Rastan - World Record Speedrun -

[@DarthEquus]

Well done. You've crushed your enemies, saw them driven before you, and made us hear the lamentation of their women.

[@mukankakuna]

hehe, best comment ever.

[@jeffjacob5479]

Stole that from Conan the Barbarian. Doesn't fit for this game.

[@jeffjacob5479]

@@Mr.Conley_ who tf asked you?

[@xylsky1300]

Lmao 🤣🤣 I just watched this movie for the first time a week ago

[@leiwolf27]

Praise be to Crom

[@blackbetta]

In just over 15 minutes Rastan killed two evil wizards, an Amazon, an evil knight, a hydra, and a dragon, not to mention countless minions. What did you do today?

[@HeartBDoctor]

How dd Rastan kill the dragon, at the end, so quickly? That did not take many hits.

[@ferx.tattoo]

i got an c- at my math test. suck it, rastan

[@capobilotti]

Today ... I watched a video of Rastan just doing what you described.

[@steveyuhas9278]

I cooked oatmeal... With bananas though

[@stephenparallox]

@@HeartBDoctor He had the ring, which is an attack speed boost.

[@freakboynv2000]

rastan had the best music

[@mukankakuna]

Great music indeed.

[@pietjebel9130]

I fully agree

[@zborgerd]

It's so hard to believe that this game was from 1987. Truly cutting-edge. There was a time when Taito were unstoppable! The music never seems to get old. I love Taito and Zuntata! This game really deserved a Genesis Megadrive port, which it never got. Would have been the best home conversion outside of Taito Legends. As a kid, I used to find this game challenging, but pretty much owned it in my later years.

[@Mattblaze1477]

Sega Genesis did come out with Rastan Saga 2 from Taito but it wasn't very good.. Agree I would have loved a Genesis port of the original. Nowadays I play the original port of Rastan on my Taito Legends game for PS2.

[@beng4151]

This game takes me back to arcades when I was younger! I don't think I saw anyone make it past the first stage. Most of the time, they never made it to the boss. A tough game!

[@plastique45]

You are a brave youtuber to have uploaded such a difficult video.

[@dexocube]

Incredible run bro. Anybody who has played the game knows how insane an achievement this is.

[@mukankakuna]

Thank you very much. I spent a whole summer to get it. It was a very tiring task to the point that I have never done anything like it again (and I don't have any desire to do it).

[@freshair3865]

this game should be at the hall of fame along with an oscar ... best of best !!

[@alimohammedabd]

The music in this game is brilliant. Brings back a lot of memories. We don't have hardly any arcades in Ireland anymore. It's a shame.

[@kevinlawrence4812]

Never realized that Rastan traveled so far and wide. I loved the stage that had lightning and thunder effects.

[@ynamaxa]

One of best arcade music .Ahead of it's time

[@marcryptic]

Awesome. I played this game a lot at Round Table Pizza when I was 8 or 9 and found it so frustrating that I was so pumped when I finally made it to stage 2. Never made it past that though. Always thought the graphics seemed bad ass for the time.

[@jimneegs3887]

Yup, I played this game every time I went to shakeys as a kid, and never could get through the first level, always died in the water!

[@mikesanborn4541]

This was such a catharsis after so many quarters lost in the machine at Steven's pizza.

[@RazorfaceYT]

Great job and amazing skill! This is one of the most difficult games I've played due to it's limited number of continues. Best arcade soundtrack ever imo. I just beat this game for the first time, but it took me closer to 4 hours LOL

[@stewiedarkinvisibleid]

Wow, amazing playthrough of my favorite arcade game of it's time! I remember only ever getting to maybe level six, so it was great fun to actually see the ending! Much thanks!

[@patrickbarnes2686]

I remember this game as a kid loved it

[@armandoortiz9114]

You are a brave fighter to have cleared such a difficult game

[@darealsaneasylum]

I remember this game would get so darn loud at the arcade.

[@ToniusPlays]

I really love this music, I would love to see a remaster or remake of this game.

[@alexgriffin3959]

I remember being wowed by this in the arcade. Best music and sound effects ever!

[@edroseptic9442]

I used to really love this game for some reason in arcades the graphics were great fir the time and the music is quite awesome. Underrated classic

[@leesmith1171]

Well done!! I've beat this game before but only after the fact I might add a few times, that dieing on the last level sends you back regardless! I have since learned this is not the only game to employ that tactic. If I was low on lives I'd get a continue screen on purpose with the level 5 boss to increase my chances, and thus it was beaten!! Good stuff man! Well done.

[@peterbeky8272]

You made a difficult game look easy, well done 👏👏

[@mr.macias3878]

One of my favorite games of all time.

[@williamsixx9082]

In the 80s i played at this game near my home at the bar ....Arcade Games are Legends and we lived in that era. ❤️👊

[@GnJs6PackTraining]

Haven't beaten this game with one credit. Legend run. Made it look easy, as someone who's played this a lot. I know this was very very difficult. I've only gotten to level three without dying.

[@chriswray403]

I remember drawing a small crowd in the 80s for my Rastan skills - I was never this good!!!

[@mukankakuna]

Back then I should be part of that crowd. I loved this arcade but was to difficult for me and my coins didn't last too much so instead of play it for myself I just watched others gameplays.

[@jabrowski_]

amazing run. liked and subbed. the time you got is very demonic, i love it.

[@frostgreen5527]

Thanks for the game play, I was too young to play it when it was out 9 , but I still remember everyone gathering to play that game.

[@mukankakuna]

Thanks for the comment. By the way, at that time I never could finish it.

[@klaudynajankowska6092]

I knew you were a great player, After a few seconds 😁 The way to get the fire sword in the first level said it The way to get the fire sword in the first level said it all 😁You did great in level 4 with e-jumping igniks in the castle 😁 Everything turned out great for you 👍 I'm also smashing this game 👍 Great time 👍👍💪💪💪💪🍺🍺

[@mukankakuna]

You can get a pretty good sense of a player's skill level right from the start of the game. If they can take out the first two enemies with a single sword strike, it's clear they're not a beginner. The game is incredibly challenging (especially if you're attempting a speedrun). This run took me an eternity to complete, and as I often say, it's my greatest gaming accomplishment to date, though I have no desire to tackle anything that difficult again. Thanks a lot for the comment and for appreciating the run!

[@jasonbarnes7281]

As some one who has completed a no deaths run of this game, I admire this speedrun. Even though, my brother describes it as a "no fucks given" run. I wonder how many times you had to start over because the fickle RNG of this game caused one of the full health items not to drop.

[@mukankakuna]

Thanks for your comment. I realy appreciate it coming from someone who has completed the game with no deaths. This video doesn't reflect the truly difficulty of this gameplay. It was hard as hell. No other gameplay that i made can match this one... by far. I believe I spent around 2000 hours before getting the run. And, when I finished, I was so exhausted that I didn't wanted to play any other hard game in a long, long time. About the missing full health, you must be refering the one in the phase 5. A lion should drop it but for some reason he doesn't do it. Luckily I managed to not die. By the way, I did some fun facts about Rastan in the spanish version (another video with the same run but in spanish). Anyway, one of them, the rarest of them all, concerns the final boss. In this run he has three times more life than it should. A very rare bug.

[@graysight]

well, if you think how games are programed, maybe could not a bug at all, maybe randomness was not so common those days, but I remember people used to say this and other games like operation wolf got harder over the day when poeple played them a lot, so usualy they asked the arcade owner to reset the machines

[@paul.9828]

@@mukankakuna 2000 hours?! That is quite the dedication.

[@nvincenti]

An epic gameplay for an epic game!

[@mukankakuna]

Nicolo' Vincenti A great game indeed. Thanks for the comment.

[@nvincenti]

mukankakuna you're welcome 😊

[@melvinvasquez8518]

lol, that was great, it use to take me like $5 USD just to make it to the 3rd level!

[@mukankakuna]

+Melvin Vasquez If I remember well, by then I couldn't even reach to the third level. Thanks for the comment.

[@melvinvasquez8518]

+Star Child lol that's going back, the infamous Cob

[@melvinvasquez8518]

+Star Child I hear you. These games made the pizza joints the place to be. So many great side scrollers back then. Rastan and Shinobi had running back like a fiend lol.

[@melvinvasquez8518]

Yes I remember the great arcade era. How fortunate were we. I was one of those noobs, lol. Trash talk never got to me. The endless row of quarters lined up on the cabinet usually got me. Waiting like 20 mins to play Street Fighter 2 just to get schooled in in a 30 second match lol. I remember being all confident because I was the champ in my hood, not so much in the main arcades lol. I still play NBA JAM, Street fighter, or any games with the 90's appeal online. Hit me up if ya interested in getting some vintage gaming whether it's versus or coop.

[@Macrosac]

That music just transports me back in time.

[@koreancardboard]

Love this game, and yes, the music. I remember there was a Rastan arcade game at the bowling alley I played league in.

[@angeleyes79gs]

Omg I spent hours playing this game at the arcades...Please my childhood back.

[@gamemonguers298]

Felicidades pedazo de vídeo y de récord, con el número de la burra ahí y todo xD. Y ahí que se va el tio melena al viento sin agujetas ni ná.

[@mukankakuna]

Muchas gracias. Sobre el número de marras no me quiero enrollar pero para hacer la partida tuve que hacer un cierto pacto, con una cierta entidad, a cambio de ciertas cosas... en fin, te puedes imaginar el resto XD.

[@gamemonguers298]

Mientras te dejara el culo de origen... xD

[@vannavanity1195]

Perfect 80s ancient trog caveman aesthetics! Conan the Barbarian, Beast Master, and the Ultimate Warrior all reflect this archetype. My brother used to play Rastan so I just watched and it took me an afternoon to find out the name of that video game. Wild!!

[@drmathias]

Awesome game, thanks for posting. I don't think I ever cleared round 1!

[@marcdedouvan]

BEAST! I played at release in my youth and never reached the third stage! This game is very difficult (you got to be very acurate and fast) and beautiful too for the epoch (with lot of nice concepts of playing for realism)! A D&D masterpiece like Cadash. For more 3d games in that action spirit, prefer Severance blade of Darkness, to Morowind series (which is more role playing game).

[@jeremyjamison8832]

Wow, I have this in my multicade, your a true master!

[@mukankakuna]

Thanks for the comment!

[@jean-pierrefernandez2460]

mastery, this game is not easy

[@seanwilkinson3975]

Rastan beats up Conan and takes his lunch money. That was an epic run!

[@mukankakuna]

Sean Wilkinson Hehe, to much time in the Wheel of Pain for Conan.

[@retroforce6919]

GG... that was a great run. 😉👍

[@ocguy9658]

Remeber playing this game in the Knott's Berry farm arcade in the mid/late eighties. Later got it for the Sega Master System... Was a pretty good conversion on a home system for the day!

[@pale6652]

I like the spiderman with four arms. in fact, all the enemies are done very well, in both rastan and volgarr

[@xXHerrZockXx]

This must be what crazy viking had in mind whilst creating Völgarr!😃❤️

[@matthewqueensen9201]

Nice. When i was young me and my friend spent alot of free time in the summer only playing this game just to get to a point to beat it without dying so I can only imagine how many hours went into this..

[@magnuswootton6181]

Jumping up the ropes you can actually kill the bats by jumping your sword into them upward. Oh, and I never knew! you could jump on the pipe holes in the castle!!!

[@UBCForce]

Great game and awesome timing

[@stephencurry5728]

The game exceeds several titles of the year 90/2000/2020

[@rhaul666]

Enhorabuena por ese record.

[@mukankakuna]

Muchas gracias.

[@CanDoCarl]

I close my eyes and listen to this and I remember the corner drug store that this game was at.

[@SandroSensei]

I have the game via Hamster Arcade on the ps4. I have a question. In stage 6 when you die you get immidiately game over and send back to stage one. I played the japanese version. Is this normal? Does the US version have this also?

[@mukankakuna]

That's correct, the game doesn't allow you to continue to the final stage no matter how many "coins" you insert. The final stage must be completed in one go, without dying. If you die in that stage, you have to start over from the beginning of the game. I believe this is the case in all versions.

[@SandroSensei]

@@mukankakuna ah oke, thank you for the reply. I need to be better.

[@Triumverent]

I'ma cry foul! Not on you @mukankakuna, but on the arcade version of the game I put my life savings into back in the day. The fire sword NEVER lasted that long, hits to Rastan would take far more off per strike, and those damned bats in the castle would come at me balls-out when the music got all tense.

[@echelon2k8]

That would mean that you were playing on a higher difficulty setting in your arcade than what is being played here. Remember, they were out to get your life savings back in the day.

[@dexter1981]

"you are a brave fighter to have cleared such a difficult stage" game said this after the FIRST stage.

[@CHARMING_PLAYBOY_007]

Thank you a whole bunch!:)

[@MrFredd38]

Nice! I never even made it inside the castle. I was very young when I played this on the arcade.

[@Sandler23]

I remember playing this game on the BC Ferries when I was a kid. Probably Queen of Vancouver.

[@luisespinozazuloaga2389]

Love the music! Great video.

[@pietjebel9130]

Arcade games of the 80s / and 90s just RULE!!!!

[@silent.revolution2168]

What is best in life, Rastan!

[@rpgking85]

sounds of my childhood :D

[@bookergrimm]

I did this game without dying too. Keep moving forward and don't miss a jump.

[@mukankakuna]

That's the way. The game push you to don't stop, to go always forward. By the way, congratulations!

[@alessia__1993]

Awesome 80's 😍 love the music

[@mr.pavone9719]

I wonder if the devs ever intended the game to be played this way? Just barrel straight ahead, never hunt for powerups, hey, skip them if you find them and don't worry about a high score. We've been playing arcade games wrong for as long as they've been a thing.

[@HellifIknow88]

Jesus. This game is hard as hell. Made it look easy.

[@かぶちゃん-z7k]

ラスタンサーガとか懐かしいですねぇ。タイトーも今じゃあスクエニの傘下になってしまったけど、この頃は結構面白いゲームをいっぱい出していたけどねぇ。レインボーアイランドとかバブルボブルとかね。

[@NDSGAMESOFICIAL]

The best world .... congratulations

[@TheSalsaKing23]

Never got passed the 2nd stage but the music was awesome.

[@stephencurry5728]

The record without dying is 16,56,666 sixteen seconds, fifty and six decimal with sixty six sixty seimas

[@__ZANE__]

16:58 dragon flame on your body, but no health is taken....why is that?

[@mukankakuna]

That was a huge scare. This is a very, very rare bug. In fact is the rarest I found througt all my gameplays. Normally the dragon die with 5 hits, but, some how, in this particular play, it took me 10 hits. And no only that, as you point out, the dragon's fire did not hit me. In short, this damm dragon almost kill me (in the real world), hehe. By the way, this bug cost me some precious seconds. PS Congrats, you are the first one to comment it.

[@__ZANE__]

@mukankakuna Thank you! :-D

[@BookerGrimm1]

My favourite game back in the day. I can complete it without dying too. Bosses are easy if you have the axe and the speed ring. Never stop moving on the levels, time the jumps and you'll be fine! Just practice.

[@mukankakuna]

Crom is pleased with yours tips.

[@dougdiamond5774]

Maybe it's because I was always a huge Conan fan, but I always loved this game. The bosses could have definitely been more challenging though.

[@danilocaponera]

Great! To think that I never even finished the first stage.

[@Canuckster1169]

dat music

[@BlackieNuff]

16 minutes and 56.... point SIX-SIX-SIX seconds!

[@MikeDolanFliss]

Looks strikingly similar to SNES ActRaiser...with Genesis Chakan feel (and sounds!)

[@Valduria]

1:56 Green ass dude is like, "Dangit, maybe if I randomly climb this chain it will help somehow..." DIES.

[@mbcoll8154]

The flying demon guy is always like "Ok, I got him right here. Wait he's goin right under. There he goes. Ok you guys got him. I'm out. GL."

[@apap1586]

How does this not make it onto a Sega Genesis or a Super Nintendo had to wait all the way up to PS2 to get a Arcade perfect port.

[@mukankakuna]

Now that you mention it, it's a shame it didn't come out in the 16 Bits consoles. You would have had a conversion very close to the arcade. The 8 Bit versions fall short.

[@Cormano980]

Incredible enemy variety, most modern games just rehash your four enemy types all over

[@bellym1251]

how am i only now noticing the Argonath statues in the background of the first level?

[@ReneArce-zo3fe]

The battles I had playing this game... And the battle is against the other people wanting to play this game...lol

[@Barbarianbrotha]

The best score in an arcade ever. It makes you want to Eat Thunder and Spit Lightning😂

[@kenroc546]

The manliest game ever.

[@queballaus]

makes me realize how much stuff was cut out of the sega version. :(

[@mukankakuna]

__queball__ They share the name but the gameplay is quite different. They are in fact, different games. At the end, It was a wise move or at least better than try to get a perfect arcade conversion in a less powerful hardware. By the way, Taito did himself the conversions to SMS and MSX and both of them are similar.

[@tonylee8784]

I nearly chucked my joystick through the telly trying to copy you're vid. It's worse than robocop. At least with that one you just keep playing on and don't have to start half the leval again lol.

[@lepterfirefall]

Nice to watch but tons of suspect collisions with no damage.

[@mukankakuna]

Tons of hours, literally thousands, to achieve those "suspect" collisions with no damage.

[@lepterfirefall]

@@mukankakuna I've played this game tons too. Damage is damage. You cannot walk straight through enemies (3.44 and 8.50)...walk directly through blue flames (13.33 and 14.44)....sit in dragon fire (16.59)......... so many times in one run and received no damage and claim glitches...that's my claim of suspicion. Still enjoyed watching and you obviously have alot of skill.

[@mukankakuna]

@@lepterfirefall From time to time I get this kind of message and I don't want to argue to much but here I go again... About the female warrior don't touch her sword. The sword have the impact box. About the final boss flames. Here you are totally rigt. The flames are hitting me but they are not damaging me... that's a very, very rare bug! I played thousand of times and this is the very first, and last time, it came across. Never happened again. But if you think I got lucky you are mistaken. The bug have another part. The Dragon have more life (much more). Instead of diyng with 4 strikes, with the axe, I needed to hit him 10 times! So, in fact, the bug cost me around 1-2 seconds. In short, I had very bad luck, but this was "the one", this was the finest playsthough I could get. By the way, go and check the description box for more info. There you have a link to a video in with I do a comentary (in spanish) of this very playthrough and also you can watch me playing it "live" (it was time ago) because I recorded my self while I was doing it.

[@mukankakuna]

@@lepterfirefall And about the blue flames these must be the easiest- most consistent trick to do. Try it for yourself using this video as reference.

[@lepterfirefall]

@@mukankakuna fair enough mate...I'm not arguing, just querying wierd stuff. Do love the game. I built a bartop just so I could replay this and a handful of games.

[@mattferrerisLA]

Why do people jump over blue stuff

[@Jamesamong007]

I wish Rastan 2 was as good as this one.

[@RyderKnightly]

this music is my favourite ever. they should steal it for all the best warrior side scroll adventures like Black Dragon (Tiger)

[@tim_nj_devil176]

1:56 [enemy] OH! Fuck this! I am outta here! [Rastan] No you're not!

[@benjaminrodriguez7578]

Magnífico!!!

[@mukankakuna]

Gracias. Si quieres ver curiosidades sobre el juego mírate el vídeo que tengo comentado. Tras la partida repaso algunas curiosidades con las que me topé.

[@ZSBrian]

Why was no damage taken at 3:46? You walked right through the female warrior. Boatloads of incidents where the hit box was violated and no damage occurred. Heck, the final boss covered you in fire and nothing happened. Sketchy.

[@mukankakuna]

Hello, both things that you comment are oddities of the game. The female warrior hit box it's quite strange (by the way it happens twice, see 8:51, video time, not the gameplay). All enemies have two hit boxes, one is the body (little damage) and the other is the weapon (strong damage). With the females warriors I managed to dodge their weapon. The Dragon, ah, yeah, this is the rarest bug I found In all my tries. This is been answered time ago in the coments so I'm going to put that comment: This is a very, very rare bug. In fact is the rarest I found througt all my gameplays. Normally the dragon die with 5 hits, but, some how, in this particular play, it took me 10 hits. And no only that, as you point out, the dragon's fire did not hit me. In short, this damm dragon almost kill me (in the real world), hehe. By the way, this bug cost me some precious seconds. If I may, I have a video of this gameplay playing it live, I recommend you watch it, besides it also includes a lot of curious content, including the dragon's bug (the downside is that it is in perfect Spanish). kzbin.info/www/bejne/iKnEk3WPaNusaZY Regards.

[@sheeple813]

So basically keep moving and dont worry about the bosses 😂

[@stephencurry5728]

It is the time record in the track, well it, I have the record of Points, but in the first phase or in the second I stay to do the points and I get 10 Lives, the Record is 30,778,963 points making time during 24 hours of Game. Good video

[@stephencurry5728]

Only that it has 7 Stages, it does not have 30 phases. They could make it longer

[@cperez571]

That game always kicked my ass as a kid lol 😂

[@ludwigbooth4882]

This music!!!! If this music doesn't get you going, you're not listening!!!

[@nathan_the_barbarian7974]

Crom prays to Rastan, but he does not listen.

[@ZEUSDAZ]

Not that I'm taking anything away from you as my channel it'self has tons of longplays with cheats used as It's all about showing as much of the game as possible rather than personal performance,....but I have this actual pcb arcade board in my arcade machine and i know for a fact without the armour those Blue flames at (14:43 youtube vid time / 14:37 your record time) will take energy from you and you got hit 100% at this moment without any energy being lost,...please explain! :-) Also, compared to my real arcade game, this version certainly seems to be a little on the sped-up side, the music is VERY fast,...please explain again,...emulation not set correctly?! :-/ Zeus never trusts emulation.

[@mukankakuna]

+Zeusdaz - The Unemulated Retro Game Channel Hi, it's very interesting what you say about the blue flame. In the emulator, the hit box of those blue flames (in fact I did it twice, the first one is at 13:26) appears a bit after the flame itself. I'm doing the jump just before it get the hit. By the way, I was curious about it and I tried the recopilation "Taito Legends Power Up" and it also works as the emulator. But, it would be great if you can certify that in the original board doesn't happen. About the music, I dont know. Maybe, because the video codification, the tone change a little bit but it should not significantly change. I have the same video with a lot more quality here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mqbFp3lpg7l2pcU Maybe it would be better to use it for those things. Regards.

[@ZEUSDAZ]

+mukankakuna Well going back to the actual arcade machine I can certainly confirm mine runs a normal 100m sprinter speed wheras this video of yours is more like Ben Johnson on the juice, it really is very fast compared to the arcade board, you certainly cannot wield the sword on it as fast as you are doing it here,...It's just not possible to hit things that fast on the arcade machine. Still, you still made it look stupidly easy which it isn't ;-)

[@mukankakuna]

+Zeusdaz - The Unemulated Retro Game Channel The mega fast sword is due the ring (not the one but almost). At 2:20 (2:13 on my timer) you may have noticed I go back to kill two enemies. Not the greatest idea in a speed run but, there is a good reason. One of them have the ring and the ring is the only item that you don't lose by time. By the way, I have a video where I explain all the things I'm doing (but it's in perfect spanish).

[@ZEUSDAZ]

Yeah I collected that ring but it don't speed it up as much as this footage and only lasts around 30 seconds,...and any idea what that other symbol on the intro screen does?...it just states a question mark next to it.

[@mukankakuna]

+Zeusdaz - The Unemulated Retro Game Channel That's the rod. As long as you have it when you kill an enemy all the enemies in screen die (but only the same type of enemies as the one you killed. e.g.: If you kill a lion all the lions in screen die). Oh wow, are you sure the ring expires after 30 seconds? That's a big difference. I just try the "Taito Legends Power Up" and the ring have no time. Are you sure you have an original board or may it be a bootleg one?

[@telesphoros]

I never knew that Rastan was Volgarr's dad

[@mukankakuna]

That's right, he is the spiritual father.