Ocean Software Limited was a British software development company that became one of the biggest European

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s and

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s of the 1980s and 1990s. The company was founded by David Ward and Jon Woods and was based in

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. Ocean developed dozens of games for a variety of

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systems such as the

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, Oric 1,

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and

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s, such as the

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, and Sega Genesis/Mega Drive.

History

Jon Woods and David Ward created Spectrum Games as a mail-order business in 1983 after being inspired by the success of Liverpool-based software houses Imagine Software,

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and

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. Their initial catalogue was based around clones of

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s like '' Frogger'' and '' Missile Command'' for various home computers including the

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, ZX Spectrum and

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. While trying to sell their titles into high street stores it became clear that the company name was confusing to owners of machines other than the ZX Spectrum. The company was renamed Ocean Software leading to some of its games being re-released with different titles so the '' Berzerk'' clone ''Frenzy'' was reissued as ''Robotics'' and ''Missile Attack'' became ''Armageddon''. By September 1984 the success of Ocean allowed Woods and Ward to invest £50,000 in a new software house in return for a 50% stake in the company. U.S. Gold was created by Geoff Brown, owner of Centresoft software distribution, and specialised in importing American Commodore 64 games for the UK market. U.S. Gold had no developers to port the Commodore games for the UK's most popular home computer, the ZX Spectrum, so Ocean produced the conversions of titles such as '' Beach Head,

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'' and '' Tapper'' through its external development team, Platinum Productions. In October 1984 Ocean bought the name and branding of Imagine Software from the liquidators of the failed software house. Although originally intended to be a label exclusively for arcade conversions, the Imagine logo would also be used on a number of original titles, as well as on UK releases of games licensed from Spanish developers Dinamic Software. In 1985 Ocean and U.S. Gold collaborated again to launch a new label, The Hit Squad, for releasing compilation packages. The first release featured Ocean's ''

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'', U.S. Gold's '' Beach Head'', ''

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'' from

and ''

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'' by

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— all titles which had sold over a million copies — which led to the title ''They Sold A Million''. The compilation went on to sell over a million copies, as did the second and third instalments in the series. Over half of Ocean's releases for 8-bit home computers were coin-op conversions and licensed games. While initially focused on British licences, such as ''

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'' from Manchester's Century Electronics, Liverpool's

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and Olympic decathlete

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, its attention soon shifted to film licences, with ''

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'' becoming its first movie tie-in in 1985. In 1986, a deal was signed with

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and

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for home versions of their arcade games, such as ''

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'', '' Renegade'', '' The NewZealand Story'' and '' Operation Wolf''. ''Operation Wolf'' was the first title to be converted to 16-bit platforms by Ocean France, a company created by Ocean and Marc Djan in 1986. The studio produced most of its 16-bit arcade conversions until 1991, when the company became Ocean's French marketing and sales department.

Success of film-licensed games

1986 also produced titles based on the films '' Rambo'', ''

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'' and ''

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'', as well as the first licensed ''Batman'' game. But it would be its 1988 game ''

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'', adapted from Data East's arcade game based on the film ''

'', that would go on to become the most successful movie licence in history by the end of the decade. In 1987, Ocean via Imagine had a deal with Spanish publisher Dinamic Software to release four titles, before launching its own line in the United Kingdom. The following year, Ocean signed a deal with Special FX Software, a company formed by ex-Ocean employees to release titles for home computers, starting with ''Firefly''. In 1989, ''The Hit Squad'' branding reappeared as the new budget re-release label for Ocean's 8-bit back catalogue. The entire series consisted of 122 titles over seven 8-bit formats. Their uniform style and numbering has led to them becoming highly collectable. Meanwhile, the company was working on its next big film tie-in, which would be specifically aimed at the new graphically superior 16-bit computers, the

and

. The success of ''RoboCop'' established Ocean globally, and it would be Warner Bros. who suggested to Ocean that it produce a tie-in based on its forthcoming ''

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'' movie. The resulting

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was another tremendous hit for the company and is now regarded as one of the greatest video game/film tie-ins. The game was used as the basis of the Amiga 500 "Batman Pack", which became one of the most successful hardware/software bundles of all time. In 1990, Ocean launched its new subsidiary, Ocean of America, led by former

boss Ray Musci to publish titles for the American market. Ocean was voted Best 8-bit Software House of the Year at the 1989 Golden Joystick Awards, along with awards for its 8-bit and 16-bit conversions of ''Operation Wolf''.

Merger with Infogrames (1996)

In 1996, Ocean's parent company Ocean International Ltd. announced they would be purchased by and merge with French publisher Infogrames for £100 million. This was the first key purchase in Infogrames' "Expand through Acquisition" policy. After the merger, Ocean remained as a separate division of Infogrames, continuing to publish and distribute its own games, such as '' F-22: Air Dominance Fighter''., with the UK subsidiary beginning to distribute titles from Infogrames, such as ''

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''. In 1997, Infogrames' French publishing division Infogrames Télématique launched a European-focused online gaming website under the Ocean brand called ''Oceanline''. The website offered up simplified online versions of a majority of Infogrames' game catalog. On 8 February 1998,

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announced that Ocean Software Limited would be rebranded as Infogrames United Kingdom Limited in order to standardize its various subsidiaries under the Infogrames banner. Ocean of America, Inc. was later renamed as Infogrames Entertainment, Inc. Infogrames continued to use Ocean as a brand name for specific titles until the end of the year when the company quietly retired the brand in favour of their own. The last title published under the Ocean brand altogether was the North American release of '' GT 64: Championship Edition'' for the Nintendo 64.

Aftermath

Infogrames Entertainment, Inc. began to publish games under their own banner, replacing Infogrames' previous United States subsidiary I-Motion Inc. Infogrames Entertainment, Inc. was soon folded into Infogrames North America, Inc. — a renaming of Accolade — which then became Infogrames' United States division before being merged and folded into Infogrames, Inc., a renaming of GT Interactive. The UK subsidiary continued to publish and distribute Infogrames' titles in the country, later being renamed as Atari United Kingdom Limited in 2003. In 2009,

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purchased

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's European assets, and the remains of Ocean Software currently lie under the hands as Bandai Namco Entertainment's UK publishing and distribution division.

Tape loaders

Starting with ''Daley Thompson's Decathlon'' in 1984, games on the

used the Speedlock protection system, which eventually included a countdown timer showing the time left to load a game. On the commodore 64 Ocean added a full screen graphic to look at and some catchy music to listen to during the loading of the tape. Several different Loaders were implemented over the years. 11 loaders are known to have been created for Ocean games. Some of the composers who created the music for the Ocean Loaders were

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, Jonathan Dunn, and Peter Clarke.

Games

Licensed games

* ''

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'' * '' The Addams Family: Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt'' * '' Addams Family Values'' * ''

'' * '' Batman: The Caped Crusader'' * '' Batman: The Movie'' * '' Clive Barker's Nightbreed: The Action Game'' * '' Clive Barker's Nightbreed: The Interactive Movie'' * ''

'' * '' Cool World'' * '' Darkman'' * '' Dennis the Menace'' * '' Eek the Cat'' * ''

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'' * ''

'' * '' Highlander'' * ''

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'' * ''

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'' * ''

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'' * '' Knight Rider'' * ''

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'' * '' Manchester United Championship Soccer'' * ''

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'' * ''

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'' * ''

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'' * '' Rambo'' * '' Rambo 3'' * ''

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'' * ''

'' * '' RoboCop 2'' * '' RoboCop 3'' * ''Run the Gauntlet'' * ''

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'' * ''

'' * '' Street Hawk'' * '' Terminator 2: Judgment Day'' * ''

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'' * '' Total Recall'' * '' The Transformers'' * '' The Untouchables'' * '' V: The Computer Game'' * ''

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'' * '' WWF European Rampage Tour'' * '' WWF WrestleMania''

Arcade conversions

* ''

'' (1987, Imagine) * '' Arkanoid: Revenge of Doh'' (1988, Imagine) * ''

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'' (1987, Imagine) * ''

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'' (1989) * '' Chase H.Q.'' (1988) * '' Chase HQ II'' (1989) * '' Combat School'' (1987) * ''

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'' (1986) * '' DragonNinja'' (1989, Imagine) * '' Green Beret'' (1986, Imagine) * '' Galivan'' (1986, Imagine) * '' Gryzor (Contra)'' (1987) * ''

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'' (1988, Imagine) * ''

'' (1984) * '' Hyper Sports'' (1985, Imagine) * ''Konami's Golf'' (1986, Imagine) * ''Konami's Tennis'' (1986, Imagine) * ''

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'' (1987, Imagine) * '' MagMax'' (1987, Imagine) * '' Midnight Resistance'' (1990) * '' Mikie'' (1985, Imagine) * '' The NewZealand Story'' (1989) * '' Operation Thunderbolt'' (1990) * '' Operation Wolf'' (1989) * '' Pang'' (1990) * '' Ping Pong'' (1986, Imagine) * '' Psycho Soldier'' (1987, Imagine) * '' Rainbow Islands'' (1990) * '' Rastan'' (1988, Imagine) * '' Renegade'' (1986, Imagine) * ''

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'' (1988) * '' Shadow Warriors'' (1990) * '' Slap Fight'' (1987, Imagine) * '' Space Gun'' (1992) * '' Terra Cresta'' (1986, Imagine) * '' Toki'' (1991) * '' Yie Ar Kung-Fu'' (1985, Imagine)

Other games

* ''90 Minutes European Prime Goal'' (SNES PAL) (1995) * ''

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'' (1996) * ''Armageddon'' (1983) * ''

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'' (1990) * '' Beach Volley'' (1989) * ''Burnin' Rubber'' (1990) * ''Cavelon'' (1984) * '' Central Intelligence'' (1994) (included in Ocean Classics on Steam) * '' Cheesy'' (1996) * '' Choplifter III'' (1994) * ''

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'' (SNES PAL) (1994) * '' Claymates'' (SNES PAL) (1993) * ''

'' (1984) * '' Daley Thompson's Olympic Challenge'' (1988) * '' Daley Thompson's Star Events'' (1985) * '' Daley Thompson's Supertest'' (1985) * ''Digger Dan'' (1983) * '' Doom'' (SNES PAL) (1996) * '' Eco'' (1987) * '' EF2000'' (1997) * ''

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'' (1991) * ''

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'' (1992) * '' F29 Retaliator'' (1990) * '' FIFA International Soccer'' (SNES PAL) (1994) * '' Fighters Destiny'' (Nintendo 64) (1998) * '' Fighters Destiny 2'' (Nintendo 64) (1999) * '' The Great Escape'' (1986) * '' The Games '92: España'' (1992) * '' GT Racing 97'' (1997) * '' Head over Heels'' (1987) * '' Helikopter Jagd'' (1986) * '' Hunchback II'' (1985) * ''Island of Death'' (1983) * '' Inferno'' (1994) * ''

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'' (1990) * '' Jelly Boy'' (1995) * '' Jersey Devil'' (1997) * '' Kid Chaos'', also known as ''Kid Vicious'' (1994) * ''Kong'' (1983) * '' Kong Strikes Back!'' (1984) * ''

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'' (1997) * '' Lost Patrol'' (1990) * '' Madden NFL '95'' (SNES PAL) (1994) * '' Match Day'' (1985) * '' Match Day II'' (1987) * ''

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'' (SNES & Game Boy) (1994) * '' Micro Machines 2: Turbo Tournament'' (SNES & Game Boy) (1996) * '' Mr. Nutz'' (1993) * '' Mr. Nutz: Hoppin' Mad'' (1994) * '' Mr. Wimpy'' (1984) * '' MRC: Multi-Racing Championship'' (Nintendo 64) (1997) * ''

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'' (SNES PAL) (1994) * ''Nightmare Rally'' (1986) * ''

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'' (1986) * '' Parasol Stars'' (1992)Computer conversion of

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(PC Engine) game * '' Pushover'' (1992) * '' Renegade III: The Final Chapter'' (1989, Imagine) * '' Sleepwalker'' (1993) * ''

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'' (1994) * '' Super James Pond'' (SNES & Game Boy PAL) (1993) * ''Super Soccer'' (ZX Spectrum) (1986, Imagine) * '' Super Turrican 2'' (1995) * '' Target: Renegade'' (1988, Imagine) * '' TFX'' (1993) * ''Transversion'' * '' True Pinball'' (1996) * '' Tunnel B1'' (1996) (Published by

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in North America) * ''Voyager'' (Atari ST, Amiga) (1989) * '' Weaponlord'' (SNES PAL) (1995) * '' Where Time Stood Still'' (1987) * '' Wizball'' (1987) * ''

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'' (1992) * ''

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'' (1995) * '' X2'' (1996) * '' Zero Divide'' (1996)

Post-Infogrames titles

The last few titles from Ocean before being renamed were published and distributed under Infogrames' umbrella, and consisted mostly of titles from Infogrames themselves.

Footnotes

External links

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