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Tuesday July 15 1997 08:14, Alex Letaev wrote to Dmitry Zubarev:

AL> I was tinkering with it two years ago, when I got a branded cassette.

What was there and what was it like?
Here I have a branded cassette from OCEAN with Freddy 1,2; Tank, Slapfight and
Game Over - so everything there with speedlocks and all sorts of gurgling...

AL> Although right now I don’t remember exactly this game. And what distinguishes it from similar ones is that
AL> there are a lot of locations, and the graphics are a little different each time.

And it changes the screens a little sluggishly - this is its minus...

C u l8r,
Dmitry aka ZDW.

DZ> What was there and what was she like?
DZ> Here I have a branded cassette from OCEAN with Freddy 1,2; Tank,
DZ> Slapfight and
DZ> Game Over - so everything there with speedlocks and all sorts of gurgling...

I don’t remember the appearance, but I think the “jerk” was from copy protection, and in
the game before the start there were a couple of xorks.

Sunday July 27 1997 16:32, Sergei Novikov wrote to Dmitry Zubarev:

DZ>> Have you ever seen such a game from CM - SUPER HERO.

SN> By the way, about Super Hero. I saw his 128th snapshot on ftp.nvg.unit.no.

See how he works there? what if there is AY? Then throw it to me! But no - no need

^^^^^^^^^^^ Dynamic

DZ> Tank, Slapfight and Game Over
? ? ^^^^^^^^^ Dynamic

I wonder why the cassette is from Ocean?

Hasta la vista, Dmitry! See you in Eden! Novikov Sergei AKA Spirit/STEP
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SN> ? ? ^^^^^^^^^ Dynamic

Hе Dynamic, a Dynamic.

SN> Pretty much, what about Ocean?

Publisher's page.

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AL> I don’t remember the appearance, but I think the “jerk” was from copy protection, and
AL> in the game before the start, I think there were a couple of xorks.

No! On my cassette, all the loaders take up about 11 kilobytes with a bunch of xorks, with
checking for the next 10-20 seconds of characteristic gurgling and then in turbo
there is a loading with a direct transition of loading to the address, as was the case in
Deviants from Players, but there is no gurgling and turbo... but there is a 128th piece...
And it looks like this - on white and blue - OCEAN sign, then PREMIER COLLECTION,
in the middle on the sides - (c) 1988 Ocean Software Ltd. TAPE 1 and below are the names
THIS SIDE and OTHER SIDE. And on the other side there is no sticker, the plastic is black,
MADE IN ENGLAND protrudes from the top. Playing time is about 15X2=30 minutes. The record
of the tape is red, but on the body there are suspicions that it is left...
That’s just me - in case anyone is interested...

AL> Well, it’s not scary, but it has a lot of locations.

So I’ll throw it in then soon... in the week... Let's see...

SN>> Like, Super Hero. 128 views at ftp.nvg.unit.no.

AK> Publisher probably.

Interesting... Moreover, some of these games came out several years later than
others. So, did Ocean publish old stuff? And I don’t believe that Dynamics sold their games
to the Ocean - why would they do this when the profits themselves are quite good... A riddle.

Hasta la vista, Alex! See you in Eden! Novikov Sergei AKA Spirit/STEP

AK>> Publisher, probably.
SN> Interesting... Moreover, some of these games came out several years
SN> later than others. So, did Ocean publish old stuff? And I don’t believe that
SN> Dynamics sold their games to the Ocean - why would they do that when
SN> themselves have quite a good profit... It’s a mystery.

Well, this is just a guess, it’s just that often on the screensavers of
games it says something like 'Published by OCEAN'.