We've featured a number of Arcade to Amiga conversions/ports throughout the years, from the more recent Super Xevious, to Flying Shark, Green Beret, Breakthru, and even our personal favorite Wonder Boy by AcidBottle. Well if you're looking for even more Arcade like updates on the site, then we have just been told by our good friend Earok, that basementApe is now working on the Arcade to Amiga game of Rastan; a side-scrolling hack and slash video game released by Taito for arcades in 1987, which was also a critical and commercial success!
Here is what Mobygames says about this excellent game back in the day "Rastan features five levels of hacking and slashing gameplay with a boss at the end of each level. Numerous enemies assault you on your journey such as flying demons, chimeras, valkyries, piranhas, undead and more. Fight through to the end and save the land of Lograth from certain doom. The game features different weapons such as axes, maces and fire swords, each with its own attributes like extended range or attack power. Armour can also be picked up in the forms of shields, cloaks and armour, reducing the damage from enemy attacks. Other items include rings (increase the speed of your weapon) and jewelry for bonus points".
Dev Notes : Rastan for the Amiga, with lots of new pixel art and stuff. It's running on an Amiga 500 with 512kb chip/512kb slow ram. Well, emulated but still. So far I've got the first level pretty much finished. Made using the Scorpion engine.
Really well done, great choice of colors, and the reinterpretation of the graphics is equally great. Congrats!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely awesome. I always liked this on the C64, strange why it didn't appear on the Amiga. Well, you can see that it is possible. Thanks to the SCORPION engine and the efforts of basementApe. Well done. I hope this gets completed and released one day. Respect.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely stunning!
ReplyDeleteNot bad, but there a lot of cut-offs and the music could be better
ReplyDeleteOh wow! This looks impressive as hell! Absolutely LOVE the graphics!
ReplyDeleteThis game i had on the sega master sistem music kept repeating in my head brilliant, this version music not so good but this gameplay seems great also can i just say thay did a remake of super frog on the Amiga brilliant music on Amiga terrible music on the remake.
ReplyDeleteAwesome! Great choise of colours and the sprites are fantastic! in my opinion music is good too! and well...i don't care if it's not a "pixel perfect" conversion instead i think it will be the best version for an ocs amiga for sure! Keep up the good work!
ReplyDeleteAgain, absolutely stunning. I actually much prefer these graphics compared to the arcade original which, to me, always felt a little messy. As far as the sound is concerned: I always loved the punchy C64 version of the Rastan theme, but this take seems truer to the arcade original.
ReplyDeleteWow beautiful conversion of a fantastic arcade game ... I collect its original Taito jamma PCB board as a relic ... spectacular graphics, music to redefine ... hopefully in a prfect Arcade conversion.
ReplyDeletestunning graphics, catchy music, sound gameplay; one of the most enjoyably looking game for A500 in years
ReplyDeleteGreat stuff!
ReplyDeleteThere was a Rastan inspired game on the amiga called Torvak the Warrior.
ReplyDeleteLove the graphics on Torvak but it doesn't play great. A lil sluggish and annoying but yeah some nice pixels. :)
DeleteA good game "Torvak" but simply a 1:1 conversion from St...and you must choice between FX and music in the Amiga version!!
DeleteThanks a lot everybody for the feedback and kind words! I put a lot of effort into reworking the graphics so I'm really happy to see that people like them :)) The music is placeholder, my first attempt at doing tracker music, well music at all really. I have a musician working on it but the Rastan soundtrack is quite a bit more complex than it might seem, and recreating it with four channels AND making it fit inside the limited memory space of the A500 isn't easy. We'll get there tho :)
ReplyDeleteLooks and sounds good Ape, but how about adding some cooper gradient to the sky? Might not be in the original but the Amiga could do it?
DeleteThanks for the answer. Hope you can improve those details (devil is in those).
DeleteIf it is too difficult, go for 1MB
Impressive what the scorpion engine can do, if only it existed 30 years ago....
ReplyDeleteVery nice. Graphics are excellent. Music sound similar to the Arcade rather than the glorious Sega Master System version, that’s why some are finding it weird.
ReplyDeleteFantastic! The graphics look better than the arcade version IMO. I'll never forget Rastan was the first 16 bit game supported by MAME back in the 90s. It was a Big Deal in emulation!
ReplyDeleteLooks amazing, really nailed the sprite work! Love this game in the arcades and alway thought it a shame the Amiga never got a good conversion. Something always felt epic about this - the music is really good. Someone made an orchestral version that was also a great homage!
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/1QmbKVwJauw
Excited to see this one develop! Keep up the great work.
This is incredible, and if someone showed me this without knowing, I would automatically assume it was the arcade version… Now will someone please get to work on a proper Rastan reboot?! You wouldn’t even have to do much updating in terms of graphics, just a little modern gameplay thrown in- maybe make it a metroidvania or roguelite. But I’m warning you with peace and love, if I ever see the words “Rastan survivors” on a game release list, I promise I will hunt you down, and let’s just say that eating solid foods is something you won’t be enjoying anymore… in fact, just forget about any activity where a “chewing” motion is involved!
ReplyDeleteLove how he ditched the arcade backgrounds and drawn his own, used the sprites and improved them. Fantastic job
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