Tag: Ocean Software
At Christmas 1985, the UK’s game charts saw a battle between two hit games along very similar lines. Elite Systems secured the rights to Capcom’s Commando arcade machine,…
On Thursday 9 August 1984, 11.7 million people in the UK turned on BBC1 to watch Olympic Grandstand cover the Olympics in Los Angeles. Fully 20% of the…
In 1986, Scanatron released a Commodore 64 game called The Double, made by Paul Barnard and Peter Martin. Taking after Football Manager, it put more of an emphasis…
Ocean had reached the top of the charts with Kong, and they were proud of it. When they advertised a new game in Personal Computer News in December…
In April 1983, UK magazines Home Computing Weekly and Personal Computer News each carried an advert for “the world’s greatest arcade games”. It was from the company Spectrum…
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