Chase HQ loader

[TheShinobiTracker]

ah the old days

[parp12345]

I remember sometimes you would get the odd game (especially copied cassettes) that would not load properly and ended up with either weird looking sprites or the game crashing at a crucial moment even the game not working at all in some cases. Fab machine though - especially the music. I would love to have mine back again after all these years.

[LPChip]

I read: great thing about the c64 it was capable of playing music and you could even play games whilst software was loading!

I was like. Yeah, but why isn't there music in this video? Right at that moment, 1:42 into the video, the music starts! Oh yeah, C64 is a bit slower than the PC, I forgot. :D

[1787dude]

c64 is like a dos and nes put together, its a dostendo, no its even better, its fucking commodore 64! with bangin loading music!

[swanseajackthe3rd]

Takes me right back to saturday afternoons sitting in my front room. Waiting for the damn thing to load

[8bitfanat]

The only good thing about cassettes were the loading tunes and pics. This ocean loader 4 is my alltime favourite tune!

[Jarren202]

Great memories (up until it loaded).

Awful, awful port.

Ocean really were bellends when it came to the c64.

Thank God System 3 (now THERE'S a decent publisher) released the magnificent Turbo Charge a few years later.

[splattermania]

Oops. Fond memories of this and Chase HQ 2.

[splattermania]

Was it really as bad as you're all saying it is? I have fond memories of the

[subclonk]

Nice C64 loader as ever but awful game with it's terrible spectrum-ported graphics, etc.

[SPeacock]

@subclonk Ironically, the Spectrum and Amstrad versions of this game were superior to the C64 version.

[tjcobra666]

These were magical times! One thing I don't miss about the C64 days, is the fact that sometimes the games just didn't work. Even newly bought original copies.

[swanseajackthe3rd]

Takes me back to my Commodore 64days.

Press play on tape, go to school, and when you came home it would have loaded :P

[KevHal]

Oh my god, The amstrad CPC pisses all over this. Hopw did Ocean convert this to c64 so badly.

[slinkyskunk]

Seven minutes of waiting... only to find out it's shit.

[scottmcuk]

Beethoven would be proud of this track.

[cocacolaholic]

love this! spent many hours on this game back in the day! lol

thanx for upload!

[britishleylandcrap]

I used to have this for my Commodore. Loved it ! I have been searching for this music for ages. Loading was a pig on those things. Press Play on tape, go to school and by the time u get back it should have loaded :P

[mikepalomino]

My first computer was an Apple IIc, so I... errr *missed out* on loading tape media to play a game, and judging from these load times I'm kind of glad I did, despite this very cool and excellent loading music.

Thank goodness for floppies (and later on, hard drives). : }

[Enysvar]

Then you'll never understand what we feel when watching these loaders... also if you didnt want it to load you could just fast forward the tape and you would be in like level 10 or so.

[mikepalomino]

Yeah I hear ya, I could totally understand how this feature would be looked on with nostalgia by many. The music was certainly awesome, that's for sure! I am merely looking on it with eyes filtered with modern conveniences.

I didn't know that about hitting Fast Forward. Pretty cool. : )

[furballmotors]

wow this brings back memorys!!

[fattomandeibu]

The Ocean Loader tunes are legendary. This is my personal favourite.

[mikemetaled]

Fantastic load music, I associate it more with Rainbow Island though.

[paulisthebest3uk]

Originally wayyy back in the day I was used to the ZX spectrum, and soon as i saw that message ensure you stop the tape between each load i Did! between each gap in the data! Why they put that message on their is beyond me anyway...

[paulisthebest3uk]

because this game and many others the datasette was computer controlled anyway and the datasette stopped on its own without any human intevention at the right places!

[maiki60fps]

is that a VIC bug that they had to chop the screen to do the scrolling? in fact I noticed on many C-64 scrolling games that the screen area is somewhat reduced

[dan205]

Damn I forgot just how long these games used to take to load! Funny thing is somehow the catchy loader tunes on various games (Ocean's were always best!) made the wait bearable.

Scary just how much everythign has moved on since I was a kid.....nooooo I feel old now :(

[cocacolaholic]

hehe just fabulous!

thanx for uploading

[lurkerrekrul]

I'm in the US and when I got my C64 as a Christmas present, I also got a datasette with it. I owned exactly ONE commercial game on tape; Zaxxon. It took 15-20 minutes to load and failed half the time. As soon as I got a disk drive, the datasette was tossed in a box, never to be used again. How anyone could put up with those loading times is beyond me! I even bought a Fastload cartridge to speed up disk loading.

[Amiga1200Mark]

This was also the loader tune on Batman the movie, one of my favourite 64 games. I think the was a similar tune on robocop as well. Awesome times that i will always remember. I remeber playing the hollywood collection, lotus and midnight resistance to death.

[alexthegreat1978]

i m crying

[Djalexmetal]

just priceless brings back a lot of memories way to go.

[saintwinky29]

geenie bumstooks this is a pissing great tune. pissin marvelous. thanks for posting

[bblunck]

I thought I was going to have to go the rest of my life without hearing this again (which would be so fucking sad..)

Thank you so very much (getting teary-eyed now)...

[paulisthebest3uk]

Lol all you guys are forgetting one vital about these ten minute to load games!

The girls in your lives love them lmao!

Think about it, your partner wants you to cuddle up to her when you are doing some hardcore gaming, pop in a disc into your daystation and your good to go, and your girl goes in a humph

These old games at least they get a bit of playing beforehand so it keeps her happy ha ho

[tempestgopherit]

I remember getting the Wheels of Fire compo- and the likes of Powerdrift was good,but Turbo Outrun OWNED them all!

I agree with the negative posts about this game- I loved the arcarde version,and it was damn good on the Spectrum too. I remember playing the speccy version,boasting that the c64 version would best it in every way.

Then,after finally getting it,the joke was on me- what a shite conversion!!:L

That loading music though- timeless!

[shatminer]

BEAUTIFUL <3

[Corbon440]

Ocean was infamous for screwing up almost every C64. Well they were only publishers but still...

[Lee3874]

This was the first game i ever played on c64 was gobsmacked when i herd the loading music. Them were the days lol.

[paulisthebest3uk]

I agree with illman74 - the c64 conversion of this game was dire, to be fair this loading sequence was the best part of the game! Wheels of fire the c64 version wasnt worth the cash even though the c64 version of turbo outrun was mind blowing in terms of intro

yet it needed to be on a c64 with the right sid chipset :O

[DontSoakTheRoach]

legend!..been lookin for this piece of music for ages! was on the loading screen for robocop on the c64...takes me back!

[skebo77]

?SYNTAX ERROR

READY.

[neytosh]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrg­h!!

[illman76]

It's such a shame Chase HQ on the C64 was so awful. What a waste of a licence. It could have been the best of them all, but it seems like they ported over the Spectrum version for some reason....I still remember the disappointment I felt at the time. Thank God for Powerdrift and Turbo Outrun. The music brings back memories. Wonderful stuff.

[ScrewAttackEurope]

The Spectrum version was actually pretty accurate to the arcade, it's been said the speccy and Amstrad versions were the best ports.

[BodSTAX]

This music brings back memories for me from when I owned a c64. Although most Ocean games were crap.

Incidentally do a search for Keith Chegwin. There's some old TV footage of him at Ocean Software. You'll be able to put faces to some names. Mark R. Jones, Gary Bracey, Dawn Drake, Dave Collier, Johnathan Dunn, William Harbison.

[invisionuk]

Ahhh, the C64 was a beast. Shame the heads of the company were idiots ¬_¬

[ioport]

Ah, those were the days. Zzzzzzzz.......

[Lorric101]

Ahhh, I remember this.

[paulisthebest3uk]

head over heels loader ready for upload give me a couple of days from the date - 15-october 2007 - will be with you no later than 17th its already on my hd as mpeg just got to get it optimised for youtube flv

[MarcusBowen]

I remember this tune!!, was on all the ocean C64 games! :D. Thanks for posting!! :D.

[tihityhytihi]

Ocean loader 5! \o/ This is SO GOOD! Pure gold!

[madderscientist23]

I REALLY didnt mind waiting for games to load when u were treated to music as stupendous as this!

[paulisthebest3uk]

i normally review in a daft drunken way retro games - but if anyone ever wants a loading sequence to a c64 game just say - i got hundreds i could put on youtube.

[madderscientist23]

Oooh, you've opened the floodgates now Paul. I was rather partial to C64 Head over Heels loader( which i think was the same as yie ar kung fu if memory serves-but head was better game)If you get a chance, could you stick that on please?

[paulisthebest3uk]

i tell theee - why does that message appear at the bottom before the loading screen - the datsette stopped on its own - its a load of shit i tell thee

[badfex]

Thats about as good as this version got, after the amazing title screen you're greeted with the most piss poor conversion of the game known to man! The spectrum and amstrad versions were WAAYYY better than this!

[leedsmackem]

ill try that again:

sid dot oth4 dot com (no w's)

[leedsmackem]

For your info: i found this music available for download in crystal clear mp3 at:

colon slash slash sid dot oth4 dot com slash ?search=ocean+loader

simply rightt-click the file and save target as

Cheers folks

leedsmackem

[paulisthebest3uk]

One thing i dont get - was the *important* message at the bottom - i am a c64 user and i know for a fact you never have to press stop on the tape lol - after the multiload has finished it automatically stops - never got that!!

[discostew1983]

we had the newer design C64, and the tape would automatically stop.

dunno if the older one released in 1982 stopped automatically

[paulisthebest3uk]

they all did! - the motor inside the datasette was always controlled from inside the machine even on the vic 20! i dont know why ocean software suggested stopping the tape because it stopped at every single point on the multiload automatically.. probably men in suits not doing it right :((

[andyukmonkey]

hey that music is pretty good, although cybernoid 2 is my favourite sid tune.

[paulisthebest3uk]

Yeah but if my history serves me right it was actually Johnathon Dunn who composed this piece not Galway

[LituKiara]

yepp

Ocean loader 1 & 2: Martin Galway

Ocean loader 3: Peter Clarke

Ocean loader 4 & 5: Jonathan Dunn

I personally like no.4 the best

[1337fox]

Martin Galway is a legend!!

[ToricoUK]

I remember buying this game and I could never get it to work, the loader was all I ever saw of it. Pity.

[Fawltykog]

"i think we all know which machine is going to take the crown!" Yeah the ZX Speccy :)

[pitdweller12345]

Always found the Ocean loading music to be the best!

[1337fox]

i could not agree more...this music is the greatest ever, i so miss those days :'(

[paulisthebest3uk]

The c64 version of chase hq will feature in my all format chase hq special review coming soon, i think we all know which machine is going to take the crown! judging by this video this game took just over 7 minutes to load! Aah memories

[lunaticrik]

that musics just sent shivers down me spine - remember that when you first had it !!

Classic sound.

[paulisthebest3uk]

That shoot down the spine feeling is second to orgasm in my opinion lol! Its amazing