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Shadow Dancer

Description

A young Ninja named Hayate battles together with his faithful pet dog, Yamato. At the center of the city, a terrorist group known as the "Asian Dawn" is commiting every imaginable atrocities known to man, including the planting of time bombs throught the metropolis. Hayate and Yamato courageously set out to gather up all the explosive placed by the evil gang and annihilate the mastermind of the Asian Dawn.

Shadow Dancer was produced by Sega in 1989.

Sega released 593 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1960. Sega was based in United States.

Other machines made by Sega during the time period Shadow Dancer was produced include: Excite League, Ufo Senshi Yohko Chan, Tetris (Sega), Scramble Spirits, Power Drift, A.B. Cop, Alex Kidd In The Enchanted Castle, Crack Down, Dynamite Dux, and ESWAT Cyber Police

Specs

Name	Shadow Dancer
Developer	Sega (United States)
Year	1989
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	9499
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Scrolling Fighter
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	Sega System 18
Dipswitch Settings	Shadow Dancer Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Alternating
Control Panel Layout	Single Player
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard
Instructions	Shadow Dancer Instructions Image
Control Panel	Shadow Dancer Control Panel Image
Side Art	Shadow Dancer Side Art Image
PCB	Shadow Dancer PCB Image

Video Clips

Shadow Dancer (Arcade) [Sega] Retro Danuart

Game Play

Pull joystick down and push ATTACK button to send your dog to attack your opponents. To wipe out everything on the screen use NINJA MAGIC button.

Shadow Dancer KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.59 (4 votes)

Fun Factor: 3.55

Overall Like	4.00
Fun (Social)	2.50
Fun (Solo)	4.00
Collector Desire	3.25

Technical Rating: 3.63

Gameplay	4.25
Graphics	4.00
Originality	3.50
Sound/Music	2.75

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

Images

Trivia

This game actually takes place twenty years after the original Shinobi. The main character is not actually Joe Musashi, but his raised-in-America son named Hayate. His dog's name is Yamato.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Shadow Dancer Census

There are 15,100 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,599 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 165,968 machines (6,962 unique titles).

Very Common - There are 89 known instances of this machine owned by Shadow Dancer collectors who are active members. Of these, 8 of them are original dedicated machines. 7 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 73 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 4 active VAPS members with a Shadow Dancer machines for sale. There are 4 active VAPS members with a Shadow Dancer circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - There are 2 active VAPS members currently looking for Shadow Dancer. There is one active VAPS member looking for a Shadow Dancer circuit board set.

This game ranks a 26 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 5 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Flyers

Legacy

Shinobi
Shadow Dancer

Manuals

Pinout and DIP Switch Settings - Shadow Dancer Manual — **Pinout and DIP Switch Settings**
(1 page, 159 kB File)

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