Matt went on to be quite succesful as a producer. After the C64 music he went on to write and produce his own dance music on an independant label. He DJ'd for a bit in clubs. He was a part of Motiv8 whose most famous track was Rockin For Myself. He's worked on remixes for Pulp (Disco 2000). Later on he was part of the production company who won an Ivor Novello award for Cher - I Believe. He is still working as a producer today. He still doesnt wear a belt.
At 45 years old, I can still get goosebumps when listening to it. Whether at work, during training, while drunk, or anytime. I'm utterly thankful that I was given the possibility to experience it.
There are a lots of games with fantastic music/intro.. I remember fernandez must die or platoon, red heath, death wish 3,x-out.. I owned a c64, msx, spectrum zx48.. very nice era.
man... I was 10 years old in kuwait in gulfwar 1990 living without electricity for 7 month's, the moment the Iraqy army got defeated, and the moment when electricity came back i START dad Commodore 64 and TURNED THE VOLUME TO HIGHEST TO LISTEN TO THIS. listening to this again reminds me of the happy moment after war. :) thanks for upload
This tune was very ahead of its time, especially it being so long and extensive for the C64. It's like the Blue Monday of video game music. Matt Gray is definitely one of the most underrated composers of all time and deserves more praise.
I was just thinking of something... game music isn't just background ambience, it's also a reflection of the main character's spirit, personality, and skill! Since you can't talk to the ninja, this music is the best way you can relate to him
I'm a massive and unashamed Rob Hubbard fan but he's one of several absolute legends on the SID scene. These Matt Gray tracks for Last Ninja 2 are some of the best compositions I've heard.
Man.. after over three decades this glorious piece of music still gets me all up in arms right away. Makes me want to grab that ol' katana and beat up some ninjas.
This song, and the song for first level on last ninja 1, is.. well to me at least, the best c64 music. Im so impressed at how well time has treated this song. Its a classic. Timeless.
D3thpool Yeah in 2014 im still sitting here getting goosebumps by these songs. The melodies are timeless, probably the most amazing that has hit my ears.
As the C64 was dying, Jon Wells was out there trying to save it. This was one of Jon's big efforts to try and save the scene, and bring one final Last Ninja to the C64. Jon created a series of demos, and music was created to try and convince System 3 that they could make one final game in the series. Jon was planning to allow the Ninja to interact more with the background of the game, and be able to walk on the grass. .
I had forgotten just how good this ingame score is. Matt Gray made some unbelievable tunes for System 3 back in the day. Check out his Dominator score also.
Consider that each level was only about 50 kb in size and the programmers somehow cramped a slew of awesome hi-res graphics and a fantastic music track into each of them.
The programmers at System 3, really knew how to push the C64 to it's limits. It's amazing how they managed to make these games, with such limitations that the hardware posed in the 80's.. Some amazing tunes for sure, the last ninja series is really epic, and should be in every serious collectors inventory:D
I am with you, man. LN 2, LN, Yie Ar Kung Fu, those golden days. Later on, only the EVE Online soundtrack really made an impact on me, but otherwise most gaming music goes in one ear and out the other.
@@MudTheGamer Mass Effect trilogy has some nice musics. But where are those, of which you can whistle like super mario? Is the idea "simple is beautiful" dead? I am sure some can do this. Make game music great again! (for able to whistle, the genre is quite great).
There's no words to describe this ridiculously awesome piece of music. I just can't find any. But it's probably my favorite tune of all times. And it's metal!! \m/
+Matt Gray Sir, you are too epic to address directly. But I have to dare to, because your Driller tune's surreal atmosphere has become a MAJOR part of how I perceive music. Thank you a million times. Yours sincerely, Jakub Krcma
Grew up on various C64 games and i still play them occasionally (thru emulator, but better than nothing). This soundtrack is easily one of my favorite game music tracks along those of games like Ghosts'n'Goblins, Forbidden Forest and Enigma Force.
Randomly started listening The Last Ninja musics here on YT and got here. I played TLN2 at the time, but I didn't remember this one. And HOLY SHIT, this is so friggin' awesome. Amazing piece of music.
Doesn't get much better than this, absolute classic tune for the C64. C64 would have probably failed without master musicians/coders like hubbard and gray
"Beat up ninjas"? You WERE the ninja - you beat up a random selection of 80s gang members and drug manufacturers...I don't recall a single enemy ninja. Did you ever even play this game? That sustained bass note in the beginning still "gets" me, even to this day I remember the first time I played this game (got it as a Christmas present).
The start and main melodic line is really awesome, but what do we have next... It seems unbelievable how many marvellous "small" melodies Matt intervowen into one "computer tune". 0:50-1:21, 2:07-2:22, 4:57-5:40. And the best part 3:32-4:26 is utterly brilliant. Masterfull melody. It sounds to me like some "Honor theme" or "meditation theme". I see one man gathering his inner power to fullfill his quest. Last ninja vs the whole city. Music heals our souls...
Therefore not being restricted to just moving on the path. This was shown in a test demo of one of the Last Ninja 2 levels, where the Ninja could actually go on the grass. A map was even created of one of the levels proposed by Jon to be in the game, but sadly System 3 turned down Jon's proposal to bring the game to the C64 (Even with Jon willing to take the whole project on himself), so Jon moved on.
For me personally its definitely the best C-64 tune ever. But there are hundreds more out there that deserve this title as well! The SID will live on forever! And that is because of you guys.. That are able to program it & those who love listening to it! 8-bit for the world! :D
Love it. It's so varied with many different sounds. Just amazing from start to finish but the real highlight for me is from 2:07 and the scale slide. Awesome.
This has to be one of the most badass pixelated tunes I've ever heard in my life! I didn't even grow up in the time period when this game came out and yet I still find it incredible.
I remember 3 things happening when this game and the original came out in 1988 &1987 1.C64's sales went through the roof 2.After about 4-5 years of battling it out with other 8-bit computers like the Zx Spectrum and Amstrad CPC 464 it was Confirmation that the C64 was the true king of ALL the 8-bit machines. No other 8-bit and even 16-bit versions could NOT come close to the quality of the C64 version. 3.The game achieved Legendary status very early on, a True milestone of a computer game.
That stupid inferior ZX Speccy was no match for the far superior C64 mate! ;) All my mates who owned a 64 where laughing about it. We called the Speccy owners poor beggars haha.
Hey the Spectrum was a great little 8-bit and when the 128k version came the tunes improved massively. This is a classic tune but the Spectrum and Amstrad and the 64 all have good and bad games for each system. 128k home brew games for the spectrum have some cracking little tunes in 2019. Try redshift for example. Class!
@@stewsretroreviews This is true, though the AY chip never quite matched the SID. And the C64 is prob the only system in history when a bad game sold by the truck-load just because gamers wanted to hear the music! If I saw Martin Galway, Chris Huelsbeck, Steve Rowlands, the Maniacs of Noise (Tel, Bjerregaard etc), Matt Gray etc then the game was basically a must-buy!!
@@OceanLoader totally agree with you there. Some games had class music with average gameplay on the C64, but that could be said for all 8 bits at the time.
I did not live this time I am 35. but 15 years ago I met this magnificent team called Commodore 64 and when 10 years ago I played this game I felt very identified with this music, and from there that whenever I can try to play it, this music is amazing with such limited hardware to today and They played music 10 times better than now. My congratulations to the creator of this music
I remeber it like yesterday... go inside, hit the button on the wall, trapdoor opens... get going ... need shurikans..... one of the best C64 Games ever... I think loved the sewer - soundtrack too but the beginning of this song is really great ...
kids these days got near real life video rendering games and I still think the happiest days of my life was when I got a disk drive for my c64 and last ninja 2!!! Damn I am old :/
I was 14 year old when i got this game for the C64 tape version and the year was 1988 and Last Ninja 2 was just released . I played all Last ninja games and i still loves them. The Last Ninja: Commodore 64 (1987). Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance: Commodore 64 (1988), Last Ninja 3: Real Hatred Is Timeless: Commodore 64 (1991),
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45yrs old female here and this is still amazing just can't beat it
46. Bought my Commodore 64 in 1988.
One of the greatest symphonies of electronic music, ever composed!
5/5
Absolutely
It was and is a Blast!
Matt went on to be quite succesful as a producer. After the C64 music he went on to write and produce his own dance music on an independant label. He DJ'd for a bit in clubs. He was a part of Motiv8 whose most famous track was Rockin For Myself. He's worked on remixes for Pulp (Disco 2000). Later on he was part of the production company who won an Ivor Novello award for Cher - I Believe. He is still working as a producer today. He still doesnt wear a belt.
I am 31 years old , and i still listen to this track during my workdays. enough said. 11/10
I'm 44 years old, and I still listen to this track during my workdays. 12/10.
At 45 years old, I can still get goosebumps when listening to it. Whether at work, during training, while drunk, or anytime. I'm utterly thankful that I was given the possibility to experience it.
I never realised an 80s video game track could sound this detailed and epic
Try listening to C64 Skate or Die intro…
There are a lots of games with fantastic music/intro.. I remember fernandez must die or platoon, red heath, death wish 3,x-out.. I owned a c64, msx, spectrum zx48.. very nice era.
man... I was 10 years old in kuwait in gulfwar 1990 living without electricity for 7 month's, the moment the Iraqy army got defeated, and the moment when electricity came back i START dad Commodore 64 and TURNED THE VOLUME TO HIGHEST TO LISTEN TO THIS.
listening to this again reminds me of the happy moment after war. :)
thanks for upload
awesome
the commodore and the turning up;)
Thanks for sharing this. I love this song, too.
You're Kuwaiti?
Jingoism is one hell of a drug.
For the people who clicked on "Dislike" thought it said "Dis I like"
Welll...
Now you can't dislike this song...
What a vintage comment. +1
😂 Very good… 👌🏻
This song still kicks the hardest bands right out of the frame.
Oh my gosh!!! Only 5 seconds in and I'm already getting chills.
This tune was very ahead of its time, especially it being so long and extensive for the C64. It's like the Blue Monday of video game music. Matt Gray is definitely one of the most underrated composers of all time and deserves more praise.
I am amazed how they fit all these nice long games and tunes into 32 kilo bytes of memory!
Just didnt want to skip the song. Me and my brother, year was 1980's and early 90's. We grew up with this. High too all people who been there. Cheers.
I was just thinking of something... game music isn't just background ambience, it's also a reflection of the main character's spirit, personality, and skill!
Since you can't talk to the ninja, this music is the best way you can relate to him
Im 50years old and when I was kid i was played all the last ninja games. Was one of my favorite series.
Another great game was exploding fist.
11 years old, C64-Junkie with Datasette, therefore I heard these fantastic Tracks on heavy Rotation! Many thanx for uploading those amazing music!!
Maybe the best long C64 tune. I had that rubber shuriken and a black ninja hat..
To me it's a tossup between this, and the Driller loader tune
64 likes.. I like this, but I ain't touchin' it
69 also good lolololololol
No way that's awesome.
Good times on the c64 and Amiga 👍
I'm a massive and unashamed Rob Hubbard fan but he's one of several absolute legends on the SID scene. These Matt Gray tracks for Last Ninja 2 are some of the best compositions I've heard.
They are great, but they are also more than a little inspired by Tangerine Dreams
Don't compare, just enjoy 😉
I would throw Ben Daglish into the mix btw.
His work on LN1 is just amazing
i never get bored of this, easily one of the best osts ever, how the man created such layers of sound with basic hardware really is a marvel
This tune is fabulous! C64 at its best! And the original owns all remakes.
Still can't get over how amazing this track is
Man.. after over three decades this glorious piece of music still gets me all up in arms right away. Makes me want to grab that ol' katana and beat up some ninjas.
It's 2024 and it's still awesome
This song, and the song for first level on last ninja 1, is.. well to me at least, the best c64 music. Im so impressed at how well time has treated this song.
Its a classic. Timeless.
totally agree
D3thpool Yeah in 2014 im still sitting here getting goosebumps by these songs. The melodies are timeless, probably the most amazing that has hit my ears.
AGREEEE!!!
yes. number 1 & 2, in no particular order.
Nemesis the Warlock is the best c64 music to me.
Some of the best old school video GAME music PERIOD!!!!!!
As the C64 was dying, Jon Wells was out there trying to save it.
This was one of Jon's big efforts to try and save the scene, and bring one final Last Ninja to the C64.
Jon created a series of demos, and music was created to try and convince System 3 that they could make one final game in the series.
Jon was planning to allow the Ninja to interact more with the background of the game, and be able to walk on the grass. .
I know I am 12 years late with my reply but the C64 never died and will never die. :)
Amazing the tunes the gr8 C64 could crank out for the time! This has me doing KARATE in my room again! Dope Track!!!
I had forgotten just how good this ingame score is. Matt Gray made some unbelievable tunes for System 3 back in the day. Check out his Dominator score also.
Best game ever, best tune ever too, especially the ending starting from 04:57
Hair-raising classic... Arguably Matt Gray's best ever on the CMB64!
Still loving this tune, sadly when i was a kid back then i couldnt really figure this game out at all but the music stuck with me till today
hah all you needed was the game guide ^^
Saeid Yazdani yeah yeah, as if a hundred years ago game guides were accessible every where!!
How old are you? I am 36 and I ride my bike while I am listening to this. ✌
@@erfanakbary 36 aswell
You will never ever forget this Music . You will always remember till your last day. I love this game btw
One of the best tunes on the CBM 64 ever.
It rocks so freaking hard! Love it. Love it again.
Consider that each level was only about 50 kb in size and the programmers somehow cramped a slew of awesome hi-res graphics and a fantastic music track into each of them.
'hi-res'
What a great game this was, awesome music as well. It's a shame they don't make games or music like these anymore.
The programmers at System 3, really knew how to push the C64 to it's limits.
It's amazing how they managed to make these games, with such limitations that the hardware posed in the 80's.. Some amazing tunes for sure, the last ninja series is really epic, and should be in every serious collectors inventory:D
I have listened game music for about 20 years now. This is still the greatest and the best song, in this category, in a world.
I am with you, man. LN 2, LN, Yie Ar Kung Fu, those golden days. Later on, only the EVE Online soundtrack really made an impact on me, but otherwise most gaming music goes in one ear and out the other.
@@MudTheGamer Mass Effect trilogy has some nice musics.
But where are those, of which you can whistle like super mario? Is the idea "simple is beautiful" dead? I am sure some can do this.
Make game music great again!
(for able to whistle, the genre is quite great).
There's no words to describe this ridiculously awesome piece of music. I just can't find any. But it's probably my favorite tune of all times. And it's metal!! \m/
I've already started work on the remake of this track. www.c64audio.com/reformation.html
Matt Gray totally awesome to see the original composer make a comment. Your work inspired a generation!
Matt Gray Can't wait for it :D
+Matt Gray That's awesome!
+Matt Gray Sir, you are too epic to address directly. But I have to dare to, because your Driller tune's surreal atmosphere has become a MAJOR part of how I perceive music. Thank you a million times. Yours sincerely, Jakub Krcma
You're very welcome, Jakub. Glad it's one of your favourites.
The greatest song in the world. Period!
The Last Ninja - lives on in us all.
I met Matt Gray 2 days ago with Ben Daglish in Norway :D We are on same picture :D
Awesome!!!
He always appears to be so humble and modest. Hope you guys had fun!
ben daglish recently died...
holy shit really?
fuck that sucks i met him once and he was a really great guy
The last Ninja music is one of the very few C64 memories that i will never forget.
This is the good old days. Remember this well.
And this is the first game, the last ninja 2, why i love gamemusic so much. And than 17 Years later still hear and love it. Timeless!
Just to fix your comment - 28 years later
Absolutely incredible song.
Grew up on various C64 games and i still play them occasionally (thru emulator, but better than nothing). This soundtrack is easily one of my favorite game music tracks along those of games like Ghosts'n'Goblins, Forbidden Forest and Enigma Force.
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Just how can anyone dislike this?
Riff-tastic from start to finish. There's enough good stuff in this one track to make several.
Randomly started listening The Last Ninja musics here on YT and got here. I played TLN2 at the time, but I didn't remember this one.
And HOLY SHIT, this is so friggin' awesome. Amazing piece of music.
Never played it... never heard it... I F'N LOVE IT! :D
I am extremely impressed with the c64 soundtracks.
Doesn't get much better than this, absolute classic tune for the C64. C64 would have probably failed without master musicians/coders like hubbard and gray
"Beat up ninjas"? You WERE the ninja - you beat up a random selection of 80s gang members and drug manufacturers...I don't recall a single enemy ninja. Did you ever even play this game?
That sustained bass note in the beginning still "gets" me, even to this day I remember the first time I played this game (got it as a Christmas present).
The Ninja just watches from the bottom corner there, making sure you're rocking out to this chiptune masterpiece.
Best set of music in a C64 game. Matt Gray, where are you?! this game truly brings out the Ninja in all of us.
I still love it
wearing my c64 shirt right now and listen to this haha . Good old days I loved that game
maybe one of the best soundtracks in game history
Jeeeezus, i played this like 15-20 years ago, and i can still remember how i liked the advanced grapics in this game, and music is just everlasting!
you never get tired of this!
brilliant post. Something on tv randomly triggered this memory bank that has been shuttered for 20+ years. Exactly what I wanted to hear! Thanks.
The start and main melodic line is really awesome, but what do we have next... It seems unbelievable how many marvellous "small" melodies Matt intervowen into one "computer tune". 0:50-1:21, 2:07-2:22, 4:57-5:40. And the best part 3:32-4:26 is utterly brilliant. Masterfull melody. It sounds to me like some "Honor theme" or "meditation theme". I see one man gathering his inner power to fullfill his quest. Last ninja vs the whole city.
Music heals our souls...
Legendary
Therefore not being restricted to just moving on the path. This was shown in a test demo of one of the Last Ninja 2 levels, where the Ninja could actually go on the grass.
A map was even created of one of the levels proposed by Jon to be in the game, but sadly System 3 turned down Jon's proposal to bring the game to the C64 (Even with Jon willing to take the whole project on himself), so Jon moved on.
For me personally its definitely the best C-64 tune ever. But there are hundreds more out there that deserve this title as well! The SID will live on forever! And that is because of you guys.. That are able to program it & those who love listening to it! 8-bit for the world! :D
omg this music, for today sounds very good
I say simply one word! YYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!
Maybe it's just my imagination, but after staring at that screen for a minute or two I could have sworn I saw the ninja wink at me.
He was doing it sporadically
4:30 ...AND IT COMES BACK! That's pretty epic.
Love it. It's so varied with many different sounds. Just amazing from start to finish but the real highlight for me is from 2:07 and the scale slide. Awesome.
...and 20 years later I am sitting at work, listening to this fab music. It was perfect back then. And it still is! =)
Still so mean that it shuts you up with a roundkick in the face.
the sawtooths on this thing are fucking killin it
Got this back in late '89 and used to spend more time listening to the tunes doing air guitar than playing the game! Superb Matt Gray track this!
My C64 was very hot inside because i played this game over and over again!
This has to be one of the most badass pixelated tunes I've ever heard in my life! I didn't even grow up in the time period when this game came out and yet I still find it incredible.
Thanks for uploading this!
I remember 3 things happening when this game and the original came out in 1988 &1987
1.C64's sales went through the roof
2.After about 4-5 years of battling it out with other 8-bit computers like the Zx Spectrum and Amstrad CPC 464 it was Confirmation that the C64 was the true king of ALL the 8-bit machines. No other 8-bit and even 16-bit versions could NOT come close to the quality of the C64 version.
3.The game achieved Legendary status very early on, a True milestone of a computer game.
That stupid inferior ZX Speccy was no match for the far superior C64 mate! ;)
All my mates who owned a 64 where laughing about it. We called the Speccy owners poor beggars haha.
Hey the Spectrum was a great little 8-bit and when the 128k version came the tunes improved massively. This is a classic tune but the Spectrum and Amstrad and the 64 all have good and bad games for each system. 128k home brew games for the spectrum have some cracking little tunes in 2019. Try redshift for example. Class!
@@stewsretroreviews This is true, though the AY chip never quite matched the SID. And the C64 is prob the only system in history when a bad game sold by the truck-load just because gamers wanted to hear the music! If I saw Martin Galway, Chris Huelsbeck, Steve Rowlands, the Maniacs of Noise (Tel, Bjerregaard etc), Matt Gray etc then the game was basically a must-buy!!
@@OceanLoader totally agree with you there.
Some games had class music with average gameplay on the C64, but that could be said for all 8 bits at the time.
C64 was the best, no debate. BUT Manic Miner ZX is legend ! Respect.
I think the first Last Ninja still takes the cake what comes to C64 music.
Monty on the Run? Auf Wiedersehen Monty? Commando???
this song is a beast
I've had this as a ringtone for almost ten years. Awesome track!
It's been ten years, still go it?
How did the commodore pump out so many awesome soundtracks? TRON must live within.
Golden days
This track just brings me back to the 80s and 90s
this is just great, didn´t think i ever would hear the OST again.
I did not live this time I am 35. but 15 years ago I met this magnificent team called Commodore 64 and when 10 years ago I played this game I felt very identified with this music, and from there that whenever I can try to play it, this music is amazing with such limited hardware to today and They played music 10 times better than now. My congratulations to the creator of this music
Behold THE power of THE Sid chip !!!
this is just fantastic, a true masterpeice and probably the best c64 track of all time
Hell yeah ivebeen looking for this all day :)
I remeber it like yesterday... go inside, hit the button on the wall, trapdoor opens... get going ... need shurikans..... one of the best C64 Games ever... I think loved the sewer - soundtrack too but the beginning of this song is really great ...
incredible
it really takes me back
one of the best soundtracks ever!
This is so..... grooovy.... 🙂
A truely awesome composition.
How great was moving your character to this genial,great music.Man felt like a real last ninja in the real world.
Awesome game and music for it's time, loved it back in the day!
this and giana sisters tune = pure awesomeness
link that one?
ruclips.net/video/Ne-09Bs_bRo/видео.html
And Turrican 1 and 2!
kids these days got near real life video rendering games and I still think the happiest days of my life was when I got a disk drive for my c64 and last ninja 2!!!
Damn I am old :/
I was 14 year old when i got this game for the C64 tape version and the year was 1988 and Last Ninja 2 was just released .
I played all Last ninja games and i still loves them.
The Last Ninja: Commodore 64 (1987).
Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance: Commodore 64 (1988),
Last Ninja 3: Real Hatred Is Timeless: Commodore 64 (1991),
I always had a ZX Spectrum growing up and was always bias. That said, I'll admit this blows anything away my 128k could ever do
Wonderful music …. nostalgia