Shadow Dancer

tertronostalgic 2020-05-04
(8/10)
At last! A decent coin op conversion from US Gold.
Who'd have thought it eh? 7/10
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Dottor_Psycho 2017-01-12
(6/10)
Shadow Dancer as as sequel does not add much to the original Shinobi formula but that is not necessarly a bad thing. It is in facts a very enjoyable action game on the Amiga too where playability is mostly retained and assets are more or less decently converted. It is far from arcade perfect in any respect anyways and having to use the space bar to summon the special attacks is very annoying. Not the worst conversion, anyways (6/10).
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Bebokus 2016-01-10
(4/10)
I couldn't even beat the first stage. The controls suck big time, sometimes the enemies pop up out of nowhere and everything is so slow in this game.

The dog is useless!
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GuyFawkesRetro 2012-05-23
Oh dear....

My Master System version plays and looks so much better than this. This could have been Epic, but it was not.
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tertronostalgic 2011-12-16
(8/10)
Enjoyable game with good difficulty level - one of the better arcade conversions. Dog character works well too.The only downer being that it was a bit Atari ST-ish...
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sexyvid4 2011-12-01
(7/10)
Another nice arcade to amiga build.
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tony day 2011-02-26
(10/10)
This game is criminally underrated. I love it and still play it today. I actually prefer it to the Arcade and I have that on mame. I’m not saying that as some Amiga fan boy either. I think it’s actually better. The GFX might not be but the Arcade version has some really crappy music (unlike the original Shinobi) and the Amiga version makes up for this.
As far as conversions go this one is excellent. It’s very faithful to the Arcade. It’s responsive and fun and, like its predecessor, very addictive.
Remarkably this was released by US Gold and it turned out to be one of the best conversions on the system. Highly recommended.
8/10
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Hollywood_Haggar 2009-11-30
(8/10)
Yes, it´s a much more than decent arcade conversion and trust me, you can pass every stage without getting hit with practice and patience.


This is one of the games I still play sometimes. Even having the chance to use MAME to feel the otriginal experience, I love the amiga conversion. A bit harder, a bit more challenging.......
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moebius 2009-11-20
Adding the attack dog brought some new life into this 'Shinobi' sequel, but it's way too hard - one hit from a bullet kills you and you have to start from the beginning of the stage. I actually didn't know it was an Arcade conversion. Even though I was a 'Shinobi' coin-op nut.
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Vinniebabe 2009-05-29
(7/10)
I loved the Ninja Tower bonus mission A good game but a little short
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judasEZT 2009-03-29
(9/10)
Pity of the ST colour-palette. But the game is a good conversion of the Sega coin-op. Very big sprites, smooth as hell.. No dualplayfield, but those are the chooses that had to be made at those times to aboard a conversion. Moreover its specially good when it comes from USGold, company which usually brought crap conversions.
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Arsace 2009-03-03
There was a friend of mine that loved this on amiga, but i never really got in to it, cause i was put away by the ugly graphics.
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Reo77 2008-09-16
(7/10)
Yeap, good conversion.
Graphics: 7
Gameplay: 7
Sound: 7
Addictive: 6
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LivingDaydream 2008-07-08
(7/10)
One of the better Arcade conversions on the Amiga. (7/10)
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Zagrebo 2007-11-07
(8/10)
A pretty competent version of the great arcade game. The graphics feel a bit too bright and "chunky", and the parallax scrolling is gone but the music and sound are fine and the gameplay is largely intact.
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Kai 2007-09-18
(6/10)
Graphics and sounds are not overwhelmingly good and the game is quite hard and frustrating at times. (61%)
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nemO 2007-07-16
(7/10)
I remember enjoying the arcade original a lot, but this is way under on the graphic level. If the gameplay is the same, according to other comments : awesome game. I would have to test this version to be accurate, if I don't die laughing at a white ninja with a wolf
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amigabill 2006-09-14
(7/10)
Ah yes.. What shinobi should have been..plus the dog!
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squap 2006-08-11
(6/10)
Not the worst game at all. Decent graphics and game play and enough to keep you coming back a couple of times. 6/10
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Guybrush Threepwood 2006-03-03
(8/10)
This was actually OK when I played it many moons ago, GFX and sound were OK as well.
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stooart 2005-12-01
(7/10)
Was miles better than the disgraceful Shinobi conversion. I played this any chance I got in the arcades and thought this was a decent conversion. Stuck to the level layout very well and seemed to keep the difficulty curve just right. Graphics and sound were functional but this one wins on the playability.
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Karpow 2005-09-20
(8/10)
Excellent conversion. Not perfect but very good. I played this a lot.
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raven 2005-04-15
(8/10)
A cool, under-rated Shinobi game. Garish colours, yeah but at least they kept the wolf!
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bombola 2005-03-26
(10/10)
It's better than some try to make you think. Its graphics may be different to coin op, I don't know; I don't care. Because gameplay is enjoyable. It sure is a superb game methinks.
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Inferno 2005-03-14
(4/10)
The colours were so horribly wrong on the Amiga's Shadow Dancer that it looked like a fluorescent version of the arcade original, really. And the gameplay wasn't ported over to Commodore's 16-bit wonder too cleverly, either. Bah...
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breakzfanatic 2005-01-13
(4/10)
Ugly graphics and boring gameplay, another bad attempt of it's coin-up equal to shinobi
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darkus 2004-12-15
(7/10)
Again another classic conversion which entertained for hours on end. Its truely amazing to see this screens again!
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Trantor 2004-12-08
(8/10)
An almost arcade perfect conversion of the Shinobi sequel. This of course also means that some of the level design issues (such as not always being able to see where the next enemy is coming from and starting from the beginning of a level each time you die) are still there, but if you were like me and blew WAY too much change in the arcade on this one, then the Amiga version was a godsend.
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