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Adventure International (UK), later Adventuresoft UK, was a trading name for Scott Adams' company: Adventure International.


Adventure International (UK)
Name:Adventure International (UK)
Type:Company
Active:no
City:Sutton Coldfield
Country: England
Members:
Howarth, Brian(Member)
Website: 
Notes:AKA Adventure International (U.K.). Also Adventure Soft, Adventuresoft UK where the production didn't regard Adventure International.
Adventure International (UK)


Releases by Adventure International (UK)
TitleCoversCategoryRelease DateLang​uageSizeRetail PriceDistri​bution
Arrow Of DeathGame/Adventure1985English16KComme​rcial/PD
CircusGame/Adventure1985English16K£7.95Comme​rcial/TA
Escape From Pulsar 7Game/Adventure1985English16KComme​rcial/TA
Fantastic FourGame/Adventure1985English64KComme​rcial/TA
Feasi​bility Exper​imentGame/Adventure1985English16KComme​rcial/PD
Golden BatonGame/Adventure1985English16KComme​rcial/TA
GremlinsGame/Adventure1985English16K£7.95Comme​rcial/TA
Perseus & AndromedaGame/Adventure1985English16KComme​rcial/TA
SpidermanGame/Adventure1986English16K£7.95Comme​rcial/TA
Ten Little IndiansGame/Adventure1985English16KComme​rcial/PD
The Hulk (C16)Game/AdventureUnknownEnglish16K£7.95Comme​rcial/TA
The Sorcerer Of Claym​orgue CastleGame/AdventureUnknownEnglish16K£7.95Comme​rcial/TA
The Time MachineGame/Adventure1985English16KComme​rcial/TA
WaxworksGame/Adventure1985English16KComme​rcial/TA
Scott Adams ScoopsGame/Compi​lation1987English16KComme​rcial/PD
The Wizard Of AkyrzGame/GTW1985English16KComme​rcial/TA
16 release(s).


History Involving C16
Mike Woodroffe, who owned a music shop in Birmingham, entered the software industry by opening a computer department within the store, Calisto Computers, importing American software which was otherwise unavailable in the UK. The success of many of the titles from Adventure International led to Woodroffe licensing the name from Scott Adams to form Adventure International (UK). The company employed Brian Howarth, the author of the Mysterious Adventures series of text adventures, to convert Adams' titles to run on microcomputers found in the United Kingdom market which were not currently supported.

By 1985, the release of games by Adventure International had slowed and the company began to write other games using the same system. The first and most successful of these was Gremlins – The Adventure (1985), written by Howarth and based on the film Gremlins. Adventure International UK also secured the rights to Howarth's Mysterious Adventures series from Channel 8 Software which had been taken over by Argus Press Software. Several of these games were licensed for release by Tynesoft, who also published Howarth and Woodroofe's Super Gran The Adventure, their first title to be published by a third party.

By 1986, Adventure International in the U.S. was bankrupt, leaving the UK company unable to continue trading under that name. A new company was formed: Adventuresoft UK.

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