9 curated videos — documentaries, longplays, music features, and retrospectives covering Ocean Software's catalogue and legacy.
Kim Justice's definitive documentary on Ocean Software, covering the founding years, the licence strategy, the RoboCop phenomenon that established Ocean as Britain's premier games publisher, and the eventual acquisition by Infogrames. Essential viewing for anyone interested in the company's full history and the wider British games industry of the 1980s and 1990s.
Documentary · Kim Justice
Kim Justice catalogues Ocean's entire licensed game portfolio — from Spectrum to SNES, RoboCop to Highlander, the classics and the worst, and plenty of weirdness in between. A comprehensive survey of the licensing strategy that made Ocean Britain's most commercially dominant games publisher through the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Documentary · Kim Justice
A full longplay of Ocean's 1988 C64 conversion of RoboCop from World of Longplays. Jonathan Dunn's iconic score plays throughout, making this as much a music showcase as a gameplay demonstration. The game's tight platform-action design and the quality of the SID score cemented Ocean's reputation for premium movie tie-ins.
Longplay · World of Longplays
Ocean's 1989 C64 conversion of Batman: The Movie from World of Longplays, with Jonathan Dunn's atmospheric soundtrack audible throughout. One of the most technically accomplished C64 games of its era, the longplay demonstrates the game's varied level design and the SID score that won Dunn widespread recognition.
Longplay · World of Longplays
Sensible Software's 1987 game published by Ocean, featuring Martin Galway's celebrated Wizball score — the composition Galway himself cited as his personal favourite from his Ocean years. The longplay from World of Longplays captures the game's distinctive colour-restoration mechanic and the SID soundtrack in full.
Longplay · World of Longplays
Ocean's 1987 publication of Jon Ritman and Bernie Drummond's isometric puzzle-adventure, presented in enhanced 256-colour rendering. One of the most praised Spectrum games of its era, Head Over Heels demonstrates the level of quality that Ocean's publishing operation could bring to genuinely innovative external development.
Longplay · ZX Spectrum
A real-hardware C64 recording bringing together the Ocean Loaders sequence — Loaders 1 and 2 by Martin Galway, Loader 3 by Peter Clarke, and Loaders 4 and 5 by Jonathan Dunn. Invaluable for hearing the evolution of Ocean's loading music across the late 1980s and tracing how the SID aesthetic changed between the two principal composers.
Music Feature · SID
Martin Galway's Wizball title music for the C64, the composition he cited as his personal favourite from his Ocean years. Galway's approach to the SID chip — exploiting four-voice synthesis and advanced digi-drum techniques — set a benchmark for game music on the Commodore 64 in the mid-1980s.
Music Feature · Martin Galway
Jonathan Dunn's SID score for Ocean's 1987 C64 conversion of Platoon, one of the compositions that established Dunn as Martin Galway's successor at Ocean. Dunn's prolific output across 1988–1992 — spanning RoboCop, Batman: The Movie, Total Recall, and Terminator 2 — represents one of the largest bodies of work by any single game composer on the platform.
Music Feature · Jonathan Dunn