NES Longplay [028] Journey to Silius

[@ManInMostlyBlack]

The music is so good.

[@DeadRaymanWalking]

I agree.

[@kimmolaine8069]

Naoki Kodaka made the music for Sunsoft games. This, Batman, Fester's Quest, Blaster Master and Gremlins II have some of the best tunes for NES. Obviously highly influenced by metal.

[@SamuraiTacos1]

yep just bought this game for my nes

[@Elbethium]

Kimmo Laine you forgot bucky o'hare in the list

[@mateogonzalovannella4502]

+lurifix Yeah, and first stage music was used in a version of Sonic Metal Hyperdrive!

[@duraiden]

The second stage BGM track is insanely long for a NES tune. If you listen to the entire thing it's well over 3 minutes before it loops. Awesome.

[@SA77888]

Hope its been a good 11 years for you 😀

[@phattjohnson]

Such a banger too!

[@MrSilus2000]

It’s been one of my favorite songs for 30 years. Stage 1/Final stage is great too

[@SA77888]

@@AlberTesla1024 LOL that would be good 😀👍

[@largadeugnt]

And insanely cool track too! It's part of my favorite classic games ost playlist.

[@mundolukas]

This will forever be the true Terminator game for me

[@gc3k]

You can take this one I'll take the Sega CD version

[@srujan00]

@Andoc No, T2: Judgement Day, by LJN does not exist

[@marhansgamingchannel4732]

@@srujan00 not exist? Well, i think that game has some good points even it has some fatal flaws.

[@phattjohnson]

This is the Terminator game we all deserved.

[@Tony-mq8wv]

This was actually intended to be terminater.

[@Northwite]

Just discovered this game because it's being added to Switch and... WHY IS THE MUSIC SO GOOD?!

[@setimo8]

Since my childhood, i have The same question 😂

[@mikeychainsaw9760]

Most nes & snes games had the best soundtracks.

[@lambdatempest]

the way they practically abused the sound hardware in the game. There is a chipset for sound effects and they used it for bass line

[@64Abstract]

Actually Journey To Silius didnt use the Sunsoft 5B. They use the 2A03 all for everything. Also the 5B didnt use for bassline. DPCM did.

[@kikyoC]

Here because of switch too

[@scottpaxton3843]

... such a superb soundtrack.

[@taken200]

+Scott Paxton agree

[@doomfatlikesbluesphere9984]

My god, sun soft knew how to do a soundtrack...

[@DTM-Books]

Such a terrific chiptune soundtrack. I often wondered why the people who made music for videogames weren't working in pop music instead. Whoever wrote this could have had a successful career as a pop songwriter. As for the videogame itself, Journey to Silius is excellent, another great example of late NES era titles that push the 8-bit hardware to its limits. It's pretty short and easy, one of those games where you can learn the boss battles and never get so much as a scratch. But that's perfectly fine since so many NES titles were brutally, torturously difficult.

[@largadeugnt]

Indeed, friend! Totally agreed.

[@privatkatze9186]

Let's just be grateful that they did work in video games instead of pop music. 🎉 You never know if these people would have stood out as much without the limitations that early video games consoles imposed.

[@MrVillasantos]

FINALLY! I remember playing this game at an arcade in Mexico back when I was a kid in the early 90's. I moved to the US and never learned the name of this game. I only remembered bits and pieces of this game but after many years of trying to search for it, today I just happened to stumble upon this video. THANK YOU SO MUCH! This has brought an immense joy in my life today! =D

[@palomino678]

DULCE PIMIENTA another Mexican grazed by this game's glory, i also enjoyed in Mexico, alas there i discovered it in those pirate Playstation 1 disks, there was a lot of games in the emulator i brought thinking it was Sonic Unleashed, Since i loved ot so much, i never regretted that "scam"

[@rickardbanck5525]

MrVillasantos one of the best feeling!

[@JT-ss6si]

I love Mexican men. So hot.

[@westter8164]

@@JT-ss6si k

[@Poe-007]

I feel the same way buddy.

[@TrinityMartin1]

God, all these years later and this music is still sooooo good. Love it!

[@agreedboarart3188]

2022 and it still slaps.

[@thalee317]

Fun fact: In the times of developing "Journey to Silius", it was originally made as a "The Terminator" game. However, Sunsoft somehow lost the license. They later re-imagining the characters, the storyline, and the levels. Thus, Journey to Silius was born. Can you imagine if Sunsoft kept the license, it would've been one of the good games of NES plus a WAY BETTER Terminator game than the other one we actually had. Other than that, the music is still awesome. =D

[@Cyber_Kriss]

Back to these days, if you saw an ending of a game, you were a beast !

[@TDashLIVE]

Interesting how they designed it so that the sound effects had a separate channel as to not interrupt the music, like what happens in Super Mario Bros. It's also an amazing soundtrack for an NES game.

[@dimelo8826]

Mega Man meets Contra meets Quantum Fighter meets Shatterhand! Perfect, some of my favorite games on NES. I just discovered this game and found it in a used games for resale shop for 10 bucks with manual :)

[@jerminator0688]

It’s worth a pretty penny. I just sold my copy of Shatterhand and I’m selling my copy of Silius as well. Just don’t really play them anymore and rather them go to someone that’ll appreciate them and also use the money for something that I’ll get more joy out of.

[@juanpaolomejia1699]

Finally found you! A long lost game in my memory! Love this game! Music still kicks ass after all these years!

[@meriQX]

Definitely one of the greatest game soundtracks of all time! If I hadn't played the fangame "Mushroom Kingdom Fusion" (there's a level based on stage 3 from JtS), I never would have discouvered this awesome game!

[@Teknakill]

How epic are those 8-bit drums though! What a soundtrack!

[@ChristianRose1]

I miss this game so much, been looking for ages. It's as much of a beast as it was all those years ago

[@fernando929305]

This game has one most amazing soundtracks i have heard

[@rellik187redrum]

Sunsoft made great nes games.

[@Video-Games-Are-Fun]

rellik187redrum fester's quest ala avgn's review and my youth was a turd but yeah batman was really good

[@moviemetalhead]

+scir 91 Don't forget Blaster Master.

[@rellik187redrum]

+moviemetalhead that's the game that I based my comment on,lol

[@moviemetalhead]

+rellik187redrum That's cool. Batman, MB, JtS all great music.

[@rellik187redrum]

Godoftoasters never heard of that title, what's it like?

[@CaptRicoSakara]

I remember getting this game, along with Air Fortress & The Guardian Legend, all for Christmas once back in the early 90's. such memories. =3

[@OceanWolf808]

I was searching for this game. I remember my uncle playing this; I was 4 at the time. Just remembered that opening stage with the ruined city and the helicopter boss. Thank you for posting this!

[@Revilerify]

I remember playing this as a kid, so good but so hard! Sometimes the music still plays in my head. Nostalgia trip seeing this :) In my version of the game he had a helmet though!

[@negator14]

Arent you confusing it with Blaster Master?

[@TurquoiseStar17]

Man, this game's music is good. Kodaka was a master composer with the NES sound chip.

[@benkizer9509]

Played this for the first time via the Switch Online service. I was a huge NES fan growing up, but for some reason this game escaped me. Wow, what an awesome game. And that soundtrack rocks!

[@zumax666]

best 8 bits song !

[@ale83v]

that music makes me cry :'-) so many memories...

[@reneeshaann]

Still one of the best soundtracks for a game! Great storyline, I just wish they did something at the end. They spelled director wrong in the end credits lol

[@VinceOmega]

Damn, I remember that I used to own this game way back. I saw this title referenced in another video and it's like it unlocked memories for me.

[@GSS1Sirius]

Such an amazing game. Back when talented programmers could work with the limitations they were given and still deliver a great product. These days it feels like they can't do anything without teraflops and 1000 RAM or whatever they complain about.

[@jnoirj3124]

19:24 That jump haha. It made me do a knee jerk reaction as if I was playing the game for a moment.

[@BuggatiWeryon]

Was searching for this comment :D same

[@Poe-007]

Lol 😂

[@xxdeadchannelxx]

This wouldn't be Journey To Silius without that very catchy music. This is definitely on the list of video game music I love listening to.

[@TheDutchGhost]

It makes you wonder what this would have been like as a Terminator game had Sunsoft been able to hold onto the license. It would definitely have been better than the actual Terminator NES game.

[@ryanc519]

the famicom title was titled "Raf World" I still have the copy in pristine condition

[@UFOsAreRealArea51]

I thought this was the baddest game I've ever played in a long long time when it came out...I never experienced anything like it. The sound was ahead of its time...i still can't believe how great the intro is in the storyline.

[@cutweldngrind]

My parents bought me this game when it came out. I cant remember if I ever passed the game but brings back so many memories. Well awesome video.

[@Multifacted_Brotha]

Classic game!! I always loved the music in this game.. Seeing these old nintendo games makes me flashback to my young days playing video games with my friends on the weekends

[@MrSouthside1316]

could listen to this all day. This brings back so many memories.

[@voltagebinary1006]

I owned this game as a kid. It was one of my absolute favorites. I loved the story setup and the dark theme, it was so different from everything else on the NES at the time.

[@Tell_It_Right]

Epic intro music to set the story. This was actually supposed to be Terminator, but the license got pulled at the last minute so Sun Soft renamed it, and here is Journey to Silius . . . a classic

[@Bloodreign1]

Or in Japan, where it is called Raf World, perhaps Rough World was supposed to be the name.

[@Conan_the_Based]

This game is awesome. Where the hell was it during my childhood? >:(

[@shirayuri3950]

I'm sure this is just unique to me but I have nothing but bad memories of this game because I got to rent it when I was like 5 or something and I remember being stuck on the third level and getting frustrated because it was too hard for me. I haven't thought about it since then and 26 years later I randomly remembered it and looked it up and now I'm ashamed of how bad I was back then. I just loved the music and the art so much I just had fun looking at the game even if I kept losing. This is true with a lot of games now that I think about it. Damn I'm a legit noob!

[@Okazu84]

@@shirayuri3950 You aren't mate, some NES games were simply too punishing and required too much involvement, and often times we just moved on to newer games getting released after being stuck for months or even more, and we usually never looked back at those. But you can absolutely beat it should you apply to it, but as we grow older our energy and time for this kind of stuff inevitably wears thin :( I got my revenge on several games likes that 20 years later lol

[@BricksonUSA]

THIS needs to be on the eshop.

[@Anonymous-lp9hk]

+unused channel It must be in it

[@Quicktwister]

It’s on NES Switch Online!

[@Rhihad]

Only briefly played the game as a kid, but the music certainly stuck with me. Definitely a highlight from NES era. Even the Nintendo produced games couldn't come close to this, well and a few other games.

[@cassperhc]

wow, i played this game when i was like 5 years old, 25 years later i still love the soundtrack im stiil a gamer but i feel old :P

[@RainMan34]

Surprised I'd never played this one before, Looks awesome Great tunes

[@StarBoy62]

If Mindscape (the company who published that crappy NES game of the Terminator) didn't obtain the rights of the Terminator, the early 90's could've been the heyday for Sunsoft when they made other good movie-based games which are Batman and Gremlins 2.

[@EYTPS]

+StarBoy62 I do think Rare's Nightmare on Elm Street is really good, but I wonder what would happen if Sunsoft made that game.

[@StarBoy62]

+Dumi the Sandwich Sunsoft developed and released 2 NES games in the same year of 1990. Batman AND Gremlins 2. Journey to Silius was also released in 1990 but it was only published by Sunsoft. Silius is from the same creator as Blaster Master. So are you really saying that it would've been difficult for Sunsoft to handle three movie licenses in the same year despite Silius being developed by a different company?

[@theprofessorjg]

had to pay bills...

[@blind_t2]

While we talking movie based games, if Konami couldn’t get rights to Simpson’s, imagine what the games would’ve been like had sunsoft got rights. I mean, BTTF as well. Had SS got rights to the BTTF games, Simpson’s games, we would’ve had some good home games for these franchises.

[@animalchandler]

I was just thinking "Those robots really look like terminators." Go figure.

[@YuTheWorld]

really love this!!

[@ZaOneMf]

Level 2 ost is awesome

[@Poe-007]

I remember watching my older cousins play this game... I tried playing it but I was like 4 or 5 years old and wasn’t too good at it. Love this game

[@Silvester2K]

Great game with amazing sountrack

[@collectiblesource3902]

Got this as part of a NES collection today and I had never heard of it. It gave me terminator vibes and I came here and the comment section did not disappoint.

[@duanebonney]

Thank you for uploading this. Brings back fond memories.

[@Pimpeaux]

This game is overall very clean. It's got nice looking graphics, everything feels on point, and the soundtrack is one of the best on the system. With that said though, I'd be lying if I said that I play it very often. There's just something about it that's pretty repetitive overall, not to mention how insanely difficult it is!

[@TheBlackFrog79]

Pimpeaux Not so difficult. I beated the game when I was 12 years old.

[@richardgurney1844]

I know what you mean - having just watched the playthrough the stages don't really have much variety. Things only really shake up in the final stage when suddenly we get an autoscroll, and conveyor belts etc

[@richardkeith1168]

the music is amazing

[@AzzRushman]

Damn, this game has such a banger soundtrack, I just happened to hear a few seconds of a song and thought I should look for the actual game to see how it was. What a hidden gem.

[@wayward_identity]

that music... just a piece of art.

[@chuquiii]

The music is Insane

[@videogamephenomhd]

An elusive game, but an amazing soundtrack.

[@Sega_is_all_i_cd]

I had this game when I was a kid and thought it was hard and didn't appreciate it for its gameplay. And for it to be an 8 bit game on the Nes the music was raw!

[@xxdeadchannelxx]

Fun fact, this was originally gonna be a video game based off the movie The Terminator, but Sunsoft lost the license to it.

[@Sega_is_all_i_cd]

Syrinx 63 wow very interesting! Definitely has that Terminator vibe to it.

[@piwbenzyna]

8-bit masterpiece music

[@MegatronECS]

I beat this game for the first time yesterday :) man this game is hard, but it doesn't look that hard on youtube. Well played! I get frustrated at the mini boss in stage 3. That mini boss is annoying, and so is the droids from the chopper in stage 1. This is game that you have to know when and where the enemy appears in advance.

[@peartfaldo]

This game kicks ass. The scrolling box level was the toughest I thought.

[@_Devil_Hunter_]

The music's really good.

[@imFerguZ]

The japanese version is better, just for one thing, is the same game, but the character dont have that ridiculous head. check it! Btw, great music, we need a remastered Journey to Slius/ Raf World

[@amitkishun4821]

One of the best game ever made for nes

[@ChaosFireball]

I remember staying up til 3 or 6 am to beat this game and still didn't beat it til I think 11 or 12 pm lol

[@agreedboarart3188]

I didn't know music could sound this good on an 8-bit console, holy shit.

[@KawaOnefoot]

des heures passés sur ce jeux lorsque j'étais gamin ^^

[@Disco_Tek]

Found this video solely because I wanted to hear that LVL 1 banger of a track... my childhood was awesome.

[@RickyIcecubes]

Cracks me up how pretty much all of these old NES games could be beaten from start to finish in 30 mins or less, yet it usually took me weeks of countless trial and error to finish one.

[@ChaosFireball]

This reminds me back in the days of fun. Lol the music is awesome

[@metalmat3651]

Sunsoft games always have amazing sound tracks

[@SamusKerrigan]

the sounds and music are so tokkyu shirei-shish, awesome

[@charmanderfan1]

the great sound track started almost immediately

[@RedTsarOldChannel-INACTIVE]

NES owners in 1990: is this Terminator? Sunsoft: well yes but actually no.

[@matthewandrews4448]

one of the best soundtracks ever done for a video game, bar none

[@eversosleight]

Definitely in the top 10 nes games for me. People always glow over Konami and Capcom and rightly so but Sunsoft is right there too.

[@ariruishalme4403]

The first stage ... The music is so freaking good. Loved this game when I was a child.. they should make a serious remake to this and keep the original sound track . Still best ever mDe

[@Elbethium]

we had a version, where the main charachter had a helmet. oh the memories

[@Ninjamohawk]

Right from the first stage you can tell this was originally a game based on the Terminator

[@EQOAnostalgia]

Still trying to figure out why this wasn't a SNES game. I look at the cover and i see hints of Star Wars levels of graphics, and the music is truly next gen for the hardware! Even the action screams SNES. Such a fantastic, late title on the system.

[@AlexDraco]

I think some of these sound effects were also used in the Fester's Quest game (notably the gunfire sound and the item collecting sound).

[@stephenison5703]

better than all the terminator games 👍

[@grandygon]

the bgm totally kick ass!

[@chrislowe2793]

SUNSOFT made games but many good ones (like this one) was over looked. It’s great game overall. The music game play and even thr graphics were good. A better game than The Terminator.

[@Ohris]

Such good music.... Gotta get this one... a bit expensive though.

[@Meauss]

Ohris Definitely worth $35, which is what it's going for at the moment (Aug 16, 2015).

[@ignaciocue]

A guy in New York sold it to me for $5.

[@RoddyDev]

@Mister Zap It's not the same thing as playing it on the real hardware.

[@oscwavcommentaccount]

@Mister Zap FBI open up!

[@vio2112]

Available on the Switch now! Well, as long as you have a Nintendo Online membership. :)

[@ryanperrault8174]

This OST is so good. It's like it you took Megaman + Terminator, and then removed the Terminator license. (pretty much what it is)

[@righteousone3987]

Yes if i had the money i would definitely bring this back...

[@Vazlist]

BEST soundtrack of any NES game!

[@johnrowen4604]

Ugh I really want to get this game !!

[@bolukefan337]

That's because this game was originally gonna be a Terminator game, but Sunsoft got their license yanked from them after the game was mostly done- cheers!

[@fidelolivera8634]

Gracias por jugar este tipo de juegos.

[@saulocpp]

Yes, search for Akumajou Densetsu. The japanese 72pin connection allowed the use of additional chips in the cartridge PCB, but the north-american 60pin cartridges made this impossible. That's why some features are only present in the japanese version of games. See CV3 for yourself.

[@tommikoistinen2321]

My favorite NES game of all time!

[@amitkishun4821]

One of the games that spawned the future of gaming

[@Maetch01]

So let's see... Stage 1 - War-torn future LA Stage 2 - Resistance hideout under invasion Stage 3 - Skynet complex, before Kyle warps through time Stage 4 - The police station, maybe? A bit overkill to destroy Sarah Conner if so Stage 5 - The Steel Mill, obviously

[@Augoeides32]

Oh wow, never knew this existed. You can really feel how Blaster Master influenced this game, from the music to the visuals. I should grab it some day, and try it. Or maybe they'll dump it on the Switch NES play sometime soon, and then I can play it legally.

[@coolbluelights]

The explosion sounds and powerups sound just like the ones in Blaster Master

[@coolbluelights]

Yep I know

[@Iamdr3wski3]

Sounds like contra

[@DRMegaone]

THIS WAS MY SHIIIIT! MY HEART! IF YOU'RE HEAR CUZ SEARCHED FOR THIS AND YOU FOUND IT I KNOW YOU FEEL ME!