The Craptastic Games Of Ocean Software - Working Man Games

[@ttheone3518]

for some reason, the Ocean logo got kinda stolen and is now in use in a Norwegian swimming pool company

[@piotyrholbion]

Fun fact, in the Addams family nes game, the money bags are REQUIRED! Not for points but to buy your way to the ending!

[@WolfgangStudios619]

Oh Fuck no I'm out

[@Metalchip1989]

The batman pack no joke was one of the reason why so many people bought amigas, same of how tmnt being a pack in made the nes profitable in europe though not passing the sales of sega master system

[@CitizenLenny]

I recall Mr. Nutz has a boss which is a detailed giant face which has this freaky attack where he pops his eyeballs out at you, but he has like, a stock of a million eyeballs and they keep reloading in his sockets Very bizarre

[@cncinc100]

Damn, I forgot the entire existence of Ocean, but seeing that logo brings it all back like a brick to the face. Oh, and Red Heat is the movie where Arnie snarls the immortal line "COCAINUM!" Good times.

[@JohnnyD1986]

All I know of Red Heat is there's a scene where Arnold pours cocaine out of a prosthetic leg and, with a weird serious face, just says "Cocainum!"

[@geardog24]

Can't believe they haven't rebooted Mr. Nuts yet. A name like that deserves a comeback.

[@baalfgames5318]

Maybe Mr. Nutz Studios will eventually do so when they stop making Asterix and Obelix games.

[@Jac2Mac]

One can only wonder why Ocean didn't do a video game based on the 1988 movie Colors.

[@steve16384]

That would have made a great FPS.

[@zero-ej6rt]

22:08 HE'S LITERALLY ME ! ! !

[@xCoMiXx]

Mr. Nutz Hoppin' Mad I think was an almost cancelled game before, but the protagonist was already a red squirrel so they slapped Nutz to try and make it sell

[@pferreira1983]

It was not a sequel I know that.

[@NGB1122]

I'll have you know that the Klonoa GBA games are the best Ocean-likes out there. Because lo and behold when you put actual thought and effort into designing a game, you can make going around looking for things fun, unlike Ocean.

[@LuckyPunkProd]

Not everything Namco made on the GBA was good, but the Klonoa games on the system were great examples of how to make puzzle-platformers in general.

[@thecoolcario9048]

Klonoa my beloved

[@thatonelucariofan503]

@@thecoolcario9048 A Lucario pfp, and Klonoa mega fan. Are we clones?

[@thecoolcario9048]

@@thatonelucariofan503 hahaha maybe. Or perhaps we are long lost twin brothers.

[@Firguy_the_Foot_Fetishist]

Um, excuse me, but it's spelled *"low* and behold". There's no institution for regulating the English language so spelling errors are too often taken for granite.

[@CaseyTape]

Thanks for the headphone check i was using speakers XD

[@chaospoet]

Mighty Max was the one that offended me the most back in the day. I was a huge fan of the cartoon. The villain was basically Skeletor on steroids, a million time more evil, actually outsmarted the good guys and won sometimes, had a giant genuinely badass fire breathing dragon, had no compunction about killing children, stole people's souls in a way that would make Shang Tsung and Freddy Kruger insanely jealous and was voiced by Tim Curry! And the good guys weren't half bad either. Not nearly as cool, but then again nothing could be. The main character Max was kind of, sort of a young Indiana Jones knowledgable with history and puzzles to a degree and had the power to open portals to teleport to different parts of the world. He had a wise old talking Fowl (because reasons) to guide him and an immortal warrior to guard him who was every heroic legend you ever heard of from Hercules to Lancelot. That's the source material they had to work with. And they made THAT! I'm still pissed about it. 20 years from now I'll be pissed about it. That game was unforgivable!

[@spectrebird3984]

God I had the NES Jurassic Park game and I'm glad I never figured out what to do in it and reach the T Rex section

[@ToadySP]

20:32 I watched this video a month or two ago and I thought Mighty Max looked familiar. Then today I watched the JonTron episode on Mighty Max and I thought it looked familiar. And it just occured to me a few minutes ago what happened. I forgot that the JonTron video existed when I had watched this, and I remembered this video when I randomly rewatched the JonTron video. And I gotta say, it is crazy to think that I think both this vid and JonTron did great jobs covering this game and in some ways I prefer this video. Like I feel like normally oldschool JonTron is on a bar, so the fact that there's even a comparison is high praise for this video. Gotta say, big kudos to ol Stu here. Hell yeah.

[@PhilipJFryII]

Cow with Rollerblades, pushover 😆 🤣 🤣 Awesome video Stu, thanks for being a real one throughout

[@ChildrenShowArchive456]

15:15 This scene has some problems that AVGN forgot to mention on his review on Hook for the NES. 16:51 Same for this scene which had some problems that AVGN forgot to mention on his review on the NES and SNES Jurassic Park games.

[@SimberLayek]

i dunno if I've ever seen anything as amazing as "GAME UNDER"

[@TheMagicRobot]

Your Johnny 5 impression is pretty good.

[@Mathmachine]

Considering he's talking about Ocean, before even starting this video I'm gonna assume we're gonna get a lot of "Brits Can't Jump".

[@Serrax]

Dude you are on fire this episode, shit had me dying haha!

[@Countsmegula]

Mr Nutz, I have a soft spot for due to its nice graphics and fun soundtrack.

[@chaospoet]

I'm waiting for that Amiga sequel to get ported to the Dreamcast. lol

[@SerathDarklands]

3:12 - So, that's actually a real gun, a rather unsuccessful submachinegun made by Jatimatic. It's fitted with a weird late 70s/early 80s laser sight, which is why it looks so weird.

[@clauscombat418]

Platoon on the C64 is a masterpiece ❤

[@bubba8672]

Hey Stuart K Riley I have a question have you made any reviews on fishing games cuz I know you did on hunting games and that was a good one I like all your videos

[@KyrosTheWolf]

Holy shit, when Stu started playing the Jurrassic Park game, I got an ad for Jurrassic Park toys. Coincidence? I think NOT

[@byronarvanitis1189]

Lethal Weapon was a great licence game on the Amiga, great soundtrack, graphics AND gameplay.

[@Manawolfman]

What was up with game developers giving enemies more aiming options than the player? I actually played the NES Addams and the Gameboy Jurassic Park.

[@Mr_1Ballwhale]

hell yeah another great episode

[@WestleyWolf]

One thing to note they had game based on the movie The Shadow Starring alec baldwin on the SNES but it was cancelled before it could actually release. it was a really good Final Fight Clone except some of the sprites were glitchy.

[@aarlavaan]

I actually liked that movie. I know it isn't the best, but I thought it wasn't too bad. fun fact, the little girl went on to play Deb in Napoleon Dynamite.

[@kerbal666]

I always wonder if Mr Nutz inspired Conkers Bad Fur Day or was a parody sequel of sorts

[@ArcRay20]

i do wonder if Ocean was the first to make the "Ocean-like" because i am aware of FAR more non-Ocean SNES games that are like that.

[@ExtremeWreck]

That's just what Eurogames were like back then, even before Ocean.

[@GamesAreArt1]

I can't describe the pain the suffer and agony you're as sing thought to make those videos for us thanks you

[@ChildrenShowArchive456]

Who knew Ocean Software’s 8 bit games’s soundtrack can handle the metal guitar solo so well.

[@TheJzygorodimos]

ocean man tke me by the hand

[@lukeskywalker1167]

it is a pain in the ass to install games by ocean software in a dos emulater because of that stupid copy protection system that prevents the use of img files as installation media. there are probably some bytes on the floppy that work as verification but aren't dumped into the img file

[@bryangarcia5599]

*OOOH!* _-Navy SEALs!_

[@LendriMujina]

5:32 And it wouldn't even *be* realistic! Being shot once can really mess someone up, sure, but a lot of people survive long enough to at least get help. (Still don't take the gamble of trying it, though...)

[@FooPanda]

Johnny Five merely observes!

[@Metalchip1989]

Games in europe were usually 5 bucks per game.

[@davidjellofox]

What kind of holster would you want for your zapper? belt clip on?

[@punksqrlz]

i love mr nutz

[@AlmyTheAlien]

Jurassic Park SNES was easily the game they put the most effort into. (The ending scene is literally just the opening scene played in reverse so take that for what it is.)

[@FarelForever]

Hey Stu, this was another fun video, but I would like to offer some constructive criticism (which you are free to ignore): You create videos where you often cover either one or several games. This is the approach that works for you, and I enjoy it, but I feel like this episode didn't have a strong theme. The unifying element of all these games was the development company, about whom you only spoke for like 90 seconds, and then you went to the games, and covered one after the other. I get that approach, and I do re-iterate: I enjoyed the video, but I grow concerned over whenever or not I'll ever come back to this one. I have rewatched several of your old videos because of something that made them stand out, and just going through your video list, looking at the thumbnail made me go "Oh yeah, that one was fun!". These compilation videos aren't as unique, and I can't for the life of me remember what happens in them a few months down the line, with all of them blending together in my brain, as you've been putting out several of them in the past few months. So that's my criticism: good content, but I worry that this video format makes the videos stand out less if the shared element of the games isn't that remarkable.

[@StuartKReilly]

So what you're saying is the reviewing a bunch of games in one go format isn't really working? See, I thought it was. And thats why I need people like you to tell me otherwise. I can change it up next video. Maybe do just one game. Because honestly the compilation videos are a lot of hard work and if its not paying off then there's no need for me to do them.

[@FarelForever]

@@StuartKReilly I do wish to underline that you don't need to restrict yourself completely . But I did notice a shift in your content in the last half a year, where some of the videos stand out less. You don't need to necessarily restrict yourself to 1 game per video either (your videos on Inspector Gadget or Army Man games are superb after all), but undeniably "Less is more".

[@NGB1122]

IDK that seems really over critical. I get your concern, but I don't think it's as big an issue as you make it out to be.

[@traewilson5127]

@@FarelForever I think the issue is this video specifically didn't do much to really examine Ocean; it boiled down to "gee these guys sure sucked huh? Anyway here's RoboCop" which doesn't really get into why their games so often came out shoddy junk. LJN for instance didn't make shit games just to make shit games, you know? It was a side gig for them they didn't care as much about compared to their main interest: creating toys. Hence why they put more effort into game peripherals than the actual games themselves. Modern Konami just straight up gave up on console gaming, so now their few console releases are trash, and they put more effort into their gacha games because they love your money and hate everything else about you. But that's not how they always were, you know? When doing any kind of company retrospective it's important to look at how the philosophy of the company influences their output. But I don't think that'd be very funny. Informative, sure! Not funny. It's a dilemma.

[@Pizzaguy975]

Another working man episode today is a good one 👍

[@takedeepshhh]

i just wondering are you canadian? i used to really like ocean on the amiga in the early-mid nineties as their logo usually meant a good game. maybe i just got lucky in what i've picked to play or was lucky to have an amiga after 92, but back then i really saw ocean as a constant and reliable provider of good lookin and good playing fun. between 93-96 they released some really good and even some major games on the amiga. there was an ocean logo at the start of worms, alien breed 3d, jurassic park, jungle strike, mr nutz, kid chaos, the speris legacy, etc... i did know about their bad movie games but move games were supposed to be shit, everybody knew that so you pirated them, played them once then used the disk(s) to store your own modules and samples instead.

[@StuartKReilly]

Yes I am from Quebec. I'm a Quebec gamer

[@angry_wizard]

@@StuartKReilly I honestly thought you were like Texan or something, on the other hand this makes complete sense to me as Quebec is the Texas of Canada (massive in area, mostly empty, and as soon as you leave the very hip, cosmopolitan cities it's nothin' but weird rural towns and weirder people speaking in dialects unintelligible even to native speakers of the language). I can't make too much fun though, I live in Toronto.

[@StuartKReilly]

@@angry_wizard This was a joke. I'm from Louisiana

[@angry_wizard]

@@StuartKReilly Oh thank god, I'm not crazy.

[@drenkrod9811]

23:57 Masquerade of Nuts

[@Metalchip1989]

Highlander was made for apple 2 and was way better there

[@Z64bit]

Ocean did have a decent racing game on N64

[@gagnose26]

[Red Heat] "is the most homoerotic game I've played since MGS4" ...this implies you are unaware of the Cho Aniki series. This is a problemo you'll have to fix, Stu

[@loutchi7981]

quite a lot a bad faith here. Ocean sure had bad games/poor but it provide goods ones as well as being active

[@nooddood]

Why does mr nuts have a white stripe on his tail like a skunk?

[@alopexau]

'Ocean-like' was cute, but the term you're looking for already exists, these games are early examples of 'Eurojank'.

[@HolyGoddessMotherAnne]

UwU.

[@pferreira1983]

You mean like Nintendojank? 🙄

[@duketheLEGEND651]

Can you get robocop on a toaster ? XD

[@amayocan]

Whole ocean o' shit

[@blackenedheart9592]

😂 this guy is hilarious

[@UltimatePerfection]

You are so wrong. You never judge a company by the licensed games for they are only to balance the sheets, not to have fun experience.

[@Ruudos]

Ocean was really into movie licensed games though.

[@UltimatePerfection]

@@Ruudos Yeah, but their original output is what matters. And it was great.

[@LJK193]

Stu, how do you know what male stripper music sounds like? O_O

[@gameshock2916]

Dennis The Menace on Super Nintendo sucks and same with Waterworld on Virtual Boy.

[@pferreira1983]

So basically dumb down the games enough for your intellect to understand? Cool. 😆

[@ChildrenShowArchive456]

AVGN: They’re like the British version of LJN.

[@pferreira1983]

He was wrong.

[@ChildrenShowArchive456]

@@pferreira1983or was he? Think about it. Most of the games this company made were bad. Just see NES Darkman, SNES Dennis The Menace, NES Jurassic Park, NES Robocop 2 and Addams Family NES.

[@pferreira1983]

@@ChildrenShowArchive456 Gamers on Amiga, ZX Spectrum, Mega Drive, etc would disagree with you.