NES Longplay [028] Journey to Silius
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2010
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Played By: BimmyLee83
Reuploaded because of audio issue.
Many people probably already know this, but Sunsoft once owned the rights to the 'Terminator' movie license and this game was originally intended to make use of the license. It's made apparent by certain enemy types (namely the final boss) and pieces of music that Sunsoft had been making progress with the original 'Terminator' concept. Sometime during development, though, they lost the rights and had to re-edit the game into what we have now. When you look at the abysmal NES Terminator game we DID get, one can't help but wonder what could've been had Sunsoft been able to retain the license.
But no matter...Journey to Silius is a very engaging and challenging run and gun game, and features some of the best music I've heard on the NES. You start off with a simple hand gun (which has unlimited ammo) and gradually build an arsenal of more powerful guns the further you progress in the game. Since your other guns are limited in ammunition, it's best to save them for the boss battles. You find occasional health and ammo pickups upon killing enemies and you'll be needing LOTS of both. Thankfully, Stage 4 was generous with health pickups. The final stage is unforgiving. There are no enemies, but as soon as you start, the screen will begin scrolling to the right and you have to keep up with it, all the while making your way over and through all the obstacles and pits to the end. This stage also requires precise timing in a few areas or you're dead. Make it as perfect as you can because there are no health pickups here and you have two final bosses to fight at the end. Good luck! ;) -
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The music is so good.
I agree.
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.
yep just bought this game for my nes
Kimmo Laine you forgot bucky o'hare in the list
+lurifix Yeah, and first stage music was used in a version of Sonic Metal Hyperdrive!
This will forever be the true Terminator game for me
You can take this one I'll take the Sega CD version
@Andoc No, T2: Judgement Day, by LJN does not exist
@@srujan00 not exist? Well, i think that game has some good points even it has some fatal flaws.
This is the Terminator game we all deserved.
This was actually intended to be terminater.
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.
Hope its been a good 11 years for you 😀
Such a banger too!
It’s been one of my favorite songs for 30 years. Stage 1/Final stage is great too
@@AlberTesla1024 LOL that would be good 😀👍
And insanely cool track too! It's part of my favorite classic games ost playlist.
My god, sun soft knew how to do a soundtrack...
... such a superb soundtrack.
+Scott Paxton agree
Just discovered this game because it's being added to Switch and... WHY IS THE MUSIC SO GOOD?!
Since my childhood, i have The same question 😂
Most nes & snes games had the best soundtracks.
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
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.
Here because of switch too
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
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.
Indeed, friend! Totally agreed.
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.
Back to these days, if you saw an ending of a game, you were a beast !
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 :)
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.
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.
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
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"
MrVillasantos one of the best feeling!
I love Mexican men. So hot.
@@JT-ss6si k
I feel the same way buddy.
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!
How epic are those 8-bit drums though! What a soundtrack!
This game has one most amazing soundtracks i have heard
Sunsoft made great nes games.
rellik187redrum fester's quest ala avgn's review and my youth was a turd but yeah batman was really good
+scir 91 Don't forget Blaster Master.
+moviemetalhead that's the game that I based my comment on,lol
+rellik187redrum That's cool. Batman, MB, JtS all great music.
Godoftoasters never heard of that title, what's it like?
God, all these years later and this music is still sooooo good. Love it!
2022 and it still slaps.
best 8 bits song !
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
Man, this game's music is good. Kodaka was a master composer with the NES sound chip.
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.
I miss this game so much, been looking for ages. It's as much of a beast as it was all those years ago
19:24 That jump haha. It made me do a knee jerk reaction as if I was playing the game for a moment.
Was searching for this comment :D same
Lol 😂
that music makes me cry :'-) so many memories...
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!
Arent you confusing it with Blaster Master?
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
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!
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.
Finally found you! A long lost game in my memory! Love this game! Music still kicks ass after all these years!
the famicom title was titled "Raf World"
I still have the copy in pristine condition
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.
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.
one of the best nes osts and easily probably the most underrated and unknown one thats so great.
Level 2 ost is awesome
NES owners in 1990: is this Terminator?
Sunsoft: well yes but actually no.
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.
This game is awesome. Where the hell was it during my childhood? >:(
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!
@@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
Thank you for uploading this. Brings back fond memories.
I was just thinking "Those robots really look like terminators." Go figure.
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
Or in Japan, where it is called Raf World, perhaps Rough World was supposed to be the name.
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
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!
could listen to this all day. This brings back so many memories.
THIS needs to be on the eshop.
+unused channel It must be in it
It’s on NES Switch Online!
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.
Surprised I'd never played this one before, Looks awesome
Great tunes
8-bit masterpiece music
Great game with amazing sountrack
really love this!!
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.
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
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.
+StarBoy62 I do think Rare's Nightmare on Elm Street is really good, but I wonder what would happen if Sunsoft made that game.
+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?
had to pay bills...
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.
Found this video solely because I wanted to hear that LVL 1 banger of a track... my childhood was awesome.
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
the music is amazing
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.
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.
the sounds and music are so tokkyu shirei-shish, awesome
An elusive game, but an amazing soundtrack.
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.
that music... just a piece of art.
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.
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!
Pimpeaux Not so difficult. I beated the game when I was 12 years old.
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
One of the best game ever made for nes
I MUST PLAY IT! Thanks for the video.
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.
The music is Insane
This game kicks ass. The scrolling box level was the toughest I thought.
the great sound track started almost immediately
Sunsoft games always have amazing sound tracks
Incredible music!
des heures passés sur ce jeux lorsque j'étais gamin ^^
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!
Fun fact, this was originally gonna be a video game based off the movie The Terminator, but Sunsoft lost the license to it.
Syrinx 63 wow very interesting! Definitely has that Terminator vibe to it.
BEST soundtrack of any NES game!
I loved the sound at the very end too..before Sunsoft logo came up. :D
fantastic music!
This reminds me back in the days of fun. Lol the music is awesome
My favorite NES game of all time!
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
Right from the first stage you can tell this was originally a game based on the Terminator
one of the best soundtracks ever done for a video game, bar none
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.
Me and my friend just beat this today! It was blast for two days!
Gracias por jugar este tipo de juegos.
I didn't know music could sound this good on an 8-bit console, holy shit.
The music's really good.
Heh, you have such an exotic way of playing this. Not that I'm complaining or anything.
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
the bgm totally kick ass!
we had a version, where the main charachter had a helmet. oh the memories
Yes if i had the money i would definitely bring this back...
Awesome music great gameplay
Great play through 5/5
Underrated game.
The musics is awesome
First impression: A mix between MegaMan and Metal Slug.
Love and own this game.
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
The opening theme kicks ass!!!
Available on the Switch now! Well, as long as you have a Nintendo Online membership. :)
Awesome tunes