Hats off to you Destructor, despite the bhudda exploit. (I consider that a cheat... it's exploiting a bug. You really CAN finish that stage without doing that).
The game for some reason didn't "come back to me" the way Rolling Thunder has, despite me playing the crap out of Shinobi back in the day. Every time I reached a new level, I had to re-learn the patterns again. I didn't have time to play very many games, so I only got up to about 92,000. (Normal difficulty, slow bullets, English language, 1 credit)