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Synchronicities & easter eggs which may appear in the1988 TECMO arcade game Ninja Gaiden:
- The bosses at the end of Round 2 (New York City stage) are a fearsome duo called the DORO Warriors.
- The theme music here is obviously a variation on rock group Black Sabbath's 1970 song "IRON MAN".
- Interestingly, game artist, writer and director Masato Kato worked on the NES / Famicom trilogy adaptations of Ninja Gaiden. He Later worked for Square on RPG Chrono Trigger. A boss character in this is the henchman Ozzie. Black Sabbath Ozzy Osbourne did the vocals for the IRON MAN song.
- The year 1999 is the setting for Ninja Gaiden which uses the prophecies of French seer Nostradamus as a story basis. Chrono Trigger also shows 1999 as being where apocalyptic "Day Of Lavos" occurs, where the main game enemy burrows up from beneath the planet's surface.
- These fighters may have been inspired by the real world wrestling duo The Road Warriors (HAWK & ANIMAL aka The Legion Doom). They sparred with the AMA between 1984-1986 and also used Sabbath's "IRON MAN as their intro.
- The game music appears on the OST as Track 7 "I AM MAN".
- The Sabbath song was featured as the theme to Marvel's 2008 IRON MAN movie (based on the comic book).
- The Road Warriors were shown in a major ad campaign for the release of
WCW Wrestling (a.k.a. World Championship Wrestling) for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1990. The full page ads were shown on the back covers of many comic book titles at the time.
Transcript
00:00We're talking about knowledge of the future in movies, YouTube channel, Easter Egg Psychic.
00:05In this video, I'll point out some future references and other synchronicities that may appear in the Ninja Gaiden arcade
00:15game.
00:16This was out in 1988 by Japanese developer Tecmo, released in Japan as Ninja Ryuken, a beat-em-up platform
00:25side-scroller.
00:26This led to a series of ports and sequels for home consoles.
00:32Alright, the bosses of round two, the New York City stage, are a tag team duo called the Doro Warriors.
00:42Listen to the theme music here, and you may be able to make out a similarity to Black Sabbath's 1970
00:51rock song, Iron Man.
00:54This track hit number 52 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1972, becoming their highest-charting single.
01:03Ozzy Osbourne on vocals, Tony Iommi on guitar, Geezer Butler on bass, and Bill Ward on drums.
01:12On the Ninja Gaiden arcade game original soundtrack, this appears as track 7 and titled, I Am Man.
01:19So not Iron Man, but again, very similar.
01:24And you may wonder to yourself, okay, what's the link between Black Sabbath and Iron Man in Ninja Gaiden?
01:33This may involve a reference to a future video game, Chrono Trigger.
01:38The 1995 role-playing adventure by Japanese publisher Square.
01:45This game became one of the most popular RPGs for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, the Super Famicom.
01:52Famously featured character designs by Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama.
01:59Hironobu Sakaguchi, who created the Final Fantasy games, was a designer on this.
02:06And Yuji Horii, creator of the Dragon Quest series, was a writer on Chrono Trigger.
02:14Alright, and now the connection.
02:17Masato Kato, who was a game artist, writer, and director on the three Nintendo Entertainment System,
02:26Famicom, Ninja Gaiden adaptations.
02:30He later worked with Square, and is credited as a writer on Chrono Trigger as well.
02:37So, in the story of this game, there is a character named Ozzie, and that's O-Z-Z-I-E.
02:45So, yeah, different spelling to Osborn, who spells his name O-Z-Z-Y.
02:52But I thought this connection interesting.
02:56He's one of the foot soldiers or henchmen of Magus.
03:00And he has some partners, also.
03:03The Swordsman Slash, and Flea.
03:07Ozzie was also in Chrono Cross for the Sony PlayStation, released in the year 2000.
03:13And, as I mentioned in another video,
03:16The setting of the Ninja Gaiden arcade game is in the year 1999.
03:23Players of Chrono Trigger will also note that this year is shown in the game.
03:27This is where the apocalypse takes place, involving Lavos,
03:32who emerges from beneath the planet's surface,
03:36and destroys the dome cities of the future society.
03:39My YouTube channel is Easter Egg Psychic.
03:42There I go back and look at movies and television from the past.
03:45I analyze these for possible references to future media.
03:49These may appear in the form of anecdotes, idioms, anagrams.
03:53Hidden in the subtext of the work in question,
03:55I also use an unconventional method where I look at the likenesses of the actors.
04:02And what I found is you can take the likenesses,
04:05match these up to some of the anecdotal items,
04:08and show past, present, and future information about actors
04:12and other personalities
04:14that may resemble the personalities in the movie or television episode
04:17that you're watching.
04:21My email contact is easteregguy,
04:24that's G-U-Y,
04:26at yahoo.com.
04:28Thanks for watching.
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