VERY IMPORTANT: save your game before you fight or cross the rivers! It's like a little cheat in that you can restart after you've lost your life or power).

Enter a screen where there is to be combat. Get in a telling blow without getting hurt and then back out. Save the game and then repeat until you kill your opponent. If it is a screen where your opponent revives after you exit (yeah, it does happen a lot) don't save it here but wait for a save screen. It can be done this way and won (i.e. it's possible to kill the master without doing this, but expect not to have much in the way of life force left.

Get all the flashing objects. It's not necessary to kill all the enemies, however, you must pick up things in the correct order. You don't have to cross the rivers in this level. You'll just be circling around. First you must get the SWORD, NUMCHUCKS (chained sticks on a dead body), SMOKE BOMB, KEY, and a little BAG. Next, return to the place where you found the SMOKE BOMB. Here the color of the river is red (probably intended to resemble lava). Jump to the upper right corner and you will enter another screen. There you will find the APPLE (extra life). Also if you have low power status, after getting the APPLE, press 'Control-H' to kill yourself. Then you can get another apple. Later on, you will find the NINJA STAR (these are limited, so save them). When you get to the screen where you see a pink dragon, the only way to pass it is to throw one of your SMOKE BOMBs (you must throw the bomb in front of the dragon). If you've done this correctly, the dragon will fall to sleep, allowing you to walk over and you have passed the first level.

There are more things to retrieve. I don't think that you can enter the house in the first screen of the 2nd level. Get the CLAW in that screen (it's very small and in front of the stone lion on the right side). Later on, you will find more APPLEs. When you reach the screen with a tall cliff, you have to climb up them (use the CLAW). When you get to the screen with a brick wall, climb down backward. Don't forget to hold on to the CLAW (do it on the right side of the wall, the white part on the bottom of the wall is ok). Cross the river on the next screen. Here you will find the GLOVE and NINJA MAGIC, which makes you flash. Get the GLOVE and MAGIC. Hurry to recross the river, go up, and again cross the river. Hurry, fighting if you have to, and find the two stone dragons, the second one will fire at you but if you have NINJA MAGIC still working and are fast enough, you can get by and will have passed the 2nd level.

You will find another APPLE tree. First you have to get a GOLDEN NECKLACE on the Buddha's neck (where you have to cross the river through the rocks on the river). This river has a blue dragon, but don't pay any attention to it as it won't fire at you. After you get it, go back and find the flower. Pick it up with your GLOVE. Keep going ahead. When you see a small river (with no rocks), jump over it (it may take you more than one attempt to do so). Later on, you will find a golden Buddha statue. Kneel in front of it with the golden necklace and you have passed level 3.

This is the fun part with nice graphics, don't even think about fighting the giant spider, or killing the ghosts or mice (you don't need to anyway). The easiest way to kill the skeletons, is to kick them once. Find the APPLE again and a ROPE. Walk around until you find a chamber with 2 rows of steel rings on the wall (like a ladder). Kill the enemy and climb up with the ROPE.

Get the APPLE (this is the final one). On the same screen, use the KEY to enter the door. Then go left and in this screen, you can get by the guard without fighting and he will commit hari kiri, which is sort of neat. You will then be in a room with a giant statue. Save your game here! Position yourself next to the statue and slowly (clinging as close as possible to the statue and facing up toward the statue) work you way around the statue. The SWORD will eject and you will be safe. This next part is crucial. Proceed forward to the next screen and almost but not quite kill the guy there. Then go back to the statue screen and go up (note that if you save your game on the screen with the statue, you will have to get past the statue again). In the upper screen, kill the guard and get the NINJA MAGIC. This is short lived and you have to move quickly. Return to the screen, where you almost killed the guy and finish him off. Now exit using the red stairs. If you don't have sufficient magic, you will expire on the stairs.

Warning: there are no more APPLEs. This level starts at a hallway in which there are four rooms. The fourth contains poison (needed later) and the third, the passage to continue. Each room has a guard outside and there is also one inside the third room. The level wraps around. Therefore the best way to go on (with the least amount of fighting) is to exit up the screen instead of down. This puts you in front of the fourth door. Kill the guard, then go get the poison. Return and kill the guard again. Now go to the third room (exit up), kill the guard, and enter the room and kill the guard. Exit via the doorway up and hold the FLOWER. Walk to the last big vase at the end of the room. Put the FLOWER in the vase causing a secret passage to be revealed. Save your game here! The next part takes practice. Hold the POISON BOTTLE and carry no weapon. In the next room, you see a gray dog. Walk slowly and when the dog wakes up, throw the POISON BOTTLE right in front of the dog. Then enter another room with a giant statue with a big arrow. In the upper side of the corridor where you enter, there is some red blood?) on the carpet, which is concealing some NINJA MAGUC. Get it and you are by. Don't save your game now, but wait for the next screen. There is one guy to kill and then the master, who is tough (wearing armor) but beatable. Then you are in the last screen. Save your game and put any weapon you might be using, away. There are two squares that you must jump and land inside the smaller. Then take the scroll and watch the ending.