Ocean Software Ltd was a British software development company founded by David Ward and Jon Woods and was based in Manchester. Ocean developed dozens of games for a variety of systems such as the ZX Spectrum, Oric 1, Commodore 64, Dragon 32, MSX, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 16, Atari ST, Amiga, PC, BBC micro and video game consoles such as the Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Master System and Sega Genesis. Woods and Ward created Spectrum Games as a mail-order business in 1983 after being inspired by the success of Liverpool based software houses Imagine Software, Bug Byte and Software Projects. The company was renamed Ocean Software to avoid confusing owners of systems other than the ZX Spectrum. In 1996, Ocean Software merged with French publisher Infogrames, remaining a separate division publishing their own games until 1998, when they were rebranded to Infogrames United Kingdom Limited.

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Search Name	Name	Year	Genre(s)
Hunchback: the Adventure	Hunchback: the Adventure	1986	2D Commodore 64 Fantasy First-Person Interactive Fiction Text Parser Traditional ZX Spectrum
Frankie Goes to Hollywood	Frankie Goes to Hollywood	1985	2D Action Commodore 64 Direct Control Exploration Mystery Puzzle Adventure Shooter Third-Person ZX Spectrum
Neverending Story, The	The Neverending Story	1985	2D Apple II Commodore 64 Fantasy First-Person Interactive Fiction Text Parser Traditional ZX Spectrum