Clive Gifford

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Clive Gifford is a British journalist and award-winning author, specialising in non-fiction for both children and adults. His first book was published just three days after his seventeenth birthday. Since then he has written over 180 books and hundreds of articles.

He was well known in the 1980s for his computer programming books, including several on creating adventure games for popular machines at the time such as the Amstrad CPC, Dragon 32, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. As with many type-in adventures, Clive's games have been unofficially ported and adapted over the years to run on a range of different microcomputers.

Clive also wrote a text adventure column, Ventures, for the Dragon's Teeth Dragon 32 fanzine.

Author Credits

  • The Bianco Mansion, published in More games for your Dragon 32, Virgin Books, 1984.
  • City of Atlantis, published in Creating Adventures on Your Commodore 64 and Creating Adventure Games on Your Dragon 32, Interface Publications, 1984.
  • The Dark Forest, published in Creating Adventures on Your Commodore 64 and Creating Adventure Games on Your Dragon 32, Interface Publications, 1984
  • The Golden Chalice, published in Creating Adventures on Your Commodore 64 and Creating Adventure Games on Your Dragon 32, Interface Publications, 1984
  • The Nielson Papers, published in Creating Adventures on Your Commodore 64 and Creating Adventure Games on Your Dragon 32, Interface Publications, 1984
  • Pearl Diver, published in the Virgin Computer Series Adventures for your...' books, Virgin Books, 1984.
  • Castle Stormwrath, published as a type-in in Home Computer Weekly magazine, issue 108, 1985.
  • The Explorer, Virgin Books, 1985.
  • Golden Nugget, published in Mysterious Adventures for your Amstrad, Virgin Books, 1985.
  • Count Dracula's Castle, published in Electron User magazine, volume 5, number 3, 1987.
  • Stonefear Castle, published in Computing With the Amstrad magazine, volume 3 number 2, 1987.
  • The Grim Marshes, published in Computing With the Amstrad magazine, volume 4, number 2, 1988.
  • Menace of the Atom Monster, published in Computing With the Amstrad, volumbe 4, number 5, 1988.

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