October 27, 2025 • 18 mins
Show: 40 Something Gamers
Hosted by: Markivus Nious & Scharonne Herrington
Episode Summary:
In this nostalgic and action-packed episode, the 40 Something Gamers crew dives deep into the pixelated world of 16-bit classics making a major comeback. From legendary reboots like Shinobi and Ninja Gaiden to brawlers like Final Vendetta and Streets of Rage, the hosts celebrate how these timeless games are being reimagined for a new generation. They also discuss the upcoming retro-inspired He-Man video game and what makes the 80s and 90s gaming era so unforgettable.
Expect fun banter, gaming memories, and sharp insight from lifelong gamers who grew up on side-scrolling action and 8-bit dreams. Whether you’re an old-school player or a new fan of classic gaming vibes, this episode will hit all the right buttons
Level up your nostalgia - one pixel at a time
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/40-something-gamers-podcast--5073028/support.
Hosted by: Markivus Nious & Scharonne Herrington
Episode Summary:
In this nostalgic and action-packed episode, the 40 Something Gamers crew dives deep into the pixelated world of 16-bit classics making a major comeback. From legendary reboots like Shinobi and Ninja Gaiden to brawlers like Final Vendetta and Streets of Rage, the hosts celebrate how these timeless games are being reimagined for a new generation. They also discuss the upcoming retro-inspired He-Man video game and what makes the 80s and 90s gaming era so unforgettable.
Expect fun banter, gaming memories, and sharp insight from lifelong gamers who grew up on side-scrolling action and 8-bit dreams. Whether you’re an old-school player or a new fan of classic gaming vibes, this episode will hit all the right buttons
Level up your nostalgia - one pixel at a time
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/40-something-gamers-podcast--5073028/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Good morning, good evening, wherever you are in the world.
Forty something gamers. Me and my best friend Sharon Harrington,
forty something gamers, and we just talk about, you know,
the life our lives is being forty something. Shout out
to Sharon, he's about to be a year older coming soon,
and we just talk about life and then I love
(00:32):
video games. We took a little hiatus, but we're back. Sharon.
How you doing, man, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I do has again.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
That's been pretty good man. A busy living life. But
good note. I'm working on some new music, so to
the listeners, I got some good some new music coming soon,
so stay tuned. Oh yeah, So I started off as
I was actually watching a video yesterday, like I've been heavy.
(01:03):
I was tart to telling my boy Sharon, I've been
heavy into like Knees for Speed, the Crew, just getting
into some oh yeah, and the Skull and Bones. But
I was watching a video and the retro We always
talk about how retro video games never died, and I
was watching this video about like new retro inspired games
(01:24):
to look forward to. We got he Man and some
other games, but we just had two retro games that
just come out fully fresh and Shanobi and then Ninja Guiden,
and we're actually gonna talk about Ninja Guiden, not the
new and latest and greatest. And one thing I didn't
(01:44):
realize Sharoon was back in the day saw my Nintendo
Entertainment System ogs that Ninja Guiding was the video that
brought in a cinematic video man. And even now as
eight bit, those those cinematics scenes are still the ship.
But uh so that's too. We're going to talk about
(02:05):
the new Ninja Guiding video game that me and Sharone
recently purchased and our thoughts on it. So, so what
do you want to say about the franchise as whole
and then your thoughts on the video the new video game.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Man, So you know, I've always been Ninja guys saying,
you know, giving back to the arcade game. I remember
playing Ninja Guiden for the first time on Nintendo, and
you know, man, I was just like really thrown back by,
like you said, like the cinematics where you know, the
whole storyboard, like the comics book look, and you know,
(02:39):
just the really the overall difficulty at the game had
you know what I mastered it the game, you know,
it's like you get bragging right from the essam Ninja
Guiden and you know with the new one that had
just come out, you know, I actually enjoy like the
fact that they put the cinematics back into it, and
also I like the piculation of fit and hass. You know,
(03:02):
it has like the old school eight flash sixteen bit
look along with the soundtracks. And the difficulty is still there.
You know, it's not overly discolded, but it's discult enough.
Well you're not going to just figure it out maybe
on the first try. So I've been I've been playing
it a little bit and we kind of enjoying it.
(03:22):
You know, just took something getting used to, you know,
with the gameplay mechanics, and it also plays like like
Ninja guy in too because there is actually a second
character so far that you can also sort of kind
of control, you know. So I've been getting used to that,
you know, big boss fights, you know, just just a
(03:43):
lot of fun. How about you with it?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yeah? I like it, man. I remember because I actually
I was the one that downloaded and found out about
it first, and then I had to call my boy
Sharon and the first sequence. One thing that I do
remember is Ninja Guy in the Nintendo games, the games
that weren't like the original arcade that the game is hard,
(04:07):
Like you, it's all about timing, it's all about memorization.
And uh so the first couple of rounds that I
played when I called you was like, yo, man, this
game is dope. But then you were like, yeah, I
remember like Ninja Guiden was hard. And then as we
were talking, I was on the training stage, and the
training stage I was like, all right, yeah, this is
(04:29):
the OG. Back to the OG because it's all about
timing your jumps and stuff like that. And yeah, I
like the retro style. I like the pixelation. But then
in the uh the theme of Ninja Guidance, like that
game is hard. I mean as it progresses, it gets
progressively hard. But uh no, so far, I like it, man,
(04:51):
but it takes you back to a time where yeah,
you have the time your jumps and you have to Yeah,
go ahead.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I say it's hard, but it's predictable. Yeah, yeah, very condiculous.
But I also noticed about this game is you know,
like in the original Ninja Guiding game, you know, it
starts off with the cut seam, like when Dad's fighting
other ninja. They that training. I believe that first training
place that you do is actually what's happening with the dad,
(05:23):
you know, so it kind of it kind of cuts
to that. And also Ryu, who's like the head ninja
that's in the Ring aine Gotten games, he goes to
America in this game, and you're playing with the ninja
who stays back, and I think it's Japanion in Japan.
But yeah, I noticed. I noticed that about the game too,
and I was like, Okay, that's cool. So this is
the other side of the story, and you know, they course,
(05:46):
like all the demons and the months are starting to
run and run, rapping and take over and like attack everyone.
And but overall, I'm really enjoying this game. It's got
like it's got the old aesthetics. You know, it doesn't
take a rocket science to play it.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Oh yeah no, and that's a good thing. And then
the crazy thing you mentioned is uh, now that I
think about it, because mind you, I haven't played like
any of the Ninja Guidance. The ones that I played
are like the Arcade the Arcade game, the original, but
even with the original, they have them on a boat
in the beginning, and then I forgot, Like in my mind,
(06:26):
I remember the fight scenes, but I forgot the whole storyline.
So I'm you brought up a good point that this
Ninja Guiden kind of ties everything together as for us
from a different perspective, right.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Right, And you know, I think it's who are following
the Nintendo version of Ninja Guiden, but I guess the
power of the Arcade version of Ninja Garden because you
still kind of, you know, go to the same places.
It's just that the stages are slightly shorter because I
noticed some of the stage because I finished the Arcade
version of Ninja Gardens, and you know, I bought it,
(07:01):
you know, some one of those rituals that I love,
So I finished it. The game's on like maybe five
or six pages long, and it's not I mean, you know,
you get used to it. Like I said, once again,
it's also predictable. But you know, back in the day
when you were shoving quarters until it wasn't so easy.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
No, it was, man, there wasn't plenty of plenty of
times we had that chainsaw part where you got to continue.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Man, look that was that was a moment, you know,
to see that scene. It's like it was kind of scary. Yeah,
because I want to say I was fat, like I
was probably maybe eleven or twelve when I first start
that game. You know, I didn't realize there was an
arcade version of The Ninja Guy. Nor to take it back,
I didn't realize there was an arcade version of Double
(07:44):
Dragon either. I thought these games and just said come
out on Nintendo, and all of a sudden, when they
would go to Pizza Hut and there there's Menja Guide
and I was like, oh, okay, cool, you know, and
trying to play it and I was like, well, it
doesn't play like a Nintendo so it's like, you know,
you five scraw and beat them up. And the cool
thing about it was the fact that you could play
two players at the same time. Well as a Ninja
(08:06):
Guy in two on Nintendo, you know, you pick up
the shadow wharves and you'll have like at least two
shadows that follow behind you.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
And remember that.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah, so in this Ninja Guide in game, you have
a shadow. It's just one I can't remember her name,
but it's a female and you can kind of switch
back and forth between her. But she's kind of like
your shadow and she throws like different like Vinger stares
and you know, she can do other little missions and
(08:36):
she helps you through it and everything. So it's still
kind of it kind of plays like one and tube
put together. But you know, I'll just say, like, once
you get that character and she joins up with you,
it makes the game slightly easier, you know, because it's
certain certain things that she can do that you can't.
You know, that really kind of levels it out. But
(08:56):
I'll tell you what, I've got my ass kicked several
times about this the first big boss, you know, and
as I like, as like I used to, you know,
learn how with slashes to use, and it got it
got a little easier, but you know it's still a challenge.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Yeah, and then the thing is too like I'm not
gonna lie. I first saw the Ninja Guy and the Arcade.
That was my introduction in Ninja Guy. Loved the arcade,
and then once I saw the Nintendo version, kind of
didn't like stick to the Arcade version. I was a
little bit upset. But then like the cinematic screens and
then the stories made up for it. And then I
(09:34):
do remember and you remember the shadows. Uh, just thinking
back with the shadows. Man, you were make what's that
turbographics games like arcade game like Ninja Spirits. Yeah, yeah,
that did the same.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Thing, Spirits, and it was also called Semura Spirits. I went, no,
that's Semura su I'm sorry. There was two different versions
of Ninja Ninja Spirits, one of us for the Turbographics
sixteen and it was actually in Arcade er.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yeah, the arcade version.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so just I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yeah, I played the Terbographic sixteen one and then thanks
to emulators, and then played the Arcade one. Uh. But yeah,
so as you can see back in those days, that
was the style. But I just remember, like damn, when
I saw the Nintendo version, Initially I was like, dang man,
I wanted to be like the Arcade but the cinematic
screens and then like Ninja Guy in two and the
(10:26):
story gave you much more of like a background and
character development.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Yeah, and believe it or not, Ninja Guys, like the
first Ninja Guy was hard as like extreamly well Walter
on Nintendo. The second one, I think I walked through
the game in no time, you know, because of the
it was, you know, like in the first game, you know,
you stick to the wall and you have to keep
jumping back and forth. Well, in the second game, once
you stick to the wall, you get pretty much trying
(10:53):
to climb up and down. Yeah, and of course like
having a shadows, once you learned how to really manipulate
those guys, you know, attack what's coming behind you. You know,
it just made it, It just made it easier. But
I don't know, maybe I just had like singing for this. Yeah,
but you know, with the second game, I had new
trouble at all. Now the third one. By the time
(11:13):
THENJA got in three came along. I pretty much I
had gotten a Supernintendo. So I may have really the
game one time, but I didn't have a whole lot.
I didn't actually I never really played it. I might
just gotten off the first stage and I kind of
moved on at that point. So maybe maybe I need
to go back and mess with that one a little
bit too.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yeah, because I don't I don't even think I even
like mess with the third one, the second one. I
think after the second one, but like you said, because
the game was like it was all about time and
the memorization, I kind of I kind of like lost
a love for it. It's the same thing, like it
kind of reminds me like the difficulty level of some
of the Mega Man's. Man, Like, after a while, you're like, yeah,
(11:53):
that's uh.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
You know. One thing is with Mega Man, we used
to cheat that game because you know, if you we
had uh like, if you're playing the game, you and
you had like the second control of the you know,
your partner could push like down up or something like that,
and it would actually freeze the boss so you could
just obliterated dass.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Oh yeah, we used to.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yeah, we used to walk through like Mega Man three,
I think the second one that you were able to
do it also, But we used to cheat with that game.
You know, we we figured all that stuff out. Well,
you wouldn't just walking through. You weren't just gonna walk
through Maga Man. Mega Man was challenging.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yeah, no, Mega Man. Yeah, same thing when you got stripes.
So uh yeah, out of uh one through ten, Man,
what do you what do you give this? How do
you rate this game?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Oh? Man, I'm giving that game a solid.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Nine, solid nine. Okay, yeah, I'm right there with you. Man.
As matter of fact, I need to go back and
play it. Man, once I've gotten into this the Crew game,
so I'm gonna go back and play it, like I think,
like I haven't even like I have yet to really
crack it open. I got past the training stage and
I haven't really dug dug my teeth into it. But
(13:05):
I'm gonna go ahead and do it. And then speaking
of retro games, man, you know we got the he
Man coming out. Yeah, and uh what what? What retro
games are you other besides that?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Man?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Are there any other games you're looking forward to that
are down the pipeline?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Yeah, so believe it or not. And I've been looking
at like a lot of YouTube recommendations. I have another
game I got shadowed in Ninja. I played the demonstration
for that. There's another one called Hockey and Rockey We Shine.
M h oh, you know my birthday coming up. That's
one of the games I'm gonna get on the switch
because it looks a lot of fun. And you know,
(13:46):
there's there's a few games that's retro like the Ritual
Style that I've been you know, kind of eyeing. I
can't think of it. It's one game that the same
people who may blieve in Let's Sea Laser Blazing Chrome
Blazing Chrome the same. I mean, these games are a
few years old, and I didn't realize that. Wow, you know,
(14:09):
so I was just like kind of going through and as,
oh there's another one. It's called give me one second
Princess Princess Maddling Battle Princess Maddling. That's just like playing
Goules and Ghosts.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Oh okay, It's like it's like an indie.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Version of Googles and Ghosts. It's a lot of fun.
It has a retro pixelation look. So I've been enjoying
that one, and that would also really extreme difficulty. Also,
I think I might be only on level three right now,
three or four. But I've been enjoying it, you know,
having a lot of fun with it. And oh man,
there's several ritual retro style games out there that I'm doing,
(14:49):
and like, you know, just pickut my eyes on and
you know, just joint playing the ones that I have.
You know, I know, we have like a Mario Court
that just came out on the Nintendo Switch, but I
haven't gotten m grade to that yet.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
So hopefully in the Christmas, Happy Happy, Happy four fortieth
to Mario Super Mario.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Oh yeah, yeah, forty.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
You just brought that up. But yeah, man, I'm looking
forward to he Man. I'm looking for he Man and
uh yeah, that's one that I'm really and the fact
that they made it, uh they made it like Golden
Acts totally makes it. Golden Acts always kind of reminded
me of key Man.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Yeah, so what they got inspired by to make that
game Goldens back in.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
The day and then shout out to these video game
makers taking us back to retro. I mean, I love
the and we talked about this a lot, man. I
love the realistic and the graphics and the technology of
the newer games, but it's something about the older games, man,
the ones where you can just kind of like plug
and play those grap those parts that the grapisolated graphics
(16:03):
that to me are like never die, like with music
like Vinyl will never die. So that's how I feel.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Yeah, you always couldn't have the hardcore crowd like me
and you. Yeah, well you and me, you know.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah. So before we end this, man, you got anything
you want to say to the listeners. Man, and we
took a hiatus, but before we say anything, I want
to shout out France, Bulgaria, the UK, Jamaican are the
ones that people internationally tuning in.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yeah, keep listening. We enjoyed, we appreciate it. Yeah, and yeah,
don't don't forget. You know, we're getting lit with it
so that he'll help, you know, keep exercising.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Yep, take you back and keep playing. And also I
want to say, man, yep, got some new music coming out,
some instrumentals under my under my Music, under Furious, and
under Marquis, so be on the lookout for that. My
God is hopefully one day you guys can hear my
my music on on video games. What's that one? Dude? Man,
(17:06):
I think you know his name that did like Chanobe
Music Sonic. I'm trying to be him.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Oh yeah, uh you you you show? Oh God? Yeah,
but uh yeah, I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
But shout out to so ladies and gentlemen. That's another
new episode. Also, man, let us know man, cause you
can catch us on Blue Sky Facebook. Hit us up
you want us to to talk about games, and then
also check out Sharon's arcade as well.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
And uh yeah games on Facebook.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yep. So everybody that's me and Sharon signed off for
forty something games. Thanks for tuning in.
Good morning, good evening, wherever you are in the world.
Forty something gamers. Me and my best friend Sharon Harrington,
forty something gamers, and we just talk about, you know,
the life our lives is being forty something. Shout out
to Sharon, he's about to be a year older coming soon,
and we just talk about life and then I love
(00:32):
video games. We took a little hiatus, but we're back. Sharon.
How you doing, man, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I do has again.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
That's been pretty good man. A busy living life. But
good note. I'm working on some new music, so to
the listeners, I got some good some new music coming soon,
so stay tuned. Oh yeah, So I started off as
I was actually watching a video yesterday, like I've been heavy.
(01:03):
I was tart to telling my boy Sharon, I've been
heavy into like Knees for Speed, the Crew, just getting
into some oh yeah, and the Skull and Bones. But
I was watching a video and the retro We always
talk about how retro video games never died, and I
was watching this video about like new retro inspired games
(01:24):
to look forward to. We got he Man and some
other games, but we just had two retro games that
just come out fully fresh and Shanobi and then Ninja Guiden,
and we're actually gonna talk about Ninja Guiden, not the
new and latest and greatest. And one thing I didn't
(01:44):
realize Sharoon was back in the day saw my Nintendo
Entertainment System ogs that Ninja Guiding was the video that
brought in a cinematic video man. And even now as
eight bit, those those cinematics scenes are still the ship.
But uh so that's too. We're going to talk about
(02:05):
the new Ninja Guiding video game that me and Sharone
recently purchased and our thoughts on it. So, so what
do you want to say about the franchise as whole
and then your thoughts on the video the new video game.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Man, So you know, I've always been Ninja guys saying,
you know, giving back to the arcade game. I remember
playing Ninja Guiden for the first time on Nintendo, and
you know, man, I was just like really thrown back by,
like you said, like the cinematics where you know, the
whole storyboard, like the comics book look, and you know,
(02:39):
just the really the overall difficulty at the game had
you know what I mastered it the game, you know,
it's like you get bragging right from the essam Ninja
Guiden and you know with the new one that had
just come out, you know, I actually enjoy like the
fact that they put the cinematics back into it, and
also I like the piculation of fit and hass. You know,
(03:02):
it has like the old school eight flash sixteen bit
look along with the soundtracks. And the difficulty is still there.
You know, it's not overly discolded, but it's discult enough.
Well you're not going to just figure it out maybe
on the first try. So I've been I've been playing
it a little bit and we kind of enjoying it.
(03:22):
You know, just took something getting used to, you know,
with the gameplay mechanics, and it also plays like like
Ninja guy in too because there is actually a second
character so far that you can also sort of kind
of control, you know. So I've been getting used to that,
you know, big boss fights, you know, just just a
(03:43):
lot of fun. How about you with it?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yeah? I like it, man. I remember because I actually
I was the one that downloaded and found out about
it first, and then I had to call my boy
Sharon and the first sequence. One thing that I do
remember is Ninja Guy in the Nintendo games, the games
that weren't like the original arcade that the game is hard,
(04:07):
Like you, it's all about timing, it's all about memorization.
And uh so the first couple of rounds that I
played when I called you was like, yo, man, this
game is dope. But then you were like, yeah, I
remember like Ninja Guiden was hard. And then as we
were talking, I was on the training stage, and the
training stage I was like, all right, yeah, this is
(04:29):
the OG. Back to the OG because it's all about
timing your jumps and stuff like that. And yeah, I
like the retro style. I like the pixelation. But then
in the uh the theme of Ninja Guidance, like that
game is hard. I mean as it progresses, it gets
progressively hard. But uh no, so far, I like it, man,
(04:51):
but it takes you back to a time where yeah,
you have the time your jumps and you have to Yeah,
go ahead.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I say it's hard, but it's predictable. Yeah, yeah, very condiculous.
But I also noticed about this game is you know,
like in the original Ninja Guiding game, you know, it
starts off with the cut seam, like when Dad's fighting
other ninja. They that training. I believe that first training
place that you do is actually what's happening with the dad,
(05:23):
you know, so it kind of it kind of cuts
to that. And also Ryu, who's like the head ninja
that's in the Ring aine Gotten games, he goes to
America in this game, and you're playing with the ninja
who stays back, and I think it's Japanion in Japan.
But yeah, I noticed. I noticed that about the game too,
and I was like, Okay, that's cool. So this is
the other side of the story, and you know, they course,
(05:46):
like all the demons and the months are starting to
run and run, rapping and take over and like attack everyone.
And but overall, I'm really enjoying this game. It's got
like it's got the old aesthetics. You know, it doesn't
take a rocket science to play it.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Oh yeah no, and that's a good thing. And then
the crazy thing you mentioned is uh, now that I
think about it, because mind you, I haven't played like
any of the Ninja Guidance. The ones that I played
are like the Arcade the Arcade game, the original, but
even with the original, they have them on a boat
in the beginning, and then I forgot, Like in my mind,
(06:26):
I remember the fight scenes, but I forgot the whole storyline.
So I'm you brought up a good point that this
Ninja Guiden kind of ties everything together as for us
from a different perspective, right.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Right, And you know, I think it's who are following
the Nintendo version of Ninja Guiden, but I guess the
power of the Arcade version of Ninja Garden because you
still kind of, you know, go to the same places.
It's just that the stages are slightly shorter because I
noticed some of the stage because I finished the Arcade
version of Ninja Gardens, and you know, I bought it,
(07:01):
you know, some one of those rituals that I love,
So I finished it. The game's on like maybe five
or six pages long, and it's not I mean, you know,
you get used to it. Like I said, once again,
it's also predictable. But you know, back in the day
when you were shoving quarters until it wasn't so easy.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
No, it was, man, there wasn't plenty of plenty of
times we had that chainsaw part where you got to continue.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Man, look that was that was a moment, you know,
to see that scene. It's like it was kind of scary. Yeah,
because I want to say I was fat, like I
was probably maybe eleven or twelve when I first start
that game. You know, I didn't realize there was an
arcade version of The Ninja Guy. Nor to take it back,
I didn't realize there was an arcade version of Double
(07:44):
Dragon either. I thought these games and just said come
out on Nintendo, and all of a sudden, when they
would go to Pizza Hut and there there's Menja Guide
and I was like, oh, okay, cool, you know, and
trying to play it and I was like, well, it
doesn't play like a Nintendo so it's like, you know,
you five scraw and beat them up. And the cool
thing about it was the fact that you could play
two players at the same time. Well as a Ninja
(08:06):
Guy in two on Nintendo, you know, you pick up
the shadow wharves and you'll have like at least two
shadows that follow behind you.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
And remember that.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah, so in this Ninja Guide in game, you have
a shadow. It's just one I can't remember her name,
but it's a female and you can kind of switch
back and forth between her. But she's kind of like
your shadow and she throws like different like Vinger stares
and you know, she can do other little missions and
(08:36):
she helps you through it and everything. So it's still
kind of it kind of plays like one and tube
put together. But you know, I'll just say, like, once
you get that character and she joins up with you,
it makes the game slightly easier, you know, because it's
certain certain things that she can do that you can't.
You know, that really kind of levels it out. But
(08:56):
I'll tell you what, I've got my ass kicked several
times about this the first big boss, you know, and
as I like, as like I used to, you know,
learn how with slashes to use, and it got it
got a little easier, but you know it's still a challenge.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Yeah, and then the thing is too like I'm not
gonna lie. I first saw the Ninja Guy and the Arcade.
That was my introduction in Ninja Guy. Loved the arcade,
and then once I saw the Nintendo version, kind of
didn't like stick to the Arcade version. I was a
little bit upset. But then like the cinematic screens and
then the stories made up for it. And then I
(09:34):
do remember and you remember the shadows. Uh, just thinking
back with the shadows. Man, you were make what's that
turbographics games like arcade game like Ninja Spirits. Yeah, yeah,
that did the same.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Thing, Spirits, and it was also called Semura Spirits. I went, no,
that's Semura su I'm sorry. There was two different versions
of Ninja Ninja Spirits, one of us for the Turbographics
sixteen and it was actually in Arcade er.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yeah, the arcade version.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so just I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yeah, I played the Terbographic sixteen one and then thanks
to emulators, and then played the Arcade one. Uh. But yeah,
so as you can see back in those days, that
was the style. But I just remember, like damn, when
I saw the Nintendo version, Initially I was like, dang man,
I wanted to be like the Arcade but the cinematic
screens and then like Ninja Guy in two and the
(10:26):
story gave you much more of like a background and
character development.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Yeah, and believe it or not, Ninja Guys, like the
first Ninja Guy was hard as like extreamly well Walter
on Nintendo. The second one, I think I walked through
the game in no time, you know, because of the
it was, you know, like in the first game, you know,
you stick to the wall and you have to keep
jumping back and forth. Well, in the second game, once
you stick to the wall, you get pretty much trying
(10:53):
to climb up and down. Yeah, and of course like
having a shadows, once you learned how to really manipulate
those guys, you know, attack what's coming behind you. You know,
it just made it, It just made it easier. But
I don't know, maybe I just had like singing for this. Yeah,
but you know, with the second game, I had new
trouble at all. Now the third one. By the time
(11:13):
THENJA got in three came along. I pretty much I
had gotten a Supernintendo. So I may have really the
game one time, but I didn't have a whole lot.
I didn't actually I never really played it. I might
just gotten off the first stage and I kind of
moved on at that point. So maybe maybe I need
to go back and mess with that one a little
bit too.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yeah, because I don't I don't even think I even
like mess with the third one, the second one. I
think after the second one, but like you said, because
the game was like it was all about time and
the memorization, I kind of I kind of like lost
a love for it. It's the same thing, like it
kind of reminds me like the difficulty level of some
of the Mega Man's. Man, Like, after a while, you're like, yeah,
(11:53):
that's uh.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
You know. One thing is with Mega Man, we used
to cheat that game because you know, if you we
had uh like, if you're playing the game, you and
you had like the second control of the you know,
your partner could push like down up or something like that,
and it would actually freeze the boss so you could
just obliterated dass.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Oh yeah, we used to.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yeah, we used to walk through like Mega Man three,
I think the second one that you were able to
do it also, But we used to cheat with that game.
You know, we we figured all that stuff out. Well,
you wouldn't just walking through. You weren't just gonna walk
through Maga Man. Mega Man was challenging.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yeah, no, Mega Man. Yeah, same thing when you got stripes.
So uh yeah, out of uh one through ten, Man,
what do you what do you give this? How do
you rate this game?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Oh? Man, I'm giving that game a solid.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Nine, solid nine. Okay, yeah, I'm right there with you. Man.
As matter of fact, I need to go back and
play it. Man, once I've gotten into this the Crew game,
so I'm gonna go back and play it, like I think,
like I haven't even like I have yet to really
crack it open. I got past the training stage and
I haven't really dug dug my teeth into it. But
(13:05):
I'm gonna go ahead and do it. And then speaking
of retro games, man, you know we got the he
Man coming out. Yeah, and uh what what? What retro
games are you other besides that?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Man?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Are there any other games you're looking forward to that
are down the pipeline?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Yeah, so believe it or not. And I've been looking
at like a lot of YouTube recommendations. I have another
game I got shadowed in Ninja. I played the demonstration
for that. There's another one called Hockey and Rockey We Shine.
M h oh, you know my birthday coming up. That's
one of the games I'm gonna get on the switch
because it looks a lot of fun. And you know,
(13:46):
there's there's a few games that's retro like the Ritual
Style that I've been you know, kind of eyeing. I
can't think of it. It's one game that the same
people who may blieve in Let's Sea Laser Blazing Chrome
Blazing Chrome the same. I mean, these games are a
few years old, and I didn't realize that. Wow, you know,
(14:09):
so I was just like kind of going through and as,
oh there's another one. It's called give me one second
Princess Princess Maddling Battle Princess Maddling. That's just like playing
Goules and Ghosts.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Oh okay, It's like it's like an indie.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Version of Googles and Ghosts. It's a lot of fun.
It has a retro pixelation look. So I've been enjoying
that one, and that would also really extreme difficulty. Also,
I think I might be only on level three right now,
three or four. But I've been enjoying it, you know,
having a lot of fun with it. And oh man,
there's several ritual retro style games out there that I'm doing,
(14:49):
and like, you know, just pickut my eyes on and
you know, just joint playing the ones that I have.
You know, I know, we have like a Mario Court
that just came out on the Nintendo Switch, but I
haven't gotten m grade to that yet.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
So hopefully in the Christmas, Happy Happy, Happy four fortieth
to Mario Super Mario.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Oh yeah, yeah, forty.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
You just brought that up. But yeah, man, I'm looking
forward to he Man. I'm looking for he Man and
uh yeah, that's one that I'm really and the fact
that they made it, uh they made it like Golden
Acts totally makes it. Golden Acts always kind of reminded
me of key Man.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Yeah, so what they got inspired by to make that
game Goldens back in.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
The day and then shout out to these video game
makers taking us back to retro. I mean, I love
the and we talked about this a lot, man. I
love the realistic and the graphics and the technology of
the newer games, but it's something about the older games, man,
the ones where you can just kind of like plug
and play those grap those parts that the grapisolated graphics
(16:03):
that to me are like never die, like with music
like Vinyl will never die. So that's how I feel.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Yeah, you always couldn't have the hardcore crowd like me
and you. Yeah, well you and me, you know.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah. So before we end this, man, you got anything
you want to say to the listeners. Man, and we
took a hiatus, but before we say anything, I want
to shout out France, Bulgaria, the UK, Jamaican are the
ones that people internationally tuning in.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yeah, keep listening. We enjoyed, we appreciate it. Yeah, and yeah,
don't don't forget. You know, we're getting lit with it
so that he'll help, you know, keep exercising.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Yep, take you back and keep playing. And also I
want to say, man, yep, got some new music coming out,
some instrumentals under my under my Music, under Furious, and
under Marquis, so be on the lookout for that. My
God is hopefully one day you guys can hear my
my music on on video games. What's that one? Dude? Man,
(17:06):
I think you know his name that did like Chanobe
Music Sonic. I'm trying to be him.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Oh yeah, uh you you you show? Oh God? Yeah,
but uh yeah, I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
But shout out to so ladies and gentlemen. That's another
new episode. Also, man, let us know man, cause you
can catch us on Blue Sky Facebook. Hit us up
you want us to to talk about games, and then
also check out Sharon's arcade as well.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
And uh yeah games on Facebook.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yep. So everybody that's me and Sharon signed off for
forty something games. Thanks for tuning in.
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