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Post by Paulie on Oct 28, 2005 10:12:00 GMT -5
...didn't Paul Houbart work for Active Minds? (Was he the original Spectrum programmer?)
Si summed it up there - The late eighties/early nineties at Ocean really did rock (and christ we did ship some absolute train wrecks)... We really should've done that Isometric Simpsons and Si's Universal Monsters...
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Post by Simon Butler on Oct 30, 2005 12:55:43 GMT -5
Universal Monsters was nothing to do with me although I did work on it for much longer than I wanted but not as long as it seemed. It felt like years. I had an "original" design in mind called The Inspectre (groan) and as was usual back then it suddenly had a license attached to it. I originally thought this was not the end of the world because the Universal Monsters theme fitted quite nicely with my initial premise. But then Universal Studios started insisting that their creatures be large and easily identifiable and not small and cutesy.
All I wanted to do was a clone of Knight Lore.
But it got out of hand, the graphics ate up memory like nobodies business, Martin McDonald acquitted himself admirably with assistance on sprites...I felt I did a more than passable job on sprites and backgrounds...while our coder struggled gamely with the programming.
But it all got a tad too much and ended up as a bit of a car-crash.
Ah well..such are the vagaries of the games industry.
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Post by richard on Nov 3, 2005 19:23:16 GMT -5
Well hello again Mr. Butler, glad to see you are still alive and kicking (probably someone that deserves it I hope Its scarey to think that I joined Ocean in 1982, when it was called Spectrum Games, an unfortunate name, hastily changed I may add to what we now know as Ocean. Any, hope you and Gary are fit and well! By the way I still keep in touch with Mike Webb who emigrated to Oz about two years ago. Keep in touch.
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Post by Paulie on Nov 4, 2005 8:58:46 GMT -5
"Wing Commander" Rick is in da house (name courtesy of Davey Collier on the Rambo III credits) How's life treating you since Creations - you still in Jersey? Hope all is well with you and yours. Mike W's posted on here a couple of times from the sunny isles of Oz. I beleive there's a couple of glimpses of you in the video section on the commercial breaks video. Spectrum Games - blimey that goes back to TransVersion days in the Ralli Buildings.
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