READERS REACT

What are your favourite Ocean games?

‘Horace’ by Paul Helman

No one game in particular but the Ocean

Loader music, especially Ocean Loader 2, that time signature change around 45 seconds is amazing!

Neil Henderson

The one that first springs to mind is Daley Thompson’s Decathlon. I wrecked many a joystick playing that!

Codetapper

Cabal on the C64 was a fantastic Ocean conversion. Superb graphics, a great difficulty curve, nice bosses, and immense fun destroying all the scenery.

Martin Sønderby Lund

Batman on the bread bin was a big title for me. One of the first games I heard with that iconic Ocean Loader tune, one of the first games I saw where they ‘broke through’ the border of the screen (the main game screen) and one of the first games I ever beat.

Stacey King

1988 was my favourite year for the Spectrum and Ocean games. On +3 disk most evenings after school, but before I went out with my mates, I would play

Target: Renegade, Robocop and Operation

Wolf. This was a perfect and very satisfying hour of gaming and chill out time for me.

Kurisu Jones

Mr Nutz was a gorgeous 2D platformer on the SNES. It stood out in an era when 2D platformers were a dime a dozen and the likes of Donkey Kong Country and

Earthworm Jim were around, so you know it was something special to behold.

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Operation Wolf was a brilliant conversion and I also love what they did with Robocop.

Daniel Betts

It might not be the best game they made but Waterworld on the SNES stands out for its incredible soundtrack, the map music is one of my all-time favourites.

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I know Wizball gets all the love but for me the sequel Wizkid is delightfully nuts and never fails to make me smile.

Binni Erlingsson

The Operation Wolf ZX Spectrum conversion was quite incredible… and also really improbable that they managed to translate a lightgun game so perfectly to the Spectrum, where a huge majority played the game with keyboard or joystick.