From: john@junk.com   
      
   "Grestang"  wrote in message   
   news:46b7ade9$0$16583$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...   
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   > There was a pretty good version of the original Shinobi on the   
   > PC-Engine/Turbo Grafx 16.   
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   > On a side note, I still can't quite wrap my mind around how NEC screwed up   
   > the US TG16.  Yes, I realize there were likely licensing problems that   
   > kept games like SF2CE, Ninja Gaiden, 1943, and possibly even some of the   
   > Sega ports from coming out over here.  But, some of the stuff they brought   
   > over was pure crap.  "Yo Bro!" for instance?  I realize it was the early   
   > 90's, and those were the gnarly, radical days of Bill and Ted, but I have   
   > to wonder what the folks at NEC were smoking when they brought that POS   
   > over here.   
   >   
   > It really seemed like they had no idea how to market the thing.   
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   It appears that NEC decided that the japanese games were "too japanese", and   
   so tried to create some new ones specifically for the US.   
      
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