Adventure Soft is a UK-based video game developer which was established in 1992 by Mike Woodroffe, then owner of Callisto Computers, one of the very early computer shops. Callisto Computers was, amongst other things, an importer and reseller of Adventure International games. It operates out of Sutton Coldfield. It is best known for the successful Simon the Sorcerer series of games.
In the beginning Adventure Soft operated out of Birmingham conver...
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Adventure Soft is a UK-based video game developer which was established in 1992 by Mike Woodroffe, then owner of Callisto Computers, one of the very early computer shops. Callisto Computers was, amongst other things, an importer and reseller of Adventure International games. It operates out of Sutton Coldfield. It is best known for the successful Simon the Sorcerer series of games.
In the beginning Adventure Soft operated out of Birmingham converting the Adventure International games by Scott Adams to run on microcomputers found in the United Kingdom market which were not currently supported. Adventure Soft employed Brian Howarth whose Mysterious Adventures series was the British answer to Scott Adams games, and who used the same game system as Scott to perform the ports.
After a time the rate of release of games by Adventure International slowed and the company began to write other games using the same system. The first and perhaps most successful of these was Gremlins - The...
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