NINJA GAIDEN Your training is nearly complete, NINJA. To earn the title of NINJA GAIDEN you must compete a daring quest. Many have gone before you, some more experienced, some less. The powers of darkness have turned the sacred silent city into the evil, noxious lair. They profane the holy walls with graffiti and billboards. They fill the streets with smoke and filth. We have sent many experienced NINJAs to free the city none have returned. We have heard that some have been destroyed. Others have been too weak to overcome the lure of evil and gone over to the other side. But you are different, NINJA you are brave in heart and spirit maybe you will free our holy city and our sacred land of this evil. If you succeed, you will be called a true hero, a NINJA GAIDEN. If you fail, you will be called a memory. Under cover of storm, the young NINJA approaches the silent city. GETTING STARTED To begin the game, insert the NINJA GAIDEN game card and press the on button. Press A or B to advance through the title screens. Press B to fight the powers of darkness. Change direction by pressing the joypad right or left. During the battle, the young NINJA discovers that he must often use his agile strength to jump. Press a to jump straight up. Press option 1 while the young NINJA is in the air to grab a pipe or bar. While the NINJA hangs from a bar or other object, press the joypad to swing and the B button to kick an enemy. As an enemy approaches, the NINJA runs towards him and jumps. As he flips over the enemy's head, the NINJA grabs the evil one's shoulders and throws him. The pause button stops the game until you press pause again. Option 1 and pause together restarts the game option 2 and pause flips the screen. The NINJA begins his quest. He runs through the city, fighting the powers of darkness. His rappid-fire kicks and punches and well timed flips and jumps make the NINJA a tough foe for the swarming enemies. THE ENEMIES The NINJA must defeat eight enemy classes to succeed: masked NINJA, lumberjack NINJA, clawed warrior, dark lord, black NINJA, sumo, wrestler, white NINJA. After clearing the city of evil guardians, The NINJA still has one enemy to face: the mighty dark lord. The dark lord is very large and he's armed with razor-sharp sabres. He is highly trained in all the violent arts-in fact, he invented most of them himself. Time is short for our NINJA hero. He starts with only 99 seconds to complete each of the levels. If he does not complete a level within the alloted time, he will lose a life. The young NINJA sends a masked NINJA enemy flying. The masked NINJA crashes into a telephone booth and smashes it to pieces, revealing a valuable treasure within. THE TREASURES There are six different treasures and power ups: Blue pill increases K.O.s remaining by one. Red pill increases K.O.s remaining to five. Ruby 300 points. Clock adds 20 seconds to timer. Sword fight with a sword instead of your fists. Mans add one life. Is takes more than a simple K.O. to beat our hero! As long as he has at least one K.O. left on the K.O. indicator, he gets up relatively unscathed. Each time the NINJA is knocked out, the indicator is reduced by one. When the K.O. indicator reaches zero, the NINJA loses a life. If the NINJA loses enough lives, the game ends. You can continue the game from where the NINJA hero lost his last life. When the continue screen apears, press A or B before time runs out. The NINJA lives again, but the point total returns to zero. The NINJA must cleanse four areas of the silent city: a) city streets b) casino motto c) train station d) palace Battling the DARK LORD VICTORY When you complete the fourth level, the game ends. if the NINJA completed all four levels without losing his last life, he earns the title of NINJA GAIDEN. SCORING Points are rewarded as shown below. Action Points Destroying a Masked NINJA 100 Destroying a Black NINJA 200 Picking up a Ruby powerup 300 Destroying a White NINJA 400 Destroying a Lumber NINJA 500 Destroying a Clawed warrior 5,000 Destroying a Wrestler 5,000 Destroying a Sumo 7,000 Destroying a Lord 50,000 Video Game Advantage WWW manual archive -- http://www.io.com/~vga2000