Ninja Gaiden

The Good
It's the arcade version. Works well on a Tandy 1000 series computer. And the cut-scenes are still here. Has good play control if you have an old joystick lying around.

The Bad
Other than a Tandy 1000 PC, this game can't handle any CPU higher than a 8086. Also, the graphics are simple and there isn't any real sound. The computer is really cheap, and the game is very hard. Also, Hi-Tech used a cheap disk, so make a good copy of it a few times, because after two years, the disk will go bad. Some versions of this game have on-disk copy protection and the later editions don't. There's nothing to indicate which is which from Hi-Tech's programming.

The Bottom Line
See this in a discount bin? Avoid it. Seriously. Avoid it like the plague. I recommend shelling out the bucks for either the Mega Drive version (plays like the arcade, but it isn't the arcade version), getting an Atari Lynx and the game with that portable console (however, 99% of the enemies are Jasons from Friday the 13th on that version), or finding a way to play the arcade original somehow. I'm sure that, in 1989 or whenever the original release was on the PC that this game must've been the cat's meow, but since it can only be played on old Tandy PCs and the like, how can I recommend it?