Aside from the fact that the soundtrack is the top notch, what I find the most fascinating about this game is that the music barely gets interrupted by the sound effects playing at the same time, unlike most other NES games.
@EddieSpaghetti692 ай бұрын
That's because of Sunsoft putting in newer DMC chips as well as using their own soundchip, Nintendo had plenty of options besides "Cheap and quick for the masses" but required 10,000 carts bought at a time. The DMC is kind of a routing chip, it doesn't do a ton of math but it helps the other chips "talk" to eachother. the older ones (Mario 1) used one that had about 2 input-outputs at a time meanwhile the later ones started using the DMC and MMC 3; so they had about 8x the speed or "tracks" If you overwhelm the DMC and MMC you get audio errors and lag. Games that have music on the same channel as a "pew" will stop when you pew, with 8x the processing juice you could make something like Strider run *smooth* if it respected that level of power. Sunsoft decided they wanted to have *Thumpin' Tunes* as they already had good programmers whom apparantly didn't require the full suite of power, even Mr. Gimmick runs off about 4x while the rest is dedicated to *Thumpin' Tunes.* Those tunes are powered by the Sunsoft chips; they're like the SuperFX chip except dedicated to audio processing and channel sequencing; including an *extended* array of sounds to pick from as well as *true triangle pitches* instead of the quarter steps normally done on a NES. It was done so well that most of the SNES carts were designed with the intention of taking advantage of the stronger chips. The "extended" set of sounds became part of what we have today for chiptune music. TL:DR? *Sunsoft used magic chips.*
@valdemarkoks907116 күн бұрын
And another very important point is that this is probably the only game on the NES where the music track lasted for 3 minutes! It was on the 2nd level of the game. A masterpiece.
@JohnnyCasey16 күн бұрын
@@valdemarkoks9071 Platoon on NES also has lengthy soundtracks, although that game is a port of a C64 game.
@ThatRedHusky8 ай бұрын
Naoki Kodaka man, whata composer. He also composed Batman for the NES and we all know how banger of an OST that game has.
@danalong12378 ай бұрын
What’s your favorite Naoki Kodaka soundtrack?
@autotech858 ай бұрын
Gremlins 2 and Blaster master also has very good OST 👍😊
@danalong12378 ай бұрын
Kodaka also composed the soundtrack to Freedom Force and Spy Hunter for the NES.
@yt-sh8 ай бұрын
this game visual also reminded me of batman also pretty futuristic like tron edit: Both games were made by SunSoft within a year
@lappeduddel6 ай бұрын
Guys when you write naoki kodaka must right writing it's professor naoki kodaka 😊😊😊😊😊😊
@NintendoComplete8 ай бұрын
Journey to Silius sits among the best of the best of the NES's library. What a phenomenal game.
@damianjuarez39918 ай бұрын
Hola que bueno juego
@Dorian_Scott8 ай бұрын
It's one of the best run & gunners I've ever played. And that soundtrack...👌
@MurseSamson8 ай бұрын
I've never played it, but the gameplay and music seem amazing. Can't wait to watch this after work
@BigBigSack8 ай бұрын
Interesting. Can you qualify "among?"🙂 Is that top 30? Top 50?
@christopherthibeault75028 ай бұрын
Also kind of short. Does look amazing, though. Did you know about the backwards bytes of the actual BGM code? I think the Behind the Code series by the Displaced Gamers KZbin channel brought that up.
@yusakug8 ай бұрын
The story behind the Terminator license is that originally Sunsoft wanted to do a Dragon’s Lair like game made up of quick time scenes recreating the movie on the NES. You can find a video here on KZbin displaying that version. However, the team ran out of memory on the cartridge. They then tried a new version, which was a side scrolling shooter that would become this game. When they showed it to the license holder, they didn’t like it, as they felt it deviated too much from the film. So, they lost the license, and Sunsoft changed it to this game.
@stolaire8 ай бұрын
This game predicted Terminator Salvation: laboratory, some foundry at final, pistol-looking grenade launcher
@dstarr38 ай бұрын
Link to the video?
@elijahvincent9857 ай бұрын
You can hear hints of the original Terminator theme in the opening cutscene. 'DUN-DUN-DUN-DUN DUN.'
@darvindillon85255 ай бұрын
The first stage looks exactly what you expect Los Angeles 2029 would look like before Reese goes back to 1984.
@JuraIbis8 ай бұрын
Ah yes a good 1.44MB high density floppy disk filled with all kinds of national secrets
@NintendoComplete7 ай бұрын
But from the perspective of someone whose entire existence fits into a 256K rom chip... 😂
@StrokedGTАй бұрын
Do you realize how much 1.44mb could hold in documents and text files? Quite a bit
@sumit92artist11 күн бұрын
As someone who has used a Floppy disk in childhood, that is enough storage to hold national secret of 10 nations.
@TheVampirePredator3 ай бұрын
I love how Sunsoft had their stock sound fx which made you realize you were playing a Sunsoft game. From Blaster Master to Batman to Fester’s Quest to this.
@JFJD8 ай бұрын
Thanks for letting the entire intro music play out as always, although for something that banging you’d think there’d at least be a gameplay demo or some expository text-and I know it was originally meant to be a Terminator game, but still.
@rcblazer8 ай бұрын
Considering this game is way better than the NES games that actually used the Terminator license, it proves that Sunsoft never needed it to begin with. This game would be worth playing for the soundtrack alone!
@Dorian_Scott8 ай бұрын
I adore Naoki Kodaka's work on both the NES and Genesis. He truly had the Midas Touch.
@jameswilkinson2595 ай бұрын
I remember playing this on the NES when I was a kid. The music impressed me.
@zipperkirbo6 ай бұрын
I love how you sit on the title screen for a little over a minute just to let the song play lmao This game's ost is just absolutely phenomenal so i totally get it
@AndyGoth1118 ай бұрын
Sunsoft soundtracks are always such fire
@SomeOrangeCat8 ай бұрын
You can still see some shades of The Terminator license in some of the enemy designs. The first and second bosses were obviously originally meant to be air and ground type HKs.
@darvindillon85255 ай бұрын
And 7:58 those are clearly not T-800 terminators 😅
@SomeOrangeCat5 ай бұрын
@@darvindillon8525 Its literally a great Terminator game in disguise as a different game.
@VahanNisanian8 ай бұрын
Apparently, the Akai S700 was the source of the Sunsoft Bass Sample. It sure would be a dream to see all these Sunsoft NES tunes restored. I've seen countless of SNES tunes restored.
@ronway72808 ай бұрын
JFC this soundtrack is the best of all time!!!
@supmattboy8 ай бұрын
I think it's a good thing this game didn't get the Terminator licence back then. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been released on Nintendo Switch Online later.
@mariusamber32378 ай бұрын
Great OST, one of the best on the system; the game itself can be rather raf in terms of difficulty in a few stages. Overall, it's still a solid game by Sunsoft, possibly in their best era too.
@NintendoComplete8 ай бұрын
Yeah, it can be pretty [rʌf] at times, but once you memorize the levels and when to lead your shots ahead of the screen scroll, it gets much easier.
@xxHUNGRY4THETRUTHxx8 ай бұрын
A would've been Termsinator based game. Just as soon as T2 Judgement Day was green lit for production SunSoft had the license pulled. Still one of my favorites with or without the Terminator branding.
@TheDutchGhost8 ай бұрын
Ah that is interesting to hear. So that is how the company lost the license. Seeing how well it is received as its own gamer it would have been better received as a Terminator game, especially compared to the Terminator 1 game that was later released on the NES. I do hope that the mech enemies would have resembled the Hunter Killers from Terminator more had the game remained a Terminator game.
@danalong12378 ай бұрын
Eventually, The Terminator games WOULD make their way to the NES, but they would be in the hands of LJN (for Terminator 2: Judgment Day) and Mindscape (for The Terminator)!
@darvindillon85255 ай бұрын
What a waste too. This could have broken the stereotype of crappy movie tie-in games.
@Tell_It_Right7 ай бұрын
The greatest opening scene music and story set up in any NES game, ever....
@magoid8 ай бұрын
That soundtrack man. To me, Sunsoft's best work and a strong contender for the best overall on the NES.
@rinzler462 ай бұрын
Was a classic game. My rich cousin gave me his "throwaway" games circa 91-93 timeframe. This was one of them along with Dirty Harry
@JamesWilliams-fj8vf5 ай бұрын
JOURNEY TO SILIUS is very UNDERRATED but still one of my FAVORITE VIDEO GAMES games 🎮 🕹 of ALL time
@maxacorn2 ай бұрын
it is a crime how disgustingly great the soundtrack to this game is. i'd go so far as to say its the best OST on the NES. period.
@canalplaybox4 ай бұрын
What a great soundtrack, I played this in 1991
@az_esteemed8 ай бұрын
The first time I had the pleasure of playing this game, it just blew my mind. Every aspect of it is rather outstanding, Terminator license or not. (And just for continuity, I call the main protagonist Kyle instead of Jay. The resemblance is sort of there). But outside of those details, top-notch production from start to finish. Kodaka's banger OST is just the cherry on top.
@AbeKenney5 күн бұрын
I really sucked at this even on an emulator, it’s fun to see so smoothly played.
@wskylar212 ай бұрын
The first lvl music will forever have a place in my heart for being an absolute banger! On another more weirder note, as a kid I thought the last lvl when the screen was moving that the stuff in the pools was some kind of deadly cheese 😆
@tellis3134 ай бұрын
This has got to be the best soundtrack I ever heard
@johnmj89schannel475 ай бұрын
Nice gameplay you've put in the work I had this game when I was a kid idk remember if I have beaten it yet but brings back memories from that time
@supermodestmouse4 ай бұрын
man...this game takes me back
@MurseSamson8 ай бұрын
The music and sound data in this game must take up half the ROM! 😂 I've heard some awesome memorable tracks on the NES before, but never this lengthy and complex. 🎶🎧 That's insane. Game is also pretty damn awesome 😅 Wow, what a gem I missed out on! 💎
@WOOTcoreyАй бұрын
I think the story the OG terminator plot was going for was that humans were abandoning earth, space being their only refuge. So you run and gun your way through starnet's armies, into the factory to steal a ship. After securing it, they send a vessel armed with a terminator to destroy the spaceborn vessel. That's my best guess anyway.
@Jikangire9577 ай бұрын
All I can hear throughout this entire playthrough is all the sound effects from Blaster Master! lol
@mnemonichotpocket8 ай бұрын
Aw yeah, that's the stuff.
@DeadRaymanWalking19 күн бұрын
Love that title screen theme song!
@darkerfalcon37478 ай бұрын
There's a romhack that restore Journey to Silius into The Terminator.
@ironsoul803 ай бұрын
Post a video
@unLuckyFetus7 ай бұрын
Hardest fkn intro 🎶🎼🎹 nice run
@nicolasmcossioify8 ай бұрын
That would be a Combination of Many Games. Megaman, Contra, Batman, Blaster Master
@krystalfan8 ай бұрын
there exists a rom hack (or possibly the prototype) showing how this game would of been as originally intended if it still had the terminator license regardless this is a great late title nes game
@christianboyce20704 ай бұрын
I love the Music, they’re awesome!
@jamisondonald3848 ай бұрын
Hey, big ole words was just streaming this last night
@JOYSTICKGAMES101Ай бұрын
THE ENDING MUSIC WAS THE BEST
@kascnef7 ай бұрын
Graphics are amazing
@kvato-i3v6 ай бұрын
Я проходил эту игру в детстве но скажу ты играешь в неё просто отлично)
@paulrr57117 ай бұрын
Damn, are you using a turbo controller? Those regular hand gun bullets looks like r the machine gun!
@DoktorWoron7 ай бұрын
2:30 epic tune
@adamb894 ай бұрын
17:27 Just a totally flawless run, then BLAOW prone on the bone. It's like out of nowhere ya got your junk wedged between the plastic seat and porcelain rim whne you went to do that doo that you do so well.
@spoonshiro8 ай бұрын
Not quite a Terminator but a damn good title regardless!
@lnarelwenress13058 ай бұрын
extreme cool
@valdemarkoks907116 күн бұрын
masterpiece!
@SNAAAAAAAKE6 ай бұрын
Classic NES ending😄
@stolaire8 ай бұрын
17:26 Death Machine (1994) reference
@alexandarjelenic28805 ай бұрын
I hear festers quest sound effect.
@ChristineMason872 ай бұрын
Why is this game so short?😢
@Marvel_Polaris8 ай бұрын
Very🆒🎶
@cedrickbertolla13917 ай бұрын
C est du sunsoft la musique excellente
@Phishkisses3 ай бұрын
ALOT of Festers Quest reused sound effects
@uzziel5242 ай бұрын
The ending is confusing
@sylasDC5 ай бұрын
Are you sure it's not spelled sylas
@cedrickbertolla13917 ай бұрын
Comme batman
@gameRed19857 ай бұрын
.
@jakebello79886 ай бұрын
Shame the PS1 version absolutely butchered the soundtrack.
@therealseanw.stewart20718 ай бұрын
Ah, yes, that Terminator game that ended up being retooled into its own IP. It's another Sunsoft classic, complete with their signature instruments in the wonderful soundtrack. As I've been re-playing the Blaster Master Zeros, the music had a deliberately similar sound there that was meant as a throwback to Sunsoft's NES titles, so I was just reminded of where that soundfont came from.