LICENCE TO THRILL

Licences really began to come of age in the Eighties and publishers would fight over themselves to earn the rights to convert the most popular arcade games, films and TV shows. One company that excelled at this was Ocean Software. Many developers would base their games on arcade classics including Jon Ritman, Geoff Crammond and Jeff Minter, and Ocean was no exception.

“Before we became ‘Ocean’, we were ’Spectrum Games’ and doing rip-offs of classic arcade titles,” explains Gary Bracey who worked at Ocean as its software director. “Then the opportunity to license the official coin-op was presented to Jon