04. Last Ninja, The Wilderness

[@TSpancer80]

the whole music of the game was awesome...and oh my...what a great atmosphere...I was totally addicted to this as I was a child...incredible....C64 RULEZ!!!!

[@phoxxlotekk]

It's incredible how modern the SID chip still sounds 30 years after its release. ^___^

[@phreak761]

40 years now, are you still alive?

[@phoxxlotekk]

@@phreak761 Alive and kickin'! ;-)

[@phreak761]

@@phoxxlotekk Good 👍

[@DaveMcGarry]

Same here, turned 50 in October but still loving Last Ninja SID tunes! 🥷

[@Emulous79]

I was raised on this beautiful music :)

[@waydeburton]

whenever I hear American (bless em) podcasters gush about NES tunes I die a little..... Ben Daglish should be in the same conversation as Koji Kondo when it comes to contributions to 8bit music :)

[@thomassmart4088]

mad bastards with crazy bs skills - agreed - this bit of history is not given proper credit

[@chrisdigiuseppe7717]

Ben Daglish should be in the same conversation as Wolfgang Amadeus freakin' Mozart. RIP brother. \m/ \m/

[@inphanta]

Wayde Burton I’ve always found it laughably ironic that despite the C64 being an American machine, it’s largely unknown in its native country, as is a lot of SID music. It’s insulting it gets overlooked in favour of the NES whose audio capabilities were patently inferior.

[@AmstradExin]

@@LarsTragel-zh7ei i don't know who that is as well

[@gustavctresselt6192]

NES tunes are nice and good but the C64 was always at a completely different level. There is really no comparison, which is quite easy to see (hear) in hindsight.

[@trydowave]

RIP Ben. Still remembering and still listening

[@LeanderNadeltanz]

I remember back in school, our teacher in music-class complained about all of these horrible squeaking and squealing sounds kids are confronted with when they are playing video games and Game Boy. He said that kids would lose touch with real music and with art in general. In the next lesson, I brought the Robocop-theme and Last Ninja-theme to school, which I recorded on tape from my C64. I asked him to listen to this track I brought because I wanted to prove that even video games have "real music". He really was impressed and said it would content real poetry. Then we started a discussion about the evolvement of music with the whole class and he stated that he might be wrong. He always was open to new things and was ready to learn a lesson himself.

[@rebekahallen975]

That's awesome, plus you picked 2 great tunes.

[@paulmorphy6187]

He sounded like a complete arse

[@TheOnlyToblin]

That was very wholesome to read. :)

[@gustavctresselt6192]

He must have built massive trust with you for you to understand you could challenge him like that. Great story!

[@dash8brj]

One of the best soundtracks in the game :)

[@swinetastic]

The SID chip is freaking timeless :D

[@DaveMcGarry]

Played this to death, would load this level just to hear the chiptune, amazing.

[@dash8brj]

Haha you and me both :)

[@OSH0891]

SID... the best 8-bit music chip in the whole computer history...

[@Emulous79]

It feels like you're on a holy mission. A great journey.

[@DaveMcGarry]

You ARE 🥷

[@dogbadger]

Pick of the bunch this track - pehaps across all the Last Ninja games..

[@sampochin]

This one was so sick it's going on my ringtone now

[@Erik-vp5bm]

Sam Pochin Hah, that is actually exactly why I visited this video right now. :)

[@MarkxUK1]

Very clever in the way it sounds like a lot more than 3 sound channels.

[@Carina_d3a]

This brings back so many memories, so many rage inducings. I loved this game and this song the most. Thanks for the upload.

[@TamasKalman]

this was always epic, and it's still epic, and i guess it will stay epic forever from now on.

[@Meisterqn]

Unbelievable. This song is so great.

[@juomariturmio]

Ben was really in top of his game, first the Wastelands tune and then this.

[@Emulous79]

He was a holy roller :)

[@DaireBoldizsar]

The Best c64 game with the best music! I played horribly alot with that game in my childhood! I never forget these wonderful old times!

[@TheRoklobsta]

When I was a kid I thought this was one of the best C64 tunes going. 23 years later it's my ring tone. Thank God for sidplay (and ripped .sid's).

[@thecappeningchannel515]

Damm these are original sid chips. Mindblowing for its capacity. 🎉

[@Nerub85]

Last Ninja Soundtrack is one of the best ive ever heared.

[@Nerub85]

and the Game was great too

[@DBenX]

Bad Ass tune, I enjoyed it so much, back in the days

[@alalala28]

[@Holodoc76]

Anyone knows this sound nowadays and likes it?

[@PaulCampbell74]

Genius. Simple as that.

[@Nebrox]

Wastelands or Wilderness??? I can't say which one I love more.

[@FabledGentleman]

Both are great and both were composed by Ben Daglish.

[@bbenjoe]

There is no 'or' , only 'and' :)

[@MemeReviewer]

C64 music is fcking amazing, how much I wish they were around today.

[@erikjohansson6589]

0:00 - 0:30 This part literally made me feel like a real ninja.

[@andreasfahlen4936]

Still does 😂

[@PaulCampbell74]

Amazing tune

[@PunkePanda1111]

Geniuses!!!!!!!!!! Have in mind this was the 80th long before the acid tunes become even known!!

[@omnisense5052]

So gritty, yet so smooth... I was a lucky child... I'm a producer today btw. Thanks Sid!

[@waydeburton]

KZbin is weird, it will not let me like this again.....whenever I hear American (bless em) podcasters gush about NES tunes I die a little :)

[@NorseGraphic]

Thanks! This brings back so many memories!!

[@HistoricDefense]

I can't wait to see the incoming HD remake of this map.... but with this very same musing.

[@MrAnon00]

There is some true finesse in this series... Doing so much, with so little. If I remember, there are only 3 sound channels. Mind blowing. Kinda sad that I missed out on games like this... all i knew was nintendo. Ah well...

[@peterrabb7288]

I recommend you watch an oscilloscope vid of these tunes. There are only three channels, but they are used very creatively. There are sometimes four or five "instruments" in the music, for example the "drum" wedged in the bass channel between the tunes, etc. Really mind blowing. LN2-The Mansion is on youtube for sure, but not all Last Ninja music sadly.

[@A360JFuxtier]

the best ever made music !

[@flatcapman]

I thought some of the Jumping scenes were insanely difficult. Going over rivers and swamps was a pain but the lovely music, awesome cutting edge graphics(for c-64 at the time) and a likeable Ninja helped a LOT

[@microfighterz]

This Is Gonna Be My New Ringtone. But I Don't Think My Phone Will Handle The Epicness Of The Last Ninja Games.

[@andyvaisey]

Can't really find anyone to agree with me, but I still swear after 30 odd years that around 1:52 mark (in this video), the ring mod work makes it sound like the music is 'singing' something...

[@PunkePanda1111]

Geniuses!!!!

[@prltqdf9]

If this was my ringtone I'd never want to answer the phone.

[@bomfirit75]

Track 4 is a masterpiece.

[@flatcapman]

now this is serious ninja music NOT THAT CRAP ON THE PALACE GARDENS LOADER

[@tkhushrenada]

interesting. The ninja's weaponry seems to be a lightsabre, a bowling ball, a toy windmill, and two sticks of dynamite. Shogun best watch the f--k out

[@Pervypriest]

This song is made by Ben Daglish:D I like the beging, very unusual utiasation of the sid chip

[@noodleboyn6367]

RIP

[@krisztiankepes4303]

Forever... :-)

[@cyberbehrens]

BEN and ANTHONY are GODS !

[@jglg7238]

0:40 once this kicks in 🙂 0:51 😮

[@Partsigah]

"Artist mind.in.a.box" lol

[@HipHopNobby]

this song with an Beat was nice!

[@Paradr0id1973]

But the joystick controls were so awkward, seriously, i think the only thing that pushed me through from level to level was the awesome music and the beautiful scenery.

[@phoxxlotekk]

@Eliask8s There is a somewhat hard way: Go to the homepage of the High Voltage SID Collection and download the latest HVSC (which features all the game and demo tunes ever made on the C64 - more or less). Get a version of SIDPlay (also linked via the HVSC site). SIDPlay allows you to play the SID tunes but also to save them as WAV files that you can then convert into an MP3. Cheers, Phoxx.

[@evenberg8499]

The Claw.

[@Palpatin2007]

Hammer so Good!

[@The_Real_DCT]

@SethP666 there is going to be a Modern PC Remake of Last Ninja 1 called "Final Ninja"(I think that was the name) with updated graphics and improved controls so hopefully he doesn't fuck with the tunes

[@NickNenov]

very cool

[@flatcapman]

this one sounds more epic. The others too jolly

[@flatcapman]

wow this sounds so catchy it equels Sonic the hedgehog for catchness

[@Eliask8s]

Is there any way to get this in .mp3? or an album soundtrack? I can't seem to find anything other than youtube videos... :/

[@SethP666]

they should make a remake of last ninja, but with the same tunes :)

[@phoxxlotekk]

@Eliask8s I just did what I described before (except for the downloading since I already have it). I have converted Wilderness into an MP3 and put it on SendSpace Go to the SendSpace home page and append file/4zwn5o to the URL of the site

[@MrMLD1972]

♥

[@quadturbo4]

Both tunes are good. PL is one of the better ones, in my opinion.

[@bbenjoe]

I saw some promising pictures of a remake, but I guess the project died.

[@eleet321]

Who else was brought here by 8 bit Kamikaze? What an awesome remix of such a simple tune!

[@bbenjoe]

2 people had been... domesticated.

[@mahloulu]

incredible remix go to soundcloud an search dub-bug/the-last-ninja-the-wildernes

[@kuosinen]

dubstep before there was dubstep

[@prltqdf9]

+Jyri Kaasinen This isn't even close to being dubstep.

[@daniele4172]

Dubstep??????

[@aaabbb-qv4ff]

^^

[@mahloulu]

dub-bug/the-last-ninja-the-wildernes

[@bbenjoe]

!

[@SONIC5119]

serios !!! but please in STEREO

[@tomaszhoff8933]

.

[@wigglespie]

hurrah for wii virtual console this game is still fantastic