Mysterious Adventures series

Group Description

A line of interactive fiction with graphics games by Brian Howarth, using Scott Adams' parser.

Trivia

These games perhaps hold the record for greatest number of times published, by different publishers. Over the years Mysterious Adventures have been published by:

Molimerx
Acorn Software Products
Digital Fantasia
Channel 8 Software
Paxman Promotions
Tynesoft
Adventure International UK

Each publisher had one or more different box styles for the game as well!

Even the numbering order changed from the chronological:

The Golden Baton
The Time Machine
Arrow of Death (Part 1)
Arrow of Death (Part 2)
Escape from Pulsar 7
Circus
Feasibility Experiment
The Wizard of Akyrz
Perseus & Andromeda
Ten Little Indians
Waxworks

...to that used by Channel 8:

The Golden Baton
Arrow of Death (Part 1)
Arrow of Death (Part 2)
Escape from Pulsar 7
Feasibility Experiment
The Time Machine
Circus
The Wizard of Akyrz
Perseus & Andromeda
Ten Little Indians
Waxworks

There were upcoming titles advertised, but never released:

Mid-Winter
After the Fire
Beyond the Infinite

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Game Title	Year	Platform	Publisher	User Score
10 Computer Hits 2	1986	ZX Spectrum	Beau Jolly	...
The Wizard of Akyrz	1983	Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro, Browser, Commodore 64, Dragon 32/64, Electron, ZX Spectrum	Channel 8 Software	4.21
Perseus & Andromeda	1983	Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro, Browser, Commodore 16, Plus/4, Commodore 64, Dragon 32/64, Electron, Oric, ZX Spectrum	Channel 8 Software	4.65
Ten Little Indians	1983	Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro, Browser, Commodore 16, Plus/4, Commodore 64, Dragon 32/64, Electron, Oric, ZX Spectrum	Channel 8 Software	4.17
Waxworks	1983	Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro, Browser, Commodore 16, Plus/4, Commodore 64, Dragon 32/64, Electron, ZX Spectrum	Channel 8 Software	3.75
Feasibility Experiment	1982	Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro, Commodore 16, Plus/4, Commodore 64, Dragon 32/64, Electron, Oric, TRS-80, ZX Spectrum	Channel 8 Software	...
Arrow of Death Part II	1982	Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro, Browser, Commodore 64, Dragon 32/64, Electron, Oric, TRS-80, ZX Spectrum	Acorn Software Products, Inc.	4.69
Escape from Pulsar 7	1982	Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro, Browser, Commodore 16, Plus/4, Commodore 64, Dragon 32/64, Electron, TRS-80, ZX Spectrum	Adventure International (UK)	4.33
Circus	1982	Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro, Browser, Commodore 16, Plus/4, Commodore 64, Dragon 32/64, Electron, TRS-80, ZX Spectrum	Adventuresoft UK Ltd.	3.90
The Time Machine	1981	Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro, Browser, Colour Genie, Commodore 16, Plus/4, Commodore 64, Dragon 32/64, Electron, Oric, TRS-80, VIC-20, ZX Spectrum	Channel 8 Software	4.22
Arrow of Death: Part I	1981	Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro, Browser, Commodore 16, Plus/4, Commodore 64, Dragon 32/64, Electron, Oric, TRS-80, VIC-20, ZX Spectrum	Channel 8 Software	4.59
The Golden Baton	1981	Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro, Browser, Colour Genie, Commodore 16, Plus/4, Commodore 64, Dragon 32/64, Electron, Oric, TRS-80, VIC-20, ZX Spectrum	Channel 8 Software	4.33