One Man & His Machine (Manfred Trenz Documentary Profile) 

Just when you think RU-vid has become yet another boring TV provider flogging shite, we get a new channel producing gems like this! WOW! Amazing to see and I wish it well and look forward to more content. Trenz was an incredible master of the C64 who could produce games on the Commodore that beat anything available (produced by the teams programming) on the Nintendo NES. Finally a fitting tribute to a great programmer.

You might say he was a "Trenzsetter" Ok, I'll see myself out now

Manfred Trenz hatte die alten Commodores so sehr im Griff, der Wahnsinn, was er aus den Kisten rausgeholt hat!

Trenz truly was The Master.

I remember all the controversy around great giana sister and katakis, the fact that activision decided to hire the guy who made an outstanding rtype clone to make the actual port was (and still is) mindblowing. Rtype was my favourite stg on the 64.

Manfred's a monster ( in a good way )

Keep up the great work! Will be following this series.

Great series, looking forward to the next episode. 👍

Great video - again! You rock! Love your channel!!!!

Love your work. Thanks again. :-)

Great stuff. Really enjoyed this

Nice doco and great that you featured ENFORCER. I'm a huge fan of that title and I especially like the weather FX.

Love the drive that this designer had with his craft. A man who shoved limits, knew what he wanted and didn't stop until he achieved it.

Excellent video, really nice to see these programmers get the retrospective credit they deserve for giving us all so much fun, then and still now. When I read Retro Gamer magazine (here in the UK), the dev stories and interviews are often my favourite items.

This is a great video. I love the history. Well done.

Excellent initiative, Bastich. Funny, well done, and with relevant information for "that era people". I hope that we can be watching new chapters soon 😁

Great series good work 😀👍

very nice episode. very informative and fun.

Interesting new series! I bet some of the old school developers would love to be interviewed by you, too.

Great content. Subbed!

great mini doc but for me the story of Ocean, Imagine, System 3, Gremlin Graphics, Elite, Hewson and Rare stand out, and the UK musicians, Rob Hubbard, Martin Galway, Ben Daglish, Mark Cooksey, Matt Gray. Plus the creatures series by the Rowland twins which show incredible c64 visuals probably the best. Who could forget Amalyte which is probably the most visually impressive shoot em up by John Kemp and Dan Phillips smashing limits. Plus original games like Nebulus and Last Ninja with amazing sound tracks. Rare produced unique games in the industry with their filmation techniques. Archer McClean who did IK ahd IK+ and the schoolboys who did Elite on the BBC opening that exploration genre. The UK in my view was the epicentre of what pushed the C64 and 8-bit home computers.

Nice profile on the big lad. Here's to a bright future in the video business! #turricanforever

Cool video very interesting! Just subbed.

"64'er" was a German magazine so for them it would be a bit easier to pronounce: *Vierundsechziger* (veer-oond-zek-zig-ur) That's probably even harder for English language people but since German is much like Dutch, I think it works. In Dutch: vierenzestiger.

Great overview! The only thing I'd like to see changed was the noise background. That made me feel uncomfortable sometimes.

What's the song just before "Cut to credits!"?. It sounds a bit like one of the channels in the turrican 2 comic book intro imho.

Nice documentary! Any idea where he is or what he's doing now?

My childhood idol.

:-) Grtx...

You know what they say, great artists steal!

Is there a way to contact this guy, because I really want to ask him the following: "Hi Manfred, I’m just curious if you will ever release a version of Rendering Ranger that uses the original sprite art, which, based on all the amazing Turrican games, I imagine could look really gorgeous and probably even more so than the rendered art used in the final Rendering Ranger R2 game? And if not, why not? It’s become clear that great sprite work really does hold up much better over time than rendered art from the ‘90s, and I would love to see if that is true of the original artistic vision for Rendering Ranger too. I really think a whole lot of people would truly love to see this, even if it’s not a commercial project but just some dumped game for fans to talk about and the community to dig into or whatever. Thanks, Kirk"

Where is Manny these days? Haven't seen him around for quite some years now.

Do some of the more obscure C64 games. Please. If you need input on content give me a nudge...

Manfred Trenz 1 nicer Typ

grtx gro t2 composer

Do what's he doing today I wonder?

Rendering Ranger R2