BIL, the poor infidel wrote:
Ninja Ryukenden AC and FC were developed simultaneously by different teams, and the former actually came out second in Glorious Nippon (88 vs 89). The whole TRU VERSION thing is fake news - avowed AC supremacist BLOODF can ban me and delete all my posts and it won't change
DICK. 
It has been scientifically proven than AC>>>FC. Why? Because I said so. This is shmups.com: We just yell louder and we are right!
...Anyway, let's move onto more pressing matters while the ArcadenGestapo will surround your house. Forgiveness will be perhaps conceded if faith in the AC will be true and genuine (100 "Hail Garegga" to begin with, thanks). I am sure that yout confessions to Father Pucci will be an excellent first step towards redemption, of course (Araki says: 2021 but STFU because funds, btw).
BIL, the soul that must be saved wrote:
Actually a sneaky, subtle lift of
Bound To Break, by "Japanese Judas Priest" (and
accredited Falcom rockers)
Anthem. Ah-ah, I simply did not mention
Judas Priest because my metal lore is not so refined, these days. I believe that at some point I actually knew about this lift. You only need a proper fan to listen to the song a few times and realise that it is an homage of something.
Quote:
Metal Yuhki is a man of many musical talents - nowhere moreso than Dracula X: Rondo's
impeccably synthpop-informed OST. Shouldn't work, does! ...now that I think about it, he must've been pretty hyped to see Naoto Shibata himself head up the Dracula Battle project.
....nevermind, too lazy to look up who the composer was. OK, all of a sudden everything makes sense (and I probably forgot this bit of knowledge, too. Cue again
Memento flashbacks).
Quote:
The arcade game's sense of humour is wildly undersung.[...] But it's also got a very knowing "Japanese Tourism... WITH MURDER" tongue-in-cheekyness.[...]
I'd say that this and
Night Slashers were purposefully designed to homage and mock (ultimately, the twin sides of re-interpreting) the slightly shifting Zeitgeist(s) of trash-pop culture. Actually, one could write a book or two about all these late '80s/ early '90s absolutely wacky and flippant games, and the same could be said with anime. Japanese creatives were once the masters of the absurd, this is a matter of fact.
In this case, I can imagine the designers watching one western ninja and one slasher flick too many, listening to one too many forgettable hair metal hits, and deciding to go and take the piss on the whole late '80s non-sense with panache. Let us not forget that the final boss seems to be straight out of an "
Hokuto no Ken meets gay BDSM pr0n" dream mash-up, and is also remarkably easy. Clearly the way he walks tells us that he had too much gerbil fun before the final showdown!
Hayabusa-san was simply fed up with the whole Nostradamus thingie (1999 what? The showa era hasn't ended, suckers!) and decided to deliver justice with punch, punch, roundhouse kick/somersault plus neck-throw brutality. Winning concept!
...aside this, I am now vaguely curious about the other songs, too. Stage 2 actually sounds really like a lift from some sleazy porn, or maybe Blaxploitation movie. The plot thickens!