I am from the United States and I agree that the history of games is lopsided, not properly covering other territories and the unsung geniuses of gaming from them. I was guilty of this ignorance when I was in my teens (young and dumb, I suppose). The thing that changed that for me was the UK based magazine Retro Gamer. The first issue I bought was the issue that explored the history of Durell the software publisher. The CD that came with it had a ZX Spectrum emulator and some games. I had never heard t\of the platform before and was intrigued as a result. Because of that gem of a Magazine I had the pleasure of playing Seboteur!, Saboteur 2: Avenging Angel, Manic Miner, Sigma 7, Critical Mass and Jet Set Willy. I had a good friend over and we played those games to death and back. We were so pissed that we never had the Speccy, that scrappy home computer that was so loved by those in the UK. The likes of Mathew Smith (Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy) and Clive Townsend (Seboteur!, Saboteur 2: Avenging Angel) are game developer legends, as far as I'm concerned. The Saboteur series is my favorite out of the bunch. Great job on the video and God bless Sir Clive Sinclair!
I watched the Crash Course history of gaming series and it looked something like this: MURICA! MURICA! MURICA! MURICA! MURICA! MURICA! MURICA! MURICA! MURICA! MURICA! MURICA! MURICA! MURICA! MURICA! MURICA! MURICA! MURICA! MURICA! MURICA! MURICA!
The greatest contribution Ocean made to me was the thought "I could do better than that!" Not quite true but it certainly provided a low enough bar to be achievable.
absolutely fantastic sir... well done. being a 36 year old englishman this is exactly how my earlier gaming years were spent. from the zx to the c64 to the 500+, ocean games were in abundance in my household and now i finally know their tale. respect
Wow! Brilliant work, Kim. These documentaries have really evolved into a product that brilliantly represents a classic era of gaming that many of us experienced. Really, really great work. Whenever I think Ocean, I think Robocop - this video has shed some light as to why that is, ha ha.
This one was a real eye opener. Being an American, I was only ever exposed to Ocean's crappier stuff back in the day. It wasn't until a year or so back, that I was exposed to the excellence that are their Spectrum titles. So yeah, us Yanks really missed out on something good.
Another top notch video here! My only (extremely minor) gripe is that most of the footage was from Speccy versions of the games. Would've been nice to see more c64/Amstrad/Amiga/Atari St in the mix, as well as later licenses such as Pushover and the official Comic Relief video game "Sleepwalker" (also released as Eek! The Cat on SNES). Aside from that? 10/10 yet again!
As an Australian kid with an Amiga reading UK computer magazines, Ocean certainly were one of the most visible names. I had wondered how big games companies disappeared, being bought by a bigger company seems to be the usual story. Seems like Ocean built their empire on a particular niche which disappeared. I still find it weird though that a dozen guys cannot make a computer or console game anymore due to the number of man hours required for a 3D game with 4K resolution and CD quality sound.
I agree 100% to what you said in the intro. Retro computer games and the european market is basically dismissed in the mainstream perception of what the history of gaming is. In my youth the NES was secondary to the C64 and Amiga (in the number of systems owned by friends etc). Thank you for going against the grain :)
Another excellent documentary styled video. These are your best videos so far. I also absolutely LOVE how your channel is more European/UK centered. There are many good channels that make quality content like this but almost everything is from the American point of view, you know, "video game crash" and "Genesis" all that stuff. So your content feels so fresh to me. Everytime i hear you say "Mewga Drive", it makes me smile :P Keep it up :)
Daley Thompson's Decathlon and Match Day were two of the best games ever released on the Speccy. I was a HUGE fan of Ocean back in the day! Great memories!
+Evil from evilution Totally agree, I worked for Psygnosis throughout the early 90s and it was a blast. It was great seeing some old faces that I recognised in this video!
Great stuff. Growing up in this era, I am a big fan of your work. You make the videos I always thought of making but never had the chance too! BTW I´m a collector of C64 Ocean cartridges (some are quite rare now) so really appreciate your hard work in bringing back these stories of bits, drugs and rock n roll!!) :)
Hats off Kim. You're extremely talented and should be commended for producing a video of such incredible quality. Your efforts are greatly appreciated.
I played so many of these games as I was growing up. Thanks for making these, some of the better documentaries on the innards of the gaming industry I've seen, and I've seen a plenty.
Thank you Kim, all of those went on when I was a child and I had idea about any of it. Really it's a treat to get a behind the scenes look at a company which played a big part in my childhood.
Fantastic Documentary, Growing up with the Amiga in Australia and revisiting all these tiles through your videos are amazing, the detail and flow of your vids are amazing keep up the great work
So glad I found this hidden gem of a channel. You know so much about this stuff, and present it in such a way that makes it really entertaining to watch. Subbed.
Wow this is a great channel, being Scottish and born in the 80s theres so much great nostalgia here. Definitely subscribing and watching some of your other documentaries.
Kim, you need to play Lethal Weapon on Amiga (developed by Ocean, of course). A tight side-scroller, with freaking amazing music. Seriously. One of the best soundtracks on the platform.
Really enjoying your content, you have clearly put a lot of effort in. Watching your videos is like a time capsule into my early childhood, the games & spectrum magazines,I remember only 4 channels to choose from & the BBC closed at midnight, TV & radio stations. Definitely simpler times, for choice & colour.
Fabulous documentary on one of the most iconic software houses. You production levels are exceptional, I am sure your subscriber base will continue to rise with output like this. I liked the use of the World at War documentary music during the Imagine Software section :)
Great documentary - you have really brought back my childhood memories concerning computer gaming! I am looking forward to watching your other videos also - you are a wealth of knowledge.
Great video. At 34 I had so many of these hit squad games on my. 128k collection and this is nice to know more of the origins of them. Not to mention so many speccy games I missed, I lived on budget games and compilations (4 in 1 code masters etc) so it was sweet to see some really high quality speccy games. So much I just bought a 128k off ebay. Thank you Kimble Justice. You have motivated me to restart my collection from 25 plus years ago.
Great documentary, brought back some memories! very informative. One touch of (constructive criticism) - i found the text parts not 'up there' long enough to read them.
the side-scrolling Short Circuit game was "rock" hard...veterans of the game will get the pun! I spent days trying to complete that game...! Another great video...thank you for sharing :)
Brilliant video as always Kim, and one that I have watched a few times before. There is one more piece you could add to your musical credits: 'Where Were You?' by The Mekons (1979).
Another class video, Ocean made so much with the Speccy and the other micros back in the day. Loved Robocop on the spectrum, the music was great, and the Short Circuit music.
masterfully done Kim, I was always saying to myself that GameSack are going to release a video about my beloved Ocean's History just like they did with other companies, but you beat them to the punch and to tell you the truth it needed a British touch as a yank as you guys call them... lol...would have never been able to capture the magic of a true European company like Ocean, as the Amiga and c64 were popular in North America but no were near as they were in Europe, good job you really nailed it with this one, impressive, funny and very entertaining.
The Ocean Software games I remember playing, and still own to this day to a degree, are Jurassic Park Part 2 The Chaos Continues for the SNES, Addams Family Values for SNES, Mission Impossible for N64, and Wetrix for N64. The Ocean logo intros for the first two games I mentioned can be a little scary for me, especially if one were to listen to the audio portions of them in a dark room.
Robocop by Ocean on the Amstrad CPC 128K was the first videogame I ever bought. I vividly remember walking into a computer store in Stoke-On-Trent (Micro Center) and seeing the arcade version of Robocop, I was blown away and bought it immediately. It was the start of a lifetime hobby, I was 10 years old.
Very impressive work indeed! Reminded me of the good old days, playing New Zealand Story and Rainbow Island on my NES. I think Infogrames deserves its own proper video. Also Spain's own Dinamic and Opera Soft were pretty much rockstars at that time.
aah my local n favourite old software giant, jeez the 8 bit n 16 bit UK computer scene was brilliant back in the day, thx for this well researched video.
Ocean.... oh boy, my childhood nemesis. I remember I got Flintstones and Hook for my birthday. After I played both for two minutes, I wanted to cry. They were AWFUL. I took them up to my uncle and asked him to take them back. He played them himself and couldn’t have agreed more.
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So i found another publisher video 2nd one I've watched and yes this was great too! Looking forward to more.
8 years go so fast... I still come back to this video now and then. To get my fill of 80s UK game development.
RIP David Ward. Thank you for Ocean & bringing us great games to our home computers in the 80s & 90s.
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I am from the United States and I agree that the history of games is lopsided, not properly covering other territories and the unsung geniuses of gaming from them. I was guilty of this ignorance when I was in my teens (young and dumb, I suppose). The thing that changed that for me was the UK based magazine Retro Gamer. The first issue I bought was the issue that explored the history of Durell the software publisher. The CD that came with it had a ZX Spectrum emulator and some games. I had never heard t\of the platform before and was intrigued as a result. Because of that gem of a Magazine I had the pleasure of playing Seboteur!, Saboteur 2: Avenging Angel, Manic Miner, Sigma 7, Critical Mass and Jet Set Willy.
I had a good friend over and we played those games to death and back. We were so pissed that we never had the Speccy, that scrappy home computer that was so loved by those in the UK. The likes of Mathew Smith (Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy) and Clive Townsend (Seboteur!, Saboteur 2: Avenging Angel) are game developer legends, as far as I'm concerned. The Saboteur series is my favorite out of the bunch. Great job on the video and God bless Sir Clive Sinclair!
I watched the Crash Course history of gaming series and it looked something like this:
MURICA! MURICA! MURICA! MURICA! MURICA! MURICA! MURICA! MURICA! MURICA! MURICA! MURICA! MURICA! MURICA! MURICA! MURICA! MURICA! MURICA! MURICA! MURICA! MURICA!
100%, preach it brother, it's great to hear an american who loved those games
I was an Acorn man back in the 80s-90s, also loved C64, and was exposed to the ZX but it was a bit cheap and shit. Still love the memories!
@@BobsBand that's awesome! Acorn computers has such a fascinating history behind it.
Loved the Spectrum back in the day and its shame the US never really got it. So many classics!
Great video that. Was watching while coding on C64. Great to see some familiar faces. I was at Ocean/Infogrames from 1992 to 2000.
The greatest contribution Ocean made to me was the thought "I could do better than that!" Not quite true but it certainly provided a low enough bar to be achievable.
absolutely fantastic sir... well done. being a 36 year old englishman this is exactly how my earlier gaming years were spent. from the zx to the c64 to the 500+, ocean games were in abundance in my household and now i finally know their tale. respect
Wow! Brilliant work, Kim. These documentaries have really evolved into a product that brilliantly represents a classic era of gaming that many of us experienced. Really, really great work.
Whenever I think Ocean, I think Robocop - this video has shed some light as to why that is, ha ha.
Kim, this is a masterwork of video game history. Thank you so much for the dozens of hours you must have spent on this.
This one was a real eye opener.
Being an American, I was only ever exposed to Ocean's crappier stuff back in the day. It wasn't until a year or so back, that I was exposed to the excellence that are their Spectrum titles. So yeah, us Yanks really missed out on something good.
I'm always surprised when people bashed ocean to the degrees they did, being from the uk i only ever had fond memories
@@leonleon3267 you never played Jurassic park or the nes port of Robocop
cheers kim, another entertaining & informative vid.. you're being very productive of late! always look forward to your posts.
This is bloody awesome! Good work.
Wow short circuit! I had completely forgotten about that game! Thanks great video
Another top notch video here! My only (extremely minor) gripe is that most of the footage was from Speccy versions of the games. Would've been nice to see more c64/Amstrad/Amiga/Atari St in the mix, as well as later licenses such as Pushover and the official Comic Relief video game "Sleepwalker" (also released as Eek! The Cat on SNES).
Aside from that? 10/10 yet again!
+Juganawt Major crossover here. XD
As an Australian kid with an Amiga reading UK computer magazines, Ocean certainly were one of the most visible names.
I had wondered how big games companies disappeared, being bought by a bigger company seems to be the usual story.
Seems like Ocean built their empire on a particular niche which disappeared.
I still find it weird though that a dozen guys cannot make a computer or console game anymore due to the number of man hours required for a 3D game with 4K resolution and CD quality sound.
I agree 100% to what you said in the intro. Retro computer games and the european market is basically dismissed in the mainstream perception of what the history of gaming is. In my youth the NES was secondary to the C64 and Amiga (in the number of systems owned by friends etc).
Thank you for going against the grain :)
Another excellent documentary styled video. These are your best videos so far. I also absolutely LOVE how your channel is more European/UK centered. There are many good channels that make quality content like this but almost everything is from the American point of view, you know, "video game crash" and "Genesis" all that stuff. So your content feels so fresh to me. Everytime i hear you say "Mewga Drive", it makes me smile :P
Keep it up :)
I absolutely love your channel. Great content.
Hi Kim, this is great work, really enjoyed this. Thanks for making.
Daley Thompson's Decathlon and Match Day were two of the best games ever released on the Speccy. I was a HUGE fan of Ocean back in the day! Great memories!
The controls could get finnicky, but Batman on Amiga was visually astounding...especially the driving scenes...wonderful memories.
This is probably one of the documentaries about the video game industry that I have ever seen! Absolutely fantastic work! :D
I'd love to see on of these about Psygnosis and Team 17.
+Evil from evilution Totally agree, I worked for Psygnosis throughout the early 90s and it was a blast. It was great seeing some old faces that I recognised in this video!
Great stuff. Growing up in this era, I am a big fan of your work. You make the videos I always thought of making but never had the chance too! BTW I´m a collector of C64 Ocean cartridges (some are quite rare now) so really appreciate your hard work in bringing back these stories of bits, drugs and rock n roll!!) :)
Hats off Kim. You're extremely talented and should be commended for producing a video of such incredible quality. Your efforts are greatly appreciated.
I find these documentaries of Kim's rivetting.Excellent work, sir!
Amazing work, brought back some amazing memories. Cheers Kim, keep up the superb work.
These videos are very very well made i have to say
I played so many of these games as I was growing up.
Thanks for making these, some of the better documentaries on the innards of the gaming industry I've seen, and I've seen a plenty.
09:00 that world at war music... Kim your choice of overtures always gets me XD
Thank you Kim, all of those went on when I was a child and I had idea about any of it. Really it's a treat to get a behind the scenes look at a company which played a big part in my childhood.
Hearing any Ocean loader is like entering a time machine back to the 80s awesome stuff yet again from Kim Justice.
Just coming back to watch this again after playing Robocop 3 on Genesis, and just want to mention how much I love your show. Thanks.
Another informative, well researched, thought provoking and professional production. Thanks Kim, for all your hard work!
Kim, these documentaries of yours, they are marvelous! I just love them! Please keep them coming :-)
Fantastic Documentary, Growing up with the Amiga in Australia and revisiting all these tiles through your videos are amazing, the detail and flow of your vids are amazing keep up the great work
So glad I found this hidden gem of a channel. You know so much about this stuff, and present it in such a way that makes it really entertaining to watch. Subbed.
An excellent video of the history of Ocean on the Speccy.
Wow this is a great channel, being Scottish and born in the 80s theres so much great nostalgia here. Definitely subscribing and watching some of your other documentaries.
Great documentary! Thanks for making these.
Bravo sir! Loved your video! Ocean games on the C64 were my childhood!
Kim, you need to play Lethal Weapon on Amiga (developed by Ocean, of course). A tight side-scroller, with freaking amazing music. Seriously. One of the best soundtracks on the platform.
Tremendous video. After reading the excellent 'Ocean:The History' book, this is the perfect accompaniment.
Another superb video. Loved Ocean games back in the late 80s. Rainbow Islands was always a favorite of mine.
Great video! Thanks for posting this.
Great video, thanks :) Lots and lots of information. Renegade and Target Renegade were both great fun and my favourite Ocean games.
Really enjoying your content, you have clearly put a lot of effort in. Watching your videos is like a time capsule into my early childhood, the games & spectrum magazines,I remember only 4 channels to choose from & the BBC closed at midnight, TV & radio stations. Definitely simpler times, for choice & colour.
Just read the sad news of co-founder David Ward's death. Rest in peace, what an awesome legacy ❤️😔
I doff my hat to you sir. Another well polished watch. Keep 'em coming kido!
Great video as always. These are great for research and I remember living through it.
fantastic! watching those clips & the ocean loader music has left me with a nice soft & warm feeling of nostalgia 😊
Excellent documentary here! Congrats on the great work!!
I have so many great childhood memories of Robocop on the spectrum
Thoroughly enjoyed this documentary and very well put together, you got another subscriber 10/10
Another great video. So good to learn more about a wonderful period from earlier years. Ocean, imagine - companies that gave us so much fun.
Fabulous documentary on one of the most iconic software houses. You production levels are exceptional, I am sure your subscriber base will continue to rise with output like this.
I liked the use of the World at War documentary music during the Imagine Software section :)
Great documentary - you have really brought back my childhood memories concerning computer gaming! I am looking forward to watching your other videos also - you are a wealth of knowledge.
Thanks for the effort you put into this. I had / still have so many of those spectrum releases. Some I had forgotten all about until now. Good times.
man that first minute was really telling stuff, i'm glad you're out there putting out our *us uk and euro gamers* point of view, sterling work
Excellent and really informative. Brought back so many childhood memories of playing the Spectrum. great job!!! 👍👏
This is a brilliant documentary mate. Very well done.
just found you by accident on RUclips recommended videos, excellent work
Great video. At 34 I had so many of these hit squad games on my. 128k collection and this is nice to know more of the origins of them.
Not to mention so many speccy games I missed, I lived on budget games and compilations (4 in 1 code masters etc) so it was sweet to see some really high quality speccy games.
So much I just bought a 128k off ebay.
Thank you Kimble Justice. You have motivated me to restart my collection from 25 plus years ago.
I've spent a very happy evening watching your documentaries, loved this !
A couple of seconds in and the Ocean Loader is playing, you just know this is going to be one great video!
Great documentary, brought back some memories! very informative.
One touch of (constructive criticism) - i found the text parts not 'up there' long enough to read them.
Excellent video Kim. Ocean games take me right back!!
the side-scrolling Short Circuit game was "rock" hard...veterans of the game will get the pun! I spent days trying to complete that game...! Another great video...thank you for sharing :)
Yet another fantastic video mate, I had most of these games on my c64.
I'd totally forgot about midnight resistance.
Great video, absolutely awesome, cheers man!
Brilliant video as always Kim, and one that I have watched a few times before. There is one more piece you could add to your musical credits: 'Where Were You?' by The Mekons (1979).
Very good documentary and well researched, really enjoyed this and some other you have produced
Quality, you deserve more subs mate.
Another class video, Ocean made so much with the Speccy and the other micros back in the day. Loved Robocop on the spectrum, the music was great, and the Short Circuit music.
Epic, nicely done
so much work has gone into this. Fantastic
masterfully done Kim, I was always saying to myself that GameSack are going to release a video about my beloved Ocean's History just like they did with other companies, but you beat them to the punch and to tell you the truth it needed a British touch as a yank as you guys call them... lol...would have never been able to capture the magic of a true European company like Ocean, as the Amiga and c64 were popular in North America but no were near as they were in Europe, good job you really nailed it with this one, impressive, funny and very entertaining.
aaand "Where Were You?" by The Mekons ;) - what a nice pick btw!
Excellent video as always!
The Ocean Software games I remember playing, and still own to this day to a degree, are Jurassic Park Part 2 The Chaos Continues for the SNES, Addams Family Values for SNES, Mission Impossible for N64, and Wetrix for N64. The Ocean logo intros for the first two games I mentioned can be a little scary for me, especially if one were to listen to the audio portions of them in a dark room.
Brilliant video, I love these videos that tell the history of various game companies and the like.
Very well presented and documentation of the 80's game scene, made me run some emulators.
Robocop by Ocean on the Amstrad CPC 128K was the first videogame I ever bought. I vividly remember walking into a computer store in Stoke-On-Trent (Micro Center) and seeing the arcade version of Robocop, I was blown away and bought it immediately. It was the start of a lifetime hobby, I was 10 years old.
Niku Nashi ohh that title music...
@@wahillyman Yes, so good!
Amazing. Fantastic work Kim!
Cheers from a C64 fan. I wish I had found out about your channel earlier -- now I'll have to binge-watch all the back catalogue.
I only found this channel last week and I have absolutely rinsed through it, every single video is fantastic.
C64 forever
This video is amazingly well done, and the soundtrack is top notch! Pretty sure I heard Eddy Current Suppression Ring in there?
Great documentary. Excellent high quality work. Love it.
Thank you for making these "story of" documentaries! :)
A truly classy video brilliant work Kim.
These videos are a real nostalgia trip for me
Brilliant documentary, Thank you!
Excellent work as usual! Informative and educative as always.
Love your videos man. Proper take me back to the glory days
Thanks for charing dude, good work!
Awesome in-depth documentary!
Very well narrated.
Very impressive work indeed! Reminded me of the good old days, playing New Zealand Story and Rainbow Island on my NES.
I think Infogrames deserves its own proper video. Also Spain's own Dinamic and Opera Soft were pretty much rockstars at that time.
Brilliant - loved every nostalgic minute of it :)
that was great! I have so many memories of ocean games on the c64. you did a great job with this!
aah my local n favourite old software giant, jeez the 8 bit n 16 bit UK computer scene was brilliant back in the day, thx for this well researched video.
Fascinating video(s). Really interesting seeing the history of UK games laid out like this. It's a whole realm I know nothing about.
Ocean.... oh boy, my childhood nemesis. I remember I got Flintstones and Hook for my birthday. After I played both for two minutes, I wanted to cry. They were AWFUL. I took them up to my uncle and asked him to take them back. He played them himself and couldn’t have agreed more.