I thought I was weird for loving this music. Glad to see I'm not the only one who STILL REMEMBERS IT, NOTE FOR NOTE. Lots of memories coming back to me now...

This is the home version of the arcade game that made me great at the arcade game. All the attack patterns are the same and when I went into the arcades after a year of playing the Master system version I became a Space Harrier God and managed to 1cc it. This will always be a part of my gaming history and I have been playing since the 70's and will continue until im a crippled old man that cannot move.

35 years later, the bonus-stage theme still just absolutely SLAPS.

I'll be 40 next week. I had this game on the Master System when it came out. I will never forget the music at the beginning. I could have a lobotomy and still remember the music. My favorite game ever.

The first melody (01:48) is probably my favorite SEGA tune ever. I don't know how to describe my feelings, I only know that it gives me hope.

I remember having this game and it has haunted me how hard i remember it being

This is amazing for 8 bit. This almost looks 16 bit. The Master System was very impressive hardware wise for its time.

The creator of Super Mario, Miyamoto, has kids who played this game a lot, as stated in an interview. Crazy how his very children preferred Sega over Nintendo, he was cool with it though.

This was my Christmas in '86. God did I love that system. Easily my favorite game from it.

Space Harrier for the Sega Master System was the title that made me say "WOW! What a power house of a game". To this day, it still amazes me on how the SMS was truly superior over the NES in regards to graphics!

OMG, what great memories this brings BACK. I `was soooooo addicted to this game & it doesn't look all that bad decades later PLUS the music is still great !

Music from this game was my fav out of all the games and it still is. Nice video! Awesome game play!

Merci, mercis merci, c'est toute mon enfance. J'ai 38 ans aujourd'hui. J'ai eu un AVC, j'ai perdu beaucoup de souvenirs, je ne me souvenais plus de ce jeu... et la, comme par magie, tous mes souvenirs sont revenu! WAOUH J'ai même eu quelques larmes :') Quel bonheur cette musique, cette vitesse de jeu, merci master system. Et merci à toi pour le post!

As a 8 years old back then, I became very nervous approaching stage 10. And my highest record was around stage 12 or 13. Thanks for showing how the later stages look like

Space Harrier is such a master piece of gaming. Really really new kind of game in 1986 with this scroling. Music is excellent, gameplay super, and ambience are really cool. A lot of memories for me who had chance to be kid when playing it.

I'll never forget that soundtrack. It was a nice time with 9 years

Among my favorite soundtracks from the 8 bit era. Great work, BO! A fat little me in the 4th grade truly loved this game. The sense of accomplishment that I felt when I finally beat it was REAL. Thanks for the memories, World of Longplays!

I love the arcade game and this pretty much captures the feel of the arcade game perfectly (and in the case of the pause before the bosses appear, maybe even improves). The use of background tiles was actually ingenious , clever programming, and look at how fast those tiles move, when I first got to Stage 9 my jaw hit the floor at the sheer speed.

My favorite version of the original Space Harrier thanks to the added "story," the legendary music, Haya-Oh (the final boss), and the ending. I sometimes think I like Space Harrier 3d better though because of the awesome boss designs.

I played this game when i was kid around 10-12, just can reach to stage 10-11. This game is the best at that time, love it until now. Thx for bring me back the memory.

I have a very strong memory of playing this in my friend Jordan's living room when we were both kids. He had the 3D glasses, too. Amazing, ambitious game.

And for an 8 bit console / sound engine, even the BGM kicks azz! One of my SMS favorites.

Always Loved the smiley face on his gun.

When he dies it will make this howling scream that's unforgettable

The BGM made me cry, it brought me a lot of good memories

One of my favorite games

I would play this game for hours back in the day! I finally beat the remake on the PS2 Sega Classic Collection.

Omg this game. My Uncle and Dad went out and bought the 3D glasses to play with it. Such a gem of a game

So basically a space dragon asked for help from a psychic human with a rocket pack to kill everything on his planet... That is the most awesome story ever! EVAR!

Surprisingly good English in that prologue.

its the never ending story. thats what the bonus stage reminds me of everytime i watch or play

Dude! Lots of new gamers won't know how hard the game is to beat just looking at it, I spent so much time on beating this one and the 3D version, so many anger tossed controllers, I thought I was good cuz none of my friends could beat it, yet you died only once, a true space harrier master , I must recognize.

Only the genius Yuji Naka in SEGA could program this game, running 3.58MHz Z80 CPU.

This was our first game that my mother gave to my brother and my beautiful memories. 😢

Very nice shooter, one of my favourites for the Sega Master System.

This the very first game I ever remember seeing or playing. My dad bought it around when I was born. Years later my brother and I would ask him to play it. This and Hang On were the only games he'd play on his own. I remember thinking how cool he was for being able to beat this so easily.

To think, the Sega Master System version is the only version of Space Harrier I can think of that has its own dedicated final boss (Haya Oh).

One of the very first Sega games I owned,and it was off the Hook,and still is a Masterful Game to this Day!!!

This was my first SMS game. For an 8-bit arcade port, this was an excellent conversion! Back in the day, I discovered an exploit in which if you aimed in the center, just above the horizon and slightly to the left, you can shoot every ground enemy right when they spawn. Also in the bonus round, if you knock down less than 3 trees, a secret jet will appear, worth 10M points if shot down. I love this game so much, almost 40 years later! If I can find a working arcade sit down simulator, I would buy it!

Thanks so much for bring back so many childhood memories

27:18 will forever be burned in my brain: "Aaahhhhh ............ Get ready!"

Wow just had my memory jogged seeing "Haya Oh" I remember reaching the end of the arcade version expecting to fight this enemy, turns out this was an exclusive enemy.

first game I purchased with my newspaper route money! Love this game so much and the sound track is dope!!

Could you imagine what Space Harrier would look like now with a PS5 or PC? I think all old school games should be remastered and give it the love they deserve.

My all time favourite the music as a kid just takes me away to a happy place and mate it's called the 'Fantasy Zone' but seriously I love the arcade but then when I got the home master system it just amaze me and blew me away

I love space Harrier first one I played for the master sysytem!!

29:20 Art Director: FUUUUUK Must have been his reaction upon having to redraw the graphics for the Master System, haha. Going from the super-powered arcade hardware to a machine you wouldn't ever consider making a game like this on must have been something. It's so cute how it uses background tiles for everything [which is why some of the graphics overlap badly -- the SMS only has one background layer, so only the frontmost tile is shown]. And I always loved the little nicknames you'd see in Sega credits of the day [and other companies, but Sega's immediately spring to mind, like at the end of Sonic 1].

The fact they managed to do GODARNI in 8-bit is so dang impressive!😮😮😮

Never owned a Sega Master, but my friend did when I was in grade school. I remember playing this at his house. Ever after thirty something years I still remember the music.

It was my older brother's console and I could never get that far, but I remember how hard and kind of scary this game was with all that shit getting closer and closer right in your face! Lol

I love NES, but I feel like the Sega had better graphics and control. This game is a classic.

Could only ever get to level 14 on the master system. Great work.

ファミコンからマーク3ユーザーに変わったきっかけになったゲーム。

Oh my goodness I love this game, I always made him trip over the patches of grass just to get a laugh. Thanks for playing this

Ahhh repetition. Love the music..some of the best. This is different than the one I had. I got it the same year the system came out.

This version has a final Boss not in the arcades. THAT makes it better than the arcade original, THAT and also the fact that it was the version I grew up on ;P

Wow, only after watching this do I realize HOW CLOSE I came to beating this game once as a kid.

29:20 "art director: fuuuuuk" ?

5.26 - my favourite theme music! Ph the memories. I never managed to complete this game…but loved it anyway

Can’t believe how good the graphics on the SMS looked back then.

Thanks for uploading

Very nice shooter, one of my favourites for the Sega Game Gear.

This and GTA 3 share the best soundtracks that were ever on a computer game. Standard.

Loved this on my master system. NEVER got passed level 17 though 😢

My childhood, so many memories with old Sega.

I like how they're just letting the score counter keep running during the credits.

One of the prime examples of "Sega does what Nintendon't"

great memories from my childhood

Loved that game, and it's music too. I still have the game actually, but no clue if my Master System could still work. Probably not...

This is a pretty decent looking 8 bit version and for once the master system sound chip is sounding prety good

I was born when this came out then I was first introduced to it around 93 when a friend let me borrow his genesis top loader for master system. Game weirded me out and I remember us laughing at the enemy types looking like flying vaginas.

Joe from Game Sack really love playing Space Harrier on Master System

GET READY!

Congrats, game finished with two lives !!

i also had this game when i was a kid and couldnt beat it. after all these yrs i still remember the level i kept loosing on. in a few montsh i plan to get the sega master system with space harrier, and kick its ass!

I had nicknames for some of the enemies. Buttholes, and bloopers. Good game

I'm the Rapture who played this game! :D I play SMS since 80s and love the games and the console to 8 bits! One of the best console of all times!

Super hard game! Awesome music, good times! My parents bought the 3D version (thank you) but we didn’t have the 3D goggles (it was super duper expensive though)….. so everything on the screen was doubled and blurry haha

@29:18 (At the Space Harrier office, circa 1985) Steven - "Hey Frank, I can't remember who the art director was. What's his name again?" Frank - "Oh sure, his name is (smashes toe on table leg) fuuuuuk"

I had this game and enjoyed the hell out of it. I did suck at it though. Had good music for its time as well.

THIS GAME REALLY DESERVES A REMAKE. 😎👊🏻💥

やはり、マーク3の最高傑作で間違い無いかな。

wow......brings back memories...

Memories 😢

this game needs a remake with the graphics and hardware we have today it will be epic! gameplay should be similar to shadow of colossus now that would be a game to play

the first level of this game was actually sampled for the mark III bios for the sega master system only in japan

This was such a groundbreaking game at the time.

THATS IT, IM HOOKING UP MY MASTER SYSTEM AGAIN!!

You make it look easy, those frames killed me I couldn't tell if it was in or out of range

I played this a lot when I was a kid...Now a few minutes is all I can stand! :-/

Welcome to the Fantasy Zone! Get Ready!

The Gremlin Heads and Brain Rocks always annoyed me, I can't believe how good the player is!

Good memories there.

Great memories!!!

I had this game as a kid and it was soo hard and frustrationg for me, never could beat it. Later on I completed Space Harrier II, which was IMO somewhat easier but after all I like the Game and the whole series.

I swear, the flying rocks in the first round look like empanadas.

Que ce jeu était dur bordel. Jamais réussi à le finir

Love this game!!get ready?

Up, up down, down, left, right, left, right, down, up, down, up!!!!

The art designer was Col Khadafy? lol, didnt know he liked video games