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WHERE TIME STOOD STILL

VARIOUS, 1988

■ By 1988, Ocean was well on the way to becoming the UK’s biggest and, developer Denton Designs stunned ZX Spectrum fans with this thrilling tale that evokes the spirit of Kevin Connor’s Seventies fantasy movies. begins at a crash site, pieces of plane wreckage dotted around the landscape. There are four survivors: pilot Jarret, Gloria, Dirk and the constantly bellyaching Clive. The player can control each character, but they all react differently to certain situations, making an arcade adventure of considerable depth. Although strangely only ported to the Atari ST and PC, its release marked a shift in Ocean’s focus as it moved away from the 48K Spectrum and began a notable expansion towards the 16-bit computers.

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