same here bro s great can see some on youtube channels now. I used t play some of these every weekend old comic books and role games aswel . theres few retro games like slain etc that can try out I stil hooked on games 😊
Man these late 80's arcades were the best. At home the Sega Genesis was coming out the same year as games like this were popping up in arcades. If I had to pick a year gaming hit its peak would be 1989😊
You're blinded by nostalgia. Arcade machines were scummy money leeches same as modern lootboxes. The peak of gaming was somewhere between the death of arcades and the rise of "games as a service".
The peak of gaming was around 2005 when you could do full speed emulation of many of these arcade games without paying a quarter and enhancing video and audio filterd
LOL, the enemies really DO quack like a duck. But this game has a very nice feature that comes in ever so handy during battles, and that is that they gave the backswing damage too. Very nice of them to do that, speaking as an avid _Castlevania_ fan here.
Is it just me, or does this game have a LOT of similarities with the TG - 16 Legendary axe? Many of the same enemies, same power ups, same pillars you destroy to collect said power ups, etc.....
Perhaps also very LOTR? Reminded me of the collapse of Saurons stronghold Bara-dur at the end of Return of the King, when the One Ring was finally destroyed.
"How do we beat this level? There's gotta be a way of beating it, how do we do it?!" ".... You can't." "Bullshit!" "You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you?"
I always remembered the beautiful graphics and color and the giant scorpion boss in the arcade game. One year later I bought the NES game soon as it came out.
Ya probé ambos tanto el Astyanax de Nes como el de Arcade, y definitivamente el de Arcade es mucho mejor en donde lo conocemos con el nombre de; "King of Lord" (de la Jaleco), y el cual es parecido al popular "Rastan" de la Taito.. Es un juego agradable, bonitos gráficos, enemigos monstruosos.. le doy pulgar arriba..
This game took a lot of elements from Legendary Axe for the PC Engine. Legendary Axe is still a better game, though. And i would like to know the reason for H.R. Giger-style last level and boss. It surely doesn't fit in with the rest of the game...
pathetic space marines.... one barbarian guy did make it with just one small hatchet while they couldn't with super scientific powerful weapons and many units
I don't know how this never got a home release. I know the NES made a similar game with the same name which is pretty good but at least this should have made it to the Genesis.
The NES version is actually a better game than the arcade game IMO, it’s just a bit too easy. Legendary Axe for the Turbografx-16/PC Engine, which is also a similar game designed by some of the same devs, is an even better game. If you are looking for something like this but more fun and with a much better balanced challenge, that’s the one to play.
@@cbarger2327 the NES game was a great game I still have my original copy from 1990. I think the arcade game came out before legendary AXE. Arcade game came out 1989 I used to play it in my local pizzeria.
Some interesting ideas in there, but overall this makes "Golden Axe" look like a masterpiece. The terrible music and hyper-repetitive gameplay really can't save this. I'm almost glad I never heard of this game before. It's pretty bad even by standards of the time.
Sorry, but absolutely no innovation or charm in this one. Lots of saturated color. (Although that might actually work against creating a foreboding atmosphere...) Cheaped out on repetitive exolotion animations for all desths, INCLUDING bosses. The soundtrack is just awful (both musically and technically), sound effect samples are ear-piercingly annoying, and the constant note-stealing means the musician needed to better work within the chips' number of channels or demand more channels! Clearly derivative of earlier Rygar/Rastan/Black Tiger/Tiger Road (worse than all), and apparently by the same developer as PCE/TGX Legendary Axe (which DID have better atmosphere & charm, plus great soundtrack!) Thanks for the vid, though!
Ouch. My ears. That is some TERRIBLE sound design. Gameplay is awfully samey too. Points to the level aesthetics though. Except for that lone rip of Aliens at the last level. Weird.
Never played the arcade version. Did own the nes & it was one of my favorites. Just looking at the playthrough I think I prefer the nes. Mainly because different weapons. Each had different ranges & damage amounts. Also different spells instead of just the one. Can't remember if the nes had a usable shield. The graphics were obviously better for arcade. Both had pretty cool enemies & bosses that the other didn't have.
![Tiger Road Longplay (Arcade) [QHD]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/1ZtwOGN-ZeE/mqdefault.jpg)
![Tiger Road Longplay (Arcade) [QHD]](/img/tr.png)
![Willow Longplay (Arcade) [4K]](/img/n.gif)
I love old fashioned fantasy platformers like this. The music, the art design and the story is what makes them so fantastic.
The twilight in the sky is great i these type of games!
Back when a video game and an imagination could take you a million miles away
Old school games had such charm, modern games don't have.
same here bro s great can see some on youtube channels now. I used t play some of these every weekend old comic books and role games aswel . theres few retro games like slain etc that can try out I stil hooked on games 😊
Fun Fact : Astanax is an anagram for "A Nasty Ax"
How the hell did we go from Conan the Barbarian to Alien?
I know right lol, it's like Ecco the Dolphin but without the explanation as to why.
I was thinking the same thing! That blew my mind!
don't forget the Ray Harryhausen monsters also--the cyclops, the 4 armed rock monster!
Stage 6 is alien boss
It remains Jaleco's mysteries.
Man these late 80's arcades were the best. At home the Sega Genesis was coming out the same year as games like this were popping up in arcades. If I had to pick a year gaming hit its peak would be 1989😊
That's a hard one to say would definitely take some extensive research but it's definitely right around 89 🤘
You're blinded by nostalgia. Arcade machines were scummy money leeches same as modern lootboxes. The peak of gaming was somewhere between the death of arcades and the rise of "games as a service".
@@thecandlemaker1329 you're right the arcade game should have been provided to us free from our government like abortion
The peak of gaming was around 2005 when you could do full speed emulation of many of these arcade games without paying a quarter and enhancing video and audio filterd
Fun Fact : Astyanax is an anagram for "A Nasty Ax"
So the mighty thewed barbarian's axe causes his enemies to quack like a duck upon impact...
Legendary Axe had the same designer as this, hence the similarity in gameplay
could say this is the remake almost.
But then suddenly... XENOMORPHS!!
I had this game for the NES as a kid. I had no idea there was an arcade version. Thank you for posting this!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Both this and Ecco the Dolphin have a Xenomorph for a final boss. Seems like a lot of games designers love H.R. Giger.
So many games from that era are guilty of that, but I think this is the first actual arcade game I've seen that does it :)
@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays Apart from Aliens arcade, which I loved playing :D
You definitely can see the Xenomorph influence in Contra from 1987. The waterfall stage boss and the entire final stage are right out of Aliens.
@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays I think contra did it first with the last stage being full of giger inspired stuff
@@Joryo1 , ironically, Konami made both video games.
He walks like he has the heaviest balls in the universe. This game is pretty badass. Up there with Rygar.
I love how the shield gets more cracked every time he blocks an attack.
Lots of Castlevania influence here as I am here for it. Very cool game, interesting how it compares to Legendary Axe, one of my all time faves.
I remember when this game and Legendary Axe first released. Just looking at the animation of the axe swing, a rip off of Legendary Axe
@@theNSXman They were both designed by the same person, Tokuhiro Takemori.
wow ... I had NEVER even heard of this game but it seems pretty awesome and absolutely beautiful graphics
Dope. It's beautiful. The NES game is a favorite; i still name my characters in games Astyanax or Astyx if character limited.
LOL, the enemies really DO quack like a duck. But this game has a very nice feature that comes in ever so handy during battles, and that is that they gave the backswing damage too. Very nice of them to do that, speaking as an avid _Castlevania_ fan here.
I actually forgot about this game. You played it very well!
This is my next arcade archive game on the switch
Is it just me, or does this game have a LOT of similarities with the TG - 16 Legendary axe? Many of the same enemies, same power ups, same pillars you destroy to collect said power ups, etc.....
Both games were designed/produced by the same person, Tokuhiro Takemori.
i like how the sudden giger references an actual giger painting with that weird bird like being
This is very similar to legendary axe
The Legendary Axe came out a year earlier than this, so it could well have been a direct influence.
This should have been the sequel to Legendary Axe.
same guy who made it
Gotta love a castle collapse ending, very Castlevania.
Perhaps also very LOTR? Reminded me of the collapse of Saurons stronghold Bara-dur at the end of Return of the King, when the One Ring was finally destroyed.
I'd love retro games.
I liked how the skip the copyright from the alíen boss 😝🙌
"A perfect level. Its symmetry is matched only by its hostility..."
"How do we beat this level? There's gotta be a way of beating it, how do we do it?!"
".... You can't."
"Bullshit!"
"You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you?"
@@Mr.Spongecake , "No, this game does not understand just who IT is dealing with, namely, ME!"
I always remembered the beautiful graphics and color and the giant scorpion boss in the arcade game. One year later I bought the NES game soon as it came out.
I cut School 3 days in a row to play this on the NES when I finally convinced mom to buy it for me
Yet another tune that was similar to "Elec-man" stage in the ending.
Easiest bosses I've ever seen in an arcade game.
Such beautiful pixelart!
The Astyanax Longplay (Arcade) [QHD]
Stage 6 - ....That was unexpected...
Rastan + Super Castlevania =
Rastavania?
Didn’t see coming that Alien final part… LOL👌🏻
Beautiful looking game.
Oh, come on! Xenomorps? Really? In a fantasy game?
It seems that in those years, Japanese developers were very impressed with the work of H.R. Giger.
As a Wonderboy fan, I am not surprised. For some reason the big bads were alien invaders in a fantasy setting.
@@pantheman2842 I have nothing against. It just looks weird.
@@pantheman2842 Yeah, that did crop up quite a bit in the 80s and 90s sword and sorcery stuff. But here...it really comes out of nowhere :D
No idea this was an arcade game first until now.
The Ending: We finally got our lake back to go fishing.
The best enemy is the blue, helpless dragon! :-D
The nes game astyanax is so different. The story mostly and he kinda looks the same.
That end credits theme just sounds like a Mega Man theme that refuses to finish and loops after the second measure
hit them, hit them with your "astyan-ax".
very nice title. a recent discover.
need this arcade in XBOX ONE classic
So exciting
remember the legendary axe on coregrafx
he man start lol, like a duck noise every time enemy hurt
Looks like a backward porting of legendary axe. :)
The final stage is literally a xenomorph hive. Why did so many arcade games rip off Aliens?
Kind of like a Rastan Lite. Similar violence but with half the calories.
Ya probé ambos tanto el Astyanax de Nes como el de Arcade, y definitivamente el de Arcade es mucho mejor en donde lo conocemos con el nombre de; "King of Lord" (de la Jaleco), y el cual es parecido al popular "Rastan" de la Taito.. Es un juego agradable, bonitos gráficos, enemigos monstruosos.. le doy pulgar arriba..
Nes version was wayyyy better
Yup, i knew something was very different on the last stage.
Plot of the game: Ho!, Ho!, Ho!, Ho!, Ho!, Ho!, Ho!...
That duck sound is kind of ruining the vibe but there's some nice visuals nonetheless
Very nice Rastan clone. Great pixel graphics.
good game.
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super !
I prefer the nes game! but this okay, btw fun fact same guys made this made legendary ax one best hack slash games ever.
Me gusto mucho mas el Astyanax de NES, las cinematicas y el soundtrack
For me, this game inspired the Amiga game "Torvak the Warrior" from Core Design
Torvak was probably inspired by the Rastan games initially.
and even in the first seconds you can ear the same notes of the music @@deceiver444
Hamster should release Rastan Saga
I think I had the NES version. Way different.
would legendary axe on the TG16 be a rip off of this?
The Legendary Axe actually came out before this, so the other way around 🙂
same guy. look at Planner on both game credit sequence
I beat the Nintendo entertainment system's version and was satisfied but this arcade version is by far superior wow.
i play this game on dindong in 1995
This game took a lot of elements from Legendary Axe for the PC Engine. Legendary Axe is still a better game, though. And i would like to know the reason for H.R. Giger-style last level and boss. It surely doesn't fit in with the rest of the game...
this was a rip of legendary axe 1, i think
Astyanax arcade was a rip-off from Legendary Axe?
XD
Whats the point of uploading these videos more than 480p??
Because it looks a heck of a lot better?
Because people don't use 8 inch screens anymore.
@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays 720p is OK but more than that is overkill, believe me :D
a medieval fantasy that suddenly transforms into an Alien ripoff in the last level
I know He-Man when I see him. Where’s Man-E-Faces?
WTH? A Xenomorph? How... Why?
20 MINUTES THEY KNOW HOW STEAL YOUR MONEY
The way this game starts makes me wonder why some sleazy weirdo didn't just try to pass this off as a He Man game
Duck sound
Makaiura
The female enemies lose their top and scream??!!
The church organ needs a tuneup....
should be 4:3
Pourquoi les ennemis Exploses ? 😹
Cool game but holy fuck is the music bad lol.
16:02
pathetic space marines.... one barbarian guy did make it with just one small hatchet while they couldn't with super scientific powerful weapons and many units
I don't know how this never got a home release. I know the NES made a similar game with the same name which is pretty good but at least this should have made it to the Genesis.
The NES version is actually a better game than the arcade game IMO, it’s just a bit too easy. Legendary Axe for the Turbografx-16/PC Engine, which is also a similar game designed by some of the same devs, is an even better game. If you are looking for something like this but more fun and with a much better balanced challenge, that’s the one to play.
@@cbarger2327 the NES game was a great game I still have my original copy from 1990. I think the arcade game came out before legendary AXE. Arcade game came out 1989 I used to play it in my local pizzeria.
HAH
Some interesting ideas in there, but overall this makes "Golden Axe" look like a masterpiece. The terrible music and hyper-repetitive gameplay really can't save this. I'm almost glad I never heard of this game before. It's pretty bad even by standards of the time.
lmao H R Giger stage
Ha, female enemies loss clothes!
Sorry, but absolutely no innovation or charm in this one. Lots of saturated color. (Although that might actually work against creating a foreboding atmosphere...) Cheaped out on repetitive exolotion animations for all desths, INCLUDING bosses. The soundtrack is just awful (both musically and technically), sound effect samples are ear-piercingly annoying, and the constant note-stealing means the musician needed to better work within the chips' number of channels or demand more channels! Clearly derivative of earlier Rygar/Rastan/Black Tiger/Tiger Road (worse than all), and apparently by the same developer as PCE/TGX Legendary Axe (which DID have better atmosphere & charm, plus great soundtrack!) Thanks for the vid, though!
Awful annoying sound effects (and music) spoil the game
It’s like Zelda only way cooler..
The soundtracks are absolutely horrible 😅
Yeah - not the best, although in a crowded arcade you'd probably never have heard them anyway!
Soundtrack iz Amazing.I play this game i lot in aracds beck in 90s.Music was amazing and still is, and great games. One of my favorite
Ouch. My ears. That is some TERRIBLE sound design. Gameplay is awfully samey too. Points to the level aesthetics though. Except for that lone rip of Aliens at the last level. Weird.
The Gameplays is very similar to other retro game called "golden axe" 🤔, and the final stage is heavily inspired by giger Alien 👽.
Never played the arcade version. Did own the nes & it was one of my favorites. Just looking at the playthrough I think I prefer the nes. Mainly because different weapons. Each had different ranges & damage amounts. Also different spells instead of just the one. Can't remember if the nes had a usable shield. The graphics were obviously better for arcade. Both had pretty cool enemies & bosses that the other didn't have.
That soundtrack.👌🏻
Jeez, I forgot how much the Japanese used to love plagiarizing HR Giger
I like the battle damage.
Man where do you find these awesome games I've never heard of?!? It's crazy!
I like more the Nes plot/characters/story version.
I PASSED IT
COOL !