The history of ocean software - Kickstarter!

[Wrath Of Khan]

A book about Ocean software is seeking funding on kickstarter. Ocean made many amiga and atari st games back in the day. Some shite some good.


Wizball, rambo, Toki, sleepwalker to name a few. They were eventually taken over in 1998.


Could be a good book. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/47744432/the-history-of-ocean-software-by-retro-fusion?ref=home_location

 

[Trip]

That looks great but I don't have the money this close to Christmas I'm afraid.


I hope they manage to reach their limit though. Batman: The Movie was the very first Amiga game I played

 

[Fzero]

Wizball ... bl00dy hell that's a blast from the past.


At first, when you mentioned it up there, I didn't recall it, on clicking through to the KS page I was admiring the [very nice!] image at the start of their video, showing the characters on the steps, and immediately my eye was caught by the evil green ball there - I recognised it but couldn't think from where ... scrolled down a bit and see the old box cover art and then it all became more familiar - Still had to google image search though to recall the actual gameplay.


I used to love this and was one of my old played-a-lot favs.


Surprised it's slipped my memory for so long as it goes.


i need to to buy this game again for one of my machines and get back on it


Nice looking book too btw

 

[chewdiggy]

I had a green screen Amstrad CPC monitor, could never play Wizball to it's full potential

 

[Fzero]

I used to have it on my ZX


Some great games from Ocean though back in the day


Operation Wolf ... took too many of my 50 pence pieces back in the day


Head Over Heels ... another ZX fav


Chase HQ ... Amazing game, remember jumping onto the coin-op of it once and thinking WTF? - Realising it was an American version and the controls were flipped


Daley Thompson ... classic multiplayer


Salamander ... great game still love this one


Rainbow Islands ... classic game rinsed in the chippy


New Zealand Story ... classic game rinsed in the same chippy


Those are the greatest for me