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Sorry I made you wait. Maybe I've kept you waiting too long ... Is it the Naked Director! w Let's talk about the development of Karate Ninja Sho, who was scheduled to appear in NEOGEO software today without discipline. First of all, please see my tweet yesterday for the background to this game development.
This time, I will tweet in several times, so it will be long, so if you are interested, read it all together. I tweeted yesterday that the setting was really fashionable, but the setting of the ninjas of the main character was quite elaborate.
The reason why the invading alien named Snaker came to Earth was the food that was aimed at food procurement? That's right, it eats humans. It's a very psychological setting that seems to me, and the snaker has the ability to mimic the human who ate it, and everything that looks like a human is a mimicry of the snaker.
As a setting that was not drawn in the main part of the game, in fact, the four ninjas of the main character are also eaten by the snaker. In other words, the four main characters are mimicking the snaker. I set it to eat the spirit of the snake that I ate by force.
Therefore, there was a secret setting that only four of them could fight the invader's snaker. Each ninja is protected by the four sacred beasts, and Sho is a blue dragon.
The army is Suzaku, love is White Tiger, and Makoto is protected by Genbu, and by adding the ability of Snaker, it is possible to summon the four sacred beasts and cause great damage to the enemies around. Well, it ’s a shooting game bomb.
At first glance, it may be difficult to understand the crotch attack of the macho of the boomeran pants that was tweeted yesterday with the mimicry of a snaker because the image is rough, but the crotch is sticking out with a shrimp and attacking the face. Masu w When I set this character, the person in charge of dots drew it with norinori w
And this is the girl's costume Robo like Jumbo Max of Samba Carnival that was on Twitter yesterday. There is a pattern that runs at high speed with short legs and a pattern that suddenly stretches your hands, both of which are pretty scary w
When I did a location test in this game Tokyo, Ikebukuro Gigo was popular with a daily income of over 20,000 yen, but the reason why it was not released is to read my past tweets, as always. I tweeted for a long time. Is there anyone who read it to the end? w
Oh yeah, when I saw the pictures of the main characters of this game, it was pointed out that even though I was a karate ninja, it looked like a saint Seiya, and there was no element in either ninja or karate, so I will explain. The equipment is a pot metal and the design is a snake-eating eagle. Literally eat a snake
Then, when it comes to karate, the belt around the waist is karate! I'm saying that, but it's impossible! Because the former president Inoue's small ninja runs with a slapstick and a big enemy, the title is Ninja Karate. I want to praise myself that it was well embodied.
Ah! I forgot to put the image of love and Makoto. I forgot to write something important! Actually, President Inoue had other unreasonable challenges, and he was told to create enemy bosses with CG Boligon and drop them into dot drawings.
In other words, the person in charge of drawing did a really tremendous work of creating Robo Kong and Jumbo Max with CG, and then reducing the number of colors within the range that can be seen in CG and dropping it into a dot picture. !! I think.
Even so, the people in charge of drawing watched the drawing of the crotch attack on the beach and competed with "This is good! Okay! I can't lose!" He did his best just because he was in charge of the script and made up for it.
I am really grateful that I was blessed with the development staff. Some of our followers were staff members at the time, so thank you again! Let me say. Thank you to everyone who has been with us for a long time!
Since there was a question about the ending, I will tweet about the ending. There are 4 types of endings individually when playing alone and a combination of 4 people, Sho, Army, Love, Makoto, and only the last narration part is common.
The strong warriors who received the orders of the lord who once ran around the world of the Warring States and carried out their missions with their own lives, the names of which are ninjas and the names of the lords who can be used by karate ninjas are justice! The message is at the end when the staff roll is displayed and it's over
Comment: Thank you for the inside story of Karate Ninja Sho. I am also curious about the contents of the stages after stage 3 and how many stages the development has progressed.
Answer: All 8 stages were completed. Of course, all endings were completed.
Comment: 3-7 (Karate Ninjas travel around the world)
Is it like the mother star of an eight-sided snaker or a fortress (the last boss is a snake queen like A ○ P's A ○ An Queen)?
Did you have a bad end for each combination or general purpose when playing with 4 players individually and when playing with 2 players?
Answer: I forgot the details, but it was set that Italy, France, Japan, the last was the mother ship of the snaker, and Las Boss ate the samurai with the snaker named Keitora. There were 4 types of endings and 2 players for each combination. Bad end is not unusual for me w
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[Aicom]
NEO-GEO "Karate Ninja Sho" director, scenario, graphic artist, etc.
This game has not been released in Japan. I heard later that it was sold only overseas, but the fact is unknown. I got a high income when I did a location test in this game Shibuya and Ikebukuro.
So why wasn't it released in Japan? That's because there was a conspiracy by the development manager at that time. If you write the details, there seems to be a problem, so I will write it roughly. It was a high income in the location test in Tokyo, so I decided to do the location test in Kansai where SNK's head office is located for the release.
You set the location test on the day of the old birds during the Obon holidays, and you purposely specified a small arcade with a small number of customers to perform the location test. The reason why I did that is because when "Karate Ninja Sho" is released, my position gets worse.
At that time, the PSS developed by the team led by this shit manager didn't sell at all. In the early days of the PS release, when it was released, it couldn't sell at all, and it made a big deficit, and Mr. Inoue, the president, got angry. That's why I was developing it with my team
When "Karate Ninja Sho" gave a high income in Tokyo and his position got worse, he planned to make him sick for self-protection. At that time, SNK had a lot of other hits, so the income in Kansai was bad, so it was a crap. In addition, this shit manager told the remaining employees of my team, "Erase all the ROM!"
It seems that he gave an instruction to completely destroy the evidence, but the employee of my team who received the instruction lied to the director saying "I erased it" and kept the ROM hidden. After about half a year, SNK didn't have anything to put out, so I was instructed to do a location test of "Karate Ninja Sho" again in Kansai.
It was said that President Inoue got angry when the shit manager instructed him to erase the ROM for his own protection. Congratulations. Congratulations ww I'm sorry for this week because the talk has become long.
Anecdotal information :
Bootleg seller Atomikwave said he posted a snippet of Karate Ninja Sho's music in a promotional video for one of his bootlegs in 2015. He claimed to own the game's ROM, but could not release it or talk about the content. from the game. I asked and it turns out that the music is not from the game.