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Feb 2, 2011 23:33:09  #1
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The Ocean Experience

So to extend a little on the Poll on the home page, what memories does Ocean conjour in your mind?

I remember getting Frankie Goes to Hollywood from Kays catalogue and not "getting" it. I remember ordering Street Hawk from the same catalogue and getting some Defender clone game - a different version of the game appeared in the shops eventually as the one I had was deemed just too crap.

Then there was the good games... Cobra, Daley Thompson's Decathalon, Robocop etc. On loading Robocop for the first time on my +2, I listened to the music for at least 1/2 hr as it was brilliant! And I played hours on Daly's - waggling my joystick for Wales.

So what are your memories?



 

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Feb 3, 2011 09:22:04  #2
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Not getting a job as a games tester back in my youth; you ruined my life Ocean - RUINED MY LIFE.

I still can't believe that Robocop is outscoring Head over Heels; and that anyone voted for the Addams family - what's wrong with you people? 

They also released the god-awful WWF European Rampage which killed my youthful interest in men in lycra getting sweaty and grappling with each other...

Also, didn't they do Combat School? I think I only got to the second level once on that, but I wrecked a fair few joysticks in doing so - again, Ocean, take the blame for my over-development of one side of my arm muscles...

I seem to recall that they did a lot of Movie/Arcade conversions, and that not all of them were that good, but then there were involved with Worms so I'll forgive them most things for that...


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Feb 3, 2011 15:30:36  #3
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F 29 retaliator, the Ace Combat of its day and then some, still very playable now and the graphics despite being twenty still hold up

Zero skanked us with a subs thing as wanted EPIC but got WWF instead ( which wasnt a patch on the arcade  

Op Thunderbolt, Battle Command, The Hit Squad and a variety of other class games inc Robocop 3, Rambo II and so on make it one of the fondest games companies to remember
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Feb 5, 2011 08:20:31  #4
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the early games such as daley's...dunno why but their logo seemed so cool and beguiling...then games such Denton's cosmic wartoad and great escape, true classics...

i got FGTH and Nomad free with my 1st crash sub...


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Feb 5, 2011 18:31:03  #5
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I remember them fondly but they never let quality control get in the way of a license needing to be out quickly.

Head Over Heels, Batman, Daley Thompsons Decathlon, the Great Escape and Cobra were the high points for Ocean.

Roland Rat,  Highlander, V and Miami Vice were not such great moments.
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Jun 10, 2011 23:59:51  #6
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speaking from up close and personal to Ocean, my favourite on speccy was Chase HQ - stunning game


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Jun 11, 2011 15:31:08  #7
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Ocean along with US Gold conjure up memories of arcadey type games for me.

I had a Speccy and preferred the more puzzly/adventure games like Everyone's A Wally and I loved text adventures.

Match Day 2 and Head Over Heels were awesome though

Edit: Yeah Frankie Goes to Hollywood was a really weird game!


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