Talk:Alex Kidd in Shinobi World

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Ni****do

Will people stop reverting the word "Ni****do" back to Nintendo, That is the original quote given from the UK magazine "S" where the article originally derived from. We know it means Nintendo, we're not stupid. and it's like that as it was a Sega magazine jestfully remarking. NOT A FANBOY COMMENT.

Now please do some research before changing quotes...

also give a reason why, don't just change it.--Guru Larry (talk) 01:00, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I do have to wonder about copyright issues with this section. It's not really a quote, but a verbatim copy of an entire section of a magazine. It would be better if this section was rewritten, with the magazine used as a reference.--Atlan (talk) 09:03, 20 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Images

These photos have been deleted from the current page, but is there any where that they can possibly be re-included? It's a shame to delete them as they're currently the only known copies of them...

File:ShinobiKid2.jpg File:Alexkidd shinobi start.gif

Alright not the title screen one...--Guru Larry (talk) 21:36, 19 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It would help if the images were free. As they are now used under a fair use policy, we can't have too many in the article (that would be considered a fair use violation).--Atlan (talk) 09:06, 20 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Shinobi Kid

I believe this does need to be reincluded.

In 2007, images and articles began to surface on the internet, that like Alex Kidd: High-Tech World, Alex Kidd was not originally intended to be the star of the game. Rather, the game was initially devised to be a 'cute' parody of Shinobi, in a similar vein to how Kid Dracula was to Castlevania, Splatterhouse:_Wanpaku_Graffiti was to Splatterhouse and Parodius was to Gradius.

An article from Issue Four of "S: The Sega Magazine" (March 1990) printed the following article about Shinobi Kid: The Game's Title Screen.

Along with the price reduction, Sega announced that there will continue to be new titles released for the Master System, and many were on display. As well as games already featured in S there were new up-and-coming titles such as Ultima IV, Golfamania, Shinobi Kid, Assault City, Slapshot plus Super Monaco GP and Simple Fighter (both announced but not shown) and R.C. Grand Prix from Absolute Entertainment, although none of the previous third party licenses (Activision, Parker Brothers, Epyx) plan to release new titles for the Master System.

Of these, Shinobi Kid was about the best. The tune is from Shinobi, but the Character is a small kid. He has some of the same moves and a new power: instead of walking through the screens, he can grab the occasional lamp pole or bar and start spinning faster and faster around it. Pushing the button releases him and he flies across several screens, knocking out any bad guys along the way. The screen scrolls horizontally and sometimes vertically downward into a maze and then back up to ground level. At the end of each level, after he rescues all the tied-up hostages, he must fight the end-of-level boss. One is called Mari-Oh (as a sideswipe at Ni****do's Mario character). Defeat Mari-Oh and he shrinks down in size and disappears.

No reason has ever been given as to why Shinobi Kid was replaced with Alex Kidd. Several magazines at the time expressed that Sega originally intended Alex to appear in several games parodying their own licenses in a bid to re-invent the character, (such as Golden Axe and Phantasy Star at the top of the list). Though Sega's success with Sonic The Hedgehog unfortunately put an end to this plan.

--Guru Larry (talk) 00:57, 20 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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