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There is such a red and white machine game, which is produced by Tecmo, is a horizontal action type, ninja protagonist, the story background is a mix of modern and traditional, its formality transcends the times, so that the red and white machine to achieve a cinematic narrative.

Having said so much, someone must be impatient. What are you selling? this is not the Legend of the Ninja Dragon Sword.

However, in today's program, the president is not really talking about the boxing Aaron, but another game: "Ninja Cat".

In addition to the above-mentioned features, almost all of them are the opposite of ninja dragons: tough action blockbusters on the one hand, cute funny comedies on the other, and the demolition of the Devil City alone on the other; on the other hand, seven kittens form a team to protect the metropolis; but most importantly, "Ninja Cat" is not very difficult, and it is one of the few red and white machine games that can pass through customs when I was a child.

What is the origin of these kittens and what story does the game tell today? let's talk about it today.

"Ninja Cat", like "Angel Wings", is an anime adaptation. The original work is the TV animation "Kung Fu Cat Party" broadcast by Dragon's subsidiary in 1991. For convenience, it is collectively referred to as Ninja Cat.

In the game, the protagonist's three cats look like cats in holy clothes, but in fact they are all robots and live in a place called Edopolis. As can be seen from the name, the background of the animation is a mix. From a distance, it looks like the Edo era in Japan. It is all the infrastructure of the modern city, and the creativity is more than ten years earlier than the Silver Soul.

The plot of the game starts with the intrigue of the two shogunate ministers, the villain, the fox, the corn guard and the dog mountain, Wang Wang Shou. Corn Shou is a fox robot, above ten thousand people under one person, but he is not satisfied with the power at hand, and has been planning to overthrow the shogunate and overthrow the general.

In every level of the game, he ordered his raven ninjas to send huge robots to disrupt the lives of citizens, thus reducing the popularity of the shogun and achieving his ulterior goals. And the dog mountain barking rules in order to thwart his plot, privately assembled a secret ninja team cat machine, is our protagonist.

Miaoji No. 1 Bataro is a typical warm-blooded fool protagonist; No. 2 Scarsi is the handsome guy on the team, frivolous and likes to chat up; No. 3 poof Lulu is the only female character in the team, who can play the flute and has been an idol. On the surface, they are clerks of pizza cat, a pizza chain, who will become ninjas to protect the peace when Edo is in crisis.

Although "Ninja Cat" is a proper film for young people, it can still taste a bit of a joke about history. Although the shogunate is the subject of the protagonist, General Tokugawa's family is a complete loser, and the real person in power is his daughter Tokugawa Rabbit. The favorite word of this wayward princess is to "banish you to a desert island." Even Ken Horiuchi, the excellent commentator of the animation, was sent to the desert island across dimensions. As a result, there were so many exiles that the desert island was built into a holiday resort, and even a bronze statue was built for the princess to show his gratitude.

After the plot, let's go back to the game itself.

"Ninja Cat" as a horizontal action game, the picture is fresh and comfortable. In fact, it is more like the Locke people than Ninja Dragon. In particular, the ladders that switch scenes and the electric lights and nailboards that appear at later levels can be found in Taobao in the previous year's "Locke people 3". The biggest feature of the game is that in addition to the three protagonists, it can also use the four helpers in the animation.

Meow plane 4 Gordon has a drill that can get into the earth; the letter of force 5 is a strong man, and if there is a stone on the road, it can be broken with his strange force; Miet 6 has thrusters and wings on its back and can fly in the air; Nicky 7 is good at water and can move freely in the water. These roles provide a sense of exploration of the branch route for linear levels, but make the protagonist who does not have special abilities appear a little weak, which is typical of dominating the main body.

As a game at the end of FC, coupled with the superb skills of Tecmo, Ninja Cats has realized the "divine restoration" of the original, and the character's pixel painting is exactly the same as the animated image. Although the performance is not as good as the dragon, the picture is only the size of dried tofu, but the victory lies in the quantity and fullness of the game. at the beginning of each level, there are performances before and at the end of Boss, and there are special effects such as love and lightning in the background to make up for the lack of character expression.

Some famous scenes in the animation are represented by several special cards, such as Xiao Yang Honey will shoot missiles on her head when she is emotional, Maishou is a male elder sister who likes to wear women's clothes, and so on. The final battle first depicts the defeat of the whole crew in front of the airship transformed into Tianshou Pavilion, and then escapes with bird-shaped armor, and boarded the big scene of the airship decisive battle, worthy of the words raging waves.

As for the music, it is still created by the veteran Ryuichi Xintian, who wrote the Legend of the Ninja Dragon Sword. Although it has changed the tense atmosphere, what remains unchanged is the dynamic rhythm coupled with a strong gentle wind, which makes people can't help humming when they play.

If you have to find faults for the ninja cat, it may be too easy. In the early stage of the game, Xiaobing is basically sending heads, and there are a large number of props in the middle of the checkpoint, and Boss is all the same attack mode repeatedly. It is only at the last few indoor levels full of traps that it is just a little challenging. However, considering the age of the game, "Ninja Cat" is also a masterpiece of ACT enlightenment for primary school students. In theory, the popularity of such a game with animation should sell well, but in fact, "Ninja Cat" did not get the dividend of popular animation.

Because its original work is not popular at all.

Originally, the game will be released half a year after the animation is broadcast, and the animation is also planned to release a videotape version, but there is no following due to the low popularity. It was even joked by Japanese fans for a long time that thanks to the game made by Tecmo, it proved that the animation once existed. Because it is the only peripheral product that has been commercialized.

But on the other side of the ocean, this is another story. Maybe it's because of the Japanese style and modern urban mash-up style of "Ninja Cat", and there are ninja and pizza elements in the movie, so you can rub off the popularity of "Ninja Turtles" anyway. American company Saban bought the rights to broadcast the animation in Europe and the United States.

But when they got the master tape, they were so dumbfounded that they didn't look like human words at all. It is not surprising that the original Ninja Cats are Edo-era terms and Japanese Terminals, and it takes a lot of effort to understand them at the level of translation at that time. However, this is not difficult for Saban, who are best at adding their own content to Japanese programs. you know, in 1993, they introduced a Japanese team TV series and changed it into a popular American version of the Dinosaur team.

"Ninja Cat" is also a nonsense comedy, then an action scene, and finally a giant robot, which is exactly the same operation. So their scriptwriter watched a few episodes of action drama and began to adapt it, not to make it up, and to joke about it not to talk nonsense. Finally came the resounding name "Samurai Pizza Cat".

In the film, Maishou becomes the Prime Minister of Big Cheese, and Wang Wangshou becomes the guard of the spaghetti palace. The film is full of puns in English and jokes about breaking the fourth wall. For example, when a passer-by sees the main corner regiment in the air, he will tell his mother that everyone knows that cats can't fly. This is bullshit. Then his mother would reply, there is no need to take it so seriously, because it is a cartoon.

This combination of cute characters, funny plots and gorgeous action plays conquered primary school students in Europe and the United States at that time. You should know that Japanese animation was rarely introduced to the West at that time, and Samurai Pizza is also an important work that sowed two-dimensional culture in the prehistoric period of Europe and the United States.

Its DVD even predates the launch of Ninja Cat in Japan. But neither the son of the Dragon nor Tecmo can know, and audiences in Europe and the United States will be pleasantly surprised to find that there is such a hidden bead on FC only when the Internet age arrives.

This article is from the official account of Wechat: game Research Society (ID:yysaag), author: travel Research Agency

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