The Last Ninja Longplay (C64) [QHD]

[@jimmysidiroglou4689]

This game holds a special place in my heart.

[@baoh7661]

Same 4 me. I loved all system 3 games, like turrican, myth ,tusker..international karate... very nice time.. i completed last ninja,last ninja 2,last ninja remix,last ninja 3.

[@luigimelis8465]

@@baoh7661 turrican is not system 3....

[@baoh7661]

@luigimelis Oppss sorry ,was by Rainbow Arts😅😅😅

[@MeAndTheBoys_]

Best game on c64! No contest! Graphics, music, immersiveness....10/10

[@jimmysidiroglou4689]

Grew up on this as a child, the music score was an instant hook for me. Still love coming back over the years and watching this. Top fave games of all time

[@Matze_Supercomputer]

One Of The BEST C64 Games ever !!!!

[@johnconnor4330]

Lode Runner, Bruce Lee, Accolade Comics, Beech-Head, anything by Epyx .. they're all there my friend .. including this

[@doricdream498]

rest in peace to both composers :(

[@paddyoconnor5362]

The last ninja games will always be close to my heart and in my opinion were ahead of their time. Nothing ever came close to having great game play , graphics and awsome music. In one game ! Even though the controls could be awkward sometimes. Fastloaders do a great live gig of the last ninja music. Was great value for money for a game when you first play it trying to work out what to do. Cool video

[@MegaasAlexandros]

I remember being in high school and a school friend saying how last ninja was easily the best home computer for games and graphics. The example he used to make his point was the last ninja.

[@alimohammedabd]

That loading screen music really takes me back. This and renegade.

[@willproctor7301]

That game, that music. That was a trip for sure. 💖

[@tarron3237]

This game was the first digital love of my life. I was so amazed by the graphics, the music and the overall atmosphere. LN1 & LN2 forever!

[@deepcloudsmusic]

Same here! 🙌

[@C64_and_Amiga_Memories]

Great game back then and still enjoyable today. I had this in the six sizzlers pack (cassette). Music is exceptionally good and quite unusual for any C64 game to have so much of it in one game. RIP Ben Daglish.

[@deepcloudsmusic]

Incredible game! The music on The Dungeons level is a masterpiece. It made that level so mystical and scary.

[@streetmachine8211]

I grew up with Last Ninja. Best game on the C64.

[@AnnasVideoGameReviews]

Great longplay! Thank you for uploading it, and thanks for including all the loading screen music. 😍The Last Ninja was the first game I ever played and therefore super special to me, and watching this was a huuuge nostalgia trip. The music, the level design... simply EPIC!

[@damirko06]

I'm playing this (and part two) from time to time and it's still both: challenging & beautiful 😍

[@mansoor8852]

Hi, how do you play? with which software?

[@damirko06]

@@mansoor8852 vicex on my good old XBOX

[@mythicalduck1116]

Still have the twin-cassette case (with tapes)... Definitely the best of the three in my eyes... and "those" eyes :-)

[@c3zz0]

Never manage to pass "The Wilderness" as a child. I understood I was suppose to get that "invulnerability" spell to pass the spitting fire dragon. But I kept dying trying to traverse the rivers in a rush. The spell wares off after a while. ; _ ; childhood trauma.

[@CarlisleDavid-hb6sc]

My childhood. Thank you

[@Mysticsword]

A good shot of nostalgia seeing and hearing this. I spent many an hour playing this game back in the day on the C64. It was one of my fav games, had quite good graphics (considering the era and that it was on a C64) and awesome music. I usually had trouble with jumping across the rocks or swamp and sometimes the controls felt clunky. Still overall I had much enjoyment with this game.

[@SpearM3064]

I agree. Jumping across the rocks was an issue for me, too. The graphics didn't always line up perfectly with where you needed to jump; I lost count of how many times the ninja drowned because of jumps I _thought_ I could make. Still, it's a good game; they made it work despite the 160x200 resolution (because pixels in multi-color mode were twice as wide). For example, the dungeon was genuinely creepy... rotting wooden doors, torture devices, bones everywhere, rats eating People Chow(tm)... and then that creepy music courtesy of Anthony Lees.

[@foghornleghorn5882]

You forgot about the GIANT spider! and just skeletons, possessed skeletons

[@AE-bm4no]

@@SpearM3064 maybe you guys didn't pick up on the 3 different types of jumps. long, medium, short

[@CrazyBite2007]

To me it looks like this player jumping the black stones is getting some help to not drown every time the player misses a rock. look at the water landing at 23:38...

[@gary72carol61]

Ah the memories, I was not good at this at all. The stepping Stones over the streams always got me. Not once did he T-Bag an enemy!! then again T-Bagging was not born them. Great upload, great music.

[@AL82RetrogamingLongplays]

You can't T-bag in this - the ninja doesn't actually crouch down 😄

[@gary72carol61]

@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays 😉👍

[@lundsweden]

Ah, the memories of killing and mayhem, no just kidding, loved the game, one of the best on the C64, music rocked the SID chip too!

[@arturoaguilar6002]

23:04 River dragon: _Peek-a-boo!_

[@SRDhain]

I couldn't finish this with ease, but i finished last ninja 2 within a week or so of getting it, if i remember correctly (it was a LONG time ago 🤷‍♂️), which i was pleased with. The first one always holds a special place due to its music; two great and sadly late talents, made this game gel together with their melodic masterworks.

[@foghornleghorn5882]

Yeah part 2 was easier

[@MASTERSLY1973]

One of the best games of all time

[@toddhoward5555]

The last ninja on earth... Runs on the streets at high noon on the sunniest day imagineable hitting enemies with a stick. A true master of his craft, and a worthy epilogue for the ninja lineage

[@bernieseitz]

Awesome game of the eighties!

[@NightpireVideos]

sick soundtrack

[@johnnybrealey6940]

Such an awesome game. Wonder why it's never been remade. I remember reading an article a few years ago ( in retro gaming magazine I think) with one of the original system3 guys saying they were going to do a remake on mobile platforms with updated graphics/ quests etc. Would have loved to have seen it 🤔🤔🤔

[@bernardjohnson6322]

Must not be that awesome!

[@scality4309]

They also said there would be a xbox version..

[@swisskristin12]

Gotta love those 5 minute loading screens, great music!

[@foghornleghorn5882]

Hahahha this must have been the tape version I had growing up. You can now download the games patched into cartridge format, no more stage loading if you’re using an emulator or flash cartridge on original hardware

[@pablot-r9402]

Ninja moves included "kick to the groin" and "stab to the groin". I never got to play this game much unfortunately, as my older brother was borrowing it from a friend.

[@Hunsteert]

Those memories 😍

[@DrumInfected]

I remember I used to love this game as a kid and the music was so awesome! I never beat the game though so it's nice to see how this one finally pans out.

[@grzymisawmocowadny6881]

..and i feel 35 years younger.. ❤

[@johnconnor4330]

This game is the reason I became a professional Ninja

[@gamedev2704]

Hilarious 😄

[@kaizerreziak8297]

classic game. loved playing this with my dad on the C64 back in the day.

[@PharoahsKingdom]

Owned this game as a kid and could never get lost the dragon

[@CrazyBite2007]

You must have missed that you needed to cover your body with some extra coating.

[@AIEra-bz2lv]

Anthony and ben, rest in peace.

[@markvickers2607]

Brilliant music on first level. R.I.P Ben Daglish

[@bearsandbulls]

What a game :)

[@dorpth]

Good old C64 load times O_O

[@MartelloClaudio]

A Masterpiece in C64 games

[@prestonparish]

watch at 240p to achieve maximum nostalgia

[@foghornleghorn5882]

This definitely has to be on tape and original hardware. I remember the loading times and the tapes being uncracked. I still have the tape but long gone is my original Commadore 64. I’ve recently gotten back into it since hacking my SNES mini and then getting a Retropie. Some may not be fans of software emulators but I’m just stoked to be playing it again, considering using the virtual keyboard would make the game unplayable, I managed to remap the extra keyboard buttons to the keypad, and only use the virtual keyboard to load and prompt the game and only have to use it to hit run/stop when starting a stage over. So now that I got the better controller I have some nostalgia running with the analogue sticks. I loved playing it as it was back in the day; but after growing up in my teens with an SNES and mastering the joystick, I won’t have it any other way. All the glory and at a low cost, the sound is perfect, graphics are perfect, round off some of those pixels using a bilinear filter, and all the perks of controlling The Ninja on a gamepad I’ve become more accustomed to using, fire button, Dpad, analogue sticks, and keyboard buttons are all there on a wireless pad. Some consider it cheating, or not the same, but its the pad I’m now used to and I can play it slumped back on a sofa. So the game rom is now available patched in .crt format, you can skip right over the loading stages. It’s the only way I could get it working I mever figured out how to use the disc tray in the emulator, was running C64 games for a good year before I got this working. 2 and half years in I still give this game a good speed run at least once a fortnight, best 8-bit game ever, best soundtrack even for today’s standard I’ve recently gotten back into it using a hacked SNES mini and

[@andreas3761]

greatness

[@paulkrueger260]

Yeeeesssssss!!!!!

[@osiriszoran2304]

i rememebr playing this on my brothers 386 computer when i was 6 in 1990

[@sakis-c9x]

One of the best graphics on an 8bit home system...fantastic music but gameplaywise it suffers... lousy controls and very difficult...more a tech demo than a real game...still one of the most important games in the history of the c64.

[@nicktucker3437]

8:34 spent a lot of time on QuantumLink explaining where to throw that bomb from to get past the dragon back in the day.

[@gameworship-orbemediocre1262]

This game was epic!

[@bernardorodriguez1441]

I´m trying to play that game but all d64 images that i have, get crash on the second or third level and I can´t continue playing. Which version are you playing ? . Please help.

[@snozzlehead92]

Everyone complains that flashing items in games is a new trend that makes games too hand-holdish. But The Last Ninja was the OG at doing this decades ago!

[@kzbxvz]

Back then in 1987 and backwards the game makers was so innovative and clever to make absolutely original games with original music and that style holded on until Half Life 2 2004 or so and after that WTF ???

[@MrTedi29]

so great, so difficult...

[@rmfadjar]

Wow, dungeon level is so brutal, just like prince of persia for snes, and chiller for nes and mame😨

[@scality4309]

I finished it with the help of a walktrough. Even then it was very hard. Some parts need to be pixel perfect in order to move on.

[@teshomevaughn4162]

God i was 16

[@icystarrs]

God I was 6^^

[@foghornleghorn5882]

Hahaha I was 6, 9 when I finished it

[@javaly78]

Rented this on the NES back way back when. Wasn’t a fan because it wasn’t arcade ninja action lol. But looking back on this, this could have easily have been remastered for the PS1 using a Resident Evil 1 style with similar controls.

[@DasTarD]

Wasn't it true that some c64 consoles had better music chips, because 46:17 I cannot hear the drums.

[@zaphod2342]

Oh i hated and love this Game so much :)

[@guillotine06]

What effect did the items that made the character flash/turn green actually do?

[@arturoaguilar6002]

Immunity to traps. In level 2 it makes you immune to the fire from the dragon statue. In level 5 it stops the stairs at the end from killing you. In level 6 it stops the bowman statue from shooting its arrow.

[@dcocz3908]

Obviously it can't be the last ninja as there is a sequel for 2 and 3

[@bbenjoe]

The protagonist is the same. The story is something like this: While we stay behind to guard our temple, our clan journeys to a holy island to meeting or pilgrimage. But they're ambushed and killed by the evil shogun, Kunitoki, who also steals the sacred texts. We go after him to avenge our bethren and retrive the scrolls.

[@AE-bm4no]

it is the last ninja, as he is the last one alive, all the others went to a holy pilgrimage and were ambushed and died. He had to stay because at least one ninja had to stay and guard some special weapon in case they would all die.

[@Rhythmicons]

Green eyed ninja, eh?

[@foghornleghorn5882]

Yes, it’s called Ninja Magic, google the PDF instruction manual

[@Rhythmicons]

@@foghornleghorn5882 Looks more like Ninja Gaijin to me.

[@swisskristin12]

Did these games have any story?

[@AL82RetrogamingLongplays]

The shogun Kunitoki invades the island of Lin Fen, murders the entire ninja clan and steals their scrolls of knowledge. You play Armakuni, the last remaining ninja, who must battle Kunitoki's forces and recover the scrolls.

[@foghornleghorn5882]

Yes google the instruction manual PDF scans

[@AE-bm4no]

Yes, as often with 8 bit games, the story is mainly told in the manual.

[@paulkrueger260]

Wow 64k music is better than 2023 pop music

[@johnconnor4330]

#montezumasrevenge

[@rafaellima83]

I didn't have a C64 back then. I had an MSX. From the MSX I went to the Amiga. I heard a lot about The Last Ninja. I played all 3 games available on Amiga, thought they were are all clunky, boring, with questionable design choices, cumbersome combat and really bad controls. I tried the C64 games years later on emulation and my opinion didn't change that much. I know people usually say the C64 games are better and the Amiga coders botched the ports to the 16 bits versions. But I guess it is one of those "You must've been there to be able to enjoy it" cases. Even watching a longplay of it I can't understand what's the fuss is all about.

[@kangarht]

I guess you will never truly understand what impact this game had. Before this games were much more primitive like PacMan or asteroids, the Last Ninja was a huge step towards experiencing a real action adventure. In your mind you are comparing this to amiga and better games, the guys loving it remember when this was the fucking best game they have ever seen in their life.

[@foghornleghorn5882]

It’s because as kids we had very little to do with our time, this game was perfectly designed to give children years to master, and so the gameplay and music resonates with everyone and everyone that played it. (And) Yes, the Amiga versions were hitched/ Try and picture a 7 and 12 year old playing toyether, trying to smoke out the dragon, and actually figure the puzzles out for years on end, and beating all your friends to it! There’s not just finishing it, but mastering it without losing a life or so little as one or two, I’ve been emulating this game on a controller with all the keyboard buttons remapped, and after 2 and a half years I still give beating my last playthrough a go! The music puts you in a trance when you play, so it’s like chilling out to your favourite album, so the game never gets old

[@rafaellima83]

​@@foghornleghorn5882 Like I said, I had an MSX when I was a kid. I know what you're talking about. I've finished Jagur on the MSX when I was a kid, an action RPG which was all in japanese. I figured out puzzles which to this day I think "How the hell I figured that shit out?" and the answer is always that.. "I was a kid with lots of free time" Shit, I played the first Metal Gear in Japanese up until the last screen, when I could get my hands on the english version, so I replayed it again and finished it. But up until the final Metal Gear room, I had figured out the whole game without understanding a single thing of what Big Boss was saying on the radio. I was like trying every item on every room randomly and thus I got the Rocket Launcher... DOING RANDOM STUFF. So, yeah, I know what you mean. I actually got an Amiga when I was around 9 years old, so my days playing the MSX were even earlier than that. And I still think Last Ninja plays really bad, and I wouldn't enjoy it even back at the day.

[@turrican3839]

@@rafaellima83 As a person who definitely wasn't born during the ages of microcomputers, I recently tried Eclipse's (Lethal Xcess) version of Last Ninja on the Amiga, I don't think its actually bad whatsoever, though turning around was a problem and I couldn't figure out how to select certain objects that I later collected, and those platforming segments featuring tree bark in the mudpit were seriously shit though, though it may be because I'm far more adjusted for Isometric games as I enjoy them such as Cool Spot 2