Ben Daglish - The Last Ninja

[BaziJoeUK]

Best game and game music EVER! Made in Hungary!

[kzbxvz]

Thumbs up if you think 1980's computer or video game music is more original & better than 1990's to today.

[Nautilus1972]

Great great game .....

[TheFsbluesman]

Whoever made this remix caught the spirit of the original SID tune. This is a masterpiece. Respect, respect, respect... to Ben Daglish and to the author of this remix!

[y2k4ever1]

wait so the guy who originally made this remixed it, and this is the remix?

[i7fan]

Goosebumps... Teenage years flooding back. The sounds and music made the C64 games come alive. The originality of the songs are never - or very rarely - seen these days in games. The musicians back then were actually masters and not just dudes "making music".

[IvoryGecko1993]

BEST NINJA GAME EVER! SHINOBI, EAT YOUR HEART OUT!

[angelodomino]

ok, this is not 'just' one single SID ;-)) but i loooooooove it :-D

[rumbamama]

Time to fix the description text. This is NOT by Ben Daglish. Got it?

[GnewsChannel]

I smell a remake

[thearchiveable]

Beat should be more pounding.

[norwayitalo]

jesus christ! this is pure genious

[SuperTowlie1]

Why is the picture of the ninja "caucasian", when actually real ninjas are japanese?

[chrissomerry]

@SuperTowlie1 He's not caucasian.. He's... He's... He's a Ninja, OK? He's his own race..... ;)

[pablovercetti22]

Great, I ove it! I was six when I heard this song last time- old memories return, when I was the ninja and the graphic was wonderfull- thank you for this!

[akruber1]

Best C64 Soundtrack ever!!

[grimm4]

This is a truly epic score for a game. Very high quality.

[Zaizz785]

Best game and music EVER!!!!

[Zaizz785]

You guys should search on Instant Remedy - Last ninja (The Palace) Hear it out and tell me what you think of that! That is ofc if you like the music here ^^

[theblacksheep1000]

damn this is makng me want to play the game lol

[Pitkis85]

@theblacksheep1000 Go for it! :D

[acidgecko72]

What a masterpiece!!

[krystallen714]

Over 20 years later and this is still one of my favorite music!

[uubuuW]

man, its wonderfull

[puschmannn]

is this a riddle? is ben daglish´ name " bad english"in reality? gg

[PolgarAkos]

As you know, a large part of the program was developed for the order of Marc Cale, in fact in Hungary, for more than a year by a team of young mathematicians and programming geniuses, called SoftView.

System 3 took over the 85% completed game and after the finishing strokes, it was released without listing the name of the whole Hungarian team on their alleged request.

It is high time to make up for the recognition, at least...

[gaggarin]

Bästa musik som nånsin gjorts till ett spel, och det har ingenting (nästan) med nostalgi att göra. =)

[xxxblackvenomxxx]

i don't know why people say there is no good gaming music today anymore. look at some sega games which have awesome soundtracks (daytona, sega rally, ssx, quake, unreal tournament, and much more). there still is very very good soundtracks out there, so stop staying in the past!

[jwaffe]

@xxxblackvenomxxx

Unreal tournament is almost 10 years old...

[panzerveps]

@jwaffe wow... time flies, heh?

[jwaffe]

@panzerveps

actually, it's 12 years old, it came out in 1999.

[panzerveps]

@jwaffe my point exactly.. time flies :P

[anthony62490]

@xxxblackvenomxxx Hey, let the old guys keep their nostalgia. If I grew up with awesome music like this, I'd want to stay in the past as well. I see what you mean though. There are many great video game soundtracks out today. Donkey Kong, Final Fantasy, Silent HIll...

[kzbxvz]

BRILLIANT!!!

[truthoutmedia]

Put simply, the greatest soundtrack ever created in the history of gaming.

[SuperTowlie1]

@truthoutmedia its competing with Zelda and Metroid :)

[bendaglish]

little bit...more playing these days (like tonight at r3play!)

[bendaglish]

Ahem - this ain't my remix...unless I did it while asleep or something! No idea where it came from, but if I was ever to do a remix, I'd be a little bit more, ermmm, 'creative'.! SURELY you can't believe this is really me, Reyn? :)

[blackicede]

@bendaglish See? That's what you get for not uploading your tracks to Youtube: Users try to find replacements and fall for impostors! To bad there aren't any "official" videos on Youtube... (BTW: There is a hint in this comment...)

[jwaffe]

@bendaglish

If you're the real Ben Daglish, I'd like to say that your work is incredible. Are you still writing music?

[gloomandglow]

the tune is sweet, but the synth sounds on this version is crap compared to the original c64 soundchip

[yanndramirez]

i respect this a lot

[morrisandlola]

ninja's kick ass.

[Qux20]

I just came.

[MrFruitylooper]

Nice work :) I love this game :)

[TimHeckhausen]

Thank you for uploading this!

[rayman20001]

Excellent tune remember it well!!

[C0mpre55m3]

yup. epic it is.

[CydonianTR]

Check remixdotkweddotorg for C64 & Amiga500 game soundtracks, remixes !

Also check wwwdotlemon64dotcom for C64 & Amiga500 game world !

This is a special "The Last Ninja" section on lemon64 web site: lastninjadotlemon64dotcom

[CasperEgas]

Superb!

[ejpbruel]

This is actually better than most music in games these days.

[firstarioch]

Thank you for uploading this man. I fired up my c64 emulator cause of this . Last time I played it when it came out all those years ago... and you know what I still remembered the first level layout!!! I dont know whether to rejoice or despair at my misspent youth!!! hahah. killing that dragon it took me months to do it and I did it by chance. Thanx for bringing back those memories...happy time.

[0wen101]

Credit to Ben for making the old C64 sing like a mother f*cker. Awesome.

[quadturbo4]

This is just wonderful. Oh, the memories of this superb game...

[smartin04hero]

I remember playing this man, I was young so it was incredibly difficult but I remember playing it about a year back and it still was!

[Protoklon]

Awesome good Game with nice music!

[bald33sh]

The sid definately has a voice missing but it sounds great all the same, i could listen to the whining of the 6581 all day every day :-)

[megast2]

nice, but I definetely prefer the original.

[chojnak]

Good things are timeless and evergreen, like this tune :)

[bald33sh]

This sounds like a sid chip with one of the voices missing and then enhanced, absolutely love it !!

[xaerom]

This music is more than 20 years old and it's still giving me goosebumps. Fabulous !

[thuaners]

@xaerom i agree! it still sounds cool even now :D awesome stuff!

[malgez]

good music is timeless

[T3hJones]

@xaerom 20 years is nothing, heard of Mozart?

[xaerom]

@T3hJones No, who is this freak ? (I'm joking, of course....)

[ReynOuwehand]

This is a remix made by Ben himself?

[EvilChickenSWE]

Yup.

[gildan]

@EvilChickenSWE

This is NOT by Ben ..... 

[AndreasWallstrom]

@EvilChickenSWE This isn't a remix by Ben himself. It's Instant Remedy if I'm not completely wrong.

[AndreasWallstrom]

@AndreasWallstrom No, wait! The remix is by Chris Abbott.

[Bunkerbewohner01]

@ReynOuwehand bow before the Master one Piece my Childhood

[AndreasWallstrom]

@ReynOuwehand No.

[GrantSmithBass]

Awsum game and great music....cheers.

[Dethmasheen]

Way to import a midi file into a sequencer, bro.

[warlockuk]

That is how a lot of remixes work, for sure - but this would've been something running through the sid chip originally so I doubt it'd be a midi file to start with - the C64 didn't play midis so whoever did this would have learnt the track and then sequenced it I reckon.

[EvilChickenSWE]

Blasphemy.

[minimalniemand]

@EvilChickenSWE LOL absolutely

[Chucknorrisaurrus]

@EvilChickenSWE Agreed.

[Ragnarock83]

@EvilChickenSWE

this is madness!!!!

[POAFA]

It's not that good.

[eatkeniii]

Wii's got tthe first on the US VCon now if only we could ge tthe other 2!!! I loved this game growing up

[neo14085]

The Last Ninja >>> Naruto

[blade1550]

the last ninja would own naruto x3

[robrutil123]

The Eyes of the Ninja are the same of the famous itaian comic Diabolik are stoled.

[Juckzange]

OMG da komm die ganzen erinnerung und der frust^^ sehr geil

[strummerrr]

Cmon.. you were kids when you played these games.. Of course you think games today suck. But in the future, people will get all nostalgic when thinking Halo3 etc..

[mensk1987]

See, I don't think so. "Halo 1+2+3+Wars", "GTA 1+2+3+Vice City+San Andreas+Liberty City Stories+Vice City Stories+4", "Quake 1-4", "Doom 1-3" yada-yada-yada... oh god, just this is an awesome evidence for how uncreative and overflowed the modern game industry is... exceptions prove the rule, of course.

Why should I remember a game, that existed in 5.000 variations? Is Halo really anything special? No, it's not!

Meh, I almost forgot when I got that disinterested in video games...

[jobwell]

pioneers of the music of today no more no less god bless the 64

[madmomentsgo]

nice remix, one of my favorite games on the c64 :)

[kregahbundolo]

Love this soundtrack, got the original on vinyl

[murtumaton]

Limited resources forces people to be creative. You can see this clearly in classic games. Don't get me wrong, there were plenty of games that did suck.

[tlusta74]

This one brings back some beautiful memories...:) Thank you Mr. Daglish!

[Lavalambtron]

Great remix, please do more.

[ormenlange07]

I had it on my C64 back in the 80´s, now only on my Wii =) God damn they made good music back then !

[hanspf23]

For a 7-year old today, Halo would be perceived as epic or retro when he/she grows older. The 7-year old will hear the Halo theme 15 years from now and perceive it as retro just as us "old" geeks perceive the songs of C64 today.

[Karpacjanos]

Amen brother

[ravnen]

Sure they will, they'll just be wrong. (:

[rofltowncity]

games today can't compare to this

[ScheidenHaemmer]

Sure they can, they don't, but they definitely can. Without comparing the fact that older games are exclusively created using synthesizer technology, you can't tell me the Halo theme isn't epic. It sounds to me like you have an affinity for the synthesizer.

[rofltowncity]

yeah. but this is still great none the less!

[JRPereira]

I found the Halo theme cheesy. It felt like an attempt to be epic that failed pretty miserably. Meanwhile, taken in context, the boss fight theme in Sir Sweet's palace (the boss rush stage) in Prinny: 'Can I really be the Hero?' was pretty epic. Also, a fantastic example would be the Lechku and Nechku fight in Okami, particularly with Shiranui tossing epic spells.

Epic themes tend to mesh well with the story - celebrating the character's journey or hailing the beginning of an epic tale.

[ScheidenHaemmer]

Like I said. You CAN'T tell me the Halo theme isn't epic. You are biased so I don't particularly care for your opinion. Besides, you kids take dork to the next level so I'm not likely to listen to you talk about your affinity for shitty old video games and the terrible, repetitious monosynth themes that, without the help of idiots like Ben Daglish, would have faded into obscurity where they belong.

[JRPereira]

That's a pretty strong reaction for being unbiased.

I think you fail to understand the concept that good video game music, like most music, is timeless, and doesn't really fade into obscurity. Also, you completely missed my references to modern games apparently, so your "shitty old video games" comment doesn't really have any weight.

Sounds like someone has a grudge and a lot of misplaced anger.

[deviletk]

Your a complete idiot. Shitty old video games? This is where it started. Without this - you wouldnt have your kiddy halo BS. Dont reply as i wont care about your crappy halo ass.

[roskildahphreak]

Yeah! Halo sucks ass!

[Rappas02]

Shitty old games, huh? Oh wow.

[lordbacon82]

just fuck off, ok?

[mensk1987]

i really can NOT agree with you. seriously, what makes these "old shitty games" so epic is the fact that they were something special, something NEW. also, kids at that time didn't have 108.512 games for this console, 314.234 for that console and 34.298 for another console, they had just FEW games. to be honest, HALO is just another game of millions. furthermore, daglish was making this music alone, coding it with numbers, he didn't have a whole orchestra and wasn't even a professional musican.

[roskildahphreak]

They had a certain magic to them at the time. Wich you just don't see in computergames today.

[blade1550]

you obviously have no respect for the classics

[ScheidenHaemmer]

What i said was a defense against a listener who has no respect for progression and what gaming music has become. Let it be understood, i realize that modern gaming soundtracks are much less creative than they used to be, but he tried to say the Halo theme was less than epic.. which is a matter of opinion. So I hit him with my opinion. To be honest..I think Halo is a terrible game, but i was talking about the monk chant. Its the ONLY thing that makes me want to play the game.

[blade1550]

.. oh ok. lol

[bastardtubeuser]

its this simple, modern game music is recorded in a studio and then played back like a cd or mp3.

as you are aware in days gone by the music was sequenced and most importantly synthesized with a dedicated soundboard, this also fact also lets them get away with digital sampled sound, while still being 100% generated from dedicated hardware, not a cd playback.

the stawars theme was on many platforms, but that game music, it was recorded by orchestra in a studio, like modern game music.

[bastardtubeuser]

i mean to say starwars is not game music, it was recorded and composed outside of a computer. early game music was like an orchestra playing in your home.

[Autolicus1972]

The beautiful games are beautiful also without the technology of today.

[thesman32]

what has he done to this tune if its not broke dont fix it the c64 one is still the best

[shortyandy]

ah this brings back childhood memories.

[kzbxvz]

LOL how old were you when this helluva game was released in 1987?

[forsizza]

i was 6 when i got this game. it rocks and still one of the best games around.

[kzbxvz]

It's really nice to hear that :)

[Borin81]

i was 7 years old, got it on a piratetape for my C64.

[kzbxvz]

And I was 15 years old. But my first game in the serie was Last Ninja 2 1988, another masterpiece in the gaming history.

[snake2006]

For the actual SID files you look up the High Voltage SID collection on Google and it will let you download them.

Then download SID2Play for WIndows and enjoy, you can even convert the files into WAV files which can then be turned into mp3 format, my mp3 player has tons of SID tunes on it.

[zlowkey]

If u have a Nintendo Wii, u can download it.. :) I got to say that cm64 was the time of my life when i was a kid, 4ever cm64, Nostalgic ;)

[ncry]

Among the best music ever on C-64 / Amiga along with Turrican 2 Intro :d

[spaceship789]

yes, the turrican 2 intro is definitely a candidate for the best. jfyi another one I like is ocean loader 3, on you tube here as 'firefly loader'

[Educator1978]

Where is my old c128?  i want to play...buuuhuuuu!!!

[tosgem]

very nice, music and intro scren almost as good as A500

[dom318]

hell yeah, NOD32 all the way, that shit is the best, highly recommended, if your willing to pay for virus protection and a hell of a lot better than Norton or McAfee

[tadamito]

What a great music and game! Old times... Oh, i wanna play again with this!!! C64 4ever!

[rets1972]

isnt this music from the first level if i remember but you put it as a title track? but pretty good tho :)

[Hroznys1]

I think it is "Wastelands" part. But whole Last Ninja soundtrack is great, but i like specially this one. :)

[usernmes]

awsome do u kno where i can dowload this song?

[CydonianTR]

@usernmes check for wwwlemon64dotcom web site for C64 & Amiga500 game soundtracks and their remixes :)

[usernmes]

@CydonianTR awsome!!!!thx love ya

[lordbacon82]

oh....i want to go back!

[gabbygall]

Best. Game. Music. Ever.

[CruelQuertos]

I have a vertion of 3d galax by dubmood check it out..

Btw nice video rate 5/5

Have a nice day.

[Etcircenses]

Nice, nice 3d-galax, deflektor and his unknown masterpiece which I have as a pure recording: FOFT.

Ben Daglish is one of the greatest composers of the 80ies - and nobody knows it...

That is very sad.

[AwakeAudio]

That's the damn truth. It was the soundtracks to these old C64 games that got me started in music in the first place. I remember when I first loaded up The Last Ninja and was utterly floored by the awesomeness!

[iletelyastraightmate]

So is Rob Hubbard

[hotty49]

simply brilliant !

[xmssimon]

Great man!! Watch my Video of Acoustic Version from Central-Park

[Etcircenses]

Although this looks like spam - it isn't: The site is a forum for composers. There are some VERY outstanding works.

[ACDCsocket]

Definitely the best gamemusic from the 64 era. However, Amiga brought a revolution in this aspect (as well): Strike Fleet, Lost Patrol, No Second Prize :)))

[Puncimonster]

Ah, I think this is the No.1 song all of the computers and consoles...

Please somebody, tell me why? I donno, but do not interesting.

Special thanks to Mr. Daglish!

Hatalmas ez a zene, bárki bármit is mondjon, nálam ez az örök első a toplistán!

[prowokator]

May I ask where you found Daglish's new "old" songs?

[rilorye]

If you want to hear my version of this click on my name.

[rilorye]

This is awesome! Ben Daglish and Yuzo Koshiro are the kings of vid game music.