Speed Demos Archive - Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos

The successful sequel to everyone's favorite cutscene-filled game was released in May 1990. It is sometimes regarded as the best game in the NES Ninja Gaiden trilogy, probably because it is the easiest Ninja Gaiden to beat. Ninja Gaiden II also introduced Ryu's ability to summon shadow ninjas.

This is the third Ninja Gaiden II run that I've had posted on SDA. Here's a history of the Ninja Gaiden II runs that have been posted on SDA:

12:45 by vgmrsepitome (February 24, 2007)
12:09 by vgmrsepitome (April 9, 2007)
11:39 by LigerOfFortune (June 14, 2008)
11:21 by vgmrsepitome (August 1, 2008)

For this run, I kept track of the time I spent recording and the number of attempts.

I spent about 5 hours recording, and I did 62 attempts. Thirty-seven of the attempts ended with a death; 19 of the attempts ended because I made a costly mistake and had to reset; and 6 of the attempts were completed runs. The stage that caused the most failed attempts (16) was 2-2.

The first completed run was probably 10 seconds slower than Liger's 11:39 run, but I'll never know for sure because my DVD recorder decided not to record during that run. I timed the second completed run at 11:33, the third at 11:23, the fourth at 11:24, the fifth at 11:30, and the sixth is the run that I submitted to SDA.