Amazing Nostalgia: Shinobi
Everyone has wanted to be a ninja at least once in their life, haven’t they? Even old women who can barely walk harbour a secret longing to become a living, breathing, shadow. There is just something so fascinating about the idea of leaping around dingy alley-ways, being invisible and more importantly being a law-and-order ignoring rogue. That was why I loved the game Shinobi on the master-system. I could be a ninja while also being a twelve year-old boy. Which has to be the best combination I think, because once you get older you realize how unlikely it is that you will ever become a ninja, which is just plain sad–
Now, Shinobi was basic, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t incredible. Yes the graphics were flat as a pancake, the sound was atrocious and there really wasn’t much you could do physically—unless it involved a series of basic kicks and punches—but that wasn’t the most important thing about playing the game. Adventure was what you got when you played Shinobi, each and every time.
If I’m being honest, If I had the power I’d take video-gaming back to the early 90s, to a time of 2D platform games, when life was simple. I just can’t get my head around modern-gaming and everything it entails–it just seems too complicated somehow, and I don’t remember that ever being the case with Shinobi and other games of that time. Those games were about fun, period. All you needed was some hormones and imagination.
Got paid for that last writing job that I did, you all know whats coming, it’s about time to hit the shops and pick up that new pair of asics running shoes that I have been waiting to get. Ron, are you up for a little bit of shopping this weekend?
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