Developer Spotlight - SENSIBLE SOFTWARE (ft. Jops & Stoo) | Documentary
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- Опубліковано 27 тра 2022
- Join me, along with Jon Hare and Stoo Cambridge, taking a look at the history and games of one of the Amiga's defining developers - Sensible Software.
THANKS TO JON HARE:
sociablesoccer.com/
/ jonhare
/ sociablesoccer
AND STOO CAMBRIDGE:
www.thedesigndroid.co.uk/
/ stoocambridge
/ thedesigndroid
*Sociable Soccer gameplay footage from the 2020 Apple Arcade version. Since recording the voice over (several months ago), the release date for consoles has been moved to Q4 2022. The team are hard at work adding new features for the console versions, which will also have updated graphics.
Royalty free music from www.bensound.com and pixabay.com
FOOTAGE SOURCES:
Twister, Mother of Charlotte - RZX Archive
/ rzxarchive
Sodov The Sorcerer - zxspectrumgames4
/ @zxspectrumgames4
Parallax - hellfire64
/ @beyondthescanlines
SEUCK - John Gage
/ @john_b_gage
Galaxibirds, Oh No!, MicroProse Soccer, Int 3D Tennis (C64) - Gansteeth
/ @gansteeth
Wizball - LemonTube64
/ @lemontube64
International 3D Tennis (Amiga) - FunCade 64
/ channel
Insects in Space (C64) - Polaventris
/ polaventris
Insects in Space (Amiga) - Stormspirit 86
/ @stormspirit86
Mega Lo Mania - I AM IRONCLAW!
/ @iamironclaw
Wizkid - Self Indulgent Gamer
/ @selfindulgentgamer
Sensible Soccer: European Champions - Gaming Exhibit
/ @gamingexhibit
Sim Brick, Sensible Trainspotting - Alex Menchi
/ @alexmenchi
Cannon Fodder, Cannon Fodder 2 - World of Longplays (played by RickyC)
/ @worldoflongplays
Sensible Soccer Bulldog Blighty - Toohey's Tech & Gaming
/ @tooheystechgaming1977
Cannon Soccer - UK Gaming Network
/ @ukgamingnetwork
Ultima III, GTA, Sensible Golf - Major Thriftwood
/ @thriftweeds
Kick off 2, SWOS, Sensible World of Moon Soccer, Unsensible Soccer - RetroGamingLoft
/ @retrogamingloft
Sensible World of Soccer 96/97 - naviamiga
/ @naviamiga
World Championship Soccer II - World of Longplays (played by Segafan)
/ @worldoflongplays
Sensible Soccer '98 - sportHD-ish
/ @sporthdish
Cannon Fodder (GBC) - World of Longplays (played by Schlauchi)
/ @worldoflongplays
#SensibleSoftware #Amiga #Documentary - Ігри
THANKS TO JON HARE:
sociablesoccer.com/
twitter.com/jonhare
facebook.com/sociablesoccer
AND STOO CAMBRIDGE:
www.thedesigndroid.co.uk/
twitter.com/StooCambridge
instagram.com/thedesigndroid/
*Sociable Soccer gameplay footage from the 2020 Apple Arcade version. Since recording the voice over (several months ago), the release date for consoles has been moved to Q4 2022. The team are hard at work adding new features for the console versions, which will also have updated graphics.
Just want to thank the Sensi guys for the games over the years, I was lucky to be around from the beginning to play from the C64 through the Amiga at the time of release with my favourite all time games being Wizball, Microprose Soccer, Cannon Fodder and SWOS. A special mention goes to Paralax which blew me away at the time! A great video and loved the interviews. You have a subscriber!
Good times. I also very much appreciated their games BITD, and still play many of them. Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it.
Wild that this only has 9.1k views! Some gold right here. Thanks for taking the time to put this together, thoroughly enjoyed that watch :)
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.
Perfect video Pete really chuffed for you, the editing bang on with the taking .. Stoo and Jon was amazing especially Stoo so much Energy in he’s voice
Well done
Thank you so much, Adam! Really glad you enjoyed it.
Never realised that Mega lo Mania was a sensible game. Absolutely loved it along with Cannon Fodder and Sensi Soccer
Me too; definitely one of my favourites of the era. So underrated.
Could not see the design style clearly made by the same people
Wanted to sit down and dedicate proper time to watch this and so glad I did. A brilliant watch, so well put together and entertaining. What amazing games and chat, really awesome bro 👍
Thank you so much, Ali! Glad you enjoyed it mate. Thanks for watching.
Even though I was never into Sensible Software games, the documentary was very, very interesting and kept me watching all the way until the end. As usual, an excellent work in every aspect, Pete.
Thank you very much indeed!
Love these dev deep dives I think they deserve more views. Like cannon fodder was a huge part of my childhood. I never actually knew that Jools and Stoo were real people. I wonder if Jops and RJ are real too
Thanks! Jops is Jon Hare, and RJ is likely Richard Joseph.
@@onaretrotip wow thats so cool. I know there are hundreds of names in cannon fodder, those are just the ones that I remember off the top of my head. I wonder how many others are real names
Superb that Pete…..excellent job yet again.
Thanks, Marcus!
A lovely trip down memory lane. Many a rainy day in the 90's when we couldn't actually play football were rescued by the replayability of SWOS. When I got my Amiga and played Cannon Fodder and see the team dressed up as various military ranks it dawned on me that this was a small group of young guys only a decade or so older than me making these games. The great thing about their games is they seemed to always value gameplay over graphics and that seemed to get lost during the early 3D era.
I feel so lucky to have been an impressionable kid in this era as there was a great independent feel to it before companies starting merging or being bought out.
Nowadays I enjoy the gaming scene and there is still great independent games breaking through but the bigger titles seems to have an astronomically long development times between sequels as well as milking it's online content for as much money as possible.
Glad it stirred up some fond memories :)
Wonderful video! Absolutely love the insight by the actual devs interspersed with your narration and videos. Really great and a joy to watch.
Also, pretty incredible that Sensible Software almost made GTA. Imagine what could have been!
(edit: wrote Sensible Soccer instead of Sensible Software, lol. Force of habit)
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it.
Yes, crazy to think that they could've had a game like that out years before GTA!
When that screen was kindly recovered from what I thought was a dead disk, it was quite apparent we missed the boat with that one. If we had made a playable demo, I'm sure it would have got signed, but hey, it just wasn't meant to be - sadly.
Really enjoyed this mate, genuinely didn't know sensible software were behind wizball.
Megalomania is still one of my favourite games of all time 🥰
Thanks, David! Yes, Mega-lo-Mania is one of my favourites too. So many hours spent on that over the years.
Thank you for this video. Utterly fascinating stuff - Sensible Software was and always will be one of the greatest game developers to have existed, with so many immortal classics on the Amiga.
Also: so strange to hear Stoo & co speaking on the video. Loads of (heartbreaking) memories of trying to keep him, Jools, Jops and the lot alive through Cannon Fodder.
And here they are, as real people.
Thanks! yes, they were a big part of my childhood in the Amiga days, so it was great getting to speak with them.
big hug guys!! All Amiga
Guru´s United
Amiga forever!
Many Friday nights throughout the 90s smoking weed playing Sensi Soccer leagues with old buddy's in UK.
Saturday was Match Of The Day highlights...then playing Sensi Soccer till the wee hours.
Cannon Fodder was also awesome and very entertaining.
Good times :)
Brilliant content here mate.
Loved Cannon Fodder on my Amiga 500, but SWOS was just awesome, playing 2 player with my brother back in day, just mint! 😊
Thanks for the memories 👌🏻 Looking forward to Sociable Soccer ⚽️ 😀 👍🏻
Thank you very much, Stew! Great memories for me here too.
Thanks Pete! Looking forward to seeing this. :)
Thanks, Stoo! Hope it does you guys justice.
sorry for getting you killed so many times in Cannon Fodder Stoo. My bad
@@onaretrotip What can I say what a fantastic piece of video journalism. I loved it! Was a trip down memory lane in many ways. Cheers for including a plug for my little ol' Design Droid web shop too! Much appreciated.
@@thefreshwaterpirate That's ok I managed to get most of the shrapnel out of my leg. ;) Cheers dude!
That was an amazing watch. Thanks a lot !
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.
You are making absolutely fantastic vids man. These are the sorta things I think when people mention retro, not nintendo .,.. that wasn't the UK.
Thank you so much. Yes, to me, the pinnacle of retro was stuff like the Amiga.
Some very happy memories of the games. Microprose Soccer C64 was the only football game I ever liked, Parallax was absolutely sublime.
Wizball was great, once you had the first power up that gave you more control.
I literally hammered Mega-lo-mania on the MD.
Only one I contested was Cannon Fodder, tried it on my brother in laws A1200,, liked it, so later picked it up on the Atari Jaguar, the difficulty spikes on the Artic levels killed it for me
I played Mega-lo-Mania to death on the Mega Drive too. Fantastic game. Yeah, I still play Cannon Fodder, but at a certain point it just gets absolutely brutal.
Wow, what a documentary! Thanks!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.
I’ve really been looking forward to this brother. I love these long videos. 💪
Hope it lives up to expectation. Enjoy!
Wow! You've outdone Yourself! Best video by far, and about one of the best devs. ;)
Thank you very much!
Mega lo Mania is one of my favourite games of all time. Awesome documentary ❤👍
I absolutely adore that game too. Thank you!
Another beautifully produced piece of work. Absolutely dripping with nostalgia as and some lovely insights 👍 my main takeaway from it however, is that I've been banging on about how Tehkan World Cup was Sensible Soccer before Sensible Soccer, and nobody I've spoken to remembered it. And you, my friend, have managed to justify my decades long argument in the most irrefutable way 👌
Thank you very much, Stew! Haha, glad I could confirm your long-held theory.
Really amazing video Pete and fantastic to get the guys on board, really amazing work 👌
Guys always gave very open, honest interviews in the games press at the time, very down to earth about things like the ST hardware, game sales, MD Soundchip etc, but this was something else.
Thank you very much! This was a fun one to do. I still need to upload the full interviews, but I've been terribly busy.
Sensible Software were legendry, its a shame they didn't survive the 3D era - but it did come very suddenly and very hard especially once Doom was released in '93. Sociable Soccer looks great! Cannon Fodder #1 was my number one "goto" game. Loved playing that on my Amiga. I also had it on PC - and If I remember correctly, the 3x 3.5" floppy disc version didn't contain the "War" song at the start (or certainly not with the lyrics). I was luckily enough to have the CD version on PC too - so I had the full song that I remembered from my Amiga discs. I hope a Sociable Cannon Fodder emerges too - I would literally need a change of underwear if that happened! It would have to be better than the Cannon Fodder 3 mess that's in Steam. Very interesting documentary, especially as a former Amiga (A2000) owner, gamer & programmer myself!
I'd love a "Sociable Cannon Fodder"! Thanks, glad you liked it.
Gosh I love your documentaries. Thanks Pete!
Ah, thank you so much.
Hyped!! I love doing countdowns like these to hype up a video! Super excited to see this! Gonna check out some of your other videos in the mean time!
Thanks mate!
Wow, very interesting video, make more of these! 🙏🙏
Thanks! I will :)
FANTASTIC VIDEO Thank you for your Work SIR, SUBSCRIBED
Thank you! thanks for watching :)
What a fantastic video!
Really enjoyed that cheers!
Thank you very much!
I loved sensible soccer and cannon fodder 2 back then.
Mega-lo-Mania and Cannon Fodder were my personal favourites, and I still play both to this day.
1:06:00 Imagine having that kind of parallax in most Amiga games!
😍
Great video and information, and thx for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Wowwww!!! Jon Hare chatting about Megalovania!?? Hi y'all
What a game!
Reminder set :)
See you there! :)
Excellent documentary 🥳
Thank you very much!
Great interview
Thank you. Great talking with these guys.
Great video Very interesting 👍
Thank you!
Nice Video I was aware of cannon Folder and Megalomania Shame that sensible Software fail as alot of game company when 3D era started.
It may sound weird but I kinda wish that Drug N Sex N Rock N Roll didnt get cancel the ideia is quiet a interesting one, the omly game that use drug as a mechanick was Narc (2000)
Thanks! Yeah, a shame as it was an interesting concept, although I didn't like the graphics much.
@@onaretrotip Yeah Kinda remind me of Constructor or Mob Rule witch their are good games but yes I do agree for a Adult game these graphic doesnt work that well
@@DocVolteer Reminds me of that Dire Straits video LOL
Great video, swos is the greatest game ever made.
Glad you enjoyed it, Darren! Cheers.
This is fucking great
Thank you!
Coool
🙂👍
at 11:00 min, that cowboy game, what was that called? Remember playing it as a kid in the early 90s before we got a master system
Outlaw
@@onaretrotip aha!
"We've been nuked!"
The factory's been destroyed!
that Origin background at 17:20 is a fan made wallpaper, Origin’s slogan was “We create worlds” not “we created worlds”!
Thankfully it's of zero consequence in the context of a Sensible Software video.
@@onaretrotip got me there
@@CoverMechanic LOL Looks good though that wallpaper.
Developer insight on natsume in the future?
Unlikely I'm afraid, as their only game I'm really a fan of is Pocky & Rocky.
@@onaretrotip ahhhh. But there’s lufia, wild guns, harvest moon, medabots.
@@YunaCrawford Never played them 🤷♀
@@onaretrotip wild guns you will like. Other than that, it’s just pocky and rocky.
FIRST!
😲
Tetris game from Russia and is also in the top 10 of best games ever. And last I checked that is also in Europe.
Personally I disagree wholly with that list. I think European titles like Worms and Lemmings are world renowned and English and Scottish. And I still play both of them regularly.
Sorry, I don't understand this comment at all. You disagree with what list?
@@onaretrotip That standford top 10 list of most influential games. It missed out of some brilliant games that define genres.
Like Lemmings an arcade puzzle solver WORMS a turn based multiplayer and what about C&C which created the RTS genre.
@@CallousCoder Ohhh, that list. Yeah, not sure I agree with that list either.
@@onaretrotip I had to pause your (awesome) video to actually had a proper look. I can agree with Zork as it sort of spawned all text adventures. Although I think that Leisure Suit a Larry, Kings Quest or Police Quests would be a better substitute because more gamers actually played those. Zork is played mainly by us Unix geeks as it was bundled with Unix.
Man I love your channel! I saw your Monkey Island behind the scenes as a suggestion. And I watched that last night. And now looking through others.
It’s well researched, great production value and the actual sound bites from the people working in the titles are sheer gold.
Well done!!! Amazing!
@@CallousCoder Ah, thank you. I'm very proud of the Monkey Island documentary. Its such a fun hobby, and such an honour to get to talk to the people who made the games that shaped my childhood. Great to know people enjoy the videos.
Sensible world off soccer what agame don't u boys make no games no more
Great game. Some of the team do make games, but don't exist as Sensible Software (not for a long time).
@@onaretrotip can't u make sensible soccer it for the phones ha
such high production values… until we get to the voice of a founder, who sounds like he is talking through a tin can a thousand miles a way and encoded into a 5kb bitcrushed file.
laptop mics and zoom are not compatible with a quality production. i had to turn it off at 5 minutes despite planning to watch the entire thing. its ruinous to this production. would have been better to leave them out altogether than to accept and use such garbage audio quality.
Your loss
@@RetroChiZ It’s everyone’s loss. Tarnishing a high quality documentary with bitcrushed zoom audio? Unforgivable.
Got to work with what you've got I'm afraid. Thanks for watching *some* of it!