Ocean Software
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Ocean Software Ltd. | |
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
- Barry Leitch - Composer and sound designer.
- Bobby Earl - Sound programmer for SNES.
- Dean Evans - Composer and sound designer.
- Fred Gray - Composer and sound designer.
- Jonathan Dunn - Composer and lead sound programmer.
- Keith Tinman - Composer and sound designer.
- Martin Galway - Composer and sound designer.
- Matthew Cannon - Composer and sound designer.
- Paul Hughes - Composer and sound designer.
- Peter Clarke - Composer and sound designer.
Links
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_Software - Wikipedia.