Adventure Soft

Adventure Soft is a computer game developer based in the UK, based in Sutton Coldfield.

Company History

The company was founded in 1984 by Mike Woodroffe, to act as a publisher for the games by Scott Adams. At this time, Alan Cox worked there. Later Adventure Soft himself began to produce games and made ​​himself especially with his graphic adventures a name.

Early 1990, the company produced under the name Horrorsoft several Adventures, which clearly distinguished by the action and the optical implementation of the following games. This great value was placed on a reminiscent of horror films atmosphere that was generated with appropriately bloody images and appropriate music. These games included Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, Elvira II: The Jaws of Cerberus and the Waxworks.

The adventure game series Adventure Softs Simon the Sorcerer was greatest success and gave them especially in Germany many fans.

After 2002, after many shifts in the third part of the Simon- series was released and was a commercial flop, Adventure Soft opted for a change of image.

The Software Development Department was renamed Headfirst Productions in 1998 and produced until its bankruptcy only Games for external publishers. In February / March 2006, the liquidation of the company was announced.

Adventure Soft Publishing is, however, continue as sales for his previous products.

Products

Adventure Soft

• Simon the Sorcerer's Pinball (1998)
• Simon the Sorcerer 's Puzzle Pack (1998)
• Floyd: There are heroes (1997)
• Simon the Sorcerer 2 (1995 )
• Simon the Sorcerer (1993 )

Headfirst Productions

• Call of Cthulhu: Destiny's End ( development set by bankruptcy )
• Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (2005) - in collaboration with Bethesda Softworks
• Simon the Sorcerer 3D (2002)

Horrorsoft

• Personal Nightmare (1989 )
• Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1990 )
• Elvira II: The Jaws of Cerberus the (1991 )
• Waxworks (1992 )