This was a very famous software house from the 80s and 90s, who were best known for their licensed games from the world of film, TV and the arcades.
Using a team of talented in house programmers, Ocean dominated the sales charts from 1984 until the early 1990s, releasing games on a wide variety of platforms from the ZX Spectrum to the Super Nintendo.
Founded in 1983 by David Ward and Jon Woods, it was initially named Spectrum Games and began writing and publishing games for a wide variety of the 8 bit platforms, changing the name to Ocean to avoid confusion with the Sinclair machine.
Ocean bought the Imagine label in late 1984, and also the rights to convert many Konami games to the home micros, these and arcade conversions were largely kept on the Imagine label.
Ocean began buying licenses for films such as Rambo and TV shows like Knight Rider and Street Hawk, but short development times and other factors led to a dip in quality, after a restructure, the rights to more arcade manufacturers games such as Data East and Taito, the studio released games such as Arkanoid, and Operation Wolf and Renegade. Most very highly acclaimed.
By 1987 Ocean was having enormous success with original software once more, with huge hits such as Head Over Heels, Matchday II, Wizball, and Target Renegade.
They had also partnered with Marc Djan and formed Ocean Software France, who would produce games for the 16 bit machines from 1986 to 1991, and also some of the companies published games for the NES and Master System.
In 1989, the company released Robocop, which became one of the biggest selling games of the 1980s, despite being released at the end of the decade, it spent almost a year on top of the sales charts.
Ocean carried on into the 1990s, publishing games for the PC 16 bit micros and consoles, before merging with Infrogrames in a £100 million deal.
They kept to publishing games under the Ocean name until 1998, when they were renamed Infrogrames UK, the parent company bought the Atari name, and published games under this banner, before Bandai bought those assets to form a new company Bandai Entertainment UK in 2009.
Software Products
Amstrad Compilation Disk Unknown N.O.M.A.D Mailstrom Gift from the Gods Cosmic Wartoad Supertest I Supertest II...
Manufacturer : Amstrad / Ocean Software
Type : Software - Game
Operation Wolf Unknown Operation Wolf is a light gun shooter arcade game developed by Taito and released in 1987.
Manufacturer : Ocean Software Ltd
Type : Software - Game
Mr. Wimpy 1983 "The Hamburger Game The Greatest Game Under the Bun"...
Manufacturer : Ocean Software Ltd.
Type : Software - Game
Manufacturer : Ocean Software Ltd
Type : Software - Game
The In Crowd 1986 Contains: Platoon Barbarian Combat School Gryzor Target Renegade Karnov Crazy Cars Predator...
Manufacturer : Ocean Software
Type : Software - Game
Laser Basic 1986 A BASIC extension allowing for more advanced instructions and more-impressive games.
Manufacturer : Ocean Software Ltd
Type : Software - Game
Street Hawk 1986 Become the hunter and the hunted in this breathtaking simulation of the famous film and and TV series with Hyperthrust feature, helicopter attacks and daring rescue attempts that only the man and machine combination of Street Hawk can survive.
Manufacturer : Ocean Software Ltd
Type : Software - Game
Manufacturer : Ocean Software
Type : Software - Game
Tremor (Americana) 1986 When the inhabitants of Ozbos discovered mining their moon had destroyed their atmosphere, they realised it was time to place ten cleansing crystals around the planet, this is your task.
Manufacturer : Americana Software Ltd
Type : Software - Game
N.O.M.A.D 1986 When the inhabitants of Ozbos discovered mining their moon had destroyed their atmosphere, they realised it was time to place ten cleansing crystals around the planet, this is your task.
Manufacturer : Ocean Software Ltd
Type : Software - Game
Top Gun 1987 In one player mode you must engage and destroy the enemy aircraft before progressing to your next mission - pitting you against faster and more manoeuvrable craft.
Manufacturer : Ocean Software Ltd
Type : Software - Game
Manufacturer : Ocean Software
Type : Software - Game
Road Race May 1987 Racing game in which the player starts at the back of the pack and must attempt to overtake almost 700 other racers to win.
Manufacturer : Ocean Software
Type : Software - Game
Batman The Caped Crusader 1988 Racing game in which the player starts at the back of the pack and must attempt to overtake almost 700 other racers to win.
Manufacturer : Ocean Software
Type : Software - Game
Daley Thompson's Olympic Challenge (Hit Squad) 1988 DALEY'S BACK! with the chance for you to take on his gruelling role in the ten Olympic Decathlon events. This time the gold medal is not enough, you're out to beat the world record as well and accumul...
Manufacturer : Ocean Software
Type : Software - Game
Manufacturer : Ocean Software
Type : Software - Game
Hollywood Collection 1990 This is a compilation of 4 games: Robocop: Take on the role of avenging angel as you mete out rough justice to the perpetrators of evil and lawlessness.
Manufacturer : Ocean Software
Type : Software - Game
Nightbreed - The Interactive Movie 1990 This is a compilation of 4 games: Robocop: Take on the role of avenging angel as you mete out rough justice to the perpetrators of evil and lawlessness.
Manufacturer : Ocean Software
Type : Software - Game
Manufacturer : Ocean Software
Type : Software - Game
Midnight Resistance 1990 Part of a very scarce French compilation pack: "Action D'enfer".
Manufacturer : Ocean Software
Type : Software - Game
WWF Wrestlemania 1991 As one of three WWF superstars, you must face a series of six other wrestlers to claim victory at Wrestlemania.
Manufacturer : Ocean Software
Type : Software - Game
WWF Wrestle Mania 1991 As one of three WWF superstars, you must face a series of six other wrestlers to claim victory at Wrestlemania.
Manufacturer : Ocean Software
Type : Software - Game
Predator (Hit Squad) 1991 As one of three WWF superstars, you must face a series of six other wrestlers to claim victory at Wrestlemania.
Manufacturer : The Hit Squad
Type : Software - Game
Terminator 2 Judgment Day (Hit Squad) 1991 it is the near future... battle rages between man and machine. Yet despite the awesome power of the machines the rebels are winning, until SKynet, the computer that controls the machines sends a Termi...
Manufacturer : Ocean Software Ltd
Type : Software - Game
Manufacturer : The Hit Squad
Type : Software - Game
Rainbow Collection 1991 A compilation of TAITO arcade ports Bubble Bobble, Rainbow Islands and The New Zealand Story.
Manufacturer : Ocean
Type : Software
WWF European Rampage Tour 1992 Take control of 1 of 4 WWF superstar wrestlers and fight against the best Europe has to offer before heading back to America for the championship match.
Manufacturer : Ocean Software
Type : Software - Game
Parasol Stars - Rainbow Islands 1992 Take control of 1 of 4 WWF superstar wrestlers and fight against the best Europe has to offer before heading back to America for the championship match.
Manufacturer : Ocean Software
Type : Software - Game
Push-Over 1992 This version was part of the Commodore Amiga 600's 'The Wild, the Weird & the Wicked' pack, that also contained Putty, Grand Prix, and Deluxe Paint III.
Manufacturer : Ocean Software
Type : Software - Game
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