The History of Rastan Saga - Arcade documentary - ラスタンサーガ - 2024
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2024
- The history of one of my favorite hack and slash arcade titles.
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The Rastan soundtrack also lives rent-free in my head. I'd love to hear a competent heavy metal cover of it.
That would be sweet
OK I might have to do this. I need a new project and it's been burned into my brain since I was 7 years old too
Not metal but a great remix, ua-cam.com/video/IVw-4LEGm8g/v-deo.html
How about an epic orchestral cover instead? :)
ua-cam.com/video/iH0FM5WtvYE/v-deo.htmlsi=GubTyp0nlH1hiyT2
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Your enthusiastic approach to life is a beacon of strength, Mr Patman. You truly have the heart of one of those warriors of old.
I used to play the Rastan at my local 7-11. I love this game.
Where was your local 7-11? Mine was on Lincoln Ave in Chicago.
You must have some very good times considering the period that was around sadly those days are gone .
Northern Baltimore County, MD.
@@kellychuang8373we had a mall with an arcade, 2 toy stores (KB/K&K), Chic-fil-a, a sword and knife store (!) and many other awesome 80s stores.
I'd Like to See the History of BUBBLE BOBBLE One Day
3:57 that explains a lot as these machines always looked old and/or had another game burnt into the screen! Crazy!
Exactly
Yes it really is and also something to note about the time period.
I never realized how much I missed the Rastan theme music!! I need to get a copy of that score.
One of my all time favorite arcades. Love the soundtrack. My local arcade had the volume cranked up on Rastan and it overpowered all other games so you always knew when someone was playing it.
Great video, I have loved Rastan since its launch in '86! One fun technical note... The smoothly animated swinging vines seen in the game were achieved with a particle effect. They even show it off by making the separate pixel particles different colors. And it was actually a reused effect that they created for Jungle King/Hunt several years earlier!
Very interesting, never knew that. Thanks for the info
I loved that thing in the arcade💁♂️
It was fantastic
Hey Patman!
Great video! I met Brian Colin 2 weeks ago at Planet Funk Con. He had nothing but great things to say about you and your channel. Thanks for reigniting my interest in the old games I grew up playing, Sir.
Hello, thanks that is really cool. I was there as well on Saturday. Brian is a really nice guy.
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries dang! I wish I knew! I was there on Saturyday. Would have been an honor to shake your hand!
Ah one of my all time favorites! A shining example of how to squeeze every ounce of goodness from the limited resources available to arcade systems. Even today I'm still amazed at the sound and what they were able to do with it. I have the tunes downloaded and listen to them now and then when I want a pick me up. The animations and colors were all top notch and hold up for arcade games even today. This was one of the games I worked at mastering as a kid and eventually could one-life the game. I was able to do this with several other games (Black Tiger, Akari Warriors, Spy Hunter, Discs of Tron, etc etc).....yup, spent tons of time in arcades. Great video! Thanks for making it :)
That is pretty fantastic! Kudos to you for that, much better than I could. Thanks
Crazy Story, The first time I played this amazing atmospheric game I also met Frank Stallone in Astoria Queens NYC, Yes Sly's brother in the same Deli that had the cabinet I was playing Rastan in 1987 and he came in the deli where I played it, my mom started talking to him because she instantly recognized him, and he had a music school on Steinway street, I met him and told him he was a great singer in that street scene in Rocky and he was a nice guy. I went back into playing Rastan and the music it stuck with me. Years later I bought a rastan cabinet from a warehouse in Coney Island for 300, I had it for four years until I sold it and later bought a slim Galaga arcade cabinet being I had moved and needed something slimmer, I regret that decision. Anyway this game's music is burned into me, This is when Taito hit the ball out of the park and from that point had a slew of games with awesome music and audio, and wow what a bassy cabinet when you put a coin in and hear that Damm slam, great years for Taito
I‘m missing a „you guessed it“ somewhere in that story
How cool is that? Thank you for the info
Thank you Patman! One of my favorite arcade games of all time. That heart-pounding theme in the first level set the stage for an epic adventure.
My pleasure!
You got to meet Ted DiBiase?! Man, i am so jealous, he's always been one of my favorite wrestlers!
Did Ted tell you he would give you $100 if you could dribble a basketball 10 times, only to have him kick it away after the 9th bounce?
30:30 the artist is Rudy Nebres, a filipino comic artists whose works included working on Conan!!!
Thanks for the info
Excited to watch this one! Keep up the great work, Patman!
Hope you enjoy it!
The first arcade/video game I was obsessed with. Great video, thank you! Long live Rastan!
Glad you enjoyed it!It is an absolute classic in every way
Great thorough video. One of my favorite video games as a kid and that's so cool meet The Million Dollar Man
Patman omitted Rastan was featured in the movie "To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar". Patman's wife dragged him to that movie and surprisingly he thoroughly enjoyed it.
That‘s where Wesley Snipes learned his swordcraft! Of course!!
That soundtrack, dude. Also, it was my all time favorite arcade game outside of the original four-player ninja turtle arcade game.
Every summer in the 1980s, my family went to the Keys to hunt lobster. We stayed on a campground island called Sunshine Key, and there was an arcade there, and this was the game I played the most. I remember that arcade perfectly, and where it was. I'll always have a soft spot for Rastan.
I was pretty broke growing up so I couldn't play many arcade games. But I would just stare at the demos for hours on end; moving from one game to the next. I remember the Rastan demo fondly but had forgotten how beautiful the game is. Thanks for this video!
Thank you for sharing, glad you enjoyed it
Yo Patman!! Thanks for the shout-out!!! True pleasure seeing you at Planet FunkCON this year!!!
No mention of Volgarr the Viking? The gameplay and first level are clearly inspired by Rastan. If you ever wanted to play Rastan on hard mode, you should give it a shot! You'll be glad you did.
Love this documentary. Great memories about Rastan arcade, and of course, the music indeed lives rent free in our heads.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks
YES!!! Been waiting for this! Thanks, Patman! Love Rastan!
Thanks, hope you enjoyed it
Your videos really make me yearn for the good old days. Kinda bittersweet. Hopefully in a few years I'll get an arcade opened up
Thank you very much. Good luck on the arcade
Before Golden Axe, there was Rastan.
Yes indeed
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Which is better?
And before Rastan was Legend of Kage and before that Gauntlet as the first pure Hack n' Slash game. There are always earlier inspirations.
@@ShadowAngel-lt8nw Oh, yes.
@@SolCresta3405they’re both different enough to be worth playing. Golden axe has coop though, and a dwarf with a big axe. And magic. I think Rastan is harder and slightly less fun though.
The fact that the Apple IIgs had the best home port was unheard of. It was in class of its own on that system. What John Brooks pulled off, with no sprite or scrolling hardware at all, was amazing.
The graphics are particularly amazing - comes very close to the arcade version using only 16 colours! Unfortunately, the scrolling is somewhat wobbly and it tears quite a bit. But still a great achievement.
@@Midwinter2 yep, and I think everything moved 4 or 8 pixels at a time, so it was always jerky. It outclassed every other game on the system nonetheless.
There was a good conversion of Sword of Sodan - technically, that is - the game itself wasn’t much fun to begin with.
I had an Apple IIGS and never knew this game came out for it. Did the game come out at a later time?
@@jasonblueboostwerdrick8889 I'm pretty sure it was in the 1989-1991 time frame. I owned it when I was a kid, it was around then.
Rastan was the first arcade machine I put my quarter into at Captain Video in 1987. The soundtrack hooked me in immediately when I heard it blaring louder than any other cabinet at the time.
I used to go creek stomping in my old shoes then ride my bike to the local pizza hole in the wall and grab a slice and play Rastan until the streetlights came on back in the late 80s ! I miss those days 🥺🥺🥺😥
Wowwwww wasn’t expecting this one. Wowwwwwwwwww. Thanks for this great review. I LOVEEEEEE your channel. You are a great guy 😘
Rastan = Still a fun game (arcade, sms)
Nastar = Complete crap in all versions
Warrior Blade = Completely awesome and alongside Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder the absolute greatest Fantasy Hack n' Slay game ever produced.
The second game was so bad they had to change the name :-)
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I just chalked it up to either the devs thinking their are clever by reversing it (like Troll 2: Nilbog is Goblin spelled backwards!!!!) or because of some idiotic reason, like Contra becoming Gryzor because of the Contra affair or Bully becoming Canis Canem Edit because either in the UK some organization threatened a lawsuit or german Bully threatening one as well (i think nobody knows for sure on that one)
Thanks!
7:52 Rod-If you are carrying it, killing an enemy of any type causes all other on-screen enemies of the same type to die.
Thanks for the vid. When this came out I'd just started martial arts training, and my local arcade had just started renting VHS tapes. Those were the days. I rented a lot of Brucesploitation flicks.
Good lord. That's some good use of the EGA colour palette. Nice
Also, Thanks for covering one of my favorite arcade games!
Absolutely, thank you for watching
I’m embarrassed to say I missed out on this one, I’ll have to give it a try here soon! Another fantastic vid my friend, hope you’re feeling better! ❤️🎮
Pat, you are an absolute inspiration and your videos are too good!
Wow, thank you!
There was a Rastan game at my local movie theater where I grew up in the 80’s. Good memories.
The main theme is perfection and has also been living rent free in my head since 1987.
Great video. Queef sounds were the funniest yet 😂
LOL thank you very much
Thank you for saying Taito correctly! Many people don’t know the proper way. My local 7-11 on Lincoln Ave in Chicago was a test site for video and pinball. They had Rastan there which I believe was the Japanese version or test. The bats never came out if you stalled anywhere. Also the generic enemies that are abundant in green were black on the version I played. Didn’t know there was an Apple IIGS version which I would have gotten for sure! This is one of my favorite arcade games with the whole package! Thank you for doing a more in depth vid on this classic. Keep up the great work as always! Maybe see ya at a future MGC.
Found a game i need to play! Rastan 3! Thats why you watch every Patman video! Thx Pat!
Thanks for another awesome retrospective Patman QC!
Glad you enjoyed it!
one of my favourite games and loved "The Rastan soundtrack lives rent-free in my head." . Your vids also always bring out that nostalgic glow. Keep up the great work
Awesome documentary! Thanks so much!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I’m sitting here at the John Deere classic watching your new video and let me say Patman you hit a hole in one with this video ! Awesome 👏🏻 ⛳️
Rastan 1 is cool. I always wanted the port for the SMSystem, but never found it in stores back then. A tough arcade game. I remember reading about the rope vine in the C64 version being a game breaking glitch. The sequel was a step down but the 3rd one was good. Great coverage of all the Rastan games' history, Patman, thanks!
Thanks buddy, glad you enjoyed it
Fantastic video. This is a game that I remember playing in the arcades and I still love it to this day. The music is spot on and the gameplay keeps you coming back for more. I’ve nearly completed it but not quite. Looks like I need to come back for more Rastan!!
Thank you so much, you definitely should it's a bona fide classic
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries It certainly is. Some say that it’s a poor man’s Rygar (another awesome game), but I think it’s better than Rygar
Awesome video! Rastan along with Golden Axe, and Afterburner are my top favorites of all time. The epic music really is the icing on the cake. Rastan is also available through the AtGames arcade legends ecosystem as well.
As always, your videos bring such nice childhood nostalgia, and in a way it's sort of therapeutic. Re-visiting all these games and their history is like being right there in front of the arcade cabinets. Keep on Rockin'
Fantastic, glad I could scratch that nostalgic itch
I've got Patman fever. I'm going outta my mind. Thanks for your efforts once again, Patman QC.
Thankss buddy
Your passion for games really comes through on your videos. Thank you for making these.
How nice of you to say, thank you
Epic video as always!
This was one of the very first arcade machines that I bought way back in 1996. I got it off of Craigslist for $80 non-working. All that it needed was two fuses and it has worked flawlessly ever since. It gets a good amount of play in the arcade when we have company.
That is awesome, heckuva deal
Brilliant video and game! 👍👍👍
Loved the music - it also lived rent free in my head for 40 years!! 😂😂😂
Taito announced they will, release Warrior Blade: Rasat Saga Part 3 via arcade archived somewhere around novenmber this year 🎉
Another banger, Pat! Great job!!!
Thanks a lot
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Glad You're feeling better, brother. That's an awesome video. Have awesome day
Thanks a lot, Glad you enjoyed it. Have a great day!
Another awesome video Patman. ⚔️
Thanks again!
If Mr.Patman was the one playing Rastan in this video, then he was exceptionally great at it. I did not notice any loss of health nor any hits.
I do know what he means by the main theme song for the beginning stages of each world being fused in the mind (well living in there rent free)because inctedibly ever since I heard it, I never forgot the tune, so I can hum along to it at will at anytime, even if I am not playing the game! 😜
Thank you for another great history lesson, to this fabulous retro game! ✌
Another great game my D&D friends and myself enjoyed greatly.
Also, holy hell pat, you kick major ass at this game.
Brilliant version for the SMS there, the FM soundtrack is amazing.
Great video! Loved this game when it came out in the arcades. Glad you included the Apple GS conversion - the Artist did a remarkable job of recreating the Graphics in only 16 colours. However, the scrolling is wobbly and tears quite a bit. BRAVO for including the Amiga version - which is being made right now. You are right up to date! So far, the Amiga version looks amazing: great graphics and both scrolling & animation are beautifully smooth. And it does the music perfectly! All the more amazing for being made using an off-the-shelf engine rather than one written specially for the game.
Yes, people have done amazing things with the scorpion engine. Thank you for the nice words
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries You're welcome! Your videos are excellent.
Those Outrun cabinets are probably pretty valuable these days 💰💰
YOU DID IT!!! Rastan revisited 😍🙌🙌
Favorite game of all time for me. Great content, I subscribe! ;)
As soon as you drop in the quarter and it makes that crash sound...you know you're in for a treat.
Oh yes :-)
Quarter muncher indeed. I wish I was better at this game back in the day because it was so cool. Music and sound effects are indeed top notch and the thing I always thought were the best features of it. Thanks again for another video of a great game.
I know I spent a lot of quarters on this game. Thank you very much
Rastan is one of my all time favourite arcade games as for the cool graphics, excellent tight gameplay and that amazing soundtrack.
Have you done a video on the R-TYPE game series as that is my all time favourite arcade shoot-em up!
Thank you for all your amazing in-depth videos, a real joy to view.
Thanks, I appreciate that. I have not done a video on the R type games yet
Yes remember playing this in the tiki hut of the holiday inn…had so many other games that truly cemented my love of arcade games like shinobi and double dragon…so many memories…times we could never have again today
That jog the memory for me, I do recall Holiday Inn having some pretty cool games
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries yeah we had two in our area…one had the tiki hut that housed all the games and one had all the games lined up against the wall in the big shuffleboard and ping pong area…there was just something magical about that stupid tiki hut…thank you for all the videos and the memories they bring back
I love this game. I still play it at a local arcade on retro arcades with multiple games on each of them. The rope jumps in round 2 over the fire are ridiculously hard but otherwise great game.
WOW!! that wrestling game in beginning was popular in arcade. Awesome game review. I remember that as a kid .🤯
Wow. I have been enjoying your channel for years and never understood the Bob Ross reference till now lol.
Thanks, it started because someone called me the Bob Ross of video games so then I did a Photoshop and it was off to the races
Hi pmqc never played raston but i have now. And im glad i did cheers pal 🤣🤣👍👍
played it back in the 80's when i was a teen, now 50 and still a favourite, though i find it hard to get to 4th stage now days.
This is awesome buddy
Thank you very much
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries you're welcome
good video thanks. one of the best sundtracks ever
Glad you enjoyed it, I agree
Excellence in video game reviews … PatmanQC🎉
Thank you kindly!
Rastan in CHAMPION WRESTLER was one of my favorites. Best wrestling game
Excellent game
There were a couple different Champion Wrestlers on test in my area. One of them had a track ball instead of a joystick and made the game too easy.
I was so happy to see Rastan available on the PS store recently! Many years ago I had the Taito Collection for the PC but the disc is now lost.
I had it back in the day as well
Love this game, but not being allowed to continue on the last stage sucks. One interesting thing, the poison item only does a little damage and gives a ton of points, so it's actually not a bad idea to grab it since it'll usually get you close to an extra life.
Good point, I should have mentioned that
Great Video. I had the Apple 2GS version, I was wondering if you were going to mention it, as most people aren't familiar with it or it's games. I loved that PC. Thanks PatmanQC!
Absolutely, I try to be as thorough as a proctologist when it comes to these deep dives :-)
I had a GS also and don’t remember this game coming out for it. Did the game come out lay a later time?
You don't jump higher with a longer button push and there are 7 songs. Opening song (not in the US version) Main theme, castle, boss fight, level clear, final boss fight and the ending theme.
I had forgotten that game until I heard that soundtrack!
Awesome
Great video - earned a welll deserved sub from me.
There were a few highlights of this video for me. The MSDOS port has the best graphics I've ever seen in a EGA game and it seems that might've pipped Commander Keen to being the first scrolling platform game on the PC. Why does no-one ever mention that!? The Apple IIGS port is the best Apple IIGS arcade port I've seen so amazing work Novalogic for doing those ports. The other highlight of this video was learning of Warrior Blade which I hope is supported by MAME so I can check that out.
Speaking of MAME, this video was missing my fave Rastan fact. Rastan was the first 16 bit / m68k arcade game emulated by MAME, hence a significant milestone in MAME and arcade emulation.
I wasn't surprised to see Barbarian get mentioned. Barbarian is currently getting ported to the open source Uzebox console so I look forward to playing that soon.
Thank you very much. Excellent info
Loved this game! I could get all the way through on my first man, you just had to move relentlessly forward and all the obstacle timing would line up perfectly.
That's pretty sweet, I was never able to do that
I think it's a cool idea to do a reboot and polished version of older videos, Patman! I'd love to see a reboot and continuation for the Splatterhouse series.
My early videos definitely need a reboot especially when it comes to the classics. That would be a good one to cover at some point. Thanks
There is as bug in Rastan where if you jump right on a rope and there is a wall immediately to the right of the rope you will jump up and then grab the rope again ascending much faster (does not work the other way around) Also when you are airborne you do more damage to enemies then when you are on the ground. If you jump toward the annoying first boss and strike it in the air it dies in three hits that was my strategy for dealing with it back in the day. EDIT: I vaguely recall that most enemies take more damage when struck in the head area as well so it's possible it dies that fast due to stacking airborne damage with increased damage from the head hitzone.
Excellent info, thanks
History of Rastan in 2024 is what I didn't know I needed! Fucking awesome.
Thank you for the kudos, hope you enjoyed
Loved this game !! Wasn’t very good at it but it was still a lot of fun. Great video as always.
I could get to the fourth level back in the day but that was pretty much it. I still loved the game though. Thanks
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries only the second level for me and not all the time lol
Great video as always. Ah, one of the games I told myself that I'd buy an arcade cabinet for if I ever had the money. I loved this game and the music. Those poor folks in the UK. I couldn't imagine trying to be a gamer there in the '80s with those screwy computers. Poor bastards.
This game is a definite classic
PatMan is reviewing my unicorn game.
Such a small fortune i lost in the summer of 89.
No kidding, you and me both
Great Video about a great series of games !
I just have to add that in the 2 times you mention Frazetta ,the artworks you show arent Frazetta Artworks.The Second is by Ken Kelly,cant remember the Arists name of the first one atm
Hey, Pat. Great video again. Try to play Capcom's Black Tiger also. 😊
I have played it, it's fun
Rastan was a very memorable and interesting game. It is one of my top favorite arcade games of all time, and on my list of homage re-makes.
A 2D remake would be pretty cool to see
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I only do 2.5D remakes. Every young kid game developer uses pixels these days, I could rom-hack the original instead of using a modern engine, if I wanted just that. I got tired of pixels in the 90's! 😁
Love this game, way ahead of it's time
I loved the box art for Rastan. It was so evocative of the time.
Very cool, it really was
Always loved this game, and the soundtrack is absolutely epic
This game has got everything from the graphics to the playability to the iconic music