Manchester · 1987–1993 · Ocean Software Composer

Jonathan Dunn

The composer who scored RoboCop, Batman: The Movie,
and a decade of Ocean Software’s film licence soundtrack adaptations.

15+ SID compositions

1988 C64 debut

3 platforms

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Classified Personnel File

The Composer

Jonathan Dunn was an in-house composer at Ocean Software during the company’s peak years of film licence acquisition in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Working primarily on the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and Nintendo Game Boy, he produced the official game soundtracks for some of the decade’s most recognisable movie tie-ins.

His most celebrated work is the RoboCop score (1988), composed for both the ZX Spectrum beeper and C64 SID chip, and widely regarded as a landmark of late-1980s game audio. The Batman: The Movie and Ghostbusters II soundtracks followed in 1989–1990, establishing Dunn as Ocean’s principal composer for blockbuster licence titles.

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Audio Dossier

Hear the SID Chip

The player bar at the bottom of this page plays authentic SID files via jsSID - a Web Audio API emulator of the Commodore 64’s SID chip. The full catalogue of Jonathan Dunn’s C64 compositions is available, each with individually selectable subtunes.

Keyboard shortcuts: Space = Play/Pause · ←/→ = Previous/Next track · , / . = Previous/Next subtune

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Case File: RoboCop (1988)

The Flagship Composition

Jonathan Dunn’s RoboCop theme for the C64 and ZX Spectrum is considered among the finest game music of the 8-bit era. The C64 SID version exploits the chip’s three oscillators to deliver a propulsive, cinematic score faithful to Basil Poledouris’ film soundtrack.

Explore the full deep-dive on the Flagship page, or jump straight to RoboCop in the SID catalogue.

Key Compositions

Film Score Catalogue

RoboCop

1988 · C64 / ZX Spectrum / Game Boy

The centrepiece of Dunn’s career. Three subtunes of industrial, cinematic SID scoring that defined the Ocean Software sound for an era.

C64 1988

Batman: The Movie

1989 · C64 / ZX Spectrum / Game Boy / NES

A Gotham fog and steel aesthetic rendered in SID. The Tim Burton licence with the most ambitious multi-platform audio treatment.

C64 1989

Ghostbusters II

1990 · C64 / ZX Spectrum / Game Boy

Dunn’s Ghostbusters II score blends the iconic Ray Parker Jr. theme with original compositions for each platform’s hardware constraints.

C64 1990