Electron
The Electron was the baby brother of the BBC Micro. It was produced a couple of years later as a cheaper alternative at half the price of the humble Beeb.
Technically it was very similar to the BBC; it had the same memory, the same processor (though slower), the same OS and very similar hardware. Though it did lack a few things: it only had single channel sounds, lack sound envelopes and didn't have the BBC's Mode 7 (Teletext mode).
For Interactive Fiction, none of these really matter - except for the lack of Mode 7, but authors worked around it. Not only was the Electron popular amongst home users, it had a plethora of Interactive Fiction written for it, even sparking off it's own Elk Adventure Club. It also had the advantage of being mostly compatible with the BBC: most games would immediately work, very few needed coaxing.
List of Games
Below is a list of games published for the Electron, organised by publisher. Some of these were available on the BBC (and virtually all would run on the BBC).
- Acornsoft
- Acheton (Peter Killworth (Porting); 1984)
- Castle of Riddles (Peter Killworth; 1982)
- Countdown to Doom (Peter Killworth (Porting))
- Gateway to Karos (Derek Haslam)
- Kingdom of Hamil (Jonathan Partington)
- Philosopher's Quest (Peter Killworth (Porting); 1982)
- Quondam (Peter Killworth (Porting); 1984)
- The Seventh Star (Dave Hampton; 1984)
- Sphinx Adventure (Paul Fellows; 1982)
- Acornsoft/Penguin
- How to Write Adventure Games
- Caves (Peter Killworth; 1984)
- Mini (Peter Killworth; 1984)
- Dragon (Peter Killworth; 1984)
- How to Write Adventure Games
- Adventure International
- Questprobe
- The Hulk (Scott Adams; 1984)
- Spiderman (Scott Adams; 1984)
- The Fantastic Four (Scott Adams; 1986)
- Mysterious Adventures
- The Golden Baton (Brian Howarth; 1981)
- The Time Machine (Brian Howarth; 1981)
- Arrow of Death 1 (Brian Howarth; 1981)
- Arrow of Death 2 (Brian Howarth; 1981)
- Escape from Pulsar 7 (Brian Howarth; 1982)
- Circus (Brian Howarth and Wherner Barnes; 1982)
- Feasibility Experiment (Brian Howarth and Wherner Barnes; 1982)
- The Wizard of Akyrz (Brian Howarth and Cliff J Ogden; 1982)
- Perseus and Andromeda (Brian Howarth; 1983)
- Ten Little Indians (Brian Howarth; 1983)
- Waxworks (Brian Howarth and Cliff J Ogden; 1983)
- SACA
- Adventureland (Scott Adams; 1978)
- Pirate Adventure (Scott Adams and Alexis Adams; 1978)
- Secret Mission (Scott Adams; 1979)
- Voodoo Castle (Scott Adams; 1979)
- The Count (Scott Adams; 1980)
- Strange Odyssey (Scott Adams; 1981)
- Mystery Fun House (Scott Adams; 1981)
- Pyramid of Doom (Scott Adams; 1981)
- Ghost Town (Scott Adams; 1981)
- Savage Island, Part I (Scott Adams; 1982)
- Savage Island, Part II (Scott Adams and Russ Wetmore; 1982)
- Golden Voyage (Scott Adams and William Demas; 1982)
- Sorcerer of Claymorgue Castle (Scott Adams; 1982)
- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
- Gremlins
- Robin of Sherwood
- Questprobe
- Alligata
- Crown Jewels (??; 1986)
- Brassington Enterprises
- Xadomy (G. D. Brassington; 198?)
- Bug Byte
- Twin Kingdom Valley (Trevor Hall; 1984)
- CDS
- Castle Blackstar (Mark Sheppard, Andrew Cummings, Geoff Richardson and Mike Redman; 1984)
- Central Computing
- It's Magic (Simon Maren; 1990)
- Comsoft
- Serpent's Lair (??; 1984)
- Database
- Duckworth
- D. W. Gore
- Elk Adventure Club
- Epic
- Forward
- Goldstar
- Haresoft
- Hewson
- Heyley
- Hollsoft
- Incentive
- Kansas
- Labyrinth
- Larsoft
- Lee
- Lothlorien
- Magus
- Melbourne House
- Classic Adventure
- Denis through the Drinking Glass
- Dodgy Geezers (Peter Jones and Trevor Lever; 1986)
- Hampstead (Peter Jones and Trevor Lever; 1984)
- Terrormolinos (Peter Jones and Trevor Lever; 1985)
- Micropower
- MP
- Orbit
- Potter Programs
- The Philosopher's Stone (Graham J Barlow; 1986)
- The Hexagram of Trutania Valley (Michael Winter and Simon Clifford; 1986)
- Inner Space (Anonymous; 1985))
- Stranded on Iloofrax (Matthew O'Donnell)
- Galadriel in Distress
- Flint Trilogy
- The Staff of Law (Anonymous; 1984)
- The Twin Orbs of Aalinor (C J Potter; 1985)
- Riverdale
- Robico Software
- Enthar Seven
- Realm of Chaos: Village of the Lost Souls
- Saga of a Spy
- Rick Hanson a.k.a. Assassin (Rob O'Leary and Mike O'Leary; 1985)
- Project Thesius (Rob O'Leary and Mike O'Leary; 1986)
- Myorem (Rob O'Leary and Mike O'Leary; 1986)
- The Hunt: Search for Shauna
- Samurai
- Shards
- Softek
- Five Stones of Anadon (David Featley and Mark Cook; 1983)
- The Eye of Zoltan (David Featley and Mark Cook; 1983)
- Squaresoft
- Runestaff (Martyn Amos; 1987)
- Superior Software
- Colditz Adventure (Martin Dolby; 1983)
- Gideon's Gamble (Robin Burgess and Jean Burgess; 1983)
- Star Trek Adventure (D Birdi and J Birdi; 1983)
- Stranded
- Talent
- Topologika
- Tynesoft
- US Gold