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Post by Mark Jones Junior on Feb 9, 2005 18:44:38 GMT -5
Mine had to be 'Eskimo Eddie' and 'Pogo'! They both had fantastic loading screens for the Spectrum and playing 'Pogo' with a Currah Speech was class!
"Trrrrrussssssst Me Pogo" the snake would hiss while bouncing around trying to get you. "Ohhhhhh Nooooo" as Pogo fell off the edge of the pyramid thingy, losing you a life.
They don't make them like that anymore!!!!
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Post by Paulie on Feb 9, 2005 18:47:12 GMT -5
Cobra (on the Spectrum) - technically brilliant; 50fps update - smooth parallax horizontal scrolling and not forgetting the Quack-o-Meter. Joff was a genius!
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Post by Mark Jones Junior on Feb 9, 2005 19:11:16 GMT -5
I still have my edition of the first 'Ocean Comic' by Bill with Joffa Smiff's autograph on it. What a geek I must have been! I'd HEARD of him, I KNEW who he was and here I was having a drink with him! I was star struck.
"Could you sign this please?"
God I cringe now! BUT you can see why, he did lots of great games that I played as a kid, 'Hypersports', 'Mikie', 'Daley Thompson's Supertest', 'Kong Strikes Back', 'Pud Pud' (how weird was that!? I originally downloaded that off Ceefax, I had to put my mic right next to the tv speaker and record it, and it loaded! Along with some up and coming 'Ocean' game loading screens) and about 4,000 others! He was 'Oceans' Matthew Smith.
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Post by roberthazelby on Feb 10, 2005 8:32:07 GMT -5
It had to be Mr. Wimpy.
Sure, it was a blatant Burgertime rip-off, but for the time was a really nice conversion.
Kong was great to laugh at for being so awful.
I think I'd have to go for Mr. Wimpy though. It was great for all the right reasons.
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Post by LeeT on Feb 10, 2005 10:25:41 GMT -5
It had to be Mr. Wimpy. Sure, it was a blatant Burgertime rip-off, but for the time was a really nice conversion. Kong was great to laugh at for being so awful. I think I'd have to go for Mr. Wimpy though. It was great for all the right reasons. This was one of the first games I got for my C64 - My parents bought the computer from a catalogue (Littlewoods or Gratton!), and most of the games they stocked were Ocean ones - I got 'Mr Wimpy' and 'Johnny & The Jimpys' (though IIRC we ordered 'Knight Rider' or 'Street Hawk' and they sent 'Jimpys' when the delays became apparent!).
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Post by Patrick Furlong on Mar 15, 2006 16:10:59 GMT -5
Batman 3D for me..
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Post by pricey on Apr 4, 2006 8:41:05 GMT -5
Hmmmm.... probably Midnight Resistance or Bart vs. the Space Mutants... By the time I could play these games, Ocean's C64 support was over as I was born in 1990! Arkanoid and Arkanoid II were my favourite Imagine games.
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Post by gregor on Sept 12, 2006 6:07:18 GMT -5
Green Beret on the Spectrum. That game killed several keyboard membranes.
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Post by spiggsy on Oct 21, 2006 23:14:48 GMT -5
Daley Thompson's Decathlon was the first one I remember. Two tapes of pure bliss!!
The best though has to be Batman and Head Over Heels ... still playing HOH once in a while too !
Wizball slots in nicely as the first Ocean game that got me hooked on the house though.
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Post by mritoldyouso on Oct 29, 2006 5:33:56 GMT -5
Frankie Goes to Hollywood was the first Ocean game that I really liked, although at the time, I didn't make the association between the game and the Ocean label (I was about 6½ at the time)
I think by the time Batman and Head over Heels came out I had started to make the connection between games I liked and their publisher.
Don't think I knew about the link between Ocean and Imagine back then, but of the Imagine games it would have to be whichever came first of Arkanoid or Renegade.
Looking back on it, I'd say that from about '87 onwards more than half the games I bought were Ocean or Imagine titles - so I suppose I must have been quite a fanboy!
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Post by Mark Jones Junior on Oct 29, 2006 18:29:36 GMT -5
Arkanoid was first!
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Post by ukmarkh on Feb 5, 2007 13:42:47 GMT -5
Hi Mark, What did you think of the Amstrad version of Gryzor compared to the Speccy and C64? Back then, I remember thinking the loading screen looked like a photo.
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Post by Mark Jones Junior on Feb 5, 2007 15:36:53 GMT -5
I thought the Amstrad 'Gryzor' looked fantastic. Just a shame it wasn't scrolling but hey ho you can't have everything! Mark K. Jones sure knew what he was doing.
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Post by ukmarkh on Feb 5, 2007 17:52:58 GMT -5
Ocean sure did pick 'em... Games like Head over Heels, Renegade, Gryzor, Chase HQ and Robocop and many others sure were special. I don't think the programmers, musicans and artists of yester-year creations realise how in awe we are of them.
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Post by Bill Harbison on Feb 12, 2007 4:50:01 GMT -5
lol that avatar. I've not seen the Amstrad version since I did it.
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