@@ACLMSC I listen to a lot of electronic music, and it is pretty damned good even by 2023 standards. Kind of reminds me a bit of 90s Goa Trance. E.g Nilaya by Astral Projection
Great point Jason. I was thinking about how good the music was for the game. Better than average in my humble opinion. I don't notice the music in many games (of course some don't have a running theme).
For real, this is something lost today. I used to go into an arcade at a theme park nearby me growing up and just take in the sounds from every direction. Wish I still could..
@@zacatkinson3926 Spyhunter always overpowered every other machine with that bassline. I could always find the arcade in an amusement park by following the Peter Gunn theme :D
Oh something is definitely missing.. video arcades, like the also defunct video store, were social centers where one could hang out with strangers, friends and classmates in a judgement free zone. They are trying to bring them back as video pubs.. here hoping the trend continues😎@@ScaryGarrySG1
Incredible. I played this game almost every day at a cafe in a mall near me back in 1987 when I was 14. I probably never played this again after 1987, maybe ‘88…yet watching this now 35-36 later totally takes me back to those days as if they had been last week.
it was a blessing to be a kid during the arcade era. now because of youtube we can relive those nostalgic moments. the music and sound effects really takes me back
I'm from Wales, UK, and I could've written that word for word and it would 100% apply to me. Games really are a universal language....Plus...The 80's was the last great decade to be a kid! Take me back man!
@@heroicjourney2508 I'm from Wales too! I remember going to Swansea ten pin bowling and playing Altered Beast in the arcade, so magical. A few year Slater out came the Megadrive and I finally had it at home!!
Goood childhood memories 1988,89 about 8 of us kids taking turns till we finally made it to the end. Probably spent bout $20 each a week for a whole year.
Not even Golden Axe can stand with the variety and quality of the monsters and bosses of Rastan, a timeless masterpiece imho. That and the barbarians also.
He stated that he used to be a thief and a murderer..... but he’s selling himself short. He’s literally just trying to walk forwards, and there’s all these fucking freaky ass animals, Proto Dhalsims, and flying demons who are trying to kill him. Stealing? Just picking up treasure. Our hero is humble.
Came here for the music and nostalgia! Love to everyone that has left a comment here, we are all connected if you played this game! Long live the 80s, will never be the same!
I think this game was the first adventure arcade game I ever played. It got me hooked up ever since and still liked it after all this years. Such good memories. When I saw it i say ta myself: "Yep. This game's based on "Conan The Barbarian/Destroyer".
Same here, arcades today are nothin' more than glorified casinos for kids today, now there are still arcades today that are more like the ones you remember, but ya gotta like look 'em up, but yeah your totally right.
This game was ahead of its time. I wasted many a quarter on this game in the late 80's, I'd never see nit played all the way through until now. Thanks for this video!
The backgrounds and lighting effects are magnificent in this game--to say nothing, of course, of the fact that is has one of the all-time best scores for any classic coin-op. Great gameplay by this player, too.
Did other people's Rastan arcade have a subwoofer in it? One of the reasons this game was an old favorite of mine was the great music that came out of an especially powerful sound system that most arcade cabinets didn't have.
A lot of arcade cabinets back in the day were sold separately to the ROM boards. The arcade owners would buy the cabinet and then just swap the ROM boards out as they needed/when the games got old. This meant that the demand for arcade cabinets slightly outweighed the supply and it led to a lot of domestic suppliers creating custom cabinets for arcade owners on demand. After all, technology was a bit simpler back then and most qualified electricians/computer techs with the right parts could do it. It's entirely likely that your Rastan machine was one of these custom jobs with an extra subwoofer.
I remember the Flame sword making a satisfying THOOM THOOM sound when you swung it and shot the fireballs.. it had a distinct bassy tone, I wonder if it was one of these custom jobs?
That's something I remember from arcades back then. Certain games had really great sound from their respective cabinets. This and Gorf are two arcade games that I remember always having great depth of sound and they were always cranked up!
Mon jeu préféré. J’ai passé des heures dessus, à l’époque de mettais 2 francs et je finissais le jeu. Que du bonheur je me rappelle de toutes les musiques et tous les niveaux. J’aimerais tellement pouvoir le trouver à nouveau
God I remember my Green Valley Grocery store had this cabnet. It was so loud when you played it, the whole store heard this theme as they where shopping getting candy and beer. Miss shit like that
I use to have it on Master System, it was do-able. Now I have a real arcade machine from the 80s/90s and i can tell this game is soooo hard! But really great and beautiful even today.
11:22 the leap of faith! This was one of the greatest arcade games. Very challenging but not too hard after you spent lots of time memorizing each level. The most difficult aspect of the game was the platforming. After several play thru attempts you eventually memorize the jump timing and you can get thru the game fairly easily.
Rastan Longplay (Arcade) [60 FPS]: Grab your battle-axe and oil those biceps in Taito's side-scrolling hack 'em up. Read the video description for my review!
same with sega's shinobi from 1987. cannot continue on the last mission. AND also of course 'NAM 1975 from neo geo. a HUGE turn off from me liking such games. unnncessarily stopping play. makes no sense.
Yeah, but it is possible to complete. I managed it, I would constantly get to the last level with about 5 men, make it a little further each time until I eventually managed to complete it. Even now, 20 years later it's still my favourite arcade game and completing it took a lot of practice.
Played this game a ton during my freshman year of college. We had a small arcade in our dorm and this was one of the staples. 35 years later I still enjoy watching this (and playing the game if I can find it locally).
Damn, this takes me back. This arcade cabinet used to be at the comic store where my dad shopped. I always just knew it as "The game, with the guy, with the sword." (That sure narrows it down lol.)
No way!! Me too! I bet it was the same machine too. I'm pretty decent at this game so if I had little money this was my go to game that I could get at least to the last stage or close on one quarter at the time. This one and Guantlet Dark Legacy were in that room. Man! I miss the old arcades on the ferries. Now it's all tablets and phones - meh!
@@dennismcdonald2607 I never had enough money to play more than a game, but it was the best one there. I bet these machines still exist in some BC Ferry storage room somewhere. What I remember most though was having to wait for some toddler that thought he was really playing to get off the machine.
Shortly after graduating high school, I found this game at my local pizzeria. It was so popular that patrons were waiting to play it. Wasn't too good at it, but I loved the theme music.
Man I loved this game,the music the sound fx.. I pumped many a quarters into this game at my local mini mart Wish this would get rereleased on switch or some newer consoles
Used to play this at the Wavepool back in the day right there in Donelson Tennessee. Can remember it like it was yesterday. Then right down the street (Briley Parkway) was good ole Opryland USA… those were the days… 🤌🏼
Yeah, this one and Black Tiger were the two I spent countless quarters on until I could beat it on one. Our town Youth Center had some great games! Hell, they even had one of the old Nintendo Playchoice cabinets that introduced me to Castlevania!
Man I can remember playing this game in the arcade all those years ago. I think I might have gotten about to level 3 or 4 of 6. Thank you for sharing the video.
I was 14 in 1987, I spent lot’s of quarters trying to beat this game. But practice makes perfect. Later I beat the game with one quarter wouldn’t even get hit. Love the music and the ending. Brings back a lot of great memories.😢😂😊
I completely forgot this existed until someone linked me to it and I heard the music. Looking back, this game seems like it must have been a huge influence on the first Act Raiser game.
So much time and so many quarters spent at Mr. Lee's corner store. It was cool that he witnessed me finishing the game at long last. It was pretty anticlimatic, though. I was armed with the axe, which made surprisingly short work of the dragon.
FOR ME THE BEST ARCADE GAME AT THE TIME(AND IN MY TOP 10),AND ONE WITH THE BEST SOUNDTRACKS EVER,ALSO FEW SIDE SCROLING GAME HAS THIS AMAZING GAMEPLAY UNTIL TODAY
The boiling pit of oil at 26 minutes in used to cause me no end of trouble due to the button mashing needed to get out. One of my top 5 all time favourite arcade games though.
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This the real Conan game right here of the 1980’s. I liked rastan, rygar, 1942, mrs pack man , bad dudes, ninja gaiden , super Mario , etc.
Golden Axe
Operation Wolf, Contra, Double Dragon, Shinobi, Ghost N' Goblins,
Spy Hunter
Some of the best music ever.
If ever there was music that says "The demons from hell are attacking", this is it
Yep. And no one can walk as SMOOTHLY as Rastan can!
Wow Is very very food rastan🙏😁😉😉😅
and to think that was recorded with general midi !
My favorite game 80sss decade forever
The music on the first stage is simply amazing.
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Agreed, even now in 2023.
@@ACLMSC I listen to a lot of electronic music, and it is pretty damned good even by 2023 standards. Kind of reminds me a bit of 90s Goa Trance. E.g Nilaya by Astral Projection
It's the same music at the start of EVERY stage. 🤨
Great point Jason. I was thinking about how good the music was for the game. Better than average in my humble opinion. I don't notice the music in many games (of course some don't have a running theme).
It felt good walking into the arcade hearing this music. It was every arcade.
For real, this is something lost today. I used to go into an arcade at a theme park nearby me growing up and just take in the sounds from every direction. Wish I still could..
and Shinobi or the growling from the transformations in altered beast
@@zacatkinson3926 Spyhunter always overpowered every other machine with that bassline. I could always find the arcade in an amusement park by following the Peter Gunn theme :D
Oh something is definitely missing.. video arcades, like the also defunct video store, were social centers where one could hang out with strangers, friends and classmates in a judgement free zone. They are trying to bring them back as video pubs.. here hoping the trend continues😎@@ScaryGarrySG1
Incredible. I played this game almost every day at a cafe in a mall near me back in 1987 when I was 14. I probably never played this again after 1987, maybe ‘88…yet watching this now 35-36 later totally takes me back to those days as if they had been last week.
it was a blessing to be a kid during the arcade era. now because of youtube we can relive those nostalgic moments. the music and sound effects really takes me back
I'm from Wales, UK, and I could've written that word for word and it would 100% apply to me. Games really are a universal language....Plus...The 80's was the last great decade to be a kid! Take me back man!
@@heroicjourney2508 I'm from Wales too! I remember going to Swansea ten pin bowling and playing Altered Beast in the arcade, so magical. A few year Slater out came the Megadrive and I finally had it at home!!
I never knew this game had an ending. I spent so many quarters as a kid trying to get passed stage 2. Thanks for unlocking memory cores.
Goood childhood memories 1988,89 about 8 of us kids taking turns till we finally made it to the end. Probably spent bout $20 each a week for a whole year.
I must have blown more than $500 on this game at Sparkles roller rink and was never able to make it past the 2nd level.
Travis Vaughan same :(
Me 3 🙃
It was super hard....
The sounds and the music transported me to Kemos liquor 1989. My freaking childhood
It transported me back to the roller skating rink on Friday nights.
It transported me back to super s groceries after school
Who could ever forget this Epic Soundtrack?
Oh the feels. One of the best of the 80s and the music production is incredible.
One of the best arcade games EVER!
Yes indeed!
I just played it a handful of times at galloping ghost arcade this past weekend. It is pretty fun game. Mite have to try and get past all 6 levels
Not even Golden Axe can stand with the variety and quality of the monsters and bosses of Rastan, a timeless masterpiece imho. That and the barbarians also.
He stated that he used to be a thief and a murderer..... but he’s selling himself short. He’s literally just trying to walk forwards, and there’s all these fucking freaky ass animals, Proto Dhalsims, and flying demons who are trying to kill him. Stealing? Just picking up treasure.
Our hero is humble.
Came here for the music and nostalgia! Love to everyone that has left a comment here, we are all connected if you played this game! Long live the 80s, will never be the same!
my favorite arcade of all time
Oh wow finally I found this after 34 years! I used to play this a lot! never forgot the music or asking my mom for just one more quarter
I was probably the best customer at that 7\11 store in my old neighbourhood when this game came out.
I think this game was the first adventure arcade game I ever played. It got me hooked up ever since and still liked it after all this years. Such good memories. When I saw it i say ta myself: "Yep. This game's based on "Conan The Barbarian/Destroyer".
Back at “Electric Playhouse” in Mount Kisco, NY.
I MISS the old days of arcades. Not this Las Vegas/Disney World D&B (Dave and Busters) stuff.
Same here, arcades today are nothin' more than glorified casinos for kids today, now there are still arcades today that are more like the ones you remember, but ya gotta like look 'em up, but yeah your totally right.
This game was ahead of its time. I wasted many a quarter on this game in the late 80's, I'd never see nit played all the way through until now. Thanks for this video!
This game was so difficult I rarely saw anyone get past the first half of the game, or so, when I was a kid. This guy makes it look easy but it's not.
It is hard as hell lol. I have the remake on PS3 (a Taito compilation) and I still cant make it past the first boss.
Like all platformers you just had to learn. The game was absolutely possible in one credit
played it so much, I could complete the entire game without dying once, too. An amazing game which still plays well today.
Video evidence or it didn't happen!! Lol
Of the thousands of arcade games I played when I was a kid this one was my 2nd favorite. Epic shit right here.
This and Twin Cobra ate my coins :)
You gonna leave us all hanging and not tell us what your first favorite is?
@@hanoisolo LOL Yeah, top game for me was always Wardner. Awesome game, aesthetic and soundtrack 😀
@@RogueBoyScout did you ever play Twin Eagle? Or Sky Shark
Wardner!
Taito used every dirty trick in the book to milk kids of their money with this one, still an awesome game.
An absolute gem of the arcade coin up era, and not only was a fantastic game in its time, the music was better. Imagine that!
The best music ever and a wide variety of enemies. Excellent graphics for it's time too.
The music composer of this jewel is amazing. I could pay to see and hear a philarmonic playing this.
Wonderful sounds in this game!
The backgrounds and lighting effects are magnificent in this game--to say nothing, of course, of the fact that is has one of the all-time best scores for any classic coin-op. Great gameplay by this player, too.
I first played this as a kid when I was abroad and was addicted to it. One hell of a game
Still easily one of the greatest soundtracks of any arcade game, ever.
We need a Rastan Saga metroivania.
And a Rygar and Xain'd Sleena one too.
I just acquired one of these cabinets, was sitting on a friends property and he told me “come take it or it’s going to the dump”
Did other people's Rastan arcade have a subwoofer in it? One of the reasons this game was an old favorite of mine was the great music that came out of an especially powerful sound system that most arcade cabinets didn't have.
A lot of arcade cabinets back in the day were sold separately to the ROM boards. The arcade owners would buy the cabinet and then just swap the ROM boards out as they needed/when the games got old.
This meant that the demand for arcade cabinets slightly outweighed the supply and it led to a lot of domestic suppliers creating custom cabinets for arcade owners on demand. After all, technology was a bit simpler back then and most qualified electricians/computer techs with the right parts could do it. It's entirely likely that your Rastan machine was one of these custom jobs with an extra subwoofer.
I played a version of Rastan in Jackson Hole and one and Bryce Canyon and they both had that deep bass subwoofer sound. It gave me goosebumps
@@CopiousDoinksLLC tgh
I remember the Flame sword making a satisfying THOOM THOOM sound when you swung it and shot the fireballs.. it had a distinct bassy tone, I wonder if it was one of these custom jobs?
That's something I remember from arcades back then. Certain games had really great sound from their respective cabinets. This and Gorf are two arcade games that I remember always having great depth of sound and they were always cranked up!
nothing brings me back to my childhood like Rastan! I was 11 years old playing this in the movie theatre lobby growing up in Tempe AZ!
My all time favorite. Wish I could find it again
They have it at the galloping ghost arcade in Chicago
I just love the thunder sound effects on the last level. Great game.
Second level music kicks in and you know the bats are about to start chasing you.
Had this on the SMS, good times!
RetroSteve me too.
Me too, I prefer the Master System version as its not as extremely difficult as the coin eater.
Mon jeu préféré.
J’ai passé des heures dessus, à l’époque de mettais 2 francs et je finissais le jeu.
Que du bonheur je me rappelle de toutes les musiques et tous les niveaux.
J’aimerais tellement pouvoir le trouver à nouveau
This game has been trending a lot lately!
Love this game. Played it with my bro way back when. It’s been a memory I relive in my head when I get bored.
God I remember my Green Valley Grocery store had this cabnet. It was so loud when you played it, the whole store heard this theme as they where shopping getting candy and beer. Miss shit like that
I use to have it on Master System, it was do-able.
Now I have a real arcade machine from the 80s/90s and i can tell this game is soooo hard! But really great and beautiful even today.
This game was so fucking awesome.
The music...the atmosphere...great game
Broo, all i could remember was the melody all these years!! Had to look up Conan like video games from the 80's! Thank God for TH-cam 😂
11:22 the leap of faith!
This was one of the greatest arcade games. Very challenging but not too hard after you spent lots of time memorizing each level. The most difficult aspect of the game was the platforming.
After several play thru attempts you eventually memorize the jump timing and you can get thru the game fairly easily.
Rastan Longplay (Arcade) [60 FPS]: Grab your battle-axe and oil those biceps in Taito's side-scrolling hack 'em up.
Read the video description for my review!
PSN put this game up so I got it, brings back memories for sure!
The worst part about this game is that like many of Taito's arcade games of the 1980s, it forbids continues on the last level.
Kind of defeats the purpose. Konami learned that lesson, they created the quarter munching bosses
same with sega's shinobi from 1987. cannot continue on the last mission. AND also of course 'NAM 1975 from neo geo. a HUGE turn off from me liking such games. unnncessarily stopping play. makes no sense.
Ha I forgot about that
Yeah, but it is possible to complete. I managed it, I would constantly get to the last level with about 5 men, make it a little further each time until I eventually managed to complete it. Even now, 20 years later it's still my favourite arcade game and completing it took a lot of practice.
@@DanielSong39 except for the final brain bosses of Gradius, they are intriguing bosses those ones.
Better plot than some 2019 movies.
Played this game a ton during my freshman year of college. We had a small arcade in our dorm and this was one of the staples. 35 years later I still enjoy watching this (and playing the game if I can find it locally).
Rastan was a huge inspiration for me. I made Windmills to try and resemble the feeling of this game
If ever there was music that says "The demons from hell are attacking", this is it. Super cool game and better review.. you must be into writing.
Damn, this takes me back. This arcade cabinet used to be at the comic store where my dad shopped. I always just knew it as "The game, with the guy, with the sword." (That sure narrows it down lol.)
It actully does, from that description I would think Rastan or Golden Axe.
I loved this game,esp. the fucking fire sword.
the Melody drew me to this arcade. the gameplay is simple, not a lot to it. a Masterpiece!
Spent many afternoons at Minyards playing this game. Awesome and thanks for making the video. Great memories!
Taito made some great games.
Few know the truth, but I am Rastan. When my son was born, Arnold, he moved to America, and became a bodybuilder.
I totally forgot about this game. It was awesome then and awesome now!
Growing up I remember playing this at the Greyhound bus station in Marietta, Georgia. DAMN I MISS THE 80'S. Playing the Conan the Barbarian game.
I remember playing this game on one of the BC Ferries between Tsawwassen and Nanaimo.
No way!! Me too! I bet it was the same machine too. I'm pretty decent at this game so if I had little money this was my go to game that I could get at least to the last stage or close on one quarter at the time. This one and Guantlet Dark Legacy were in that room. Man! I miss the old arcades on the ferries. Now it's all tablets and phones - meh!
@@dennismcdonald2607 I never had enough money to play more than a game, but it was the best one there. I bet these machines still exist in some BC Ferry storage room somewhere. What I remember most though was having to wait for some toddler that thought he was really playing to get off the machine.
Just downloaded this game for the Nintendo Switch off of Nintendo website. Having a blast playing it!
Rastan arcade game was so intense always had like 6 kids standing in the background 👀
Shortly after graduating high school, I found this game at my local pizzeria. It was so popular that patrons were waiting to play it. Wasn't too good at it, but I loved the theme music.
Man I loved this game,the music the sound fx.. I pumped many a quarters into this game at my local mini mart Wish this would get rereleased on switch or some newer consoles
absolute mastery, i played this machine alot as a kid, so hard i never even got to boss2
Used to play this at the Wavepool back in the day right there in Donelson Tennessee. Can remember it like it was yesterday. Then right down the street (Briley Parkway) was good ole Opryland USA… those were the days… 🤌🏼
remember seeing this game on holiday in miami in 1992, when i was 12. Was so happy getting it on master system
Loved this game! I beat it on a quarter back in the day. Took some time to work up to that though. : )
Yeah, this one and Black Tiger were the two I spent countless quarters on until I could beat it on one. Our town Youth Center had some great games! Hell, they even had one of the old Nintendo Playchoice cabinets that introduced me to Castlevania!
I remember playing this when I was 8 years old and beating it on one quarter. It will always be a classic.
Man I can remember playing this game in the arcade all those years ago. I think I might have gotten about to level 3 or 4 of 6. Thank you for sharing the video.
Masterpiece game.
This brings back many happy memories,thank you!
I didn’t even have a Sega so I only played this game at a friend’s, but it really defined for me what western fantasy was.
I was 14 in 1987, I spent lot’s of quarters trying to beat this game. But practice makes perfect. Later I beat the game with one quarter wouldn’t even get hit. Love the music and the ending. Brings back a lot of great memories.😢😂😊
I love the statues of the Argonath from Lord of the rings in the background
they were magnificient back in the day on a big CRT monitor . it all looks a bit blocky here though
I completely forgot this existed until someone linked me to it and I heard the music. Looking back, this game seems like it must have been a huge influence on the first Act Raiser game.
Thank you! I've played this game countless times and never seen the ending. Its a hard ass game!
Best soundtrack ever
Bring back memories thank you 😊
So much time and so many quarters spent at Mr. Lee's corner store. It was cool that he witnessed me finishing the game at long last. It was pretty anticlimatic, though. I was armed with the axe, which made surprisingly short work of the dragon.
So, took me forever to beat this game. Then i got so good over time, i can play through without dying once!
I love those armored guys on stage 1. You hit them one time, and they say, "Forget this!' and run away.
Loved playing this game back in the day
Epic way to obtain the 🔥 🗡
03:05
I remember playing this game while my dad and i were at the washeteria in the 80’s.
Forgot about this game.... i was never into it, but nice to see what the ending looks like. Thank you,.
love this game
I've been playing this the last few days. I got the retrogaming console controller with 4,000 games and Rastan is on it. Chopping everyone up 🗡️⚰️
6:47 amazing combo
FOR ME THE BEST ARCADE GAME AT THE TIME(AND IN MY TOP 10),AND ONE WITH THE BEST SOUNDTRACKS EVER,ALSO FEW SIDE SCROLING GAME HAS THIS AMAZING GAMEPLAY UNTIL TODAY
5:51 and 6:05 I love that the soundtrack composer decided to use a rubber duckie of all things as one of the instruments for the dungeon theme.
The boiling pit of oil at 26 minutes in used to cause me no end of trouble due to the button mashing needed to get out. One of my top 5 all time favourite arcade games though.
Wow, the memories are overwhelming
Great graphics for its time
You are a brave fighter, plus a very skilled player to have beaten such a difficult game! 🤗
Conan outright cool old skool Ragar and Kanov Golden Axe lots of great games. Bringing back memories of my childhood 😎.
Black Tiger too