Ocean Software
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Ocean Software Ltd was a British software development company that became one of the biggest European video game developers and publishers of the 1980s and 1990s.
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Company type | Video game developer Video game publisher |
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Predecessor | Spectrum Games |
Founded | 1983; 41 years ago (1983) |
Founder | David Ward Jon Woods |
Defunct | 1998; 26 years ago (1998) |
Fate | Acquired by and later folded into Infogrames |
Successor | Infogrames United Kingdom, now Bandai Namco Entertainment UK |
Headquarters | 6 Central Street, Manchester, England |
Key people | Paul Patterson (Sales Manager) Gary Bracey (Software Development Manager) Steve Blower (Art Director) Colin Stokes (Operations Manager) Marc Djan (Ocean France) |
Parent | Ocean International Ltd. |
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The company was founded by David Ward and Jon Woods and was based in Manchester. Ocean developed dozens of games for a variety of systems such as the ZX Spectrum, Oric 1, Commodore 64, Dragon 32/64, MSX, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 16, Atari ST, Amiga, IBM PC, BBC Micro and video game consoles, such as the Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Master System, and Mega Drive.