"Last Ninja 2 built on the template we created for the original. The Integrator tool allowed me to overlay and assemble chunks of multicoloured art that I made using a mouse. The isometric 1:2 angle was unusual and challenging to animate. We didn't multiplex the sprites, so the ninja and his opponents shared the same torso and legs, with another sprite for the weapon and a 1-sprite colour overlay for the face, hands and enemy outfits. A shadow was also added to the characters in this sequel." -- Hugh Riley, graphic artist
This game looked, sounded and felt so ahead of it's time back then. It still is miles ahead of most c64 games at the time. And the music still kicks ass! This music was like metal to me back then,hahaha.
I remember reading the Zzap 64 review over and over again in the school summer holidays as I excitedly waited for this game to be released. When the postman finally delivered it I knew it was going to be amazing as soon as I heard that loading music. One of the few Commodore 64 games I ever completed!
I'd love to see a modernised version of these games, keep the same perspective and puzzle element, even that horrendous jump-timing (it took weeks, if not months for my brother and I to get past the bandstand and across that river)
@@jarodcollard5015 Only if the music is unchanged and that they ruined on the remakes of Amiga Monkey island, so that would have happened as well with LN if leaving it up to the game industry
Amazing game. I love at the start in the first few duels though. It seems ninjitsu is the art of kicking a man in the balls until he dies. Played this game when I was four-five. My dad never got past the helicopter in the office, and I got as far as the basement box jumping scene. So good to see it finished
So I have a weird question. Who played with Mirror's Edge (2008) ? At the end of the first map, we have to climp a ladder to the roof of a building. On top, at the let there is an even taller building, where our friend awaits. But we need to run forward and catch the helicopter as it flies away. Just like at about 12:18 here. Its either a coincidence, or the ME mapper took inspiration from this.
Don´t ask me why this game crossed my mind after so meany years - but I still love it! The music is awesome, especially the first song :-) Thanks for this walkthrough..
I have loads of nice memories playing this game back in the day,Even now when I load and play this game its still one of the best C64 beats em ups around!
this is so nostalgic, last time i saw this game was when i was about 10 years old watching my brother playing this. now im watching and im 30 years old, good times.
This game was magical to me back then, mesmerizing graphics, sounds and gamplay. I can proudly say i finished it and i think i was around 10 years old when i did.
Yep, same here! No internet back then to lookup walkthroughs and tips when you were stuck on a game! I was about 9 years old and managed to complete it as well, felt on top of the world seeing Kunitoki get captured in the end!
Wow , one of my favorite C64. For its time was a impressive game, for enigma,combat,story and music !! I was 8/9 years old more or less.. great time. I played all chapters ,i remember the last ninja 3 was only on disk. Anyway i loved the era when Commodore was out ( c16,c20,c64,c128, msx , amstrad, zx spectrum ,olivetti prodest 128) .. very good time and never coming back..
Memories, C64, Arcade Games, Ninja Movies, Karate Kid Movies, Rambo, USSR, $ has much more value, no internet, people likes to socialize. Those were the days. Time flies.
I'd 100% go back if I could. We truly didn't realize how good we had it then til it was gone. We were so anxious for the future to arrive, and once it did, we realized some things are better left simple.
"In 1988, I created the Last Ninja 2 soundtrack for System 3. I started with the Central Park tracks, which was important in order to stamp some sort of 'sound' on the game. It basically took from mid-January until early April to finish. It's about as big a project as you would want to undertake, but everything just seemed to work without any real hitches. I was given a fairly free hand to produce what I thought would be most suitable, and, luckily, every time I took in new tracks for each level, I got the thumbs up. It was a great time for me personally, to suddenly be working full time on C64 music. I was almost 18, but I had no real worries in the world beyond whether I could afford to buy a better car." -- Matt Gray, musician
Great music, really decent animation, and lots of nice work in creating the layouts! I really liked the added touch of having to wait for the crossing light at the curbs to progress... Safety first, even for Ninjas! lol!
Yeah¡¡¡¡ Back to 1988 again, I feel like a Kid again ready to take down all the Guards with my Amazing Ninja Weapons and Techniques. Although it was pretty hard sometimes It's my all-time Favourite Video Game
The look and sound of this game are both so solid great. I have to play this at some point, I expect it to take time to beat it, but I definitely will. This game manages to feel like a Shô Kosugi ninja film with all the American city surroundings, especially that bad guy's house / offices area after the underground drug lab.
At last it will come modern versions of this classic soundtrack with "lost level" soundtrack with orginal SID made by Matt Gray Kickstarter is the place where to go NOW! (Nov 2014)
1:40 After picking up the staff, you can jump towards the left side - and if you reach the edge of the screen, you'll appear in the previous screen. It's faster and less risky than navigating through those nasty gaps again.
My favorite game of the era. But i just now realized that he never kills anyone, but always just knocks them out even with the sword? :D AND waits for the light to turn green. What a gentleman!
Less than 15 min! So great, dude!!! I remember in 5th class (1988) during big break (15 min) I always tried so hard to do it in our school's computer room, but I never made it... That's why I take drugs today, I think.
Epic game ! the best day of my life is the day when i bought the collectors edition and put on the ninja mask and threw the rubber shuriken in my mates face - the reason to have a 64 -and system 3 are still in the business with a great website !!
OK I played this so much a 10-year-old kid, and it's funny seeing how little through the game I actually got. Back then we had games like this, and other games like this - modern grand strategy didn't even exist. I really wasn't cut out for this kind of game, lol.
I remember playing this as a ten year old boy and only being able to reach one of the first levels at the park with the boat. So confusing was it at that time. I challenge any ten year old to pick up this game and try to beat it within a week. Impossible Graphics and synth sound were great for the time
I felt so cool when I managed to play this through. Must have been around 1988-1989. I never learned how to get through the burst of steam (the solution is simple as this video shows) but there is a bug in the game. With some effort and trying, you can walk through the pile of coal in the same room. Moreover, if you press "J", the joystick axis changes in a way that it makes running on the roof and jumping on the boxes easier. How in the hell did we learn that?
That store with the "DRUGS" sign on it, those damnable pushers aren't even trying to be subtle anymore. Also cops trying to kick you in the nuts for wearing pajamas... CLASSIC FUCKING NEW YORK.
This guy is exceptionally good at the game. For most it would take around a hour !!! A whole hour if you know what you are doing :) @@control_the_pet_population
awesome music awesome game. Remember it being a tad harder to play than that looked 👍 was it this game that came with the chucks and a rubber shrunken?
I played this on Sharp MZ-800, but with a few changes: 1. Colours and some ninjas were different. 2. It was without music. 3. In the "city" there were no ladies throwing things out of windows. 4. In the "sewers" there was no spider. 5. The fan in the "office" has to be stopped with a shurican in order to open the door next to it. 6. The steam in the "house of Shogun" had to be redirected by opening two valves.
"Last Ninja 2 built on the template we
created for the original. The Integrator
tool allowed me to overlay and assemble
chunks of multicoloured art that I made
using a mouse. The isometric 1:2 angle
was unusual and challenging to animate.
We didn't multiplex the sprites, so the
ninja and his opponents shared the same
torso and legs, with another sprite for
the weapon and a 1-sprite colour overlay
for the face, hands and enemy outfits.
A shadow was also added to the
characters in this sequel."
-- Hugh Riley, graphic artist
This game looked, sounded and felt so ahead of it's time back then. It still is miles ahead of most c64 games at the time. And the music still kicks ass! This music was like metal to me back then,hahaha.
the music was effectively metal and punk... have you listened to the covers made by the "Fastloaders"? ruclips.net/video/ZYupKsqwDuM/видео.html
Even now it looks impressive. And I have never seen it before. Something about the nicely done perspective and fluid animations in such low res.
Game was so ahead of its time.
Was just gonna say that...
Plus probably one of the best soundtracks ever along with Katakis.
I don't think it was ahead of its time at all. It was about right where it should've been with games.
@@MystikWizard No,It was ahead of its time in every way.
these days we've GBs of memory and this game is what 64kb? still amazing...
Only 32kB I think. The rest was ROM (Basic interpreter etc).
you're probably right - I miss C64 days very much, I want to buy one for my Son, but not modern retro Commodore - but rather refurbished old boy!
Still one of the best 8 bit sound tracks in any game from the day...
o7
Ahh, Central Park Theme is timeless.
I remember reading the Zzap 64 review over and over again in the school summer holidays as I excitedly waited for this game to be released. When the postman finally delivered it I knew it was going to be amazing as soon as I heard that loading music.
One of the few Commodore 64 games I ever completed!
Me too :)
1988 ish
I completed this too, though I'm not sure how as there were no saves back then!?
Man I've been looking for a video of this game for ages! I can't believe how great the graphics were for the time.
Wow he made that look easy. I spent months, if not years trying to complete Last Ninja 2. Never managed it but what a great game
I'd love to see a modernised version of these games, keep the same perspective and puzzle element, even that horrendous jump-timing (it took weeks, if not months for my brother and I to get past the bandstand and across that river)
@@jarodcollard5015 Only if the music is unchanged and that they ruined on the remakes of Amiga Monkey island, so that would have happened as well with LN if leaving it up to the game industry
@@aleksanderh.5407Listen to Matt Grey's remakes of the music 👍
What a sound, what a great music compition, greetings from a last ninja nerd from germany.
Amazing game. I love at the start in the first few duels though. It seems ninjitsu is the art of kicking a man in the balls until he dies.
Played this game when I was four-five. My dad never got past the helicopter in the office, and I got as far as the basement box jumping scene. So good to see it finished
So I have a weird question. Who played with Mirror's Edge (2008) ?
At the end of the first map, we have to climp a ladder to the roof of a building. On top, at the let there is an even taller building, where our friend awaits. But we need to run forward and catch the helicopter as it flies away. Just like at about 12:18 here.
Its either a coincidence, or the ME mapper took inspiration from this.
My favourite game on the C64. The graphics were so awesome and the music inspired me a lot! I love it... best gamemusic ever!
Don´t ask me why this game crossed my mind after so meany years - but I still love it! The music is awesome, especially the first song :-) Thanks for this walkthrough..
i got to say the graphics look amazing and the musics awesome.
They really brought out the maximum from C64 in this game.
Masterpiece.
This game is so impressive. The developers were extremely innovative to make it that good with the hardware they had back then.
Good game. Excellent music.
I wanna go back in time...
After 20 years and popping up in my mind every now and again.......poke the boat with the stick!!!arggggg
oh man....yes I remember...can you imagine how hard it was for a little German child?
"poke the boat"....I'm like wtf?? 😊
lol took me months to work that out as a kid.
When i remember back, last ninja was the best game what you can get on c64.
The GFX was outstanding for that time...
Then you didn't play creatures.
I have loads of nice memories playing this game back in the day,Even now when I load and play this game its still one of the best C64 beats em ups around!
My alltime favourite game on the C64.
The best C64 soundtrack ever!! 🔥🔥🔥
This game is so awesome... And the music... Man, the trip is complete!
this is so nostalgic, last time i saw this game was when i was about 10 years old watching my brother playing this. now im watching and im 30 years old, good times.
Some game for an 8 bit game..the details and shadows so advanced and that soundtrack impeccable.. love it
"When I was a kid we played games where you had 1 life and every bird, insect and blade of grass was trying to murder you."
Hahaha, ruthless times indeed.
The ninja in the bottom right goes on a blinking frenzy when you win. It's like he's trying to communicate in code.
This game was magical to me back then, mesmerizing graphics, sounds and gamplay.
I can proudly say i finished it and i think i was around 10 years old when i did.
Yep, same here! No internet back then to lookup walkthroughs and tips when you were stuck on a game!
I was about 9 years old and managed to complete it as well, felt on top of the world seeing Kunitoki get captured in the end!
Impressive. I never beat the first level (of LN3 too) :( I guess my brain and the game mechanics are not compatible hehe
I used to load every part of the game from a tape, which took a hell of a time, but I spent very nice time playing this. Thanks for the upload. :)
The tape version is better than disc because of the *awesome* loader music.
Aki Jarvinen does an awesome metal version of the Central Park theme (the music that played at first)
Wow man, I have played that game through many times on my C64 back in the day, but I have never seen anybody play it like this! Nice one
Thus guy must be the world champion on it.
Wow , one of my favorite C64. For its time was a impressive game, for enigma,combat,story and music !! I was 8/9 years old more or less.. great time. I played all chapters ,i remember the last ninja 3 was only on disk.
Anyway i loved the era when Commodore was out ( c16,c20,c64,c128, msx , amstrad, zx spectrum ,olivetti prodest 128) .. very good time and never coming back..
amazing game and graphics that make C64 look like amiga
music is also so good, especially the first part of central park
Bravo Vangeli. Ena ap ta kalhtepa tou c=64 file.
No no... Two entirely different products, sound and "feel".
Memories, C64, Arcade Games, Ninja Movies, Karate Kid Movies, Rambo, USSR, $ has much more value, no internet, people likes to socialize. Those were the days. Time flies.
I'd 100% go back if I could. We truly didn't realize how good we had it then til it was gone. We were so anxious for the future to arrive, and once it did, we realized some things are better left simple.
I love the Music from the first Stage/Level!
"In 1988, I created the Last Ninja 2
soundtrack for System 3. I started with
the Central Park tracks, which was
important in order to stamp some sort of
'sound' on the game. It basically took from
mid-January until early April to finish. It's
about as big a project as you would want
to undertake, but everything just seemed
to work without any real hitches. I was
given a fairly free hand to produce what
I thought would be most suitable, and,
luckily, every time I took in new tracks
for each level, I got the thumbs up. It was a
great time for me personally, to suddenly
be working full time on C64 music. I was
almost 18, but I had no real worries in the
world beyond whether I could afford to
buy a better car."
-- Matt Gray, musician
Thanks for posting
If you wait for 5 seconds on the start of the level that you walked the edge of the building (12:04) you will see superman flying in the distance.
thats right lol
Oh yeah. Take me back
Well played! ... Great music! ... Great game! ... Time for a reboot!
Matt Gray's masterpiece,
Mmhh, I love the graphic, sounds and musics of C=64... they bring me sweet memories of my teenage era!
30 years this year the game is still amazing the original was a classic on release in my opinion
You are the best Ninja player I have ever seen mate... excellent job! Super Longplay it has to be said!
Well, who knew throwing stars were part of NY city cop gear? Learn something new every day
One of fave games of all time👍.
The anticipation for this game to be released was insane at the time due to how Groundbreaking Last Ninja 1 was.
Great music, really decent animation, and lots of nice work in creating the layouts! I really liked the added touch of having to wait for the crossing light at the curbs to progress... Safety first, even for Ninjas! lol!
This game brings back some great memories...
Tell me about it...:)
Great video, awesome game and music by Matt gray, games are so easy now compared to back then
pyraplastic So true!! ''Let me wiki it''' iis what they say now xD
Let's just say that back then going to the park was anything but a picnic.
Ah, happy memories of simpler times. I love the way the Ninja waits patiently at the traffic lights to cross the road.
Yeah¡¡¡¡ Back to 1988 again, I feel like a Kid again ready to take down all the Guards with my Amazing Ninja Weapons and Techniques. Although it was pretty hard sometimes It's my all-time Favourite Video Game
I always wondered why random people would attack this poor ninja on sight.
And now I still don't know.
Me and my brother loved this game so much! It was the first game he completed
Here after James Rolfe (aka AVGN) Posted his video on this game.
You made the last part with the candles look easy
best sound in videogame history was before 1990
MASTERPIECE!!!
Amazing graphics!!!
The look and sound of this game are both so solid great. I have to play this at some point, I expect it to take time to beat it, but I definitely will. This game manages to feel like a Shô Kosugi ninja film with all the American city surroundings, especially that bad guy's house / offices area after the underground drug lab.
That is EXACTLY what I was thinking. Revenge of the Ninja.
7:44 building up to the drop at 7:58 all through to that grimy bassline at 8:14... Massive!
MINT true classic... this brings back memories:)
Such a great game though I never managed to complete it.
Thanks for uploading!
At last it will come modern versions of this classic soundtrack with "lost level" soundtrack with orginal SID made by Matt Gray
Kickstarter is the place where to go NOW! (Nov 2014)
As a kid it took me AGES for finding out about the Molotov cocktail....
Love the game play and the rendering. Pioneer.
amazing! look at the hairs at 12:44, it's so realistic!
1:40 After picking up the staff, you can jump towards the left side - and if you reach the edge of the screen, you'll appear in the previous screen.
It's faster and less risky than navigating through those nasty gaps again.
There were some glitches like that also in Heimdall 1 Amiga version 🙌
My favorite game of the era.
But i just now realized that he never kills anyone, but always just knocks them out even with the sword? :D
AND waits for the light to turn green. What a gentleman!
This is from a machine built in 1982, people. Dang I loved the Last Ninja series, music, graphics, gameplay. It had it all.
I loved this game
I'll give you a like John
Lol
There was a dark room in level 6. You mena the room by minute 13:13
In the room before was an switcher. Here you can turn on the light.
Less than 15 min! So great, dude!!! I remember in 5th class (1988) during big break (15 min) I always tried so hard to do it in our school's computer room, but I never made it... That's why I take drugs today, I think.
I love the waiting to cross the street part. NINJAS ALWAYS OBEY TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES!
I love oldies like this!
Best last ninja player ever. Played to perfection.
Epic game ! the best day of my life is the day when i bought the collectors edition and put on the ninja mask and threw the rubber shuriken in my mates face - the reason to have a 64 -and system 3 are still in the business with a great website !!
I was looking for a copy complete with the mask and shuriken on ebay. Finally found one last month, but it went for £90 !!!
OK I played this so much a 10-year-old kid, and it's funny seeing how little through the game I actually got. Back then we had games like this, and other games like this - modern grand strategy didn't even exist. I really wasn't cut out for this kind of game, lol.
At 0:52min it sounds like the riffs of the new Rammstein song "Deutschland", doesn't it?
The first boat jumps in the park still give me nightmares!
Omg, the music is outstanding!
I would have loved this game if I had it back in the day.
Hugo Santos Emulate it ;) All 3 games are freaking awesome. (so is the music ;) )
Awesome trilogy!
Great vid. 15 mins?! I remember playing it for hours!
For those that love the music, Google "Matt Gray Reformation"
I wish 6 year old me knew to use the alcohol bottle with the torch to make a molotov to handle that alligator #themoreyouknow
+Critz & Giggles all you had to do was google “how to kill alligator on ……. wait a minute..
There was a hint in the manual but it was extremely cryptic - "You'll just need lotsa bottle."
@@AchtungBaby77 Yeah.. the manual... right. I don't know anyone who actually bought the game, but everyone had it :-D
looks like a great one. Great graphics for its time and very nice music.
This was made in 1988?
Yes it is 1988 ☺
+Bence Szolnoki 2
It was an awesome game in its day. I used to play it on my commodore 64. Plus castle wolfenstein and Rambo.. The good ol days lol
rad music
Yes this music is very good!
That ninja fella is very polite, cause he waits the signal, dont step in the grass. LOL
I remember playing this as a ten year old boy and only being able to reach one of the first levels at the park with the boat. So confusing was it at that time. I challenge any ten year old to pick up this game and try to beat it within a week. Impossible
Graphics and synth sound were great for the time
The music sound reminds me of the music in the game the last V8.
Beautiful times growing up
My introduction to rave music aged 12
I felt so cool when I managed to play this through. Must have been around 1988-1989. I never learned how to get through the burst of steam (the solution is simple as this video shows) but there is a bug in the game. With some effort and trying, you can walk through the pile of coal in the same room. Moreover, if you press "J", the joystick axis changes in a way that it makes running on the roof and jumping on the boxes easier. How in the hell did we learn that?
Usually it was a leak from the programmers given in a magazine ,and then the gossip went on
That store with the "DRUGS" sign on it, those damnable pushers aren't even trying to be subtle anymore. Also cops trying to kick you in the nuts for wearing pajamas... CLASSIC FUCKING NEW YORK.
O God ! u brouth me back to my childhood ! and U play the game professionally ! thanks.
As an old demo scener as a C64 musician, having 3 channel was quite a feat, still it was fk fun to f*k beat that sound chip.
that this game can be completed in under 15 min makes me want to travel back in time to my 8 year old self and slap.
Well, 15 minutes of playtime and 140 minutes of waiting for levels to load via that blazing 1541 floppy drive!
This guy is exceptionally good at the game. For most it would take around a hour !!! A whole hour if you know what you are doing :) @@control_the_pet_population
Na, the game was pretty hard for a child! The walk through looks easy, but in reality it was nearly impossible to beat it!
@@ShockRockRecords I had even hard times with unlimited lifes......^^
Water and swamp jumps were mostly killing me :D
awesome music awesome game. Remember it being a tad harder to play than that looked 👍 was it this game that came with the chucks and a rubber shrunken?
Yeh, mask, shuriken and map of the city.
The TLN with the best level design, the enviroments are so different and so well defined.
I played this on Sharp MZ-800, but with a few changes:
1. Colours and some ninjas were different.
2. It was without music.
3. In the "city" there were no ladies throwing things out of windows.
4. In the "sewers" there was no spider.
5. The fan in the "office" has to be stopped with a shurican in order to open the door next to it.
6. The steam in the "house of Shogun" had to be redirected by opening two valves.
Does anyone have any idea how they designed those levels? In what tool were they drawn and then ported to the C64?
Great 8bit Music^^