Game Groups > Mysterious Adventures series
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: 1. 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: 1. 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
Related Groups
- 3D Engine: Unreal Engine 4
- Game Engine: Adventure Game Studio (AGS)
- Game Engine: GameMaker
- Games with manual lookup copy protection
- Genre: Escape room
- Genre: Sliding block / tile puzzle
- Inspiration: Literature
- Mythology: Greek
- Scripting language: Lua
- Theme: Amnesia
12 Games [ view in game browser ] [ add game ]
Title | Released | Platforms | Genres | Moby Score |
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10 Computer Hits 2 | 1986 | ZX Spectrum | Compilation |
n/a
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Arrow of Death Part II | 1982 | Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64 (+7 more) | Adventure |
8.1
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Arrow of Death: Part I | 1981 | Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit (+9 more) | Adventure |
8.2
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Circus | 1982 | Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit (+7 more) | Adventure |
7.3
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Escape from Pulsar 7 | 1982 | Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit (+7 more) | Adventure |
7.7
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Feasibility Experiment | 1982 | Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum (+8 more) | Adventure |
n/a
|
Perseus & Andromeda | 1983 | Commodore 64, DOS (+9 more) | Adventure |
8.2
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Ten Little Indians | 1983 | Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit (+9 more) | Adventure |
7.4
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The Golden Baton | 1981 | Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit (+10 more) | Adventure |
7.5
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The Time Machine | 1981 | Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit (+10 more) | Adventure |
7.8
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The Wizard of Akyrz | 1983 | Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum (+5 more) | Adventure |
n/a
|
Waxworks | 1983 | Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit (+6 more) | Adventure |
6.9
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