And no, not the damaged Shinobi machine that I recently broke into a million pieces. This weekend, I sold traded away my good Shinobi machine. Back in 2003, I went to a video game auction and bought two arcade machines: Bucky O’Hare, and Shinobi. I bought Bucky O’Hare on a whim because Bucky’s last name was so similar to my own, but Shinobi had been a childhood favorite of mine. The game was released in 1987, right around the height of my “ninja phase”. Something about the game clicked with me. I enjoyed it then, and now. When I bought… (read more)