The Last Ninja Longplay (C64) [50 FPS]

[@Fastbikkel]

I remember playing this on boring sunday afternoons during the 80's. In the Netherlands all shops would be closed on sundays and as a kid i found it the most boring day of the week, especially if i had to go with my parents somewhere. I had a lot of time to myself as well and i would often play on my good ol' C64 and use the power adapter as a heater for my feet. The C64 was legendary in my opinion. I had so many games i could never play them all. Last ninja i did play and i finished it.

[@lordevyl8317]

Rest in Peace Ben Daglish

[@SonganDrakensang]

its so sadly :(

[@acidzebra]

This game has legendary status, and for graphics, music, and sheer atmosphere it's well-deserved. At the time it was simply mind-blowing how far they managed to push the by then ~5 year old C64. That said, I always found the gameplay itself to be a bit frustrating - the jumping sequences were extremely unforgiving and often failed to graphically properly convey 'safe ground', the puzzles and items needed were sometimes pretty vague, and the fighting is ultimately pretty boring. Maybe a proper block function and AI would have made it interesting. But all that didn't matter because it looked so bloody amazing. And the music. So good. Also ninjas, which were huge at the time.

[@Recon777x]

Man, I played this back in high school on my C64. I remember thinking this game was so amazing. The music in "The Dungeons" was chilling. Looking at this video, it's hard to believe I was so captivated by something with such repetitive and simplistic gameplay. But in the 80's it was leagues ahead of even more simple arcade games.

[@mnxnm]

That music and memories... This game was reason why i studied SID parameters deeply, and learned what is ring modulator, which music in this game heavy use :D

[@HowlingMad86]

That was so amzaing graphics back then. This was one of my first games. Damn, i feel old.

[@FuzFuz]

One of the best game soundtracks of all times.

[@bbenjoe]

I can't wait to see the offical remastered version.

[@paulnick826]

You play very well :-) It's a long time ago, when I last played Last Ninja on the C 64.

[@chunk1978]

THe music is dope AF

[@AL82RetrogamingLongplays]

You got as far as the dragon?! I couldn't get passed those effing stepping stones in the river, or the swamp...I bet that call to System 3 was a premium rate number too ;D

[@joelrivera551]

I love that waterfall animation

[@rosemarysbabydarksouls383]

❤️The C64 Dark Souls... What a great game, so much memorys... thx❤️

[@towerbridge04]

I won't wax lyrical since that's tantamount to stating the Beatles wrote good music! Back in the day I initially struggled to complete level 1 and rang System 3. The lady said, "You need to throw the smoke bomb at the dragon" before I'd explained anything. Clearly I wasn't the only caller with this problem! It was plain sailing after that...

[@MegaasAlexandros]

Lol at the lady story. Don't know how we did it without walk throughs in the 80s !!

[@SonganDrakensang]

I completed all levels, without losing energy.. hehe (i played it 25-30x), and i needed about 10 months to complete it the first time (about 6 months in lv1, because of the dragon, was the hardest riddle for me, hehe)...

[@Fastbikkel]

The dragon certainly was an obstacle for most us :-)

[@KennethNordin]

One of the best games ever

[@SonganDrakensang]

It was my first original game for the c64... (second: Dragons Lair 1, third: Spooks).. I bought all System3 games...

[@Daud76]

I loved this game and music as I do now. Just always been curious as to why his eyes keep changing colour....

[@martinmeeser8312]

I even remember there were two different jumps and how to move the joystick to perform those jumps!

[@luxbeci2]

This is i have first game in cassette only first level , because floppy disc drive very expensive. I very like this game

[@macisteprivat8417]

Tolles Spiel - wir mussten den einzigen Joystick mehrfach reparieren.

[@Michael-Eklund]

The Palace music :)

[@lundsweden]

I'm really curious about that sound that starts this track? What is it? It sounds bell-like but of course was made with the SID chip. I am trying to emulate this sound using the iPad app SID Tracker. I have managed to emulate the other sounds of the game pretty well, but am stuck on this. I think its some kind of square wave, possibly ring modulated, with some resonace in the filter.

[@thomassmart4088]

good old bamboo :)

[@Daud76]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/l6fclWx_i9KMg7M You can thank me later.... 🤭

[@hashimotokobayashi2244]

This game da kulest

[@spirits-menthol]

なるほど、忍者龍剣伝はコレをインスパイアしたのか。

[@alessandromarani6523]

I am a simple TLN game on the c64: the key objects are Hi-Res.

[@DragonPop64]

They could of made a great survival horror themed game in this style on C64

[@wandererkenshin7557]

What was it called.

[@johnny5805]

That constant overly loud music and zero SFX would drive me nuts.

[@Achloryn]

This was such a great game, but MAN were the controls janky as hell. such great memories though.

[@bbenjoe]

13:36 la la la .... eeeeeeeeeeekkkkkkkk!

[@tivulandia]

masterpiece!