Oh goodness, not Ninja Gaiden. I played the home version at a friends house and immediately chose something else to trade for the weekend when I saw it was nothing like the arcade game. I almost bought an Atari Lynx because it was the only home version that was close to the arcade game.

I am not sure how people enjoy Ninja Gaiden, I just could not get into it as an action game - the birds and that knock back being very big reasons. It just felt hard due to cheapness rather than good level design.