Tag: ocean software
Hello have we met before? I seem to be back on Vintage is the New Old! This all feels a little surreal. I can’t believe it’s been nearly six years? Oh how time flies by… Most of you will know me as CommodoreBlog from Twitter. I also run commodoreblog.uk, another website that has recently returned from the dead! Anyway enough…
Winners don’t do drugs. The slogan adorned many an arcade for the best part of a decade and is rather apt for Eugene Jarvis and Williams’ hyper-violent run ‘n’ gun, NARC. After blasting its way to coin-ops in 1988, it arrived in unsuspecting homes in 1990, chased by a bunch of angry parents and holier-than-thou media outlets. Set Up Playing…
Can AMIGArama and Robocop outsmart a bullet in the seedy underbelly of Detroit in this futuristic action adventure?
Mr. Do! is an arcade game created by Universal in 1982. Similar to Namco’s Dig Dug, Mr. Do! was very popular and was also released on other systems, such as the Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit, MSX and Apple II. It is the first game in the Mr. Do series, and was released both as a standalone game and also as…
I was going over my feed looking for good news to post here when I found this one coming from NintendoAge and at first, I thought I’d got the wrong idea. After reading it a couple of times, I realized we are talking about a six-figure bounty reward for the original artwork used for the game Contra released for the…
The previously uncontrollable demo is now controllable!, thanks to Adrian Singh who hacked the code on the demo to enable the keyboard. Amazingly this is the first piece of hacking he has done for at least 27 years. Hats off to him! Thanks to him for taking the time to do this. Keys are: ‘A’ – up / pressed with…
Atariage’s “mariuszw” & team has released his new game – The Great Escape, ported from the C64 version which was published by Ocean 1986, along with the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC versions. As we all know, the game’s objective is to help the hero, a war prisoner, to escape from a German camp. The gaming environment is displayed in isometric 2.5D…
Scott Hanselman hosts the HanselMinutes Podcast, and on the show #498 released today, he talks to Matthew Cannon about the musical revolution that happened the eighties and early 90s in video game soundtracks. Matthew worked at Ocean Software and composed music for games like Navy Seals, Batman: The Movie, Elf, and many more. Matthew worked on C64, Amiga, SNES, Megadrive,…
[youtube PksHJ7wCm2Q nolink] Liquid Kids was developed by Ocean Software in 1991, but it was never released. In 2003, Galahad of Fairlight obtained a copy, fixed several bugs and released it for the Amiga community. Lemon Amiga has published in its YouTube channel a play guide and review of the game. The video runs for almost 50 minutes and it…
If you lost the opportunity to buy these awesome games when they were available on MSX Cartridge Shop, you have another chance! The online store specialized in MSX games has a new batch of both vamped-up versions of Gremlin Graphics’ 1986 classic Gauntlet and Ocean 1986 classic Batman. They can be purchased for 35 euros each (plus shipping) following the…
