The History of Rastan Saga - Arcade documentary - ラスタンサーガ - 2024
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- 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, th-cam.com/video/IVw-4LEGm8g/w-d-xo.html
How about an epic orchestral cover instead? :)
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I'd Like to See the History of BUBBLE BOBBLE One Day
Your enthusiastic approach to life is a beacon of strength, Mr Patman. You truly have the heart of one of those warriors of old.
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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.
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.
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
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
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!
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.
30:30 the artist is Rudy Nebres, a filipino comic artists whose works included working on Conan!!!
Thanks for the info
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.
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?
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!!
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.
Great thorough video. One of my favorite video games as a kid and that's so cool meet The Million Dollar Man
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
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)
Excited to watch this one! Keep up the great work, Patman!
Hope you enjoy it!
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
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 🥺🥺🥺😥
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.
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
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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.
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
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.
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.
Wowwwww wasn’t expecting this one. Wowwwwwwwwww. Thanks for this great review. I LOVEEEEEE your channel. You are a great guy 😘
YES!!! Been waiting for this! Thanks, Patman! Love Rastan!
Thanks, hope you enjoyed it
Thanks!
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
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.
Pat, you are an absolute inspiration and your videos are too good!
Wow, thank you!
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! ❤️🎮
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
Thanks for another awesome retrospective Patman QC!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Found a game i need to play! Rastan 3! Thats why you watch every Patman video! Thx Pat!
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.
The main theme is perfection and has also been living rent free in my head since 1987.
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 👏🏻 ⛳️
There was a Rastan game at my local movie theater where I grew up in the 80’s. Good memories.
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! ✌
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
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
Great video. Queef sounds were the funniest yet 😂
LOL thank you very much
Epic video as always!
Your passion for games really comes through on your videos. Thank you for making these.
How nice of you to say, thank you
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
Taito announced they will, release Warrior Blade: Rasat Saga Part 3 via arcade archived somewhere around novenmber this year 🎉
Brilliant video and game! 👍👍👍
Loved the music - it also lived rent free in my head for 40 years!! 😂😂😂
Another banger, Pat! Great job!!!
Thanks a lot
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
Yo Patman!! Thanks for the shout-out!!! True pleasure seeing you at Planet FunkCON this year!!!
I've got Patman fever. I'm going outta my mind. Thanks for your efforts once again, Patman QC.
Thankss buddy
Another awesome video Patman. ⚔️
Thanks again!
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 great game my D&D friends and myself enjoyed greatly.
Also, holy hell pat, you kick major ass at this game.
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.
Those Outrun cabinets are probably pretty valuable these days 💰💰
Hey Pat!! Haven't seen an upload in a couple weeks. Just checking in to say I hope all is well my friend!
Brilliant version for the SMS there, the FM soundtrack is amazing.
Favorite game of all time for me. Great content, I subscribe! ;)
Hi pmqc never played raston but i have now. And im glad i did cheers pal 🤣🤣👍👍
YOU DID IT!!! Rastan revisited 😍🙌🙌
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.
WOW!! that wrestling game in beginning was popular in arcade. Awesome game review. I remember that as a kid .🤯
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
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.
I never had much access to arcades back in the 80s, so it wasn't unusual for me to get copies of games for the C64 and not even know that they were arcade ports until much later. Such is the case with Rastan. I liked the C64 version, especially the music, but I never got very far in it. Mine didn't have a trainer and I just wasn't that good at it.
When the Amiga was still active, Taito ran two-page ads in magazines advertising the upcoming Amiga games, Bubble Bobble, Renegade, Sky Shark, and Rastan. I really wanted Rastan and of course, that's the only one of the four that DIDN'T come out!
When I got a Windows system that could emulate the Turbografx-16, one of the first games I tried was Rastan Saga.II. I was quite disappointed to discover that it was a different game. Not only that, in my opinion, it was inferior to the original in every way. It didn't even have vertically scrolling levels. I probably could have emulated the arcade version with MAME, but at the time, I didn't want to deal with trying to set it up and find the proper ROMs for it.
I've since played the arcade version in MAME and in various compilations under emulation. It looks and sounds great, but I still suck at it. :)
As for the MS-DOS and Apple IIgs ports, they look like they're playing too fast. Maybe that's the speed they're supposed to play at, but to me, it looks like the enemies are all moving too fast.
As soon as you drop in the quarter and it makes that crash sound...you know you're in for a treat.
Oh yes :-)
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
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
amazing game, even more amazing soundtrack. Sega never fully got credit for their accomplishments given their amazing catalogue of games in nearly every genre
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.
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.
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
The 1st Rastan is definitely in my Top 10 hack 'n slash games of all time. I grew up playing the Master System version and had no idea of the computer ports but had I known about the MSDOS port I would have played the heck out of it with my Gravis Gamepad or Capcom 6 Button controller especially with the Adlib FM support which still wasn't common place during it's 1990 release. For a long time there was no way to play the Arcade version unless you were patient enough to run it on MAME command line in the late 1990s but that all changed when Taito Legends came out. Rastan was another game that would have fit nicely in the Genesis launch called Super Rastan or even in it's 1991-1992 early-mid years when other ones like Thunder Fox, Cadash, and Saint Sword came out. Instead we got Rastan Saga II which lost the plot and feel of the 1st. Ted DeBiase!! 😇
This is awesome buddy
Thank you very much
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries you're welcome
16:38 And people wonder why monster girls are so popular.
Excellence in video game reviews … PatmanQC🎉
Thank you kindly!
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
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?
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
Rastan has got maybe the best soundtrack of any arcade game. Tough as nails, but a great game.
I would have to agree
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
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
Love this game, way ahead of it's time
good video thanks. one of the best sundtracks ever
Glad you enjoyed it, I agree
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
That old Conan PC game is so Nostalgic for me. I remember playing it on a school computer either in the late 80's or early 90's. The computer was probably an Apple II.
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
PATMAN! What is best in life? "To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you and to hear the lamentation of the women!" Haha! Thanks again for an awesome Rastan "re-review", thanks brother! 😎👍
Thanks, hopefully you enjoyed the deep dive
So I genuinely loved this one and it had me sharing it with my friends but I remembered an odd arcade situation regarding another game.
This was the Super Mario Bros. cabinet. I only saw it once at an arcade one city over from where I lived. I watched my sister play it until world 3-1 or 3-2. Suddenly halfway through the map was a void that there was no chance of advancement. She wasted her earned lives jumping into this unnatural pit over and over until it was game over.
I’ve wondered if the arcade version was rigged or this was a bug she dealt with. Maybe you played this one in arcades back in the day and know the truth. I saw plenty of Mario Bros. cabinets but the Super Mario one just this once.
The greatest game soundtrack of all time!