Howdy! I just fell upon this video. To say it takes me back is an understatement! For my sins I programmed Freeload, what has become known as "The Ocean Loader" back in the 80's. It was like watching six years of my life fly by. Cheers for doing it. - Paulie.
Are you Paulie Hughes, I think you are? If so you worked for Ocean Software Ltd and coded the Ocean loader (Freeload) right. Wow, it's an honour to have you here, you guys at Ocean made my childhood with so many great games. Thanks for the memories Paulie and thanks for taking the time to comment on my video.
:) That's me. Who would've thought 31 years on there would be videos of my little turbo loader on a world wide network of computers! You are very welcome.
Martin Galway was so ahead of his time, that some say he's currently composing loaders in the year 10191. Just loaders, mind you, they're so good that actual games are no longer required. 😉
I got my C64 in 1986 and I remember the Ocean loaders vividly to this day. I don't have a C64 anymore but you can relive them with Vice/WinVice. The emulator recreates them exactly.
I am 40 years old and still own the original hardwares of the Commodore 64 (tapes / disks / cartridges) and Amiga 500 😺👍🕹️. Retrospective greetings from Vantaa, Finland 🇫🇮.
Ocean loader 4 is probably the best loading tune on the c64. It says “shit is about to get epic”, even though it often didn’t get anywhere near as epic as the actual music. 👏
I always feel so sad when I hear these loaders, so many happy times from my childhood and the realization that I am now almost 50 and living in a world so much more unforgiving.
@@luvair6765 Guess I meant I was young without a care in the world. The world felt more innocent, people didn’t seem to be so self absorbed like they are now. I would go back to being the age I was when I loaded up my C64 hearing these songs like a shot. My dad would still be alive, my mum wouldn’t have dementia. Happy times.
It was me, my mates, my c64, my school, my paper round, and that glorious Mastertronic Carousel in the local corner shop- that was all that was in my life. Complete and utter bliss.
Thank you for uploading this great collection of Ocean Loaders. The music has remained with me throughout my life. Even when other people think I’m mad for listening to these Chiptunes. Just a big thank you to Rob Hubbard, Jonathan Dunn and others that contributed to great tunes. But it still remains a fact that Galway is God.
The memories of getting a C64 bundled with a bunch of Ocean games and just listening to the loader while the machine ran on the dining table will never fade.
The feeling of C64-nostalgia is something else. I'm 42 and i still ache for the feeling of waiting for the game to load while listening to the Ocean Loader. Best days of my life!
Loved Ocean Loader 2 back in the day. I remember a group of us Speccy users got invited into a friends house, who had not long had the C64. He put on Rambo and our jaws hit the floor when we heard the tape loading music. Brings back such amazing memories from my teenage years (now 51)
The C64 for its time had the most amazing sound. That little SID chip worked it guts out to make many friends impressed who had "lesser" computers. Even Apple couldnt compete. And here I am watching this again on an Apple iPad :P
Man these loader tracks are great. I never grew up with the C64, but i can completely understand the nostalgia you all get from hearing these tunes. When I hear Loader #2, I get the phantom feeling of nostalgia from a part of gaming I never knew growing up. I think the term is anemoia. The same warm feeling I get when I go back and play a DOS game made by Apogee software and hear that iconic jingle.
Loader 4 takes me back to a very happy time and place....IK+, Rambo 3, Robocop, Target Renegade....so many happy memories of me and my older brother ❤️
Seems like a whole lifetime ago. The anticipation was part of the pure joy of any home computer back in the day. I dont think we realised just how awesome the c64 Sid soundchip was. Thanks for the memories.
Not sure which one it was now, but when I first heard *one of* the ocean loaders, perhaps the first c64 music I heard (had a BBC before that) I actually got up and walked around to try and work out what I was listening to. I literally had to unpack it in my head and work out what I was experiencing. A defining moment for me creatively and I went on to later work in the industry making a few pieces of commercial music in the 80s/90s and still do from time to time, even these days :) Never forget these memories!!!
that anticipation before a game started, long loading times with that hypnotising screen effect. For me as a kid, the C64 had a a lot of mystery and secrets, and I wanted to see it all!
Don't worry; the C64 fans are still around. We are here and now among you, hidden in plain sight. You might sit next to one of us on a train or bus, we could be the voice on the end of the phone when you call your electric company. You might even work with us, but you'll never know the joys we had and still do with the C64...
I could hardly wait for the game to load....now I could listen to this all day long. Some of my most cherished childhood memories are from the geniuses who created these loaders. Will have to dust off my C64 now! Good times....for those out there who grew up during this time, we are EPIC!
The chills down my spine when I hear these tunes. The anticipation that a game is loading and I will be playing it soon......"The delay of gratification" springs to mind. Thank you for sharing.
There is something very relaxing and nostalgic about these ocean loaders. It takes me back to simpler time as a 10 year old playing on my new commodore 64.
3 and 4 are the best. Man I can't believe this chip was around when i was a kid. This is like having a synthesizer or something. It really gives a soul to the the machine. The tone it produces is so emotional.
It really was a unique 'voice', in the artful sense not the technical sense. Greater than the sum of its parts. And of course amazing artists that coded for it.
@@Me-zo8yc SID actually was pretty technically accomplished too, compared to counterparts from its time. That each voice had a full set of dedicated sawtooth/square/sine oscillators pluis noise generator was unusual; typically contemporary parts would have one sawtooth oscillator treated as its own voice, one square voice, one sine voice etc. Examples: Atari Pokey, Nintendo NES APU, and early Yamaha YM chips, etc. So you could only have one square wave going with these chips, only one sine wave, etc. SID could do three of any of its oscillators/generators simultaneously, plus it had the analog filters too which were pretty much unique and let you do some pretty wacky things with the sound. :) SID's big limitation was of course that it could only do 3 simultaneous voices (not counting any of the special programming funky tricks invented as the hardware was being fully explored), whereas NES APU for example had five voices total - although the sample playback feature was often totally unused due to its heavy data consumption, so four standard voices, including noise generator. So, that SID had BOTH a distinctive/artful sound characteristic AND was also rather advanced technically for its time is likely a big reason it has become so incredibly loved, even to this day. :)
I had a Spectrum at first and loved it but visited Boots and saw the Commodore 64 loader for Rambo and instantly was amazed a the fact it could play music whilst loading and how good it was!! I still love SID music even at 47!
Got to admit Lynn that this one is my favourite too. I remember buying SlapFight and loading up, couldn’t believe it when the music changes from Ocean Loader 2 to the new iteration. So many memories ☺️
Yep. I love it. I didn't own a c64 during the era Ocean used Loader 1 & 2. But Peter Clarke did a great job of keeping the cohesion but bringing a much heavier sound.
I remember listening to the rambo loading music and then crying when I actually played the game. such was the difference between the music genius of Martin galway and the sid and the limitations of the c64 :)
I immediately went back to my childhood with #4 - which was featured on the Batman the Caped Crusader game that came with the C64C i got for Xmas back in '87 or '88 (I wasn't the first in my neighborhood to get a C64). This tune is one of the best memories i have from that time, loading the Batman game from tape. I still have the tape in it's original box today, as well as the machine and tape drive. Thanks for making such an excellent loader!
HMmmm .... the pure gold of nostalgic feelings. Thanks for this Gem ^^ I will keep this Vid in my list and play it whenever i feel that the world right now keeps pushing me down to the ground.
ahh im 52 and still love to listen to these tunes , people I know ow hear noise , I hear greatness , I remember having to upgrade my freezeframe and my expert cartridge to freeze these games and swap them at school for new ones , in my opinion ocean had the best games and games you had heard off , some were crap , others good , but it was alleays the music that made them and let's not forger the superb artwork for loading screen
I had the Spectrum +2a and always turned down the volume when it was loading, my best friend got the C64 and I loved the loading music, the Ocean loaders were by far the best! Number 2 is my favourite 😊
Wow the music is amazing. I remember Ocean Loader 3, 4 and 5 music. I used to listen them when I was a kid. I think Ocean Loader 3 is my most favourite one all time and Ocean Loader 4 and 5 are my favourite ones as well. I am not sure if I remember listening to Ocean Loader 1 and 2 music but I'm sure they sound awfully familiar to me as a kid. It's really hard to remember anything ye know. Anyway I hadn't listened to Ocean Loader 3, 4 and 5 music for years since I was a kid and now I am 34 years old. Great memories. Greetings from Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪
The very last Ocean loader is what I remember most and what I associate with ocean C64 games. Awesome tune! Truly AMAZING what they could do with the hardware limitations back then. Hats off to you guys!
In 1982 I asked my parents for a Spectrum 48k for Xmas as I had played Jetpac in a computer shop previously on a 16k version. I wasn't aware of the C64 until a little later. I still have and will always love my Speccy, but secretly later I wished I had of asked for a C64 as it was far superior, but of course it was a lot more expensive. Never bothered me all the same as I didn't know what I missed until years later until I played games on a friends C64. In 82 the Speccy was so cheap that Xmas there were huge queues outside computer shops in the UK to even buy one at that time. I was lucky to get one. Now many years later I may buy an old bread bin C64 to finally own one.
Ocean 3 is the Classic! I was thoroughly brainwashed by this tune! I asked a friend once if he liked this music as much as Van Halen? He said, hell yes! 👍🤘
Have to agree with others. 4 was just the best! :) I love 3 as well, but it had a kind of urgent tempo that always gave me the fear when loading games lol.
To be honest, Loader 1 & Rambo were the last tunes I remember hearing before emigrating to Atari ST & then Amiga. So I did not hear loader 4 til now. But I love it ! So many great old C64 tunes - I guess which you remember is an age thing,. Crazy comets, Monty Mole, Thing on a Spring - my era. As good as any other album ! SID music really is awesome.
Wow! I am totaly impressed as much! This video is awesome! What a hell of a work you did that. Doublewow! You let the commodore 64 live again for 24 minutes and 28 seconds. You did a great job! Thank you! All oceantracks are genius but my favorite track is ocean loader 3. Evrytime I hear it I remember the time when it was absolutly normal to wait for a game 5 minutes. But with this music in between it was a pleasure.
Talking of loaders, I once wrote a very simple but quite funky utility that I put on the start of cassettes that contained my own home-written programs, character sets (fonts) and other memory dumps - it was a 'Menu' program that gave you a table of contents, like a disc directory but on cassette, and you'd pick the program you wanted from the menu, and it would tell you to press FFWD on TAPE. It would then wait until the tape got to the right position for the chosen program, then stop the motor of the cassette deck. It would then get you to press STOP, it would release the motor, then tell you to press PLAY - then it would LOAD the program. Those cassettes all got chucked out when I moved from my student digs and embarked on my first of many ill-advised "downsizing" exercises in the summer of 1995. The C128, a hundred or two game cassettes and quite a few music tapes too also disappeared at the same time.
ocean loader number 4 is a personal favourite. it was on the game "the untouchables" which was the movie and I must have heard this about a zillion times at the age of about 6 / 7 years old. I remember leaving the commodore on so i didnt have to wait ages to play though :)
_The Untouchables_ used Ocean Loader #5 :) I was pretty obsessed with that game back then (although I never did complete level 4 without cheating). I remember loading _Gutz_ off a tape that came free with a magazine - that one uses #4, and it blew my mind that there was a different version of the tune I knew so well.
Nice! I guess I remembered incorrectly. You done well, i struggled with level 1 and then never got passed level 2 :) Speaking of impossible games, did you ever play "cosmic causeway"? A few years ago we loaded it up in an emulator and it was hard even then! We used the save and restore function to get through it.
Don't know that one. But lawks, all the games were hard as hell back then! I think TMNT was the only game I ever completed without cheating. Until the UK started getting into console gaming, the idea of actually _finishing_ a game was like science fiction!
This is an AWESOME nostalgic video. Thanks a lot for making it and to the legendary creators including probably the best SID composer there was: Martin Galway -featured in this video songs too
Wow, Loader3 is the soundtrack of my childhood! Many great memories!🖤 Thanks for uploading it bro! I got more tingles listening to this, then all ASMR combined!🤘
Imagine excitment of watching Wizball load nodding to good sid music, and knowing your favourite game is filling up your RAM and it will be ready soon.
Like I'm sure many others, I stumbled across this on my RUclips Feed and it brought back so many great memories of our C64! This in itself highlighted the gulf in technology between the C64 and the Speccy with it's ear shattering sounds of pain :D Q: Anyone know where to get these as a ringtone?! I need the Ocean Loader on my Pixel now!
3 is timeless. Barely noticed it back then, compared to 4. Now it's completely reversed. Same with Commodore systems. Back then moving to Amiga was the biggest thing. But 6851/8580 has aged on a whole different level of grace.
I remember playing some Ocean games on C64 when I was a kid. I'm sure Ocean was a great European video game publisher and developer. I thought it was my favourite European video game company of all time. We know Ocean Software was a British video game company. It became one of the biggest European video game developers and publishers of the 1980s and 1990s. They were best known for making video games for 8-bit consoles, 16-bit consoles, PC, N64, Sony PlayStation 1 and Sega Saturn. In 1996 it was acquired by the French video game company Infogrames (now Atari SA) as they renamed Infogrames UK in 1998. In 2003, they renamed Atari UK. In 2009, the Japanese company Bandai Namco Entertainment purchased Atari SA's European assets, and the remains of Ocean Software currently lie under the hands as Bandai Namco Entertainment's UK publishing and distribution division. However I think Atari stills retains the rights of some Ocean titles such as Wizball and Mr. Nutz.
Howdy! I just fell upon this video. To say it takes me back is an understatement! For my sins I programmed Freeload, what has become known as "The Ocean Loader" back in the 80's. It was like watching six years of my life fly by. Cheers for doing it. - Paulie.
Are you Paulie Hughes, I think you are? If so you worked for Ocean Software Ltd and coded the Ocean loader (Freeload) right. Wow, it's an honour to have you here, you guys at Ocean made my childhood with so many great games. Thanks for the memories Paulie and thanks for taking the time to comment on my video.
:) That's me. Who would've thought 31 years on there would be videos of my little turbo loader on a world wide network of computers! You are very welcome.
YOU ARE A LEGEND
All hail! you sir are an absolute legend :D
@Paulie68000 Please reply to this comment, Paulie. Anything - gibberish will do. It'd feel like closing the circle. Thanks in advance!
I´m 50 years old and thats the music I´ve heard every day as a child....my commodore 64 is still alive......greetings from germany
The same feeling here same age
Martin Galway was so ahead of his time, that some say he's currently composing loaders in the year 10191. Just loaders, mind you, they're so good that actual games are no longer required. 😉
I'm 62 years of age and almost cried when I heard that #1 loader.
I'm 43 and the reaction is quite the same.
52 and I did shed a tear. Beautiful times.
I got my C64 in 1986 and I remember the Ocean loaders vividly to this day. I don't have a C64 anymore but you can relive them with Vice/WinVice. The emulator recreates them exactly.
56 and same reaction, completely transported back to a more care free time...
I am 40 years old and still own the original hardwares of the Commodore 64 (tapes / disks / cartridges) and Amiga 500 😺👍🕹️.
Retrospective greetings from
Vantaa, Finland 🇫🇮.
Ocean loader 4 is probably the best loading tune on the c64. It says “shit is about to get epic”, even though it often didn’t get anywhere near as epic as the actual music. 👏
I loved that the C64 could play music while we waited for the games to load. This was a massive plus over the other 8-bit micros.
I always feel so sad when I hear these loaders, so many happy times from my childhood and the realization that I am now almost 50 and living in a world so much more unforgiving.
Totally agree. Most currently, man turns the world to place not worth living in anymore.
You are not alone
Curious what you mean about unforgiving?
@@luvair6765 Guess I meant I was young without a care in the world. The world felt more innocent, people didn’t seem to be so self absorbed like they are now. I would go back to being the age I was when I loaded up my C64 hearing these songs like a shot. My dad would still be alive, my mum wouldn’t have dementia. Happy times.
It was me, my mates, my c64, my school, my paper round, and that glorious Mastertronic Carousel in the local corner shop- that was all that was in my life. Complete and utter bliss.
Im 51 years old now, still getting goosebumps to Martin Galways Masterpiece. This Deserves a proper remake, or even a Symphony orchestra.
Well. ruclips.net/video/Fl_6nXzxxHU/видео.html There are remakes and remixes available.
I'm 49 but when I heard Rambo's loader a tear has falled from my eye
Thank you for uploading this great collection of Ocean Loaders. The music has remained with me throughout my life. Even when other people think I’m mad for listening to these Chiptunes. Just a big thank you to Rob Hubbard, Jonathan Dunn and others that contributed to great tunes. But it still remains a fact that Galway is God.
The memories of getting a C64 bundled with a bunch of Ocean games and just listening to the loader while the machine ran on the dining table will never fade.
Ocean Loader 3 is my favourite tune, of all times, I am 47 years old, I had Commodore 64BN when I was 11, oh God what memories!!
Yep, I also have great memories from back in the day.
The feeling of C64-nostalgia is something else. I'm 42 and i still ache for the feeling of waiting for the game to load while listening to the Ocean Loader. Best days of my life!
Loved Ocean Loader 2 back in the day. I remember a group of us Speccy users got invited into a friends house, who had not long had the C64. He put on Rambo and our jaws hit the floor when we heard the tape loading music. Brings back such amazing memories from my teenage years (now 51)
The C64 for its time had the most amazing sound. That little SID chip worked it guts out to make many friends impressed who had "lesser" computers. Even Apple couldnt compete. And here I am watching this again on an Apple iPad :P
Man these loader tracks are great. I never grew up with the C64, but i can completely understand the nostalgia you all get from hearing these tunes. When I hear Loader #2, I get the phantom feeling of nostalgia from a part of gaming I never knew growing up. I think the term is anemoia. The same warm feeling I get when I go back and play a DOS game made by Apogee software and hear that iconic jingle.
Timestamps:
1:19 Ocean Loader 1
5:08 Ocean Loader 2
9:46 Rambo
13:33 Ocean Loader 3
16:39 Ocean Loader 4
20:05 Ocean Loader 5
@@rastas_4221 no worries mate. 👍
1 & 4 are my favourite 👍🏻
@@buzby303 4 really is in a class of it's own, isn't it. Heck of a tune for a loading screen.
Loader 4 takes me back to a very happy time and place....IK+, Rambo 3, Robocop, Target Renegade....so many happy memories of me and my older brother ❤️
Im 49 years old...After hearing this...im 17 again...thank you
Seems like a whole lifetime ago. The anticipation was part of the pure joy of any home computer back in the day. I dont think we realised just how awesome the c64 Sid soundchip was. Thanks for the memories.
Pure epicness!! I get so emotional every time I listen to this again and again...reminds me of a great time, when life was as simple as joyful...
...And there was more time than we knew what to do with
The nostalgia...its hard to accept those days are gone
Not sure which one it was now, but when I first heard *one of* the ocean loaders, perhaps the first c64 music I heard (had a BBC before that) I actually got up and walked around to try and work out what I was listening to. I literally had to unpack it in my head and work out what I was experiencing. A defining moment for me creatively and I went on to later work in the industry making a few pieces of commercial music in the 80s/90s and still do from time to time, even these days :) Never forget these memories!!!
that anticipation before a game started, long loading times with that hypnotising screen effect. For me as a kid, the C64 had a a lot of mystery and secrets, and I wanted to see it all!
Don't worry; the C64 fans are still around. We are here and now among you, hidden in plain sight. You might sit next to one of us on a train or bus, we could be the voice on the end of the phone when you call your electric company. You might even work with us, but you'll never know the joys we had and still do with the C64...
Or work for us.
Any guy/girl between 40 to 60 years old are a good chance they were kids back in the C64 years. ;)
I could hardly wait for the game to load....now I could listen to this all day long. Some of my most cherished childhood memories are from the geniuses who created these loaders. Will have to dust off my C64 now! Good times....for those out there who grew up during this time, we are EPIC!
The chills down my spine when I hear these tunes. The anticipation that a game is loading and I will be playing it soon......"The delay of gratification" springs to mind. Thank you for sharing.
There is something very relaxing and nostalgic about these ocean loaders.
It takes me back to simpler time as a 10 year old playing on my new commodore 64.
At 21:38 SID is giving all it's got. Loving it so much. Everything about this video. Thank you!
When I feel down and depressed I listen to this, it instantly takes me back to better times, thanks for the upload.
me too
3 and 4 are the best. Man I can't believe this chip was around when i was a kid. This is like having a synthesizer or something. It really gives a soul to the the machine. The tone it produces is so emotional.
The person who designed the Commodore 64's SID sound chip (Bob Yannes) later founded the synthesizer company Ensoniq.
It really was a unique 'voice', in the artful sense not the technical sense. Greater than the sum of its parts. And of course amazing artists that coded for it.
@@Me-zo8yc SID actually was pretty technically accomplished too, compared to counterparts from its time. That each voice had a full set of dedicated sawtooth/square/sine oscillators pluis noise generator was unusual; typically contemporary parts would have one sawtooth oscillator treated as its own voice, one square voice, one sine voice etc. Examples: Atari Pokey, Nintendo NES APU, and early Yamaha YM chips, etc. So you could only have one square wave going with these chips, only one sine wave, etc.
SID could do three of any of its oscillators/generators simultaneously, plus it had the analog filters too which were pretty much unique and let you do some pretty wacky things with the sound. :) SID's big limitation was of course that it could only do 3 simultaneous voices (not counting any of the special programming funky tricks invented as the hardware was being fully explored), whereas NES APU for example had five voices total - although the sample playback feature was often totally unused due to its heavy data consumption, so four standard voices, including noise generator.
So, that SID had BOTH a distinctive/artful sound characteristic AND was also rather advanced technically for its time is likely a big reason it has become so incredibly loved, even to this day. :)
@@lennyvalentin6485 Very interesting, thank you!
@@Me-zo8yc You're welcome! :) It's fun, communicating via the comments section isn't it. :)
2:37 The Commodore's anthem. I'm with my hand on my heart and my head up.
I pledge my allegiance to the C64!
@22:47 take the time to appreciate the graphics. Absolutely fantastic when considering the limitations of C64 colour mode.
The crescendo at 11:30 ... stunning.
I was a ZX Spectrum kid in my youth but the C64/synth music amazed me oh my i love ocean loaders - Galway Hubbard I love them - well done ;-)
I am as well a speccy kid, but has a lot of love for the c64 that i owned too.
Goosebumps on Rambo, the music while loading is always great !!
I had a Spectrum at first and loved it but visited Boots and saw the Commodore 64 loader for Rambo and instantly was amazed a the fact it could play music whilst loading and how good it was!! I still love SID music even at 47!
Holy shit man, brings a tear to my eye! Thanks for this!
Me too!
Me 2. Fantastic childhood memories right there. Reason why i love Electronic Dance Music today
Loader 3 is STILL legendary.
Got to admit Lynn that this one is my favourite too. I remember buying SlapFight and loading up, couldn’t believe it when the music changes from Ocean Loader 2 to the new iteration. So many memories ☺️
Yep. I love it. I didn't own a c64 during the era Ocean used Loader 1 & 2. But Peter Clarke did a great job of keeping the cohesion but bringing a much heavier sound.
Agreed, its my fave :)
I think Loader 4 is great too!
@@retrogamesrevived1189I loved Slap Fight on the C64. Played the arcade version recently and it’s not a patch on the C64 version.
I remember listening to the rambo loading music and then crying when I actually played the game. such was the difference between the music genius of Martin galway and the sid and the limitations of the c64 :)
Martin galway's a chiptune god.
Qué recuerdos de mi infancia. He podido ver y recordar muchos de mis viejos juegos del C64.
Gracias mi amigo
I immediately went back to my childhood with #4 - which was featured on the Batman the Caped Crusader game that came with the C64C i got for Xmas back in '87 or '88 (I wasn't the first in my neighborhood to get a C64). This tune is one of the best memories i have from that time, loading the Batman game from tape. I still have the tape in it's original box today, as well as the machine and tape drive. Thanks for making such an excellent loader!
HMmmm .... the pure gold of nostalgic feelings.
Thanks for this Gem ^^
I will keep this Vid in my list and play it whenever i feel that the world right now keeps pushing me down to the ground.
Thanks bud, Keep your chin up.
I think I spent most time listening to these musics than playing games on C64 :D
Honestly gave me goosebumps listening to this...
Stumbled by accident. 1988. Wat a trip down memory lane. This was the load up track when loading up wizball
1:20 Ocean Loader 1
5:09 Ocean loader 2
9:47 Ocean Loader (Rambo)
13:34 Ocean Loader 3
16:40 Ocean Loader 4
20:07 Ocean Loader 5
25 minutes I waited and still the game never loaded. :(
Haha didn't they take for EVER to load from tape ;)
And THAT was much of the time the actual case! 🤣 Time to adjust to screw on that Tape head again 😖🤗
ahh im 52 and still love to listen to these tunes , people I know ow hear noise , I hear greatness , I remember having to upgrade my freezeframe and my expert cartridge to freeze these games and swap them at school for new ones , in my opinion ocean had the best games and games you had heard off , some were crap , others good , but it was alleays the music that made them and let's not forger the superb artwork for loading screen
Some great memories.
I love each one of them, and i ripped each one of them back in the days for our demos. Martin, Rob, etc. thanks for the amazing music..
Man, Galway's original and the permutations that followed are such epic pieces.
I had the Spectrum +2a and always turned down the volume when it was loading, my best friend got the C64 and I loved the loading music, the Ocean loaders were by far the best! Number 2 is my favourite 😊
Wow the music is amazing. I remember Ocean Loader 3, 4 and 5 music. I used to listen them when I was a kid. I think Ocean Loader 3 is my most favourite one all time and Ocean Loader 4 and 5 are my favourite ones as well. I am not sure if I remember listening to Ocean Loader 1 and 2 music but I'm sure they sound awfully familiar to me as a kid. It's really hard to remember anything ye know.
Anyway I hadn't listened to Ocean Loader 3, 4 and 5 music for years since I was a kid and now I am 34 years old. Great memories.
Greetings from Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪
Halcyon days ☀️
It was a pleasure to wait for these games to load . Better than the 40 minutes of updates everytime I turn my Xbox one on.
The very last Ocean loader is what I remember most and what I associate with ocean C64 games. Awesome tune! Truly AMAZING what they could do with the hardware limitations back then. Hats off to you guys!
Dear god nr 4 does it for me, the memories.
Brings back so many memories, thanks!
In 1982 I asked my parents for a Spectrum 48k for Xmas as I had played Jetpac in a computer shop previously on a 16k version. I wasn't aware of the C64 until a little later. I still have and will always love my Speccy, but secretly later I wished I had of asked for a C64 as it was far superior, but of course it was a lot more expensive. Never bothered me all the same as I didn't know what I missed until years later until I played games on a friends C64. In 82 the Speccy was so cheap that Xmas there were huge queues outside computer shops in the UK to even buy one at that time. I was lucky to get one. Now many years later I may buy an old bread bin C64 to finally own one.
Ocean Loader 4 is probably my favourite. They're all good, but I do remember having 4 as my ringtone once upon a time.
Ocean 3 is the Classic! I was thoroughly brainwashed by this tune! I asked a friend once if he liked this music as much as Van Halen? He said, hell yes! 👍🤘
I'm 45, i listen this playlist every working days, several times, i need it👾👾👾👾
16:40 - Loader 4! I didn't realise how great a track this was until ~30 years after hearing it
Loader 4 was always my favourite
Same here
Have to agree with others. 4 was just the best! :) I love 3 as well, but it had a kind of urgent tempo that always gave me the fear when loading games lol.
To be honest, Loader 1 & Rambo were the last tunes I remember hearing before emigrating to Atari ST & then Amiga. So I did not hear loader 4 til now. But I love it ! So many great old C64 tunes - I guess which you remember is an age thing,. Crazy comets, Monty Mole, Thing on a Spring - my era. As good as any other album ! SID music really is awesome.
Loader 4 and the theme to Commando. My 2 favourites
WOW the Memories. this is very Emotional thinking back when I was young and hearing this for the first time. 16:41 is my favourite.
Wow! I am totaly impressed as much! This video is awesome! What a hell of a work you did that. Doublewow! You let the commodore 64 live again for 24 minutes and 28 seconds. You did a great job! Thank you! All oceantracks are genius but my favorite track is ocean loader 3. Evrytime I hear it I remember the time when it was absolutly normal to wait for a game 5 minutes. But with this music in between it was a pleasure.
And now I have a real deal C64C! :) Complete with 1541 disk drive :)
Gotta have tape to be legit dude
some tape versions deserved being buyed for the music loaders that disk version hadnt
The last tune was my fav by far . Great memories
Mine too.
Talking of loaders, I once wrote a very simple but quite funky utility that I put on the start of cassettes that contained my own home-written programs, character sets (fonts) and other memory dumps - it was a 'Menu' program that gave you a table of contents, like a disc directory but on cassette, and you'd pick the program you wanted from the menu, and it would tell you to press FFWD on TAPE. It would then wait until the tape got to the right position for the chosen program, then stop the motor of the cassette deck. It would then get you to press STOP, it would release the motor, then tell you to press PLAY - then it would LOAD the program.
Those cassettes all got chucked out when I moved from my student digs and embarked on my first of many ill-advised "downsizing" exercises in the summer of 1995. The C128, a hundred or two game cassettes and quite a few music tapes too also disappeared at the same time.
This is awesome and brings back so many memories. Daley Thompson's Olympic Challenge loader was a good one that's not here.
ocean loader number 4 is a personal favourite. it was on the game "the untouchables" which was the movie and I must have heard this about a zillion times at the age of about 6 / 7 years old. I remember leaving the commodore on so i didnt have to wait ages to play though :)
_The Untouchables_ used Ocean Loader #5 :) I was pretty obsessed with that game back then (although I never did complete level 4 without cheating). I remember loading _Gutz_ off a tape that came free with a magazine - that one uses #4, and it blew my mind that there was a different version of the tune I knew so well.
Nice! I guess I remembered incorrectly. You done well, i struggled with level 1 and then never got passed level 2 :)
Speaking of impossible games, did you ever play "cosmic causeway"? A few years ago we loaded it up in an emulator and it was hard even then! We used the save and restore function to get through it.
Don't know that one. But lawks, all the games were hard as hell back then! I think TMNT was the only game I ever completed without cheating. Until the UK started getting into console gaming, the idea of actually _finishing_ a game was like science fiction!
I can never stop loving this video.
Wow, just looking at all artwork brings back so many happy memories from my childhood, and the music. The awesome music! Thanks for uploading!
This is an AWESOME nostalgic video. Thanks a lot for making it and to the legendary creators including probably the best SID composer there was: Martin Galway -featured in this video songs too
According to the load screen at 18:36, Robocop isnt available on video, but it is "Avaliable!" 😂
Wonderful video btw!
I still have ROBOCOP as a tape version (boxed) for my Commodore 64 😺👍🕹️.
Sadly, it doesn't work 😹.
Wow, Loader3 is the soundtrack of my childhood! Many great memories!🖤 Thanks for uploading it bro! I got more tingles listening to this, then all ASMR combined!🤘
Glad you enjoyed it bud.
my childhood 😭❤❤
If you have compiled this in the old skool way that the intro suggests then, you Sir, are a Legend!
Ok ,after watching the video through I guess the old skool way is not really possible. But, great Video. Love the Ocean loaders!
Ocean Loader 4 is an absolute banger.
@4:00 bitd for me, you just knew your game was about to load any second. Mum was like, can you you turn it down a little but don’t turn it off.❤
I remember I could tell by the loading patterns that the game wouldn’t load properly.
I know, rewind and start again. errrrrrr.
Thanks for this video. It took me 32 years back in time. ;)
Always my favourite era. I named my account after The Ocean Loader
Dude that made me smile. Well done man. Brings back memories!
Imagine excitment of watching Wizball load nodding to good sid music, and knowing your favourite game is filling up your RAM and it will be ready soon.
The good old times. I miss those days as a kid.
Rambo first blood part II loader is my all-time favourite. I'd buy it just for the music. Rob Hubbard is a legend
It was Martin Galway that did the early Ocean Loaders including Rambo.
Ocean loader 3 = instant goose bump 😄 thanks for vid and comments, seems to be few legends there 🙂❤
No problem Thanks👍
God bless you for putting this up , my childhood right there ❤️❤️⚡️🔥🔥🔥
The C64 remembeted that games are played by human beings. The PS4 just has a black screen for two hours because Progress.
Like I'm sure many others, I stumbled across this on my RUclips Feed and it brought back so many great memories of our C64! This in itself highlighted the gulf in technology between the C64 and the Speccy with it's ear shattering sounds of pain :D
Q: Anyone know where to get these as a ringtone?! I need the Ocean Loader on my Pixel now!
Loader #4 and Robocop. Muh childhood.
Commodore 64 music would never die
Operation Wolf, always brings back memories of this loader
Back in Time !
Its the Original 👌
16:41 My goosebumps start here. 😍
RAMBO !!! oh the memories... BUT then V3 Turbo came ^^ dealing with 90min TDK´s and thousands of games haha
Yes I remember the Turbo Tape days, but sadly we lost the Loader Music.
3 is timeless. Barely noticed it back then, compared to 4. Now it's completely reversed.
Same with Commodore systems. Back then moving to Amiga was the biggest thing. But 6851/8580 has aged on a whole different level of grace.
Some of these tunes were great especially Ocean Loader 1 & 4
Yep. Legendy
I never had a game with the first Ocean loader music on it. I think the third (Peter Clarke) was my favourite.
Great collection of them all there =) Nice to see them all in one place!
+GadgetUK164
Thanks, hope it triggers some good memories from back in the day.
@@Four_X Indeed
ocean loader 4 needs to be my ring tone..EPIC! midnight resistance! rambo!
It's nice to hear the authentic Ocean Loaders for a change. ofc v5 is my favourite :)
This brought back so many memories.
I remember playing some Ocean games on C64 when I was a kid. I'm sure Ocean was a great European video game publisher and developer. I thought it was my favourite European video game company of all time.
We know Ocean Software was a British video game company. It became one of the biggest European video game developers and publishers of the 1980s and 1990s. They were best known for making video games for 8-bit consoles, 16-bit consoles, PC, N64, Sony PlayStation 1 and Sega Saturn. In 1996 it was acquired by the French video game company Infogrames (now Atari SA) as they renamed Infogrames UK in 1998. In 2003, they renamed Atari UK. In 2009, the Japanese company Bandai Namco Entertainment purchased Atari SA's European assets, and the remains of Ocean Software currently lie under the hands as Bandai Namco Entertainment's UK publishing and distribution division. However I think Atari stills retains the rights of some Ocean titles such as Wizball and Mr. Nutz.
This time in my life can never be surpassed