@@LuckyBird551 Basically yeah. He attempted to steal a bunch of coal and take control of coal production. His friend, Sam Stoat, had to break him out of prison and now he’s escaping, which is the premise of this fame
Ah yes I am a mole that jetpacks their way up to a tree stump from a living room that has pool of water in it right next to an entertainment center as well
Most Rob Hubbard sound routines fit into 4k. That is player and music. Sometimes would be a bit more maybe 5 or 6k but thats it. His code and score was very very optimised. Martin Galways routine use to be more 8k. Tight games always preferred Rob Hubbards smaller size
Scott Lee Clayton Beethoven was good but Jesus look at how far we've come we invented the era of awesomeness. Truly Robert should have been noticed for this he should be history!
An awesome 6 minute continuous 3-channel music track by the legendary Rob Hubbard, over 12 minutes of masterful gameplay (my respects to you), full motion animated video (well... animated sprites...) and fast gameplay, ALL squeezed out of a 6502 processor running at under 1MHz... and all programmed into a 64K (that is 64 Kilobyte) memory space... Now that could teach todays "programmers" a lesson or two on code optimization... Well played all around ;)
+boredwithusernames Right on, brotha. If todays programmers weren't so lazy and goddamn hipsters all of them, we'd have games like GTA5 running on the C64 today :)
Wowwww, only wow, i loved that game and the music - now i am 53 and still enjoy this sound from Rob - the C64 was my first computer and now in 2020 i’am still a programmer 😀
I heard the music for the first time the other day and it is AMAZING! ^o^ I also appreciate Monty's flipping. I don't know why; it's just very pleasing to see.
I got this game bundled with my C64 in 1986. Happy memories watching this video. I couldn't believe how good the C64's music was when I loaded this game on Christmas Day. It plays really well, but is tough. I remember being stuck for about a year (before the days of internet walkthroughs!) on the screen in the House where the clock flies towards you - I thought you had to jump over it at some point, until I eventually realised you just had to wait for it fly in the opposite direction :/
Mark Hopwood lol I could agree with you if I had played that game I am kind of sorry how the theme got used for memes and stuff like that but truly Monty on the run is a fantastical and wonderful game. Whell the way I see it it is
I had exactly the same problem with mine ! , But in the end I gave up and went onto something else . I was fascinated to see the rest of the game played in this video ! . Bloody hell that was 33 years ago , I’m feeling old now !
Pro! I remember having to figure out so many of those moves, when i saw you jumping repeatedly at the start and making those jumps work, I knew you were a player :D I came to hear the music, didn't expect the great show ++
This makes me extremely sad that I was born in the early 2000s. But I should be thankful though that I have such a passion for retro video games and their themes. I guess it just makes me sad to grow up with people who don't know what I'm talking about when I say "Commador 64" or "Atari 2600."
Can't even tell you how good that was to watch:) I remembered the game as being much longer - I played it for hours...lol. Possibly the greatest 64 bit soundtrack of all time.
Thanks for posting!! I use to love this game & the music when I was a kiddie!!!! I have just completed it on an emulator thanks to this showing me the item I missed in the tree stump. Ahhhh the satisfaction, finally after all these years!!! :D
Absolutely AMAZING! Thanks for sharing this. I never thought I'd ever see the closing scene of this, as I never passed the 2nd screen when it come out decades ago. The music still has me hooked. Wonderful how brains work :)
The game over music really scared me as a kid.. when you listen to it you realize, it's actually melodically representing someone failing to run away from something and getting caught. I don't know much game music that does that.
Thanks so much for making this video and congrats on being awesome at this game. It came bundled with my C64 back in the 80s (along with Starquake and Bounder) and I was so terrible at it. Never got anywhere near completing it :(
I am just sad that, after all of the hours I used to play Monty on the Run on my C64, I never got up to the jetpack level!! I used to feel so frustrated as I was the only girl (or boy) in my neighbourhood that was in to computer games so I had no one to teach me how to game. I also used to play Starquake - loved that!!
My second favorite C64 SID... For the record my favorite is Thrust (also a Hubbard tune) My favorite actual NON-GAME sids were the Ocean Loaders (especially the second one)
omfg, my dad hated that sound when coming home from work...eveeeeeeeeery day that music and me and my friend playing with Monty on the run..GOOOD VIBES AND MEMORIES!
man so serious its unbelievable that u completed it, yet i went mental at this game for hours and a few others i have found people playing but still anit seen the other games yet been posted that i remember.....yet
You have to love how the music lasts for more than 6 minutes but the game barely touches the 12 minute mark. It's not common for a game from 1985 that you'll hear the music looping just once before you beat the game. You actually would usually see the game over screen and hear the (lovely) hi-score music before the music ended.
I have been looking around for the first song in this video for years. Anyone if Rob Hubbard also composed that and if there is a long version somewhere available?
Hi. Just picked up a nice Commodore on eBay in great condition. Only cost me £20 inc. p&p. It not a 64, but a +4. It will do until I find a C64. Still a good retro machine, brings back loads of great memories. All the best ... Colin.
Don Raggo actually this music ganre could be similar and maybe even infused with our modern music today but if you think about it this type was created a long time ago and I think it's called "8 bit" it is also used for undertale that cool kind of rpg but not so rpg game
I didn't have this instalment of the Monty Mole series when I was a kid, yet even without it, I still figured that the first C64 game and Auf Wiedersehen Monty (which was called Monty 2 in some markets) were related, despite others trying to convince me otherwise. ;-)
this game is realy amazing...just great...in gameplay it realy beats alot of crap that comes today...the music, the simple but realy great graphics...it was my first game to my commendore 64 and it was for sure one of my alltime favorites.
Finished this game on TheC64 mini (yes, with save states). Awesome game!. Never knew about this game until I got TheC64 mini, first thing I noticed when I started it up was the kick a$$ music!.
That was some serious skill you showed there, amazing to watch. I completed the game once but it took me twice as long and I had sprite collision detection turned off !!
ABSOLUTLEY BRILLIANT IVE NEVER SEEN THIS DONE.. ME AND MY MATE USED TO PLAY THIS WHEN WE WERE 15 - 16 ? I'M 43 NOW , IVE STILL GOT THE GAMING BUG THOUGH (XBOX LIVE NOWADAYS MW3 FIFA 12 ETC ETC, BUT I MISS THE CLASSIC GAMING DAYS LIKE THIS AND GHOSTS AND GOBLINS, JET SET WILLY, COMMANDO IMPOSSIBLE MISSION ETC.
@serpico89 SID! Commodore was one of the few companies that actually designed their own chips, and the C64 contained a custom graphics chip and a custom sound chip. The custom graphics chip (VIC2) was unremarkable but the sound chip (SID) became the stuff of legends. It was the most powerful sound generator anyone had ever seen on a home computer at the time. People are still smashing up C64s to pull the SIDs off the motherboard and build them into synthesizers!
Same as my friend. I'm now 42 and I really miss the Commodore 64 (keep looking on eBay for a decent one!) Loved Llamasoft (Jeff Minter) and Interceptor Micros, both based in my home town of Tadley in Hants in the 1980's.
Mr Sambo,Mate I watched my Brother play and complete this game in 1986,man it was awesome right here in Queensland,we were kids and it was a great time,your dad was he French ,ie Bon voyage monty La Mole
I would like to know it too. I think, it is all about the selection what you do when you begin the game. I played it a LOT when I was young, played it like the guy who made it here.. even to the Das Boot, but I didn't have any clue how to go to the blinking thing, so I finally used an Action Replay and took off some things on the screen, and it worked (unbelievable..) !
Monty is on the run because literally every object known to mankind wants his head on a silver platter
Strange Purple Object
No wonder the theme was used in IWBTG.
no its because his wife is pregnant
@@kqzo Wasn't he being pursued by the police because he participated in the miner's strike of 1985?
Excellent Thatcher would have plausible deniability
virovac.tumblr.com/post/190591280745/the-british-government-wanted-this-mole-dead
@@LuckyBird551 Basically yeah. He attempted to steal a bunch of coal and take control of coal production. His friend, Sam Stoat, had to break him out of prison and now he’s escaping, which is the premise of this fame
The thing I love about this game is that it's just like real life.
Ah yes I am a mole that jetpacks their way up to a tree stump from a living room that has pool of water in it right next to an entertainment center as well
O_O
@@Dedicatedtolivinginthepast With million animated objects and faces trying to kill you on touch ofc
that moles got flips.
Your name can be here for 20 dollars. Flips for days!
shoutout to simpleflips
Best gamemusic ever
Most Rob Hubbard sound routines fit into 4k. That is player and music. Sometimes would be a bit more maybe 5 or 6k but thats it. His code and score was very very optimised. Martin Galways routine use to be more 8k. Tight games always preferred Rob Hubbards smaller size
I just love the way Monty jumps.
It's soo adorable!
The music!!!!!!! The fucking music!!!!!!... Rob is a god my ages Beethoven.
Scott Lee Clayton HaHa Exactly
It's bloody stunning, some of his movements are staggering.
Scott Lee Clayton Beethoven was good but Jesus look at how far we've come we invented the era of awesomeness. Truly Robert should have been noticed for this he should be history!
An awesome 6 minute continuous 3-channel music track by the legendary Rob Hubbard, over 12 minutes of masterful gameplay (my respects to you), full motion animated video (well... animated sprites...) and fast gameplay, ALL squeezed out of a 6502 processor running at under 1MHz... and all programmed into a 64K (that is 64 Kilobyte) memory space... Now that could teach todays "programmers" a lesson or two on code optimization... Well played all around ;)
+boredwithusernames Right on, brotha. If todays programmers weren't so lazy and goddamn hipsters all of them, we'd have games like GTA5 running on the C64 today :)
boredwithusernames
Fuck yes.
Gr8Dane78 I don't think GTA V is even *REMOTELY* possible with:
a CPU running at
@@newagederpderp Only because it requires a ludicrious amount of textures and sounds. However, there is always room for improvement. ;w;
@@newagederpderp GTA5 no. But a good racing game yes.
Wowwww, only wow, i loved that game and the music - now i am 53 and still enjoy this sound from Rob - the C64 was my first computer and now in 2020 i’am still a programmer 😀
The most implausible thing about this entire experience is the notion of a Sinclair C5 going more than 10mph
Monty Mole is on the run, and HOLY CRAPBALLS EVERYTHING'S OUT TO MUDER HIM.
I know, and people think it's easy being a video game character... Little do they know..... Oh well, at least he had some good music to listen to.....
Actually, he’s on the run from the authorities aka the police
When you're a kid and play this you're happy to get to screen 3
iwbtg opened me up to so many interesting games that i never would even known about
I love how the song makes the game even more intense like you are really on the run. :o Wish C64 games would make a comeback on VC!
THIS IS NOT LEVEL 1 MUSIC.
XDDD
It is mate
Watch the og one
Ur probably thinking of the slow score board music
John Hadcroft I think he means that this kind of music wouldn’t fit as a level 1 song
This so takes me back to when I was a kid, that music! The c64 totally kicked the 8bit competition out the way.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
I heard the music for the first time the other day and it is AMAZING! ^o^
I also appreciate Monty's flipping. I don't know why; it's just very pleasing to see.
I got this game bundled with my C64 in 1986. Happy memories watching this video. I couldn't believe how good the C64's music was when I loaded this game on Christmas Day. It plays really well, but is tough. I remember being stuck for about a year (before the days of internet walkthroughs!) on the screen in the House where the clock flies towards you - I thought you had to jump over it at some point, until I eventually realised you just had to wait for it fly in the opposite direction :/
Mark Hopwood play this game free on Vizzed if you want
Mark Hopwood lol I could agree with you if I had played that game I am kind of sorry how the theme got used for memes and stuff like that but truly Monty on the run is a fantastical and wonderful game. Whell the way I see it it is
I had exactly the same problem with mine ! , But in the end I gave up and went onto something else . I was fascinated to see the rest of the game played in this video ! . Bloody hell that was 33 years ago , I’m feeling old now !
Was VVVVVV inspired by this game? I wouldn't be surprised.
+Airsh Bornely yes, in an interview in 2010 he cites Monty on the Run and Dizzy as visual inspirations for VVVVVV. :)
Pro! I remember having to figure out so many of those moves, when i saw you jumping repeatedly at the start and making those jumps work, I knew you were a player :D
I came to hear the music, didn't expect the great show ++
One of the best platforms of all time !
The Music theme was the biggest ever done in a game up to that point !!!
Thanks for bringing it up.
Gotta love the heart pounding rock n MOLE music
Everything about this just emanates pure chaos
I love how one of the music tracks cuts out when Monty picks up something, poor sid! haha
God I miss my child hood.
This makes me extremely sad that I was born in the early 2000s. But I should be thankful though that I have such a passion for retro video games and their themes. I guess it just makes me sad to grow up with people who don't know what I'm talking about when I say "Commador 64" or "Atari 2600."
@@relic374 I ended up getting a breadboard C64 with a floppy to sd emu for $100. Like ol times.
@@magyar77 That sounds awesome.
Can't even tell you how good that was to watch:)
I remembered the game as being much longer - I played it for hours...lol. Possibly the greatest 64 bit soundtrack of all time.
This is some really demented yet awesome music.
Rob Hubbard is a C64 legend, and for good reason.
If you haven't try looking for C64 suicide express
The soundtrack has no business being this good
Thanks for posting!! I use to love this game & the music when I was a kiddie!!!! I have just completed it on an emulator thanks to this showing me the item I missed in the tree stump. Ahhhh the satisfaction, finally after all these years!!! :D
Thanks for making this impossibly difficult game look easy
Somebody need to remake this game.
No, no no. it is as it is.
DJ Waffleston I'd kill for that
They did. Quite many years ago, in fact.
davistoa this game was created in 1985 to be specific but yea you're right
Tortured hero Monty Mole must stop a rogue special forces unit from stealing Metal Gear.
Absolutely AMAZING! Thanks for sharing this. I never thought I'd ever see the closing scene of this, as I never passed the 2nd screen when it come out decades ago. The music still has me hooked. Wonderful how brains work :)
best music ever .... in its days ... and still today !!
Looking at this old game in 2020 is absolutely freakin triptastic, what a nostalgia trip. The music is absolute class !!!!
The game over music really scared me as a kid.. when you listen to it you realize, it's actually melodically representing someone failing to run away from something and getting caught. I don't know much game music that does that.
Girlfriend: Monty, I'm pregnant...
Monty:
Underrated comment lol
Awesome gameplay, and Ron Hubbard's music is phenomenal! Played this game in the 80's when I was young. Thank you for sharing @DerSchmu
Oh this game... god this game... that driving part...
Thanks so much for making this video and congrats on being awesome at this game. It came bundled with my C64 back in the 80s (along with Starquake and Bounder) and I was so terrible at it.
Never got anywhere near completing it :(
The soundtrack to this made it. Loved this game as a kid, when i could get it to load.
This game was seriously inspired by Jet Set Willy, another classic from this era. The similarities are insane.
Sinclair C5 was the hardest bit for me, but got there eventually. Long time ago but lovely to hear it again.
Main theme and credits tune, two of the most iconic 8 bit songs ever in one game (plus the game over jingle is nice, too). Amazeballs.
In the hands of a skilled player that mole can really book it. He doesn't mess about.
sick flips brah
i also like when he just keeps walking when he’s falling
Holy shit, that is some masterful playing! My hat is off to you!
I am just sad that, after all of the hours I used to play Monty on the Run on my C64, I never got up to the jetpack level!! I used to feel so frustrated as I was the only girl (or boy) in my neighbourhood that was in to computer games so I had no one to teach me how to game. I also used to play Starquake - loved that!!
My second favorite C64 SID...
For the record my favorite is Thrust (also a Hubbard tune)
My favorite actual NON-GAME sids were the Ocean Loaders (especially the second one)
Awww, still love the music 27 years on.
A game well ahead of its time. Music, level depth, jump animation. How this hasnt been remade for mobile is beyond me.
man, this game needs a remake, would love to play it.
It has
@@dronmusicsound for the famicom..
i never get to the end of this game... this is very difficult.
omfg, my dad hated that sound when coming home from work...eveeeeeeeeery day that music and me and my friend playing with Monty on the run..GOOOD VIBES AND MEMORIES!
The music makes the gameplay look more epic than before.
man so serious its unbelievable that u completed it, yet i went mental at this game for hours and a few others i have found people playing but still anit seen the other games yet been posted that i remember.....yet
Pulse wave guitar solo for the win.
You have to love how the music lasts for more than 6 minutes but the game barely touches the 12 minute mark. It's not common for a game from 1985 that you'll hear the music looping just once before you beat the game.
You actually would usually see the game over screen and hear the (lovely) hi-score music before the music ended.
This game and music is absolutely outstanding. :}
Please someone tell me the name of the music playing in the very beginning of the video! So beautiful! I must know!
I have been looking around for the first song in this video for years. Anyone if Rob Hubbard also composed that and if there is a long version somewhere available?
This game looks like it was the inspiration for VVVVVV
Therandomguythere Entire Commodore look inspired VVVVV so technically true
Hi. Just picked up a nice Commodore on eBay in great condition. Only cost me £20 inc. p&p. It not a 64, but a +4. It will do until I find a C64. Still a good retro machine, brings back loads of great memories. All the best ... Colin.
this music takes me all the way back, to way back when !!
Don Raggo actually this music ganre could be similar and maybe even infused with our modern music today but if you think about it this type was created a long time ago and I think it's called "8 bit" it is also used for undertale that cool kind of rpg but not so rpg game
I didn't have this instalment of the Monty Mole series when I was a kid, yet even without it, I still figured that the first C64 game and Auf Wiedersehen Monty (which was called Monty 2 in some markets) were related, despite others trying to convince me otherwise. ;-)
Loved this game. The music is still great to this day :D
Fuck, I’ve played so much Pizza Tower I keep thinking “GET A MOVE ON, YOU’LL LOSE YOUR COMBO!”
this game is realy amazing...just great...in gameplay it realy beats alot of crap that comes today...the music, the simple but realy great graphics...it was my first game to my commendore 64 and it was for sure one of my alltime favorites.
So funny the music can’t handle the sound of picking up the coin 😂
Whether u believe it or not, this is not easy
Finished this game on TheC64 mini (yes, with save states). Awesome game!. Never knew about this game until I got TheC64 mini, first thing I noticed when I started it up was the kick a$$ music!.
Speechlesss with your skills.
That was some serious skill you showed there, amazing to watch. I completed the game once but it took me twice as long and I had sprite collision detection turned off !!
Tooo much nostalgia.
Definetly the hardest game ive ever played. Only completed it once that I can remember. Hats off to you sir or madam!.
this is tool-assisted sadly
Just insane to see this played through in 12 minutes. I must have spent 12 hours on just the first few screens!
I like the level descriptions at the bottom, very reminiscent Addams Family for SNES
When a game was hard to beat.
Pixel perfect control, a joy to watch.
Little known fact: This song came with a free game
Somebody is going to play this in a 1000 years and have just as much fun as i did.
ABSOLUTLEY BRILLIANT IVE NEVER SEEN THIS DONE.. ME AND MY MATE USED TO PLAY THIS WHEN WE WERE 15 - 16 ? I'M 43 NOW , IVE STILL GOT THE GAMING BUG THOUGH (XBOX LIVE NOWADAYS MW3 FIFA 12 ETC ETC, BUT I MISS THE CLASSIC GAMING DAYS LIKE THIS AND GHOSTS AND GOBLINS, JET SET WILLY, COMMANDO IMPOSSIBLE MISSION ETC.
@serpico89 SID! Commodore was one of the few companies that actually designed their own chips, and the C64 contained a custom graphics chip and a custom sound chip. The custom graphics chip (VIC2) was unremarkable but the sound chip (SID) became the stuff of legends. It was the most powerful sound generator anyone had ever seen on a home computer at the time. People are still smashing up C64s to pull the SIDs off the motherboard and build them into synthesizers!
mate, you are a pro!
It's tool assisted. Not real skill sadly.
yaztromo
By tool assisted in his case, it means save states in VICE and then splicing the video together, not actual bots or trainers.
Damn! How often did you play this game? It seems you know really every position of any item/ enemy. Well done!
You're good, this game is brick hard!
Same as my friend. I'm now 42 and I really miss the Commodore 64 (keep looking on eBay for a decent one!) Loved Llamasoft (Jeff Minter) and Interceptor Micros, both based in my home town of Tadley in Hants in the 1980's.
A jetpack and a car chase, did not expect that
How many lives did you lose in total? (since the tool assistance allows back-tracing AFAIK)
This game is just IMPOSSIBLE.
But that music is awesome.
I dindn´t know there are professionals at playing this game ^^ thumbs up!
Mr Sambo,Mate I watched my Brother play and complete this game in 1986,man it was awesome right here in Queensland,we were kids and it was a great time,your dad was he French ,ie Bon voyage monty La Mole
Blimey takes me back sitting there waiting for it to load picking up the game in a department store or newsagent lol
Very diffucult game. Lots of joysticks destroyed. Back then, in 80s.
WOW!!! You are amazing player!!
I would like to know it too. I think, it is all about the selection what you do when you begin the game. I played it a LOT when I was young, played it like the guy who made it here.. even to the Das Boot, but I didn't have any clue how to go to the blinking thing, so I finally used an Action Replay and took off some things on the screen, and it worked (unbelievable..) !
I came on here just to listen to the music but damn that was nicely done.
If you play this music and watch The Wizard of Oz with the volume turned down, they sync perfectly
god damn monty is cool
How. Do u start game which key or button
The music to the game just stands for itself. I wonder in anybody ever was able to complete this game without using cheats or similar stuff.
this guys reilly good , monty on the run was tuff !!!
The music is so good
what did you press to start the game