About This Game

Encounter relentlessly-attacking ninjas, their ninja dogs, zombie samurai and more, all whilst avoiding countless deadly traps in your mission to save the princess from the evil ninja clan who kidnapped her in this thrilling, interactive anime adventure!
First appearing in arcades in 1984, Ninja Hayate was Taito's 1st Laser Disc game, and this release features visuals remastered from the original laser disc.
The game features randomised routes to provide a variety of action-packed, anime play experiences!

Story

In feudal Japan, an evil clan of ninjas has spirited the princess away! Our hero, Hayate, must set out alone to infiltrate their trap-filled castle, and rescue her! All manner of evil ninjas, monsters and traps await him; can you guide him to his goal alive?!

What is an LD Game?!

Laser disc games were a genre of games which were popular in arcades in the mid-1980s, and used laser discs to display animated and live action visuals to allow for graphics far beyond what video games were capable of at the time.
They mostly involved the player watching an animated video while reacting at key points with joystick and/or button inputs to advance the game, or fail, and witness the wide variety of possible failures.

CONFIG menu:

• PLAYER
  Select the number of lives available per play.
  
• LEVEL
  Select the difficulty level.
  
• ST-ORDER
  Changes the order of the game's stages.
  
  • ARCADE
    The basic stage selection with partial random selection.
    
  • RANDOM-ALL
    All stages are random, except the final 3.
    
  • LD-PATTERN
    All 19 stages appear in fixed order.
    
  • AC-PATTERN01~14
    10~11 stages, each in a different, pre-set order.
• SIGN
  Changes how inputs are displayed.
  
  • DUAL
    All indicators will be displayed.
    
  • ARROW
    Terrain indicators will not be displayed, but buttons and directions will.
    
  • ACTION
    Terrain indicators will be displayed, but buttons and directions will not.
    
  • OFF
    No on screen guide will be displayed.
• OPENING
  Change the audio for the opening movie
  
• LANGUAGE
  Select the language displayed in the game.
  
• DISPLAY
  Select the screen size.
  
• EXTEND
  If set to ON, you will gain an extra life/lives when achieving certain scores.
  
• 3-MISS
  Turning this ON will reduce the difficulty if you fail at the same stage a certain number of times.
  
• CONTINUE
  If set to ON, you will be able to continue after losing all your lives.
  
• RANKING
  Using RESET will delete the saved high score data.