Ocean Software

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Ocean Software Ltd.
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Founded 1984
Closed 1998
Headquarters Manchester, England

Ocean Software Ltd., often referred to simply as Ocean, was a very influential British gaming company. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, they were one of the largest videogame companies and published games on nearly every console and computer architecture of the time. Ocean was acquired by Infogrames in 1996 and restructured and renamed to Infogrames UK in 1998.


Games


Music Development

AMI

The composers at Ocean used OctaMED, a tracker for the Amiga.

NES

Jonathan Dunn created the sound driver and the music was written in hexadecimal.

SNES

The music was made on MEdit. The instruments were from the Korg M1, Ensoniq EPS16 and Roland U-110.


Audio Personnel


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