Brian Howarth

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. in 1981. Following this success, Molimerx encouraged Howarth to produce two more titles, The Time Machine and Arrow of Death.

In 1982 Howarth finished developing his own interpreter, based on Scott Adams' Adventureland source code published in Byte magazine. and later Paxman Promotions.

Howarth also created games based on the film Gremlins and the TV shows Robin of Sherwood and Super Gran in 1985.

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. 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 Feasibility Experiment, 1983 (with Wherner Barnes), in Scott Adams database in Scott Adams database Perseus and Andromeda, 1983, in Scott Adams database Ten Little Indians, 1983, (with Wherner Barnes), in Scott Adams database Waxworks, 1983, (with Cliff J. Ogden), in Scott Adams database

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

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