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The Story & Games of Sensible Software- 2 Hour retrospective by Kim Justice
- Thread starter Tizoc
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Love Kim's documentaries, love Sensible Software.
I'm all over this... once I find a free 2 hours
I'm all over this... once I find a free 2 hours
Kim is a godsend in helping to preserve the european gaming history in a time where it's basically been forgotten in favour of japanese and american titles and developers. The eighties and ninteties saw some exceptional creativity on the micro computer scene. This really makes me remember all that time I spent dabbling in S.E.U.C.K. making shit pixel animations and generally having a blast.
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I'm from the UK and I don't know so many of these games because I got into gaming with the N64
Yep. I had to rejig my retro gaming podcasts and YouTube subscriptions because I got so tired of hearing how nothing happened between 1983 and the NES.
Growing up in the States, I didn't really know much about Sensible Software aside from Cannon Fodder. I'd usually restart if Jools died, so I don't think I ever made it very far.
I stumbled upon Kim's channel recently, and if you're of a certain age and you hail from the UK, then this stuff is like mana from the heavens. The US Gold and Ocean deep dives were like somebody had opened a door and transported me back to my 10 year old self and bombarded me with overwhelming nostalgia. The fascinating aside about the debacle surrounding the 1986 World Cup game made me smile, because I fell for that dreadful game - World Cup Carnival for the C64. Tricked by the plethora of extras that came with the game. I've not watched the Sensible Software video yet, so I'm looking forward to revisiting the glory of SWOS and the almighty Wizkid; I never could beat that game back in the day, but I did revisit it a few years back and ticked it off my list of gaming white whales. A crazy mixture of arcade madness and point and click style puzzle solving, it's genius, and very underrated.
On a slight tangent here, but Kim's video on these two gems is what led to the discovery of her channel.
I played these two back in the day, and have a real fondness for Millennium 2.2. It's very grey and very bleak, and the bleeping sounds of mining for ore and strange encounters with alien artifacts make for an melancholic and desolate experience. Games on the C64 and Amiga/ST rarely felt that they were made to be beaten, so it was something of a triumph after numerous quiet nights plugging away on my Atari ST, that I managed to beat the game. I never really got to grips with the sequel, it was intensely difficult and after many failed attempts at making progress in the game, I simply moved onto the next game.
But, yeah, if you grew up in the UK on a diet of Spectrum/C64 and Amiga games, this is a glorious channel to follow.
On a slight tangent here, but Kim's video on these two gems is what led to the discovery of her channel.
I played these two back in the day, and have a real fondness for Millennium 2.2. It's very grey and very bleak, and the bleeping sounds of mining for ore and strange encounters with alien artifacts make for an melancholic and desolate experience. Games on the C64 and Amiga/ST rarely felt that they were made to be beaten, so it was something of a triumph after numerous quiet nights plugging away on my Atari ST, that I managed to beat the game. I never really got to grips with the sequel, it was intensely difficult and after many failed attempts at making progress in the game, I simply moved onto the next game.
But, yeah, if you grew up in the UK on a diet of Spectrum/C64 and Amiga games, this is a glorious channel to follow.