Last Updated 5th May 2019
The BBC Games Archive - digital memories
Last Updated 5th May 2019
This company have greatly confused me, mainly because in other countries their games were produced by different companies, for example the 'Mysterious Adventure' series were done by Digital Fantasia in the US, and still bear the DF mark on the Beeb versions, and they also let US Gold publish a few of their later games, but they are best known for porting and distributing the Adventure International Games to the UK computers, and they were for a time known as Adventure International UK, but changed that when the Adventure International US went bankrupt. They continue to produce excellent software, although on the PC nowadays, and they have a website at: http://www.adventuresoft.com
Please contact me if you have any additional information about the company or its games!
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Full of wizardy and magic this game is all about trying to get rid of the Sorceror, again its really just a case of same game different objective.
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This game is set in the American South, I'm not exactly sure what you have to do (no instructions) but again it is very feature less, with not much to do, and hardly any objects in this game.
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This is really a clone of the original 'Adventure' where you have to collect the treasures. Being on a micro, and not the mainframe it was originally intended for, this game lacks the same size of the original, but retains the same minimal location definitions. It is nice and colourful though.
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You get transported into a Pirate ship, and have to search out treasure island. Not a bad one this, very entertaining, with lots of nice descriptions.
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You have to go on a secret mission, more of the same really, if you like the others you'll like this.
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This one is written by Scotts Wife, Alexis, and is not as good as most of the other games. It suffers mainly because of a lack of description in the rooms. You don't really get a feeling of going about a task, which is supposed to be to escape from the castle, and there are just too many objects to know what to do with.
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Quite an interesting little adventure, you are trapped in the castle of the Count Dracula, and have to escape, but when it is night time he appears and puts you back to bed, not before sucking your blood of course. You can only have this done a few times before you die.
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A poor game, this is set in a Space ship, and you are in space. You have to get out of the space ship, and away from it. Again this game suffers from a lack of detail in the room descriptions, but it is nice and fast at moving between rooms, something which some other adventures suffer from.
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Adventure game set in a funfair fun house, has the usual 2-word parser and isnt too complexed, one of the more average games of the series.
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Another bland adventure, this time set in the land of the Pharoahs, Egypt. This is not a particularly good game either, again it has no desctiption on the rooms, and is quite small. I suppose these games are nicely laid out, with colouring, and a separate screen section for the room description, but they just have no atmosphere.
(C)2009 C. Boylan