Ocean Software Founder Receives ELSPA Hall Of Fame

[Mark Jones Junior]

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During the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association’s Hall Of Fame awards held last night, the group announced that Ocean Software founder, David Ward, has been awarded with the Hall Of Fame award. Celebrating the achievement of UK games industry pioneers, Ocean Software was founded in the early eighties, and was behind titles including Operation Wolf, Renegade and Jurassic Park.
"Many people consider Ocean Software to be pioneers who helped to transform the UK computer and video games into a real multi national business," says ELSPA director general Roger Bennett, "Together Ward and Woods coined much of the terminology of the games industry and instigated many of its milestones, including the use of brands and franchises from traditional media and the formal processes of protecting intellectual property."
Ocean Software eventually was acquired by Infogrames, and is now part of Atari.

[John Brooks]

I think that David deserves the accolade. I think Dave behaved with a great deal of integrity towards the Ocean staff and was in a very real sense a "visionary".

[slick]

Not just David (thanks to him for the xmas bonus in 1999 by the way, as the french wouldnt pay up!) ) - but all of us who had to put up with Infogrames deserve a special mention - For working under extreme duress above and beyond the call of duty!