While trying to sell their titles into high street stores it became clear that the company name was confusing to owners of machines other than the ZX Spectrum. : 13–14 Their initial catalogue was based around clones of arcade video games like Frogger and Missile Command : 13 for various home computers including the ZX81, ZX Spectrum and VIC-20. Jon Woods and David 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. Ocean developed dozens of games for a variety of 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. The company was founded by David Ward and Jon Woods and was based in Manchester. 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. Gary Bracey (Software Development Manager)
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