Paul Owens (games programmer)

Paul Owens is a British computer games programmer who worked at Ocean Software in the 1980s and 90s and was the founding programmer employed by Spectrum Games prior to Ocean Software being established. He is best known for writing the ZX Spectrum version of Daley Thompson’s Decathlon. Mainly concentrating on the ZX Spectrum, he wrote over 14 titles[1] but also collaborated on many other games and other platforms including the Amstrad CPC along with developing other software such as the Ocean Spectrum Loader[2] and game development software.

In the 80s, Ocean Software collaborated with Sinclair Research to help develop the Sinclair hardware and Paul received a letter of commendation from Sir Clive Sinclair after helping to iron out some problems with the ZX Spectrum 128 (codenamed Derby) prior to its release.

Notable releases
Road Frog Spectrum Games 1983
Kong Ocean Software Ltd 1984
Daley Thompson's Decathlon Ocean Software Ltd 1984
Hunchback Ocean Software Ltd 1984
Cavelon Ocean Software Ltd 1984
Daley Thompson's Supertest[3] Ocean Software Ltd 1985
Hunchback II: Quasi Modo's Revenge[4] Ocean Software Ltd 1985
Mr Wimpy[5] Ocean Software Ltd 1984
Short Circuit[6] Ocean Software Ltd 1985
Gryzor[7] Ocean Software Ltd 1985
Street Hawk Ocean Software Ltd 1985
Vindicator Ocean Software Ltd 1988
Dragon Ninja Ocean Software Ltd 1988
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References
  1. van der Heide, Martijn. "Sinclair Infoseek: Paul Owens [1]". World of Spectrum. Retrieved 4 January 2010.
  2. "Spectrum loader schemes [1]". Archived from the original on 6 May 2010. Retrieved 4 January 2010.
  3. van der Heide, Martijn. "Sinclair Infoseek: supertest [1]". World of Spectrum. Retrieved 4 January 2010.
  4. "Crash Magazine review: Hunchback II ZX Spectrum [1]". Crash Magazine. Retrieved 4 January 2010.
  5. "Sinclair User Magazine News[1]". Archived from the original on 13 February 2010. Retrieved 4 January 2010.
  6. "Crash Magazine Short Circuit review[1]". Retrieved 4 January 2010.
  7. van der Heide, Martijn. "Sinclair Infoseek: Gryzor [1]". World of Spectrum. Retrieved 4 January 2010.


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