Brian Howarth

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Brian Howarth is a computer game programmer. He wrote many interactive fiction computer games in the early 1980s in a series called Mysterious Adventures.^[1]

He designed an adventure interpreter based on Scott Adams's database format after the Molimerx catalogue were impressed with his first (machine language written) game, The Golden Baton (1981).^[2]

Following this success, he ported his games from the original TRS-80 format to the BBC Micro under his own label, Digital Fantasia.

[edit] Mysterious Adventures

These are the games in the Mysterious Adventures series.

The Golden Baton, 1981, in machine code
The Time Machine, 1981, in machine code
Arrow of Death part 1, 1981, in machine code
Arrow of Death part 2, 1982, in Scott Adams database
Escape from Pulsar 7, 1982 (with Wherner Barnes), in Scott Adams database
Circus, 1982 (with Wherner Barnes), in Scott Adams database
The Feasability Experiment, 1983 (with Wherner Barnes), in Scott Adams database
The Wizard of Akyrz, 1983 (with Cliff J. Ogden), in Scott Adams database
Perseus and Andromeda, 1983, in Scott Adams database
Ten Little Indians, 1983, in Scott Adams database
Waxworks, 1983, (with Cliff J. Ogden), in Scott Adams database

The Feasability Experiment was one of Edge magazine's 20 strangest moments in videogaming, calling it a "glorious stream-of-consciousness ramble".^[3]