Hot Topic - Best Ocean Film Licence

[yakmag]

Went for Batman (Miggy version in particular).

As previously mentioned it's the driving/flying sections that make it stand-out.

Robocop (again only played Miggy version) it was good but I feel Batman just pips it.

[RichL]

I thought Robocop, although a film, was a conversion of the arcade game (again, based on the film) but in that case, Robocop should be disqualified as all the other games were based on the film and not the arcade game of the film??

Am jet lagged, hope that makes sense!!

[theantmeister]

I voted for Jurassic Park. The SNES game is fantastic. They could have just made a side scrolling platformer, but Ocean went for something much more ambitious and it worked pretty well.

[Darran@Retro Gamer]

I thought Robocop, although a film, was a conversion of the arcade game (again, based on the film) but in that case, Robocop should be disqualified as all the other games were based on the film and not the arcade game of the film??

Am jet lagged, hope that makes sense!!

It's not based on the arcade game. Aside from both being run and gun, the levels are completely different and the speccy one has all the cool mini-games. That's my recollection of the games anyway.

[sirclive1]

I seriously would have picked Cobra , but out of the list supplied i picked Jurassic Park as it was just great fun to play (super nintendo version only ).

[mlucifersam]

I did say on the first page, the arcade game of Robocop was based on the home versions, which were written FIRST!

[greenberet79]

I went for The Untouchables. For the variety of each level.

Great list of games though - I loved them all* and they're all welcome to a place at the top of my gaming list. I remember a magazine had the Factory level of Speccy Robocop on a demo tape - I must have played it a million times!

*I've never played Hudson Hawk though - I'll have to have a go!

[greenberet79]

Is it my memory playing tricks on me or was Total Recall completely axed and a different version commissioned?

[RichL]

I did say on the first page, the arcade game of Robocop was based on the home versions, which were written FIRST!

Fair enough, missed that - told you I was jet lagged

[SirClive]

Not my have game of the bunch, but Robocop was a fantastic license and showed how Ocean were happy to take risks.

[thevulture]

Is it my memory playing tricks on me or was Total Recall completely axed and a different version commissioned?

Not thinking of the Nes game, which was different to other versions and done by Interplay?.

[thevulture]

'With the rights acquired, it was a bizarre twist of fate that would bring an arcade machine manufacturer to a software company when Data East sought to sub-license the title to Ocean in order to create its own arcade game. This would result in the rather ironic occurrence of Data East crediting Ocean Software on the Attract mode for irs RoboCop Coin-op - which Ocean would then go on to convert. Neither Orion, Paul Verhoeven nor the other film-makers were as protective over their intellectual property as Warner Brothers was with batman the following year, "We had the usual approvals process, but they weren't very precious about the property at the time (not in the way Warner was with batman, for instance) We did get a little video footage prior to the film release," says Gary. "However, keep in mind that as we were basing our game on that of Data East's then we never needed such reference. Data East visited the set a couple of times, I think, and were given access to pre-release footage and stills. '

[thevulture]

'Although the most significant elements were taken from the coin-up version, it was Mike Lamb who translated and adapted it for home computers. I think the one thing that was my idea was the Photofit bit. Other than that, I just generally managed the development and oversaw the game on all the formats. Data East did the NES version, and we did the Game Boy" While the resulting game would become memorable for many reasons,one of the most notable was the way in which it deviated from the norm of being a genre-specific game and incorporated the concept of several diverse sub-games that came together to form a complete experience. This would change the way software houses and players thought about videogames, and proved instrumental in Ocean's design process for many years to come. "I think we just wanted to make our mark" says Gary. "If we had simply converted the coin-up version then it wouldn't have been terribly satisfying (creatively) for the teams involved.'

Taken from:www.robocoparchive.com

[batman877]

Well 'Batman the Movie' obviously

Although 'Robocop' comes a close second.

[thl]

I going with Robocop for this one. It was the Gameboy version that had myself drawn to it.