The History of Rastan Saga - Arcade documentary - ラスタンサーガ - 2024

I hope you are well patman. I miss the videos get well soon man!

Hey Pat! It’s been 3 weeks I’m curious if you are okay? Just checking in because I can’t wait for the next video!

Hey Pat!! Haven't seen an upload in a couple weeks. Just checking in to say I hope all is well my friend!

Nasty Queefy Goodness

I love this game. I still play it at a local arcade on retro arcades with multiple games on each of them. The rope jumps in round 2 over the fire are ridiculously hard but otherwise great game.

Love this game, way ahead of it's time

There was a Rastan game at my local movie theater where I grew up in the 80’s. Good memories.

Those Outrun cabinets are probably pretty valuable these days 💰💰

Rastan Saga is fit Sega Master System and Sega Game Gear.😮

Hi pmqc never played raston but i have now. And im glad i did cheers pal 🤣🤣👍👍

Ted DeBiase lucky you , Great Video Oh by the way there's a brilliant guy in the UK Kim Justice I asked him to review a game sires called REPTON I hope he gets round to it please reply to this comment

this game was awesome on the early/mid 1980s. music was great. I didn't really play it as it was too hard but my older brother was good at it and I wastched him play.

They should make a Rastan 4.

The proper maid forgot her bra in the cave? May be she doesn't even own one. Her slip was also very tiny. I suppose she just couldn't afford larger garments. That poor thing.

I had rastan for the sega master,i traded my aztec adventure for it ,i was so happy to finally play rastan

so...did you thank your local congressman for the rad art ? lol

I’m embarrassed to say I missed out on this one, I’ll have to give it a try here soon! Another fantastic vid my friend, hope you’re feeling better! ❤️🎮

Thanks for the vid. When this came out I'd just started martial arts training, and my local arcade had just started renting VHS tapes. Those were the days. I rented a lot of Brucesploitation flicks.

I never had much access to arcades back in the 80s, so it wasn't unusual for me to get copies of games for the C64 and not even know that they were arcade ports until much later. Such is the case with Rastan. I liked the C64 version, especially the music, but I never got very far in it. Mine didn't have a trainer and I just wasn't that good at it.

When the Amiga was still active, Taito ran two-page ads in magazines advertising the upcoming Amiga games, Bubble Bobble, Renegade, Sky Shark, and Rastan. I really wanted Rastan and of course, that's the only one of the four that DIDN'T come out!

When I got a Windows system that could emulate the Turbografx-16, one of the first games I tried was Rastan Saga.II. I was quite disappointed to discover that it was a different game. Not only that, in my opinion, it was inferior to the original in every way. It didn't even have vertically scrolling levels. I probably could have emulated the arcade version with MAME, but at the time, I didn't want to deal with trying to set it up and find the proper ROMs for it.

I've since played the arcade version in MAME and in various compilations under emulation. It looks and sounds great, but I still suck at it. :)

As for the MS-DOS and Apple IIgs ports, they look like they're playing too fast. Maybe that's the speed they're supposed to play at, but to me, it looks like the enemies are all moving too fast.

Great Video about a great series of games !
I just have to add that in the 2 times you mention Frazetta ,the artworks you show arent Frazetta Artworks.The Second is by Ken Kelly,cant remember the Arists name of the first one atm

played it back in the 80's when i was a teen, now 50 and still a favourite, though i find it hard to get to 4th stage now days.

So I genuinely loved this one and it had me sharing it with my friends but I remembered an odd arcade situation regarding another game.

This was the Super Mario Bros. cabinet. I only saw it once at an arcade one city over from where I lived. I watched my sister play it until world 3-1 or 3-2. Suddenly halfway through the map was a void that there was no chance of advancement. She wasted her earned lives jumping into this unnatural pit over and over until it was game over.

I’ve wondered if the arcade version was rigged or this was a bug she dealt with. Maybe you played this one in arcades back in the day and know the truth. I saw plenty of Mario Bros. cabinets but the Super Mario one just this once.

Rastan was the first arcade machine I put my quarter into at Captain Video in 1987. The soundtrack hooked me in immediately when I heard it blaring louder than any other cabinet at the time.

Brilliant version for the SMS there, the FM soundtrack is amazing.

The main theme is perfection and has also been living rent free in my head since 1987.

It's odd the Amiga didn't get a proper port back then.

That game was awesome.. But gets insanely difficult later

Rastan what is best for the ZX Spectrum?
To crush your enemies twice as slow when they show up on screen. To see them hidden in the monochrome background before you! And to hear the Quifs of the game!
Rastan that is not good, better watch this video & play it on another home console!

btw, hoping for an update to Jungle Hunt. I remember so may versions of that game...so much, i am not sure which was the original :)

one thing about the c64, lot of games were either bad in gameplay or graphice, or even sound, but those ones, bad looking or playing, would have awesome music to it. I remember so many games i seen with neat music that was nice to listen to.

I had never heard of this, or if I did then I paid no attention to it. It looks like something I would have tried.

The SOB who didn't quality test the C64 version is a POS. The number of hours I wasted trying to beat this game I can never get back.

Fantastic video. This is a game that I remember playing in the arcades and I still love it to this day. The music is spot on and the gameplay keeps you coming back for more. I’ve nearly completed it but not quite. Looks like I need to come back for more Rastan!!

You don't jump higher with a longer button push and there are 7 songs. Opening song (not in the US version) Main theme, castle, boss fight, level clear, final boss fight and the ending theme.

I've got Patman fever. I'm going outta my mind. Thanks for your efforts once again, Patman QC.

The music on the game gear version sounded cool

Notification Squad!!! :D

Yes remember playing this in the tiki hut of the holiday inn…had so many other games that truly cemented my love of arcade games like shinobi and double dragon…so many memories…times we could never have again today

Interesting that both conversions sound great on the 2 machines which had a Bob Yannes designed sound chip(64,IIgs)

Maria Whittaker!!!!

Now I know where Volgar the Viking got its stuff from! The similarities between it and Rastan are pretty clear.

Rastan was amazing in the arcade

This was one of the very first arcade machines that I bought way back in 1996. I got it off of Craigslist for $80 non-working. All that it needed was two fuses and it has worked flawlessly ever since. It gets a good amount of play in the arcade when we have company.

I had (and still have) the c64 version. It was rock hard so I never knew it was unbeatable, unless that was the reason I stopped! It was never my favourite game but I used to fire it up every so often and you know why...

Yes... the music.

Been in my head for decades.

I guess the stuff was removed from US to avoid Conan IP clash?

Great video - earned a welll deserved sub from me.

There were a few highlights of this video for me. The MSDOS port has the best graphics I've ever seen in a EGA game and it seems that might've pipped Commander Keen to being the first scrolling platform game on the PC. Why does no-one ever mention that!? The Apple IIGS port is the best Apple IIGS arcade port I've seen so amazing work Novalogic for doing those ports. The other highlight of this video was learning of Warrior Blade which I hope is supported by MAME so I can check that out.

Speaking of MAME, this video was missing my fave Rastan fact. Rastan was the first 16 bit / m68k arcade game emulated by MAME, hence a significant milestone in MAME and arcade emulation.

I wasn't surprised to see Barbarian get mentioned. Barbarian is currently getting ported to the open source Uzebox console so I look forward to playing that soon.

*Rah-Stahn👍🏾

Rastan 2, also know as: Look how they massacred my boy.

I couldn't get past round2.

Had the Sega Master System version, which was quite well done, IMO. Got to the point that I could beat it on one life.