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

References

1. van der Heide, Martijn. "Sinclair Infoseek: Paul Owens [1]". World of Spectrum. Retrieved 2010-01-04.
2. "Spectrum loader schemes [1]". Retrieved 2010-01-04.
3. van der Heide, Martijn. "Sinclair Infoseek: supertest [1]". World of Spectrum. Retrieved 2010-01-04.
4. "Crash Magazine review: Hunchback II ZX Spectrum [1]". Crash Magazine. Retrieved 2010-01-04.
5. "Sinclair User Magazine News[1]". Retrieved 2010-01-04.
6. "Crash Magazine Short Circuit review[1]". Retrieved 2010-01-04.
7. van der Heide, Martijn. "Sinclair Infoseek: Gryzor [1]". World of Spectrum. Retrieved 2010-01-04.

External links

• World of Spectrum