song when Ryu's father is dying I always thought was cool

[@jpetersongaming]

its all about the cutscenes. they set up each level so marvellously.

[@derpydino17]

2:51 Why do I love this cutscene so much?

[@Rotund_Panda_Pants]

Cause it’s awesome.

[@artemb.3867]

Best Quality. Thenk you very much

[@bilrogar]

10:00 One of the greatest cutscenes in video game history.

[@BentoBoxBobbyTV]

Analyzing these cutscenes, the Japanese know how to minimize using animation and still the content grabs your attention. It is many of the illustrations that are repeated and upcycled if you really think about it to minimize cost while it continues to create an impact with a modest budget. These are good modest budget techniques that have minimal animation. Alien vs Predator Capcom Arcade version has minimal animation and the music draws you in the most. Only mouths move, heads turn, it’s a moving illustration or storybook.

[@TheZmusicGroup]

Yeah even nowadays it holds up pretty well given the support, id say the Ninja Gaiden games (all of them) have the most pleasant cutscenes for 8 bit games. Tecmo knew how to do it. That's how you give live to a really minimal system of representation

[@derpydino17]

I wouldn’t say it was to minimize on the budget, but more due to how much limitations the NES/Famicom had.

[@deannamarie3746]

I loved these scenes, i could almost hear their voices. I dont know the correct way to pronounce Jaquio still 😅

[@gorasul12]

Better storytelling then many newer games 😁

[@RoopeRontu1999]

Ah, Ninja Gaiden. The best game I played through when I was a teenager. Good times.

[@danielgreen6547]

Anybody else ever wonder at all how exactly Ken was "killed", or why he fell over "as if dead"? It always looked to me like he and Malth clashed swords in the air but that was all.

[@johnm.9525]

A designated 'classic', yes. But I don't think this game gets the proper credit it deserves for how ridiculously groundbreaking and innovative it was for its time. Literally game changing, and it blew my 9 year old mind when it dropped in '89. Forever grateful to all the developers, writers, artists, and musicians involved in making this masterpiece.

[@natanhaelalvarado6137]

I found the story of this game more intriguing and magical to the point that, it grabs my attention more than what is released nowadays with the tired aaa cinematic realism and voice acting.

[@Omniblade_Gaming]

Can’t tell you the feeling I had when I first beat this game

[@trinerd]

I remember when I got to the scene where he is staring at the ruins in the distance..not going to lie, dong was expanding from such an epic scene.

[@Hollywood49]

It took me like 12 years, but I finally beat it while home from college one summer around 2002 or so. I used to watch my older brother play it when I was a kid. I don’t think he ever beat it though.

[@MrArcadia2009]

As a child, i played it relatively well, for it being such a difficult game, and I made it far, but only so far, nearing the end of the game.

[@bigtomb1027]

Same here. This game is a beast once you get to the last boss. Never could beat him

[@MrArcadia2009]

@@bigtomb1027 It's not an Easy game, in anyway, that's for sure. I'm not at all surprised you couldn't beat the final boss...

[@vivahernando1]

Use the jump splash whenever possible. Makes the game so much easier

[@MrArcadia2009]

@@vivahernando1 not for me, it doesn't, anymore.

[@bernardjohnson6322]

Today's youth....(my 7 year old! ) dad what's a letter?

[@trinerd]

This was just an epic game. NG 2 story was just all over the place.

[@calibvr]

Both Ninja Gaiden 2s were all over the place But I love em both for it XD

[@bezoticallyyours83]

Shot with a dart, and you're to blame Darlin you give love a bad name! And that kids, is how I met your mother. 😅

[@sporedoutofmymind]

Ryu! Thank god! Your safe!

[@alexanderbratsche]

0:38 April deep purple theme

[@galvanizedcorpse]

my childhood... i had a master system first, and i love sega for that, but i ended up selling it in order to buy a nes and enjoy this kind of master piece......

[@Love-Sensibility]

You trade the SMS for something better~

[@galvanizedcorpse]

@@Love-Sensibility technically the SMS was OK, it's double dragon was double (that used to drive me and my brother insane), however yes, as much as I love the SMS in my hearth, i knew back then it was far superior in terms of the number of games and their availability......

[@HighFalutinTootin]

SM had a Ninja Gaiden game of it's own and it's also a great fun game

[@Ape482]

The mention of Shinobi in this game was just to epic

[@scruffnananessful]

If new games can't produce a storyline like this....I can't bother with you...and this is '89

[@slavic_spirit]

2:50 - моя самая любимая сцена. Смотря на то как Рю целеустремлённо быстро бежит под такую потрясающую музыку, по моему телу бегут мурашки. Эх, всё было бы замечательно, если не сраные птицы, а точнее адские их подобия, которые способны уничтожить кажую твою нервную клетку... По-моему мнению, эта игра обладает самым бесподобным музыкальным сопровождением на NES, также как и классическая серия «Mega Man» (без 7 и 8 части, но включая 9 и 10).

[@warpdriveby]

@11:41. That look like Hugh Laurie on acid to anyone else? LMAO! This was one of my absolute favorite nes games, and the one it took me until adulthood to actually beat! It had the deepest plot, scariest imagry (to an 11 year old, demon resurrection and moons turning to blood are indeed scary😮) BUT the DUMBEST outfit for a main villain Ive ever seen, to this day. Jaquio looks like the mascot for a team called the dung beetles! Otherwise this game is an 8bit masterpiece, although with an incredibly difficult final boss. I vividly recall ending playthroughs in FURY, after going the whole way through and killing every other boss, only to get pwned by the Demon and run out of time and shut the system off!

[@afmikasenpai]

It's crazy what you can do with something as limited as the NES.

[@CinderFelleth]

Brooooooo this is so cool.

[@Tainopisno1]

They can make a movie with these cut scenes and if it's done right would be off the hook in a movie. The game already gives them a script.

[@dieselbravo23]

Great memories

[@manolochapa8569]

Gran leyenda y juegazo increíble

[@Love-Sensibility]

3:11 holy shit its Dr. LIGHT!

[@slavic_spirit]

АХАХАХАХАХАХА. Да, он существует в двух реальностях.

[@pyroman4554]

1:56 “ has killed ryu with kindness and bullets!”

[@gjtrue]

Cool

[@jasonbowser1261]

It always bothered me as a kid that Malth didn't look anything like the same person later in the game.I was looking forward to fighting the skilled ninja at 0:25 but the developers instead gave us this dude at 12:00.

[@danielgreen6547]

@Jason Bowser I always wondered about that as a kid also. How did he go from this cool black suited ninja to a huge dude with a goofy-looking mask, and shield that throws lightning? No explanation at all.

[@HighFalutinTootin]

It's because he's part of the demon cult he's wearing his cult gear when you catch up with him...maybe idk

[@crimeson_3505]

Looks scary in the post battle cutscene 12:21

[@forza-kr4bx]

15:55 romeo and juliet remix. I like this version better!!!

[@luukang1981]

I was 11 when this game came out. The beginning scene I would always try and jump in the air as they did... Hitting my cousin as hard as I could with our plastic swords, good times...

[@vivahernando1]

Where Ryu meets his baby mama

[@MarcoAltamirano]

Ninja Gaiden the chance for a litle kid to embody a ninja y save the world from darknes, awsome game, i to in my day finished the saga and recordenin VHS the cutscenes

[@bezoticallyyours83]

I'm stuck at the ice stage.

[@russelveganeucleonps4plays820]

ICELAND VERSUS ICELAND FROM ICELAN D

[@chrisk5204]

"You know the answer to that." What does Foster mean?

[@sportsjefe]

he's CIA, he means the CIA will kill him.

[@Gessorio5531]

Probably Death

[@tenderpawsm473]

Was Irene the girl who shot Ryu in the bar? If so, why is he making out with her? What did "I see the anesthetic is wearing off" mean? Who was anesthetized? What is a sea swallow? Why didn't Ken even draw his sword when battling Malth? Who is Lukifell?

[@zulu3274]

Yes, Irene was the girl that shot ryu at the bar?... She shot him with a tranquilizing dart and Kidnapped Ryu... Sea swallow was Irene's code name... I'm sure Ken did try to fight Malth but he lost to him but they probably wanted to turn Ken into the mask devil because of how strong he is... Like a new soldier in Jaquio army... So they transformed Ken because Ken was probably one of the few people that could challenge them.... But none of them knew Ryu was this strong... Lukifell is probably the center they was holding ryu at.... At what point did you see something about lukifell?...

[@tenderpawsm473]

@@zulu3274 I thought that what you said about the tranquilizing dart was true. If Irene had used a bullet, Ryu would be injured or dead, right? Stage 5-3 was called the East Town Outer Wall/ the Nails of Lukifell. In the very beginning, it didn't look like Ken even drew his sword while battling Malth. He looked like the worst Ninja ever. Hahaha.

[@zulu3274]

@@tenderpawsm473 😁 That's not true, ken had his weapon drawn while fighting Malth... In the very beginning neither ninjas had their weapons drawn until they was in the air (look closely) then BOTH had their swords drawn to strike mid air but the one in the red (ken) fell and one in grey still standing was Malth... Which is why malth would know how good ken was as a swordman... Then later on Malth put on the ram outfit... lol Or maybe malth was standing there observing Ken duel with another Ninja that was good as ken... LoL Okay, so I'm guessing leukifill must be a name/part of the city ryu was in while he was on the mission?....."nails" of Leukifill would indicate some sort of hand structure right?... Maybe it's metaphorical for someone or something that's unknown but included into the game story....... But I'm thinking Lukifill is is some sort of building......lol

[@bezoticallyyours83]

A swallow is a bird

[@magpatocx]

14:53 you're day has come Jaquio?!!!!!!

[@agustinuszheng588]

14:59 "O-NO-RE JAKIOH!!!!" "CURSE YOU, JAKIOH!!!!!"

[@leroyc5289]

this game a joke.. lol jk!!😭😭🔥💦##JustSaiyan##

[@Donkey_Lips]

Starring Jake Gyllenhaal as Ryu Hayabusa .