System 3 (1982-1991 / The C64 Years) Documentary

[@smila007]

Superb work on this docu dude, really enjoyed it.

[@BastichB64K]

Thx a lot 👍 it was a real passion project 🕹️

[@fogvarious2478]

funny you commented .. considering how things were with another publisher yourself... I'm getting the initials.. "W" and "H" if you don't get the hint. cheers for returning though :-)

[@BrawndoQC]

@@BastichB64K The very first song at the beginning of the video.

[@OperationPhantom]

Clearly a lot of effort and passion went into this! Captivating from beginning to end and a very worthy tribute to the greatness of System 3's C64 days. You can rightly be proud of this one!

[@BastichB64K]

Thx sir , I figured I'm only gonna make one tribute to System 3 so might as well go all out on it 😀👍

[@worldofretrogameplay6963]

This documentary was a moving and nostalgic trip down memory lane! Fantastic job! You need to produce more of these!

[@BastichB64K]

Thanks glad you liked it , if I make these huge vids more frequently I'll die 🤣 , if this was my full time job I could but as it stands I cannot make these massive vids very often . Thank you for watching

[@klopferundsid4398]

Always a joy to see such a passionate guy bringing us back the memories of our childhood with loads of background information!

[@BastichB64K]

Cheers thank you , I appreciate you checking it out 👍👍👍👍👍🕹️

[@metalfacemark]

oh ive been looking forward to this! Edit: I was able to go to a couple of PCW shows around the time i was 15-17, i was so excited to go to them, seeing the zzap guys in the flesh and playing microprose soccer a year before it came out was the highlights, really good memories.

[@BastichB64K]

Nice , that must have been tons of fun !!

[@matthewgibb2640]

Microprose soccer was epic, i absolutely love that game on the 64

[@BastichB64K]

@@matthewgibb2640 pretty much all Microprose games on the C64 were fantastic

[@markmacrae8158]

I remember that PCW show where the sensi guys demo'ed Microprose Soccer! I was so looking forward to that coming out

[@marcusmalone]

Wow, like a retro E3!

[@dennyhaynes3]

How can I put into words how emotional and happy your documentary has made me feel. Happy, happy days of years gone. Stunning, absolutely stunning. Very rare I can sit for any length of time but I sat through the whole documentary in one go. It's great to learn the background of the company as well as the games and found things out I didn't know. Again a nod to the time and care producing and editing the video, time and passion shows in abundance. Shared on our discord site for the members to enjoy, Simply put, superb 👍

[@BastichB64K]

Cheers thanks a lot , it was a true passion project and I'm glad it's out there . Thank you very much for sharing it on discord that's a massive help for the video . Cheers as always .

[@lundsweden]

The river crossing scenes were tough, and lets face it a bit frustrating, however I quite enjoyed the difficulty and eventually mastered that skill quite well. The music and graphics were excellent, it really pushed the C64 to it limits!

[@BastichB64K]

Yeah , a bit of practice and those jumps are pretty easy .

[@reinhard3209]

What a great job You did, man!!! 👍👍👍Thank You so much for this phantastic documentary! Last Ninja 1 + 2 also are my most favourite C64 games ever. Superb graphics and gameplay and these awesome soundtracks still give me goosebumps. Thanks again and all the best from Germany. ✌️

[@BastichB64K]

Cheers ✅ thank you for watching , Last Ninja is still my fav game of all time ... Just such good memories 🕹️

[@lordanthrax2417]

Played Vendetta today for the first time and i cryed as i am now... Thank you Stanley "Stan" Schembri for your message! Rest in peace! I will follow your advice as good as i can.

[@jacktayloor]

Man this Docu is the best I watched about Retros so far! These old amazing days...miss them! The outro-music of your video threw me back into the realm of Kunitoki! Awesome 👍

[@BastichB64K]

Cheers thank you , glad you liked it ... The end tune just had to be a Ninja one 🎶👍

[@paolosixtyforeverdipace4416]

What a womyderful video you made Bastich B for this legendary company, this really warmed my heart!!

[@BastichB64K]

Thanks so much dude 👍 cheers for leaving the comment and thank you for watching

[@Knightlore]

Your documentaries always entertain me! I remember in 1986 working on a construction site and buying International Karate in my break! From that day on i became a System 3 fan!

[@BastichB64K]

Nice , great pickup . I got mine also from an old software shop .. good times

[@janluka]

that’s great! thank you from Italy

[@BastichB64K]

Cheers thank you ✅

[@Del-Canada]

I ran a BBS on my Commodore 64. If you hit the site "BBS Mates" and search area code 902, then "Spitting Image" you'll find my BBS listing. I put it up in 1987 but it's been offline for 33 years.

[@BastichB64K]

Very cool ✅

[@elblanco5]

Your recent documentaries are simply awesome! Really great watches and I'm learning a ton about these companies.

[@BastichB64K]

Awesome thanks , that's what I was hoping . Learn more about those old companies and games is always fun especially now as in back in the day when I played them there was no info about who these guys were making these games at all 🤣

[@brobryce64]

Loved this doco! Didn't spend any time playing IK or Ninja, but was ALWAYS a fan of the music and the graphics! So glad you got so in depth with the back stories and the artists involved. It's so funny how we, as kids and young adults, attached so much emotion to the artists, especially the musicians, and their involvement with the games, and they might be like "yeah, I guess I remember doing that" lol

[@BastichB64K]

Thank for checking it out . It was so hard to find something useful that Ben Daglish said in any interview .. he was so chill about answering questions 😂👍

[@alexanderwingeskog758]

Same here. But I did play a bit of Last Ninja (1 and 2) and it was OK, but I was a fan of IK series, that game I played for many hours with my friends. I remember one friend destroyed 2 joysticks playing against me... And ofc Bangkok Knights was awesome. Melbourne House Way of the Exploding fist was also good (not as good as IK somehow though)... But their Fist games (Fist II specially) was a masterpiece of suspense, good graphics and the music... oh that music sends chills to the bone still...

[@peterbeky8272]

What a fantastic documentary, thanks so much for putting this together. Brought back so many good memories with the last ninja games being my faves growing up.

[@BastichB64K]

Yeah the Ninja games were my favs as a kid 😀👍 thank you for watching

[@reagandow850]

Wow man. What a fantastic episode. You sure did your homework my friend. This was awesome!!

[@spelmastarn5235]

This is very good indeed - your documentaries are so interesting!

[@BastichB64K]

Thx dude , it was a lot of effort , glad you enjoyed it 👍👍

[@NickTaylor-Phantom-Works2]

One of my favourite, and most interesting companies of the 8bit/16bit era. Given the videos of this type of yours I've already seen, this should be really special. EDIT: Yup, sat through the whole thing, and it's absolutely brilliant! THIS is how gaming documentaries on KZbin SHOULD be done.

[@BastichB64K]

Enjoy the show 👍

[@SoftwareDocuments]

A great walk down memory lane, quality documentary.

[@BastichB64K]

Cheers thank you , glad you enjoyed it

[@petesmith3151]

Great video Bastich, The Last Ninja was THE game to play when I got my C64. Still traumatised by those bloody stepping stones :)

[@BastichB64K]

Thank you , yeah the good old stones ... Many a death took place around those things 🤣

[@stigj942]

Great and elaborate documentary. Pure nostalgia as well as loads of new information. Thanks!

[@BastichB64K]

Thank you very much glad you enjoyed it

[@danieldutch8621]

Really well made documentary. Thoroughly enjoyed watching it. Thank you for producing it.

[@BastichB64K]

No problem sir , thank you for watching

[@danieldutch8621]

@@BastichB64K Are you planning on doing more of these? Psygnosis, Hewson, Bitmap Brothers, etc?

[@BastichB64K]

@@danieldutch8621 yeah eventually 😂 I'm just taking a break from this series ... They are very time consuming to make . I got plenty of others to watch just check out my Documentary play list .

[@petertrevena804]

That music was just da bomb back then and even now :O)

[@BastichB64K]

🎶🎶👌

[@amirtavakol8256]

Thank you so much for this amazing documentary 🙏🏻🌹

[@BastichB64K]

My pleasure , thank you for watching

[@matthewgibb2640]

Dear sir, this documentary is truly epic and although i knew about and admired system 3 games, it is the last ninja series that i love the most of their games. .the moment on this documentary when the last ninja 3 intro showed up, it brought me to tears as i had forgotten just how epic that the music and graphics and intro overall really is. I have now added the last ninja 3 moog remix and mind in a box version to my liked songs on spotify to play in the car. You do amazing videos, i now have to fire up my west german made C128D tonight which iive had since 1985 as a twelve year old kid and play it.

[@BastichB64K]

Awesome 👍 yeah that intro and music is just amazing , it still blows me away even now .

[@matthewgibb2640]

@@BastichB64K ive had the remix running in my car for an hour and just got home. I just watched the audio remastered intro on you tube as well. The 80s and 90s were great decades for us gamers and movie fanatics, my retro room is full of the stuff. Especially my commodore gear

[@BastichB64K]

@@matthewgibb2640 they really were the best of times 🕹️👍👍

[@OLIV3R_YT]

Another awesome documentary! Thank you so much for the tremendous work you put into it!

[@BastichB64K]

No problem 👍 thx for watching

[@curiousottman]

Unbelievable content. Depth of information is astounding. Having lived through the 80s as a teen and having owned many commodore machines, your video brought back very fond memories. PS: I sold many copies of the Ninja series as a teenager working in a computer store.

[@BastichB64K]

Thank you very much , I would have loved to work in a computer store back then .. all those games 🤣👍

[@curiousottman]

@@BastichB64K : the stories I could tell you. My computer store had a very big software selection for Atari, C64, Amiga and IBM PC. I still remember when defender of the crown was released: I stayed up all night after watching Miami Vice to play it and walked into work Saturday morning all blurry eyed and dead tired. But so worth it.

[@MentatOfDune]

Wow, that's a great piece of work. Fantastic vid.

[@BastichB64K]

Thanks a lot , cheers for checking it out ... I know it's long 🤣

[@datriaxsondor590]

I can't think of a better OST on the C64, than Last Ninja 1, and that's really, really saying something. C64 had a dump truck of awesome game music, but especially as a collective, Last Ninja 1 was like "next-level" awesome. The amiga versions are awesome as well, but the C64 versions will always be my favourites. What an incredible OST. Very nice coverage of S3 as a company in this era. It seems you encompassed everything rather well, as usual.

[@BastichB64K]

Thx for watching and much appreciated 🕹️👍

[@DuncanRhodesDRPA]

Such a great doc!

[@BastichB64K]

Cheers bub thanks 😄👍

[@kumrogames]

Great video with tons of awesome behind the scenes info! Thank you for all the work you put into this video!

[@BastichB64K]

No problem , thank you for taking the time (a lot of it 🤣) to watch it , cheers ✅

[@darrencullen8015]

Man I love your passion for the good old c64 I am a 36 year old retro nut and pc hardware fanatic. I just saved this video to watch when I hit my workout bike tomorrow. This vid is nearly exactly as long as my workout 90 minutes. I hope you know you are not just educating me about all things c64 but also helping me drop a few dodgy pounds lol. Well done you!!

[@BastichB64K]

😆👍 glad to help , and enjoy the vid

[@frankfortfcgoc]

Wow, truly incredible work sir, Informative, insightful, beautifully edited and incredibly entertaining, You are showing serious skill in making documentaries I'm absolutely blown away can't even imagine the amount of work went into this. God I miss the old days system 3 will always be special to me. The number 1 c64 related channel in the world. Thank you so much for experiences like this.

[@BastichB64K]

No problem my friend just glad you enjoyed it . I have no idea how much time went into it but it was an astronomical ammount 😂👍 but it was all worth it I think .

[@darrenlonghurst4433]

Hey B Man! Thanks for this Another great indepth Doco. Just the amount of research and fact finding you do proves just how much love and passion you really have for the C64 and everything related! System 3 made some Awsome games! My all time favourites of theirs was LAST NINJA 2 & IK+. I literally played those games to death. I wore out the disk on Last Ninja 2. Either that or the files somehow became corrupt. But in my opinion a game well worth buying again. Another big tick for the craft master!! for this doco. Keep up all the hard work you do. The channel is absolutely AWESOME!!!!😁

[@BastichB64K]

Thanks for watching , that one was a real labour of love to make 🕹️👍

[@mechanicom]

Brilliant documentary - grew up in the U.K. as a kid with the C64 and previously VIC-20! Great memories of System 3 Went to quite a few of the CVG events and others. 😃

[@BastichB64K]

Thanks for checking it out , cheers ✅

[@Steve_UK77]

Great video! I always remember walking into the local games shop with my dad and the man working there was playing International Karate (C64), we were both blown away! The shop owner reluctantly sold us the last copy (that he was playing) and looked genuinely sad.

[@BastichB64K]

I would have been sad to sell it as well 😂👍

[@BenjaminHorvat]

Brutaly good documentary! Thanks for all the hard work you did!

[@BastichB64K]

Thanks a lot and cheers for watching 👍

[@hayberdasher8625]

I've watched this 3 times and probably will watch it more Awesome insights dude

[@BastichB64K]

Thank you sir , much appreciated

[@SonganDrakensang]

Wow, thank you for so much effort to creating this video! System 3 is my favourite Softwarelable for the C64! I bought me all games in the past. haha :) Great video and informations!!

[@BastichB64K]

Thanks for watching , I love me some System 3 games 👍

[@Grumpydude78]

I can´t imagine how much time & work you spent to make videos like this. *Applause*

[@BastichB64K]

🤣👍 thx .. it was a lot , much appreciated for watching and thank you.

[@Vengeance_Inc]

awesome watch, a sneak peek behind the epitome of my childhood, the c64 and the last ninja series by system3

[@BastichB64K]

Thanks for watching glad you enjoyed it

[@LashDee]

Thanks for this, wonderful work buddy :D

[@BastichB64K]

Thank you sir 😀👍

[@markmacrae8158]

Well done Bastiche - I think this even surpasses the Epyx documentary, due to the variety of material you have brought together. It must have been a mammoth task to make this! I thoroughly enjoyed watching it. It brought back many memories, but also I learned a lot of things I never knew about the company. Amazing work buddy!

[@BastichB64K]

Thanks a lot , it was a mammoth task 🤣 . There were way less games to deal with than my usual company profiles so I decided to give each game a deep dive ... It was like making 35 of my normal videos in a row 😂 but I think it was worth it in the end

[@kite666G]

This is how to do a retro game documentary, awesome video Bastich!

[@BastichB64K]

Cheers thx , System 3 done ✅

[@nanorider426]

Thank you so much for this documentary. I played about half of their catalogue with Ninja Remix the odd man out. I played that at a friend's house. Ninja 1 and 2 I played so many times but I never finished Ninja 3. It was just too hard. Finally I watched a longplay of the game on youtube after nearly 30 years. 30 years, has it been that long.....?

[@BastichB64K]

Cheers thanks , yeah I played all their games back in the day from 1985 onwards anyway , Yeah Last Ninja 3 just didn't have the same magic too it , its still good but lacks that bit of ninja magic that made the others classics .

[@nanorider426]

@@BastichB64K Yeah. You got that right. Regarding IK+, I played I.K. a lot but when IK+ came out something happened to me. I became so good at that game that nobody of my friends could beat me. I remember at a "party" - you know LAN-parties, the thing that came before - I played 1 to 10 (or 12). I beat them all at IK+.

[@cronos1911]

I didn't think I would be able to watch this whole video in one sitting. A very entertaining and well-presented video. You managed to get my attention. :) I really enjoyed the 'behind the scenes' stuff. Subbed. Looking forward to watching more videos.

[@BastichB64K]

Thank you for watching , I got plenty other documentarys and tons of C64 vids to explore . Enjoy 🕹️👍😁

[@patbreen3859]

So glad KZbin threw this into my feed. This is a great doco! Subscribed!

[@BastichB64K]

Cheers thank you for checking it out 👍👍

[@richardm6332]

Great video. You can tell you put a lot of time and effort into it. Well worth it.👍

[@BastichB64K]

Thx , it was a monster to put together 😂 but thx for checking it out

[@paatuc6457]

Very well done documentary, enjoyed a lot, thank you! :) Long live System 3

[@BastichB64K]

Thank you , love your Clyde avatar from Creatures 👍👍👍

[@ThemildmanneredgamerBlogspot]

Loved the video and it led me to discovering new music (to me at least) on Apple Music, as I have added Matt Gray and Fastloaders to my library. Just subscribed and will be doing a deep dive into your other videos. Thanks for an entertaining evening!

[@BastichB64K]

My pleasure 👍 thank you for watching . I'm glad you found the new music 🎶 the Fastloaders are a great band as well as Matt Gray .

[@seuck1870]

Lovely trip down the memory lane!

[@BastichB64K]

Thanks glad you enjoyed it

[@kloakovalimonada]

Great video. The camera dolly among the boxes is 👌. LN2 music by Matt Gray is in my opinion THE best music on the C64.

[@BastichB64K]

Thank you , that dolly was my cell phone strapped on top of a batman hotwheels car 😂👍 . Ln2 soundtrack is epic !!

[@kloakovalimonada]

@@BastichB64K even the pros use tricks like that 😂

[@BastichB64K]

@@kloakovalimonada 🤣👍

[@delpierro0815]

Wow, great documentary, thanks! I will never forget when I first saw and played The Last Ninja - from that day on I was hooked on Action Adventures and the C-64 :).

[@BastichB64K]

Thx , what a classic game .. absolutely loved it !!!

[@econtrerasd]

Another brilliant documentary I realize that I missed many system 3 releases by being in America, but for the games I got I always held them as one of the top companies for my dear c64!

[@BastichB64K]

Thanks for watching , yeah it's a pity the Activision deal ended so North America lost out on 3 years of System 3 C64 classics

[@bitoxic]

Really well done video... great detail and insight on System 3!

[@BastichB64K]

Thx a lot , glad you liked it 😃✅

[@keripage14]

Cracking watch, really interesting content! System 3 games were class with Myth and LN 2 personal favourites.

[@BastichB64K]

Cheers thx , LN2 and Myth are both brilliant ... I love System 3 games

[@DeanThomson]

been looking forward to more of your docos since your Epyx one :)

[@rinazzle]

Great work as always. Really enjoyed this.

[@BastichB64K]

Thx , glad you liked it 😃

[@coevin]

great video, was kinda odd to see your monitor with stay puft on top. I have exactly the same look with stay puft. Keep up the great work.

[@BastichB64K]

That's hilarious 😆👍👍 gotta love Stay Puft

[@trinity5571]

Super super fantastic documentary well done mate I fully enjoyed this episode ❤️👍👍👍

[@BastichB64K]

Thank you very much 😀👍👍👍👍👍

[@sterling7]

Explaining to his mother that he had used the money from mortgaging her house to hire exotic dancers must have been interesting... Ton of fond memories of The Last Ninja games. Thank you for putting this together, it's a fascinating watch.

[@BastichB64K]

Yeah I'm sure he didn't tell mom about the dancers 😂. Thank you for watching 👍

[@Banditsalive]

Just an incredible doco. Thorough with a deep appreciation of their contribution to us all. Just wish I could figure out how to run the multi part roms on the c64 Maxi! Well ✔ 👍

[@BastichB64K]

Thank you for watching , much appreciated . I have a whole series of videos dedicated to the c64 maxi with tons of info that may help

[@tumppigo]

OMG! This is top quality content!

[@BastichB64K]

Thx 🕹️👍👍

[@MrLondonGo]

Agreed!

[@AlessandroScuderi]

Great Story and video, i had Last Ninja 3 original Cassette (with beautiful package) and i loved than the first - the 2nd i play only on friends home -. Thank You!

[@BastichB64K]

It's a cool trilogy , so many good memories for me . Thank you for watching

[@turrican64]

Fantastic Documentary of one of the leading groups in C64 games industry with exceptional and brilliant game , i enjoyed very much to watch it !! hope you can do a documentary of Ocean group as well if you have the time and efforts. cheers!!

[@BastichB64K]

Thanks for watching , I will do Ocean in the future 👍 not anytime soon though I'm still recovering from this one 😂

[@steverobinson243]

loved this video. made me subscribe to your channel. the last ninja 1 + 2 were the pioneering games of the 1980's and the industry in general. i love playing the last ninja games to this day. thanks for the nostalgia. please try and do a video on the several different ports of the last ninja including the seemingly il fated reboots on several generations of consoles.

[@BastichB64K]

Cheers thank you for watching and subscribing it's much appreciated 👍👍👍

[@nickofthelivingdead88]

Yet another awesome documentary

[@BastichB64K]

Thx for checking it out 😀👍

[@collectivesartori]

Top shelf doco. 👍 Does the subject matter true justice. The personal connection is very cool too.

[@BastichB64K]

Cheers thx for checking it out 😀👍👍

[@TamasKalman]

one of the very best! great documentary

[@BastichB64K]

Cheers , thank you for watching

[@netzer442]

Excellent, great work, thanks!

[@BastichB64K]

Cheers for watching 😃👍

[@GamerRuck]

Last Ninja 1-3 is my childhood and one of the best games ever !

[@BastichB64K]

Love those games , epic !!!!

[@worldofretrogameplay6963]

I love System 3 and their games! Last Ninja rocks, man!

[@BastichB64K]

I 100% agree 🕹️

[@stewsretroreviews]

Excellent video here, love to hear about the old UK devs back in the day. Some of the best games around at that time.

[@BastichB64K]

Yeah they made some real great ones 😀👍

[@hogne]

Awesome work! You had details that even I didn't know about, and I've contributed a lot to The Last Ninja Archives :-) PS! Strange you didn't mention that Matt Gray worked as a song writer and producer with Xenomania, who wrote songs for a whole bunch of famous artists and groups.

[@BastichB64K]

The last ninja archives is a great site ! Love it . I couldn't mention everything about every person the docu was already 98 minutes 😂👍 kinda have to stick to the stuff that relevant for the games

[@hogne]

True. And who wants to take responsibility for Cher's "Believe", anyway 😄

[@BastichB64K]

🤣👍

[@RetroChiZ]

Excellent video as per usual mate

[@BastichB64K]

Thank you sir 👍👍

[@SuperPreacherX]

Such a great video, thanks 🙏

[@BastichB64K]

Awesome, thanks for checking it out 😀👍

[@SelfIndulgentGamer]

Blimmin heck! Death star interceptor, that thing gave me nightmares!

[@BastichB64K]

🤣👍

[@decorix]

Fantastic doc.!! Being system 3 fanboy myself. I remember going up to there office harrow-on-the_hill and showing my game to phil. A lovely hot-blond secretary opened the door... They were really friendly and we could show our game. I have alot system3 articles from C+VG / The one. I whish i knew I could send them. But great doc enjoyed alot with some beers too :-)

[@BastichB64K]

Thanks for watching , wow ! You went there to show a game !!! That's super cool 😎 I'm impressed

[@decorix]

@@BastichB64K Me and my mate worked on AtariST game called Spherical platformgame with balls. We took the boot to London.. We just knocked on the door at system3 and they let us in :-) Unfortunate ST/Amgia markets were coming to end. Due to Concoles snes/MD That's the whole story.. .

[@NickTaylor-Phantom-Works2]

Shout out for American Ninja!! Loved those films!

[@BastichB64K]

😂👍

[@tapmantwo]

Great job on this 👏

[@BastichB64K]

Thanks a lot and cheers for checking it out 😃😃👍👍

[@IsaacKuo]

Okay, finally finished the video. What an awesome informative and compelling documentary! Bizarrely, I missed out on ... uhh ... _all_ of these games. And it's not like they were obscure in the USA either. But like ... well, for whatever reasons around here we loved Way of the Exploding Fist and just stuck with it. Dunno why? I guess it was mainly my brother who got games while I just incidentally played whatever he was into. For most of that time, he'd switched to the NES. In retrospect, the C64 hardware should have been able to do stuff better than the NES, but it would be a long time before demo coders really mastered the techniques. But as it was, the practical reality was that the actual games you could buy on the C64 generally didn't look as good as what was on the NES. But of course, the C64 had much more flexible capabilities, and these would prove to fascinate programmers for decades. The way the NES works is rather inflexible. Of course, there are other computers with interesting capabilities, but I kinda feel like the C64 gets more love since most of them have godawful sound. I find it hard to get pumped up for developing on a machine where I know the sound will be ... not good.

[@BastichB64K]

Awesome insight cheers and again thank you for checking it out 😀✅

[@gideonmarkus8501]

Great documentary 👍

[@BastichB64K]

Cheers thank you for watching

[@SoulforSale]

Absolute quality games for the C64...count me in!

[@macflexnm]

Great video B, very informative 👍

[@BastichB64K]

Thank you sir , cheers for watching

[@marceltiel7919]

Ah...1987, last ninja year of release...my neighbour asked me to a 'pc convention'. I (10 years old) was expecting a big hangar size congress centre with of rows of computers and stands, but it ended up being a sleazy underlit basement-like venue, with guys selling homemade fast load cartridges and more the developper/ technical stuff which I wasnt interested in as a kid. But this was where I bought my original c64 tape copy of The Last Ninja. Fond memories...

[@BastichB64K]

I frequented a few places like that back in the 80's and early 90's 🤣👍 a good hot bed of piracy 🕹️

[@Huddison]

Good man: the Last Ninja is epic!

[@BastichB64K]

Yes it is 😀👍👍👍

[@inphanta]

This was an excellent documentary. It’s funny because as kids, the world in which these games were birthed in seemed almost magical, but seeing it broken down like this, you soon realise that the reality was quite different. In the end it all comes down to blood, sweat, tears and the ugly world of business, but seeing it all demystified is fascinating in itself. :)

[@BastichB64K]

Sorry to ruin your childhood 😂 but thx for watching ... It also demystified and brought it all into reality for me too researching it 😭😭 pretty facinating though

[@BAZFANSHOTHITSClassicTunes]

Flimbo's Quest is my fave C64 game of all time. I go back to it at least twice a week and completed it (The Cart version) with out cheating.

[@BastichB64K]

Great game , such fun

[@lordevyl8317]

Awesome company they were. Although I do have some issues with how they treated Matt Gray during his kickstarter

[@BastichB64K]

Thank you for watching .

[@claudioquintanilla1471]

Excellent documentary!!! Thks!!! P.S. Would be nice if you activate Closed Caption Subtitles!!!

[@BastichB64K]

Thx for watching , I'll check out that option 👍

[@ericanerny1771]

Fantastic doc.. watched it over a couple of very enjoyable weeks. I get the distinct impression that Robin Levy really didn't like Chris Butler much. :)

[@BastichB64K]

Thanks for watching and yeah I think Robin and Chris simply had different working styles , he definitely respected him but maybe didn't enjoy working with him 😂

[@giuseppelavecchia775]

Video impeccabile,di alto livello.qualita' top

[@BastichB64K]

Thank you 😀👍

[@tziirkq]

Jeez, this is the first video of yours I've seen, and the time and effort that you must have put in to make a feature length documentary on your own is admirable. I'm often too damn lazy to move limbs to scratch them, I'm really impressed.

[@BastichB64K]

Thank you sir , much appreciated 👍 please check out my other vids I got tons of different style shows plus more Documentaries .

[@Mind-your-own-beeswax]

Man I loved Ninja. One of my favourite games of all time.

[@BastichB64K]

I know ✅ so good right ? Sooooo many hours lost on that gem 😃👍

[@Mind-your-own-beeswax]

@@BastichB64K hours? Days more like when that annoying stream jump went tits up 😂

[@JP-monkeybot]

Great work.That must have been a lot of work.

[@BastichB64K]

Thank you and yes ! It was a lot 😄😭 but I think worth it in the end 👍

[@JP-monkeybot]

@@BastichB64K Absolutely!

[@ctbullett300]

What a great documentary, it was worth the HYPE. You mentioned a few guys passed away at the end. Did these guys die young? I though most old school C64 programers would only be in there mid 50's by now.

[@BastichB64K]

Thank you for watching . Yeah they all died over the last 10 years or so , Ben had Cancer , Antony lees died in a car accident , Im not sure about Tim Best .. info on him is is real slim. I would have liked to have him mentioned more but he's in none of the photos or interviews so it was hard to make him a "character" in the video. And yeah so they all died relatively young probably in their 50's

[@marceltiel7919]

Awesome, I have to plan to watch this (1 hr, 39 min) but have been looking forward to this one ;)

[@BastichB64K]

I know it's a beast , when you eventually get the time lemme know what ya think? , cheers

[@marceltiel7919]

@@BastichB64K hahah couldn't wait so watched it last night; excellent, man just pure nostalgic laced entertainment....kudos to all the effort and research you must have put into making this...all the details and anekdotes most of us would have never known otherwise...

[@BastichB64K]

@@marceltiel7919 awesome glad you enjoyed it , yeah that was a LOT of research and writing lol 😆👍 ... Drove myself a little mad while making it but survived 😂

[@marceltiel7919]

Lol, you can take a break now ;)

[@gildan]

You need to do a Thalamus one of these ;) I always thought the Shuriken was removed from the LN2 box due to someone injuring themselves with it... probably my old age mind lying to me again :D , or Cale trying to cover his ass ;) From a conversation I had with someone once, Last Ninja Remix was released to send a couple of "fuck offs" to Activision due to them robbing them of royalties

[@BastichB64K]

Already done a Thalamus one kzbin.info/www/bejne/l6jEcqOtptGXbpY It's quite possible the Ninja Remix was a slap to Activision but more likely it was a simple cash grab 😎👍