Shinobi (NES)

The NES Shinobi is an unlicensed port of Sega's arcade game and very similar to the Master System version in terms of play mechanics and graphic design (right down to the inclusion of a life gauge), but nowhere near as well polished and very buggy due to its unlicensed nature. Still, it does have some semblance of an actual ending, which the Master System version lacked.

Stage Select


Press Down, Down, Left, Right, Up, Up, Start at the title screen.

Unused Music
The soundtrack for the NES Shinobi has eleven tracks (all of them renditions of music from the arcade and Master System versions), but only four are actually played in-game: the standard stage music (BGM2), the bonus stage theme (BGM1), the stage clear theme, and the ending/game over theme. The unused tracks are as follows, with the titles taken from the Legend of Joe Musashi album: