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| | 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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