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The Story of Ocean Software: "The Biggest Games Company in the World"
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http://www.indieretronews.com/2016/0...e-biggest.html The reason I'm making a separate post for this is, I want to know what your memories of Ocean are. What games do you remember the most, what was YOUR favourite? |
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07 March 2016, 21:07 | #2 |
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Midnight resistance and Shadow Warriors on Spectrum, Toki on Amiga!
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07 March 2016, 21:10 | #3 |
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Combat School (C64)
Wizball (C64) Cabal (C64) Midnight Resistance (Amiga+C64) Pang (Amiga) Lost Patrol (Amiga) Platoon (C64) Push Over (Amiga) Rainbow Islands (Amiga) Parasol Stars (Amiga) |
07 March 2016, 21:38 | #4 |
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(Amiga) Pang, Cabal, Dragonninja, Operation Wolf, Toki
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07 March 2016, 22:47 | #5 |
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Gryzor (CPC)
Combat School (CPC) Renegade (CPC) Target Renegade (CPC) Renegade III (CPC) Dragon Ninja (CPC) Operation Wolf (CPC) Operation Thunderbolt (CPC) Hudson Hawk (CPC) Midnight Resistance (CPC) Shadow warriors (CPC) Ocean Beach Volley (CPC) Rambo III (CPC) Robocop (CPC) Robocop II (CPC+) Batman the movie (CPC) On Amiga: Parasol Stars Lethal Weapons Pang Toki Snow Bros (i have the master disk) Cabal Operation Wolf Robocop 2 Epic Elf Lost patrol (amazingly sad but beautiful ingame soundtrack) |
07 March 2016, 23:20 | #6 |
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They practically owned the Spectrum 128k.
RoboCop Operation Wolf Midnight Resistance Cabal Rainbow Islands Chase HQ Batman The Movie Then Chase HQ II SCI came out and we knew it was all over. |
08 March 2016, 02:04 | #7 |
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08 March 2016, 03:12 | #8 |
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What accent is this from the guy talking on the video? For me it's incredibly annoying and hard to understand!
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08 March 2016, 19:57 | #9 |
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Somewhere in the UK, but it's an unusual one because she's transgender and has a bit of a Jonathan Ross style lisp.
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08 March 2016, 21:16 | #10 |
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08 March 2016, 21:27 | #11 |
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It's only apparent with certain words so you can be watching a while without noticing any sort of lisp. I'd guess she's from the London region, though the accent isn't particularly distinctive as far as I can tell.
Yes, she came out on camera for her YouTube channel in the last year or two. For those videos she wore a wig, make-up and a dress, but usually - for the gaming related stuff for instance - she appears as a man. She can film standing on her head, naked in a bath tub of baked beans for all I care. I just appreciate the subject matter and the passion and research that she injects into her work. She's a top notch YouTuber (and fellow Amigan) I've been following for years. Last edited by dreamkatcha; 14 July 2016 at 10:12. Reason: Fixing my he/she gender assignment references because it would be rude not to |
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08 March 2016, 21:33 | #13 |
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I thought he sounded like Chris Packham.
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08 March 2016, 22:30 | #14 |
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On the Spectrum they were genuinely among the best - Chase HQ, Head Over Heels, Movie, Match Day, Rainbow Islands, Renegade, Op Wolf, Rastan etc. On the Amiga they found their stock multi-level-film-license game dated and far less arcade conversions on offer, and their Amiga range wasn't as great (but still - Rainbow Islands, Wizkid, Addams Family, Robocop 3, F29 Retailator, New Zealand Story, Pang, Puzznic.....)
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04 April 2016, 16:56 | #15 |
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Robocop 2 and Operation Thunderbolt on the ZX Spectrum spring to mind... though I found Robocop 2 to be rather tough, but I did eventually complete the game.
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16 April 2016, 18:08 | #16 |
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A8:Head Over Heels.
C64:Platoon, Parallax ,Operation Wolf, Batman: The Caped Crusader, The Untouchables and Batman: The Movie. ST:Robocop III and F-29. SNES:Choplifter III Atari Jaguar:Syndicate. |
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hmm I remember them fondly on the c64 with a lot of great games.
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07 October 2016, 14:16 | #18 |
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07 October 2016, 16:21 | #19 |
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I had a whole lot of Ocean games back in the 64 days because I loved the Ocean Loader music so much. Robocop was a crappy game though, but the music was great.
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