Ocean/Imagine Software Video

[Hotshot]

I found the post from Blitzsupport and I thought i did like share you all on good video that it was back then

It seems computer game/small IT companies frequently behave in this sort of fashion when things go wrong.

This reminded me of this old 8-bit era Ocean/Imagine documentary (30 min), during the filming of which Imagine closed down... and locked out all their staff... on camera:

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-1012096952890708986

[Shockwave]

This is fantastic viewing, nice find Hotshot! I am transfixed!

[rdc]

I remember seeing some Ocean titles when I worked for a software store back in the day. It is interesting that the industry is completely different now and yet the same.

[Shockwave]

I wish that I could go back to then and invent tetris and lemmings and cannon fodder and swos and and and....

[Jim]

Ha Ha!  David Ward has hair!

Jim

[Clyde]

I loved Ocean / Imagine games, such a shame that got eaten up after tunnel b1 by i think infogames.

If the games industry gathered up 30 millions squids back then, i'd hate to know the ridiculous sum now-a-days. Example there's well over something like 10 million players on World Of War Craft, in Europe alone and when I played it, it was £8 per month. o_O

[Shockwave]

Ha Ha!  David Ward has hair!

Jim

Not any more!

[Jim]

Absolutely!  Last time I saw the man was at the arse end of Ocean as they had just been taken over by Infogrames (as Clyde said), and he was as bald as a coot!

What a stuff-up Infogrames made of the industry.  Screwed up Philips, Ocean, Gremlin, Melbourne House, and numerous smaller players.

Jim

[Shockwave]

Out of all those I was saddest to see Gremlin go.

I remember phoning them when I was 15 and asking for a job, the guy I spoke to talked to me for about 20 minutes, giving me advice of how I could get a job there when I left school, I think that said a lot about the type of company it was.