Brian Howarth

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Brian Howarth is a British video game designer and computer programmer. He wrote many interactive fiction computer games in the early 1980s in a series called Mysterious Adventures.^[1] He was born in Blackpool in 1953.^[2]

After leaving school he worked as a telephone engineer until 1981.

After working on the arcade game Theme Park Mystery and SSI's Heroes of the Lance Howarth relocated to the USA in July 1990 after securing a position with the publisher Cinemaware. The company went out of business in 1991 but Howarth continued working on console titles for a company set up by Cinemaware co-founder Bob Jacobs. More recently Howarth has worked on creating applications for tablets and iPhones.^[2]

Mysterious Adventures

These are the games in the Mysterious Adventures series.

• The Golden Baton,
  1981
  , in machine code
• The Time Machine,
  1981,^[13]
  in machine code
• Arrow of Death part 1,
  1981
  , in machine code
• Arrow of Death part 2,
  1982,^[14]
  in Scott Adams database
• Escape from Pulsar 7,
  1982 (with Wherner Barnes),^[15]
  in Scott Adams database
• Circus,
  1982 (with Wherner Barnes),^[16]
  in Scott Adams database
• The Feasibility Experiment,
  1983 (with Wherner Barnes), in Scott Adams database^[17]
• The Wizard of Akyrz,
  1983 (with Cliff J. Ogden),^[18]
  in Scott Adams database
• 1983,^[19]
  in Scott Adams database
• Ten Little Indians,
  1983, (with Wherner Barnes),^[20]
  in Scott Adams database
• 1983, (with Cliff J. Ogden),^[21]
  in Scott Adams database