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Beavertown
02-21-2006, 10:05 AM
Did a search and didn't find this posted.
It's an old BBC special that aired in the mid 80's. It focuses on Videogames and Ocean and Imagine Software in particular.
Video Here (http://www.youtube.com/w/Commercial-Breaks%3A-Imagine-%26-Ocean-Games?v=jk6NQA8U7Hg)
Raedon
02-21-2006, 10:23 AM
wow.. nice gem on Imagine games in there.
Thanks for that
I remember meeting some of those people mentioned in the program at UKs Computer shows, those were innocent days.
Also nice views of hardware.
Did a search and didn't find this posted.
It's an old BBC special that aired in the mid 80's. It focuses on Videogames and Ocean and Imagine Software in particular.
Video Here (http://www.youtube.com/w/Commercial-Breaks%3A-Imagine-%26-Ocean-Games?v=jk6NQA8U7Hg)
thanks for that, nice find! made for a nice look at the troubles of 1984
Hammy
02-21-2006, 03:27 PM
that was a great video! excellent find!
Lothars
02-21-2006, 06:00 PM
thanks that is really interesting
Great Link
tholly
02-21-2006, 06:48 PM
I'll have to watch that when I'm not in the Pscyh. lab running subjects for my senior research study.....
...Thanks for the link....
Lozza
02-22-2006, 06:57 AM
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NiktheGreek
02-22-2006, 08:54 AM
This video does the rounds occasionally, I picked it up from a torrent a while back. It's fascinating, though you should really be aware that it doesn't exactly tell the whole story.
Firstly, remember the game Pud Pud featured in the show? The author speaks out here (http://web.archive.org/web/20041025203603/www.btinternet.com/~joffa.smifff/pudpud.html), and mentions the fact that most of the Ocean stuff was purely staged for the cameras.
Secondly, here's an excellent article by Crash magazine (http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/industry/publishers/imagine_crash0185.htm) from the time which more fully explains the goings-on behind the scenes at Imagine.
Hopefully, these links should help people get to grips more fully with what was really going on there, and exactly how Imagine ended up in such dire trouble in the first place.