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DARRAN JONES
NICK THORPE
TIM EMPEY
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OUT ON THE OPEN OCEAN
We reminisce about the former publisher
With Ocean Software being the subject of a feature this month, it felt like a good time for the team to reminisce – after all, the company used to be a titan of the games business in this part of the world, and we all played its games.
NICK
So, it has been 25 years since the Ocean brand disappeared from the shelves of game stores. Did you guys realise it had been that long?
DARRAN
Not at all, but to be honest I’ve been writing professionally about retro games for the past 20 years and Ocean has been a big part of that so my perception is a little warped.
TIM
I’d kind of forgotten about Ocean until I joined the mag. Hadn’t had to think about it for ages. But I played a load of its games on the C64.