Please help me determine the name of these games!

[Rev. Link]

I know these kinds of topics crop up fairly often, but I'd appreciate any help you can give me!

I'm looking for a Dragon Ball licensed NES game. I don't know what it's called, but I know it's not Dragon Power or Whomp 'Em. I think it was based off of the original Dragon Ball series. It was side scrolling, and you, as young Goku, had to find seven Dragon Balls before time ran out. I remember it being hard and not very fun. Please help me figure out what this is!

Also, I have a friend who's trying to find a SNES beat 'em up game. All he remembers is that one of the playable characters was a robot. He's tried just about every beat 'em up he can think of, but he can't find this one. Any help?

[Neo Rasa]

Also, I have a friend who's trying to find a SNES beat 'em up game. All he remembers is that one of the playable characters was a robot. He's tried just about every beat 'em up he can think of, but he can't find this one. Any help?

Cosmo Police Galivan?
Ghost Chaser Densei?
Ninja Warriors?
Sonic Blast Man?
Sonic Blast Man 2?

[Rev. Link]

I know it's not either of the Sonic Blast Man games. I'll have to ask him about the others.

[Neo Rasa]

Make him play Ninja Warriors anyway since the robot character in that one is all kinds of awesome. :D

[Towlie2110]

I'm positive he's thinking of Ninja warriors. Weren't like all the characters robots?
As for the first one, Yes I know what game your talking about, it's like dragon story or somthing like that. Try looking through an emulator with dragon

[Neo Rasa]

I'm positive he's thinking of Ninja warriors. Weren't like all the characters robots?

Yeah actually. The female one that returns from the original game is the only character that looks human (before taking damage). Just the huge brawler robot ninja tends to stand out even if the sickle weilding skinny one looked cooler. :D

If that game had coop it would probably be one of my favorites on the system.

[Towlie2110]

Did that game ever have a level with vertical scrolling? I can't remember. That game did pwn. Anybody know of a sequel off shores or on?

[Neo Rasa]

Ninja Warriors SNES is the sequel, they just dropped that part of the title for the US because the first one didn't get an SNES port to begin with. Though even at the time it was hyped in the US as being a completely reworked port of the original game (that didn't come out until 1994, yet was previewed next to Final Fight and lots of other early stuff).

The original is the three arcade monitor-wide monster. Ports of it were made for the TG-16 and I think Genesis as well.

But yeah the SNES game does have a few vertical scrolling segments. Cool stuff.

[Towlie2110]

They need to add those characters to mugen or a snk game/

[Red Warrior]

Actually, Ninja Warriors is NOT the beat-em-up in question. I've played it... that's not it. My brother remembers that it had a man, a woman, and a robot... and MAYBE some big tall guy too. All were playable characters, and it was a beat-em-up along the lines of Final Fight. Now, my brother swears up and down it was a SNES game... but it's possible he's mistaken. Oh, and it's definitely not a Japanese-only release. We played it on our U.S. SNES long ago in the days of renting video games every Friday night after school.

If anyone knows the game in question, a cookie is yours if you can enlighten us.

[The_4th_Survivor]

The original is the three arcade monitor-wide monster. Ports of it were made for the TG-16 and I think Genesis as well.




You're close, Neo Rasa.

Actually, "The Ninja Warriors" was released only in Japan on the TG-16's counterpart; the PC Engine and on the Sega CD's Japanese and European counterparts; Both called the Mega CD.

From what I can tell, there was never a port of the original arcade game "The Ninja Warriors" onto the Genesis/Mega Drive.

As for the game on the SNES/Super Famicom, it's actually touted to be a mixture of a 'remake' of the original as well as an indirect sequel to it, kind of like how "Akumajo Dracula X: Chi No Rondo" (aka CastleVania - Dracula X: Circle Of Blood) was supposed to be a 'remake' as well as a sequel of sorts of the original Akumajo Dracula or as we all know it stateside as "CastleVania" for the original NES.

[Neo Rasa]

It sounds the most like Sonic Blast Man 2 but it seems like you went through that already (plus you only had three characters in it though they fit the descriptions).

[Neo Rasa]

Actually, "The Ninja Warriors" was released only in Japan on the TG-16's counterpart; the PC Engine and on the Sega CD's Japanese and European counterparts; Both called the Mega CD.

I guess I should have specified Japan only or just said PC Engine. My apologies. ;)

There must have been another port though I'm thinking of if not the to the Mega Drive, C64? Amiga?

[Amos]

How about The Peacekeepers? Orbot was a robot. Not playable at the start, though, unless you put in a cheat code.

[Rev. Link]

Mystery solved! Peacekeepers is the game! Thanks Amos, my friend thanks you.

Now, can anyone help me find my Dragon Ball game? Please?

[Neo Rasa]

Damn I totally forgot that one even had a robot! Cool game.


Also it's part three in a series, all three games came out in the US under different names if your friend's interested:

Rushing Beat - Rival Turf
Rushing Beat 2 - Brawl Brothers
Rushing Beat 3 - Peacekeepers

The first two are pretty mediocre and blatant Final Fight ripoffs though and lack a lot of the cooler stuff in Peacekeepers (Rival Turf is particularly awful, the first in that generation's wave of "me too!" games from Jaleco).

[Rev. Link]

Forgive my bumping. I want to give others a chance to see this, 'cuz I'd really like to know the name of that Dragon Ball NES game.