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#3120: Marcus Geelnard - The Last Ninja - The Palace (synthful remix)
Added to rotation: 2008-02-17 17:41:59
Song last played: 2026-04-21 03:31:24
Song last requested: 2022-02-14 17:17:43
Artist last played: 2026-05-01 14:02:21
Number of plays: 577
Requests: 55
Votes: 157
Song length: 05:42


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SID INFO
HVSC path: MUSICIANS/D/Daglish_Ben/Last_Ninja.sid
Title: The Last Ninja
Composer: Ben Daglish & Anthony Lees
Copyright: 1987 System 3
Subtunes: 11
SID model: MOS6581

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STIL comment"I got the phone call from Mark [Cale] asking me to write some level tunes - I wrote the music, went down there [to System 3] to meet Archer Maclean (? I think it was Arch that put the driver in.....), got offered Mark Cale's slightly-dodgy-import-status left-hand-drive BMW, said "no thanks, I'll have the cash please" and that was that." (BD) Q: How was Anthony Lees to work with? A: "Only met the guy once - on that one day - he said 'hi' - I said 'hi' - that was about it." (BD) The titles of the individual tunes found below are based on as they appear in the game.
 
SUBTUNE INFO
 
#1 - The Wilderness (loader)
 
  Author: Anthony Lees
 
#2 - Palace Gardens (loader)
 
  Author: Anthony Lees
  Comment: "I did six tunes for LN, the first of which was the one involving the creepy jungle music (....which was and still is my favourite) - the inspiration is hard to nail down, but it was probably the film 'Apocalypse Now' - very dense, troubled and scary moods were evoked." (Anthony Lees)
 
#3 - The Wastelands (loader)
 
  Author: Ben Daglish
 
#4 - The Palace (loader)
 
  Author: Anthony Lees
 
#5 - The Inner Sanctum (loader)
 
  Author: Anthony Lees
  Comment: Interesting comment in this binary: "DONE BY ANTHONY LEES FOR SYSTEM 3 ON 5/4/87...EAT YER HEART OUT GALWAY!".
 
#6 - The Wastelands
 
  Author: Ben Daglish
 
#7 - The Wilderness
 
  Author: Ben Daglish
 
#8 - Palace Gardens
 
  Author: Ben Daglish
 
#9 - The Dungeons
 
  Author: Anthony Lees
 
#10 - The Palace
 
  Comment: Although the tune is credited to Anthony Lees since 2001 in HVSC, the music player of this tune is by Ben Daglish. Ben doesn't remember making this tune and also he has no idea how the tune ended up being in his player if it was made by Anthony Lees. It could be that the music was credited to Anthony Lees because Anthony claimed to have made 6 tunes for the game while actually 5 are made in his player. Since Anthony passed away, we can't verify it anymore and it will be a mystery who of the two actually made the tune.
 
#11 - The Dungeons (loader)
 
  Author: Ben Daglish
  Comment: This is also the tune for "The Inner Sanctum".
 




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OVERALL REMIX64 VOTE:

warpgun:
My favorite last ninja tune!!! Great work! I love it
russ:
This is Superb, nice one.
Makke:
The instrument selection is a bit off, some of them even sound cheap. But the arrangement is simply golden!
condor:
Very good work!
Daemonarch:
Very original, but wonderful sounding, I love it!
prowler:
Not outstanding from the mass of Last Ninja remixes, but a very good solid version!
weasel:
I really like this version of it, despite some mixing issues maybe I still gave it an orange! (although the original SID is simply one of the greates ear-catchers ever from the c64-history anyways…!!)
XxDUSTYxX:
Nice Instruments and mixing! Well done!
omoroca:
I just can't get enough of those Last Ninja remixes!
Waz:
Not too bad at all. It's quite well made and the arrangement is fine.
LaLa:
The instrumentation sounds very cheezy. So, even though the arrangement is very enjoyable, I just can't rate it highly.
pricer:
This one took me back. Great feel of the original and great repetitive baseline.
symbols:
Its almost very good, its the first half of the track (so well captured), all the bendy sounds are clever but I was wanting the big arp melody to appear and it didn't, but great stuff besides 😊
nicodaemus:
I don't just like the idea. I LOVE it! But the rather bad pitch-sliding at the beginning and end and the mixing issues kept me from giving an orange. Here's a banana instead.: P
migu:
Not bad, close to very good. Quite enjoyable remake.
Amok:
Real good remix. Almost very good… Just the tune isnt my cup of tea.
Boz:
Pretty good rendition of one of the original Last Ninja tunes. The lead tends to cut through you at the start, but the beat gets you going from 1:15 onwards. There's also a few mixing problems where the instruments are bleeding a bit. Quite jolly though!
eliot:
The high pitched lead hurts my ears… Quite boring imho.