They should realy making a new version for this game, but entire like the old version(in 2 D),only with new graphics,Capcom has made newer version for Bionic Commando (the Rearmed 1 and 2)in 2 D but with awesome graphics and gameplay.
I remember as a kid encountering this arcade game at the beach restaurant/bar in Italy where we used to always go in the summer. At the time it felt creepy, scary and insane. Only a handful of people could play it halfway well but I would either play or watch others pour 200 lira coins into the machine ("Quarters" of the era) with this otherworldly theme being the main attraction. Note by note, I have not forgotten it. Fast forward nearly 30 years and I use this song for the "battles" I have with my young children especially Nerf. The ups and downs of increasing and decreasing tension are terrifying and I often base my attacks on the cadence of the music. I have a friend who is a LEO (USCG) and another who had previous military service both of whom come over from time to time and we have Nerf wars with my sons. They tell me that with the lights low and with my kids presenting such small, fast, well trained targets that effectively shoot back it's one of their most adrenaline generating experiences they do even compared to the most challenging tactical situations they have run across in their work. This music really was a head and shoulders above most other video games; it's intense, electrifying and terrifying. It pumps you up and scares you, makes all your hair stand on end and want to kick some ass, even well past your childhood. Pleasure is pain, this is why people enjoy scary stories that frighten them around a campfire. Studies show that the brain waves of pleasure and fright are the same dopamine related surges, and this music brings it out in spades. CHAAAAARGE!!!!!!
Same as Castlevania, this GST remember me horror and adventure. My mind flew to an era of wizardry and old beasts, when we cant be safe. Heroic, Epic and i dont know how words for this amazing compilation.
Rastan = Conan...........musica epica buen representante del genero espadas y hechiceria............de niño como alucinaba ver jugar a ste juego y escuchar su musica en las salas arcades .....yo no podia ya q era super dificil jugarlo...........para mi es l conan de los videojuegos......buen juego para tal epoca q nostalgia sigue igual d dificil pero entretenido....grax👍
I am 40 yrs old and listening to this still gives me the shivers. I recall how this heroic music would stir my imagination when I was a kid reading books like the Hobbit and then as a teenager and even now when I play LordOfTheRingsOnline I would/still play this while I wrote many a module as a Dungeon Master or played AD&D 2nd edition. Good Times!!
I remember my arcade days like it was yesterday. This was my favorite game. I always got goosebumps in the castle when 3:20 started playing and people around gathered to look over my shoulder at where this amazing music was coming from.
best game soundtrack of all time. played this game some 25+ years ago in college at the arcade. dropped quarters in daily until i mastered the game and could finish it competently. the bizzare yet wowsome music is what originally attracted me to play this game. strange dramatic music unlike anything i heard before. thanks uploader!
Some of the synth instruments in this song are completely unique and amazing. The composer really chose the best instruments. I’d like to do a remix/remaster of this song, but I fear some of the instruments are irreplaceable for this tune. Definitely one of the best arcade soundtracks ever created and the specific sounds fit like a glove.
I believe they were rightly trying to replicate instruments from the classical era such as the Lyre (plucked strings), the Cornu (horns) and the Aulos (reed flute, often played two at a time). If you check out some other videos of these instruments, the tones and textures are reminiscent. Although I've also heard of this soundtrack reminding people of the OST for the 1979 film Caligula-- it may have offered some inspiration for the Rastan music.😊
I only discovered this game again about a week ago. I am 50 now and remember this game and Double Dragon at HE college. I would happily spend 10p I think on this game. College, best time of my life and these 2 games.
Goosebumps. Bloody goosebumps is what I get when I hear this soundtrack. Being that kid on the Rastan machine in the arcade (cool place with great games for you iGen's out there) when the music got loud meant everyone was watching you thinking "what the blazes is that game he's playing?" LOL
Really weird music that enhances the atmosphere. That castle music is weird piece of art. Seems like bunch of strange noises at first, but put into unknown gloomy castle makes it... uh, too bad you can't have the same feeling like the first few times. And the ending music and scene, what will happen next, with hero, with castle, how big is the world anyway??? Makes you dive into imagination.
Role playing to video game music? Hell, I thought I had made that discovery up. 35 years old & I adore the music of games for the purpose of writing, role playing, & when I am rendering illustrations! Great to be among friends here!
I can't tell you how many times I died on this game to never get past the first stage lol. The song still gets a visceral response from me all these years later because I remember being so pissed as a kid everytime I lost. I was trying to find the name of this game forever.
As an avid Tolkien reader in the mid 80s, my dad used to tell me that this game was LOTR based. I was only 8, so every coin I inserted in this fucking cabinet, I always believed that I was controlling Aragorn, hacking n' slashing the shit out the hordes of Sauron!!
+khyronbradford Your dad may actually have had good reason to say so. The background of Rastan's first stage is a partial copy of the painting The Pillars of the Kings by Greg and Tim Hildebrandt, which you can view here: a137.idata.over-blog.com/0/18/13/85/tableaux/argonath_hildebrandt.jpg Maybe your dad recognized it? When I first saw the painting in an art book my first thought was "That's Rastan!"
+BardicBroadcasts Holy fucking shit dude!! That image...the background on the first level were actually the Argonath!!!! My old man was right all the time. That makes Rastan the first action game based in LOTR. Many many thanks for the info, you just made the fucking day for me and my dad.
+khyronbradford awesome, for what its worth i think this game owes an awful lot of its imagery to the movie conan the barbarian as well. ive always considered this game an "unofficial" conan game
Exactly, when I first saw Rastan I have been literally blown away -- I was at the time living in the Conan world -- by reading Howard's books and Savage Sword of Conan comics. And of course I knew the excellent Conan the Barbarian movie.
It is Conan. Notice the Font of Rastan is the same as the one used for Conan. Taito was half way done with the game but couldn't get the rights. So they had to change the name from Conan to Rastan.
always liked this game because it was a regular kick and punch game so you didn't have to learn much, but it was also really colorful and freaky. the song was a plus too
Can't think of any other music that sounds close to this, either in the arcade or otherwise. Such an inspired composition with odd, but appropriate instrumentation.
Blast from the past. Great memories pumping all of my hard earned bday money into this machine. I sucked at the game mainly because I was so blown away by the epic music and at the time, awesome graphics.
I remember playing this when I was maybe 12 and trying to memorize the first song because I liked it so much. I was so happy when the internet became popular and I could listen to the Shadow Of The Beast 3 (Amiga) soundtrack after maybe 10 years.
I can never get enough of these retro games. People are always saying "that games old, those graphics suck, blah blah fuking blah." It's a good game. Deal with it.
Video Games Live had this in their classic games opening medley and their version definitely did this game justice, but sadly last time I went the medley didn't have this.
2:58 If I could play well enough to get to this part of the soundtrack @10 years old I would get the same sense of gratification as when I beat any game. The music is so phenomenal with the fire everywhere. Unbelievable.
My all time favourite childhood game ever! 10p and i would clock the game in 45 mins, grab a hubba bubba & a can of quottro on way home. Great 80"s :-)
Eventually got to the point I could beat the game on one quarter but that took some doing. 40 years later I've never forgotten the epic music this game has. Some of the games of this era had good tunes too, I also am a fan of Black Tiger's (Black Dragon in Japan), music as well as others.
Such fun playing this game just embarrassing because the arcade was extremely loud and it’s could be heard across 2/3 of Peter Pipper Pizza on a Friday night. 😂 I think it had 6x9 speakers overhead
Awesome Music and Graphics, especially the second part of the first level where you go through the castle. The best I could ever do was beat the first boss.
muito loko meu,u dj aí junto todas na sequencia certinha kara,detonô:essas musiqinhas do rastan mi levam ao passado ;eu xego até viajar nas musiquinha ...parece qi eu to naquela época
As crazy as it may sound, this was the one Sega have where I actually preferred the SMS version over the Arcade/Genesis version (I know there was no Genesis version for this game).
00:31 always give me the creeps. When I was 10 I first played this and couldn't sleep cause of that. I'm 33 now, and the music from cadash in the first level gives me the creeps.
It always amazes me how the Japanese adapted American works and knew exactly how to do so in a way that respects and even enhances the original. This is exactly how an arcade adaptation of Conan should be made. They did many similarly excellent adaptations of Aliens, Blade Runner, and the Marvel superheroes.
I remember playing this game when I was only chin high to the joysticks, I think this and Sinistar where the first games Iever played... ahh to have ben a kid in the 80's
thank you for uploading this masterpiece. how did you rip the music without the in-game sound effects? i'd like to do the same thing with other games using mame, is it possible?
@OcielGarciaBustos Amen to that, friend. :) At least there's one silver lining to being around 20 years after Rastan was in the arcades: With today's MP3 players, laptops and audio-ripping software, ripping copies of Rastan's music (as well as the tunes from every other great, bygone arcade game out there) and playing them during D&D games is easier than ever. I tried to do that with cassettes, a clunky tape recorder and a Black Tiger game back in the 80's. Cassettes suck.
Those damned bats in the dungeons sucked! could never get away from them. But yeah, this has to be in the top 10 80's video game music. simply amazing music!
![Rastan - World Record Speedrun - 16:56 [Normal] (No commentary)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/YT4fI6bfrMg/mqdefault.jpg)
![[Arcade Game BGM] : Ninja Warriors (TAITO 1987)](/img/n.gif)
I think this is the best arcade game music ever created
Amen to that, brother!
The music from the arcade version is one of the best,and i have good memories playing this game,sad that they don´t making other versions and sequels
back in the day when you heard this yo immediately got hyped lol
They should realy making a new version for this game, but entire like the old version(in 2 D),only with new graphics,Capcom has made newer version for Bionic Commando (the Rearmed 1 and 2)in 2 D but with awesome graphics and gameplay.
Damaco78 A listen to shinobi, maybe you'll change your mind.
This is the best video game music ever made. I wish I could reach out to the Japanese writers of it today and thank them.
No cap the first stage music is what drew you in.
I remember as a kid encountering this arcade game at the beach restaurant/bar in Italy where we used to always go in the summer. At the time it felt creepy, scary and insane. Only a handful of people could play it halfway well but I would either play or watch others pour 200 lira coins into the machine ("Quarters" of the era) with this otherworldly theme being the main attraction. Note by note, I have not forgotten it.
Fast forward nearly 30 years and I use this song for the "battles" I have with my young children especially Nerf. The ups and downs of increasing and decreasing tension are terrifying and I often base my attacks on the cadence of the music. I have a friend who is a LEO (USCG) and another who had previous military service both of whom come over from time to time and we have Nerf wars with my sons. They tell me that with the lights low and with my kids presenting such small, fast, well trained targets that effectively shoot back it's one of their most adrenaline generating experiences they do even compared to the most challenging tactical situations they have run across in their work.
This music really was a head and shoulders above most other video games; it's intense, electrifying and terrifying. It pumps you up and scares you, makes all your hair stand on end and want to kick some ass, even well past your childhood. Pleasure is pain, this is why people enjoy scary stories that frighten them around a campfire. Studies show that the brain waves of pleasure and fright are the same dopamine related surges, and this music brings it out in spades.
CHAAAAARGE!!!!!!
Cognome fantastico.... ahahahah.. XD
I used to play the hell out of this on Taito Legends for the PS2 and I still do it's one my favorite arcade game 😼
I probably played the arcade game 5 times. 35 years ago. And its music is still in my head.
Same as Castlevania, this GST remember me horror and adventure. My mind flew to an era of wizardry and old beasts, when we cant be safe. Heroic, Epic and i dont know how words for this amazing compilation.
Rastan = Conan...........musica epica buen representante del genero espadas y hechiceria............de niño como alucinaba ver jugar a ste juego y escuchar su musica en las salas arcades .....yo no podia ya q era super dificil jugarlo...........para mi es l conan de los videojuegos......buen juego para tal epoca q nostalgia sigue igual d dificil pero entretenido....grax👍
I am 40 yrs old and listening to this still gives me the shivers. I recall how this heroic music would stir my imagination when I was a kid reading books like the Hobbit and then as a teenager and even now when I play LordOfTheRingsOnline I would/still play this while I wrote many a module as a Dungeon Master or played AD&D 2nd edition. Good Times!!
That sound track might have been the greatest of all wow 30 years after it still sound great
I remember my arcade days like it was yesterday. This was my favorite game. I always got goosebumps in the castle when 3:20 started playing and people around gathered to look over my shoulder at where this amazing music was coming from.
same here
NGL I play this in my car on the way to work. This hypes me up for the day.
best game soundtrack of all time.
played this game some 25+ years ago in college at the arcade. dropped quarters in daily until i mastered the game and could finish it competently. the bizzare yet wowsome music is what originally attracted me to play this game. strange dramatic music unlike anything i heard before.
thanks uploader!
Some of the synth instruments in this song are completely unique and amazing. The composer really chose the best instruments. I’d like to do a remix/remaster of this song, but I fear some of the instruments are irreplaceable for this tune. Definitely one of the best arcade soundtracks ever created and the specific sounds fit like a glove.
Thanks for this comment - I was also thinking about a remix as the remixes out there are not true to the original, but it’s a tough one.
I believe they were rightly trying to replicate instruments from the classical era such as the Lyre (plucked strings), the Cornu (horns) and the Aulos (reed flute, often played two at a time). If you check out some other videos of these instruments, the tones and textures are reminiscent.
Although I've also heard of this soundtrack reminding people of the OST for the 1979 film Caligula-- it may have offered some inspiration for the Rastan music.😊
I only discovered this game again about a week ago. I am 50 now and remember this game and Double Dragon at HE college. I would happily spend 10p I think on this game.
College, best time of my life and these 2 games.
Goosebumps. Bloody goosebumps is what I get when I hear this soundtrack. Being that kid on the Rastan machine in the arcade (cool place with great games for you iGen's out there) when the music got loud meant everyone was watching you thinking "what the blazes is that game he's playing?" LOL
Oh man.....such great memories from hearing this music. My favorite game in the arcade back in the day, hands down. With Dragons Lair a close second.
Really weird music that enhances the atmosphere. That castle music is weird piece of art. Seems like bunch of strange noises at first, but put into unknown gloomy castle makes it... uh, too bad you can't have the same feeling like the first few times. And the ending music and scene, what will happen next, with hero, with castle, how big is the world anyway??? Makes you dive into imagination.
Role playing to video game music? Hell, I thought I had made that discovery up. 35 years old & I adore the music of games for the purpose of writing, role playing, & when I am rendering illustrations! Great to be among friends here!
my dude we lived in a blessed era i loved this game even still to this day and am 33yrs old
I love this music! I remember everything! 31 years ago! Thank you!
Still slaps hard after all these years.
the switch and rise in intensity at 2:47 is fucking insane
I can't tell you how many times I died on this game to never get past the first stage lol. The song still gets a visceral response from me all these years later because I remember being so pissed as a kid everytime I lost. I was trying to find the name of this game forever.
Naoto Yagishita and Masahiko Takaki are the GOAT(s)!!
Gives me goosebumps. Best Arcade music ever! Have the Sega Master cartridge somewhere.
As an avid Tolkien reader in the mid 80s, my dad used to tell me that this game was LOTR based. I was only 8, so every coin I inserted in this fucking cabinet, I always believed that I was controlling Aragorn, hacking n' slashing the shit out the hordes of Sauron!!
+khyronbradford Your dad may actually have had good reason to say so. The background of Rastan's first stage is a partial copy of the painting The Pillars of the Kings by Greg and Tim Hildebrandt, which you can view here: a137.idata.over-blog.com/0/18/13/85/tableaux/argonath_hildebrandt.jpg
Maybe your dad recognized it?
When I first saw the painting in an art book my first thought was "That's Rastan!"
+BardicBroadcasts Holy fucking shit dude!! That image...the background on the first level were actually the Argonath!!!! My old man was right all the time. That makes Rastan the first action game based in LOTR. Many many thanks for the info, you just made the fucking day for me and my dad.
This is the most epic comment thread I have read in a long time. I'm blown away.
+khyronbradford awesome, for what its worth i think this game owes an awful lot of its imagery to the movie conan the barbarian as well. ive always considered this game an "unofficial" conan game
Shut up that's the proper music
This OST makes me remember the old arcades growing up
Rastan is pure CONAN culture, love that music to. Wante Rastan in movies and Rastan 4 in games
Exactly, when I first saw Rastan I have been literally blown away -- I was at the time living in the Conan world -- by reading Howard's books and Savage Sword of Conan comics. And of course I knew the excellent Conan the Barbarian movie.
Not so pure, as it has the LOTR’s Two Kings in the background, but I think it just makes it better.
It is Conan. Notice the Font of Rastan is the same as the one used for Conan.
Taito was half way done with the game but couldn't get the rights. So they had to change the name from Conan to Rastan.
@@abcmaya It's true. This was originally supposed to be a Conan video game and they couldn't lock in the rights to the name.
Holy shit I found it! A grocery store in my town had one of these, and I always remembered the music.
always liked this game because it was a regular kick and punch game so you didn't have to learn much, but it was also really colorful and freaky. the song was a plus too
Double dragon, Side Arms, Rastan Saga, Out Run...ufff, so good music.
Toute mon adolescence, que de temps passé sur ce jeu avec cette ambiance de ouf
merci taito
Can't think of any other music that sounds close to this, either in the arcade or otherwise. Such an inspired composition with odd, but appropriate instrumentation.
Blast from the past. Great memories pumping all of my hard earned bday money into this machine. I sucked at the game mainly because I was so blown away by the epic music and at the time, awesome graphics.
This game captivated me when I first heard the CD quality music for the first time in the arcade.
When I first heard this... it was the first CD quality BGM I've ever heard... was already hooked just by the music.
Thank you for creating this video!
I'm 79 years old... And I used to flip this game with one quarter. Take that useless millinias or what ever your generation is called
Way to go Sir God bless u i only managed to clear about 3 stages sometimes in the 90's must have been around 25y's old
I remember playing this when I was maybe 12 and trying to memorize the first song because I liked it so much.
I was so happy when the internet became popular and I could listen to the Shadow Of The Beast 3 (Amiga) soundtrack after maybe 10 years.
I can never get enough of these retro games. People are always saying "that games old, those graphics suck, blah blah fuking blah." It's a good game. Deal with it.
Video Games Live had this in their classic games opening medley and their version definitely did this game justice, but sadly last time I went the medley didn't have this.
2:58
If I could play well enough to get to this part of the soundtrack @10 years old I would get the same sense of gratification as when I beat any game. The music is so phenomenal with the fire everywhere. Unbelievable.
Loved them all, Rastan did it right!
my childhood time :( best time of my life
My all time favourite childhood game ever! 10p and i would clock the game in 45 mins, grab a hubba bubba & a can of quottro on way home. Great 80"s :-)
This music ...
This has been in my head for the past few weeks and I stumbled upon this 👍🏼👍🏼
Beautiful music reminds me of Conan
great post, i am feeling the love. this music is burned deeply in my brain
Eventually got to the point I could beat the game on one quarter but that took some doing. 40 years later I've never forgotten the epic music this game has. Some of the games of this era had good tunes too, I also am a fan of Black Tiger's (Black Dragon in Japan), music as well as others.
First played this in 87. Very fun game.
best platform game ever made
Best game music ever made!
Such fun playing this game just embarrassing because the arcade was extremely loud and it’s could be heard across 2/3 of Peter Pipper Pizza on a Friday night. 😂 I think it had 6x9 speakers overhead
0:55
Gwhoaaaa! (Miss the jump, dies.)
He even dies tough.
Falls in boiling mud: I’ll just jump my way out. Touches a puddle of water: GWHOAAAA!
I wish I could play the game right now
It's the best music I ever heard
Many hours and quarters at the corner store. Probably the first thing I ever finished. Heh!
Gotta be in there with the top game sound tracks of all time. I like the music at the start of level 2 best.
Awesome Music and Graphics, especially the second part of the first level where you go through the castle. The best I could ever do was beat the first boss.
first stage and you're already hearing a fucking banger, holy shit🤟
charisma at the highest point even just the first level song...
this really is the perfect dark fantasy music. So incredibly atmospheric and hauting yet catchy too. And in 1987 no less
muito loko meu,u dj aí junto todas na sequencia certinha kara,detonô:essas musiqinhas do rastan mi levam ao passado ;eu xego até viajar nas musiquinha ...parece qi eu to naquela época
I just love your video!! great memories comeback!!
I fricken love this game and the music!
I used to LOVE this game!!!
I still do...
What a great teme, when i was too young
Maybe we were too busy listening to that awesome level one music to play very well :) But it was always a tough game to me too.
This music is the best! Fits the game perfectly. Superior. I hope someone drop this game in the app store
The music from the arcade version is one of the best,and i have good memories playing this game,sad that they don´t making other versions and sequels
There was a Rastan Saga II but it was rubbish compared to 1
As soon as u here it it’s like I know that arcade ace music
As crazy as it may sound, this was the one Sega have where I actually preferred the SMS version over the Arcade/Genesis version (I know there was no Genesis version for this game).
This music is as epic as an ...and justice for all song! 🤘
The best game the best music
Naoto yagishita thanks
TH-cam: that 's why i pay internet for!
This and pit fighter have the best songs
00:31 always give me the creeps. When I was 10 I first played this and couldn't sleep cause of that. I'm 33 now, and the music from cadash in the first level gives me the creeps.
...fantastica!
@MrJmaximum
I just wish this medley had more of the first level music. THAT was awesome stuff.
Taito Egret II has Rastan. Love it.
rest in peace mulongoyi
It always amazes me how the Japanese adapted American works and knew exactly how to do so in a way that respects and even enhances the original. This is exactly how an arcade adaptation of Conan should be made. They did many similarly excellent adaptations of Aliens, Blade Runner, and the Marvel superheroes.
2:57 AHHH, BATS!! If you know, you know...
I remember playing this game when I was only chin high to the joysticks, I think this and Sinistar where the first games Iever played... ahh to have ben a kid in the 80's
I HUNGER!
One of my all time favorites. Needs a 16bit port.
very very nice i love it tooooooo much
I really missed the corner Liquor Store..... damn 1992 Riots
is-a-great-game-im-ilustrator-comics-38-yrs-old-this.game.-is.very-inspiration
Shocked there hasn't been a Rastan reboot
It's too manly for this generation
Leo Zack agreed
It's even worse in 2023 peak soy times with kotaku like bugmen everywhere.
So good!
I want to hear a Viking Metal version of this track!!
This music is ridiculous! It's like an Eddie Van Halen finger exercise.
man this game was frickin hard.. Could only ever make it to the jungle level
Black Tiger next?
Very very epic
thank you for uploading this masterpiece. how did you rip the music without the in-game sound effects? i'd like to do the same thing with other games using mame, is it possible?
@OcielGarciaBustos Amen to that, friend. :)
At least there's one silver lining to being around 20 years after Rastan was in the arcades: With today's MP3 players, laptops and audio-ripping software, ripping copies of Rastan's music (as well as the tunes from every other great, bygone arcade game out there) and playing them during D&D games is easier than ever. I tried to do that with cassettes, a clunky tape recorder and a Black Tiger game back in the 80's. Cassettes suck.
Those damned bats in the dungeons sucked! could never get away from them. But yeah, this has to be in the top 10 80's video game music. simply amazing music!
"Huuunh!!!"
Temaso