RIP Sony Liverpool/Psygnosis 1984-2012

[ajprice]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19350856

They have been closed down . Barbarian, Lemmings, the Wipeout games.

Shame it's gone.

[moustachebandit]

Shadow of the beast 2! Many an hour spent playing that on my Amiga 500! Stupidly hard.

What I dont understand i why they didnt re release lemmings on Iphone, Ipad, Xbox live etc - would have been all over that like a rash!

[Not Ideal]

Shadow of the Beast 2 was properly hard! Remember the "Ten Pints" cheat..??

Lemmings is on Xbox Live I think.

Edited by Not Ideal on Thursday 23 August 11:29

[MorrisCRX]

wipeout 2097 was possibly my favourite game on the playstation. All of the games have had fantastic visual design.

[3sixty]

Sad news, many an hour spent on Lemmings, Wiepeout and Destruction Derby

[trashbat]

I had in my head that Psygnosis became DMA Design (who became Rockstar). What was the relationship?

[Hugo a Gogo]

takes me back to loading pirated discs on my amiga

[Herminator]

Shadow of the Beast was developed by Reflections Interactive (now part of Ubisoft) in Newcastle...

It is a shame about Sony Liverpool, there's not many studios left in the UK with that kind of heritage.

[DanB7290]

Didn't Sony Liverpool make the F1 games when they were PS2 exclusive? Had many a fun time cocking around on those.

[moustachebandit]

Not Ideal said:

Shadow of the Beast 2 was properly hard! Remember the "Ten Pints" cheat..??

Lemmings is on Xbox Live I think.

Edited by Not Ideal on Thursday 23 August 11:29

I think it was the only way you could actually play the game, it was insanely hard.

What was even worse is back in the day there wasn’t any internet, you couldn’t log onto youtube and find 20 different videos showing you how to get past a boss, or google for cheats.

Thing is the cheat didn’t mean you could complete the game, a miss-jump here or there and you were stuck and had to restart. After all that effort ... what do you get ... a fuzzy scanned picture to look at for 3 mins and some music!

Shadow of the beast 1 was even harder, I never got past the first screen!

Quite tempted to see if I can get an Amiga emulator running on my Mac for some nostalgia - I really want to play Turrican again!

Edited by moustachebandit on Thursday 23 August 14:23

[Stagpump]

I may spend the afternoon playing Barbarian on my Amstrad emulator.

R.I.P Psygnosis, R.I.P.

[happygoron]

trashbat said:

I had in my head that Psygnosis became DMA Design (who became Rockstar). What was the relationship?

DMA developed lemmings and the GTA games. Psygnosis was the publisher for the lemmings series.

[downthepub]

happygoron said:

trashbat said:

I had in my head that Psygnosis became DMA Design (who became Rockstar). What was the relationship?

DMA developed lemmings and the GTA games. Psygnosis was the publisher for the lemmings series.

Thanks, I had been under the same impression!

[MorrisCRX]

http://www.myabandonware.com/game/obitus-18a

I can remember moving house and staying at my nans for a week. My dad had this game and had a book of notes and an A0 map on his A0 board in the spare room.



Good memories.

[edit] just the publisher. Didn't notice :P

Edited by MorrisCRX on Friday 24th August 10:10

[anonymous-user]

Never got the Wipeout thing really, but Demolition Derby was incredible at the time.

[DouggyMc]

Ahh bugger I loved wipeout. R.I.P

[Herminator]

Destruction Derby is another Reflections game....

Get it right :-p

There's a big difference between a developer and a publisher, with usually the former being the ones you should appreciate the most.

[anonymous-user]

Herminator said:

Destruction Derby is another Reflections game....

Get it right :-p

There's a big difference between a developer and a publisher, with usually the former being the ones you should appreciate the most.

Doh!

[Zad]

Sad news indeed. But on a more positive note, Activision have opened up a subsidiary in Leeds, curiously co-founded by one of the blokes who founded Team17. They will be specialising in software for portable platforms, not unlike Rockstar Leeds...

I hope this doesn't mean Team17 and R*Leeds are going to go titsup.

Also, Revolution Gaming in York are running a Kickstarter project to raise $400K for a new Broken Sword game, which they say will be 2D. As they have already raised $230K in 3 days, I'd say it looks highly likely to go ahead.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/165500047/brok...

[Famous Graham]

Someone was asking a few weeks ago about the next bubble to burst.

It's going to be crowdsourcing.

Too many companies are jumping on that bandwagon.