Black Tiger NES

[Black Tiger]

This is the first screenshot I've seen that I can remember. I don't think that it's from any of the euro comptuer versions either:



I found the image over at http://www.unseen64.tk/

Back in the day I was dying for this game to come out, after reading it on a list of upcoming Capcom NES games in the manual for Megaman or something.

It looks like it was going to be an original game, like Strider, which is what I was hoping for.

The main player sprite looks way better than I expected. 

[GUTS]

I remember that screen shot.  I thought for years back in the 90s that it had come out in Japan and was extremely disappointed when I learned that it was canned, I loved the arcade version for some reason (after playing it again on Capcom classics I can't remember why, it's not much fun).

[Dark Fact]

There was going to be an NES version of this game? Damn! I would've killed to try it on the NES!

And Black Tiger is still a great game to play after all these years. I got a kick out of seeing this game in the arcades when I was a kid and having the opportunity to play it made it all the more enjoyable.

Black Tiger still had some of the best sound effects I ever heard in a Capcom or any arcade game for that matter.  The falling sound is still my favorite.

[Ninja Spirit]

From the looks of that, it probably would've been choppy like the NES versions of Ghosts n' Goblins and 1942

[Black Tiger]

I remember that screen shot.  I thought for years back in the 90s that it had come out in Japan and was extremely disappointed when I learned that it was canned, I loved the arcade version for some reason (after playing it again on Capcom classics I can't remember why, it's not much fun).

Probaby because it's the greatest arcade game ever made. It's like a non-crappy version of Castlevania. 

From the looks of that, it probably would've been choppy like the NES versions of Ghosts n' Goblins and 1942

GnG looks like it was one of those early NES games that didn't have an accelerator chip. Judging from the graphics in the screenshot, I'd say Black Tiger NES would've come out late enough to have played smoothely. Just look at Capcom's other NES action platformers.

[Dark Fact]

Isn't calling it the greatest just a bit of a stretch, Black_Tiger? You know there are a LOT of other arcade games out there.

[Black Tiger]

Isn't calling it the greatest just a bit of a stretch, Black_Tiger? You know there are a LOT of other arcade games out there.

I know, but what's higher than 'the greatest'? 

Although I guess that Plump Pop may be a close second...

[esteban]

Dark Fact, there may be many arcade games, but they are not Black Tiger, and therefore can't compare.

I remember that screen shot.  I thought for years back in the 90s that it had come out in Japan and was extremely disappointed when I learned that it was canned, I loved the arcade version for some reason (after playing it again on Capcom classics I can't remember why, it's not much fun).

Probaby because it's the greatest arcade game ever made. It's like a non-crappy version of Castlevania. 

[Dark Fact]

I know, but what's higher than 'the greatest'? 

Um, the greatest x 2?

But have you tried out all the hundreds of other arcade games out there and compared them to Black Tiger?

[Black Tiger]

I know, but what's higher than 'the greatest'? 

Um, the greatest x 2?

But have you tried out all the hundreds of other arcade games out there and compared them to Black Tiger?

Not all of them, but most of them. 2D arcade games in general started going downhill soon after BT, if you don't count the flood of street fighting games.

If I ever learn to program Turbo games, I hope to make an adventurey Castlevania SotN'ish version of Black Tiger.

But I also think that Drac X PCE is the best Castlevania and don't think that Final Fantasy began as a decent series at VII, so what do I know? 

[Dark Fact]

A Metroid-like exploration version of Black Tiger would seriously rock! But maybe you'll need to work on the physics in that game such as being able to move as you fall and not drop like a lead stone.

[guyjin]

i'd never heard of black tiger until you mentioned it; looks awesome from what I've read.

there seem to be a lot of computer ports; are there other console ports that I somehow missed?

[Black Tiger]

A Metroid-like exploration version of Black Tiger would seriously rock! But maybe you'll need to work on the physics in that game such as being able to move as you fall and not drop like a lead stone.

Oh yeah, it woudn't have the same game play, just similar platforming and climbing with variable projectiles in place of magic attacks like the modern Castlevanias. I'd also use a female lead character. 

The jumping in BT is one of the secrets that must be figured out if you want to finish the game. When it first came out, even the best players one of our local arcades all got stuck at the same spot on the chapel stage where ninjas first appear. There's that one high jump you have to make that can only be done one way. 

i'd never heard of black tiger until you mentioned it; looks awesome from what I've read.

there seem to be a lot of computer ports; are there other console ports that I somehow missed?

It was never consolized. All those 'computer' ports are for euro machines and were made by euro developers, like so many other classic arcade games.