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| Company type | Video game developer Video game publisher |
|---|---|
| Predecessor | Spectrum Games |
| Founded | 1983 |
| Founder | David Ward Jon Woods |
| Defunct | 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. |
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.
The company was founded by David Ward and Jon Woods and was based in Manchester. Ocean developed dozens of games for a variety of home computer 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.