Simon Avery

Simon Avery was a British text adventure author in the 1980s and 1990s.

He produced work for the Amstrad CPC using The Quill and ADLAN. His games were also ported to the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 by other authors, including Anthony Collins, Philip Reynolds and Dorothy Millard. Simon himself did some work with The Adventure Workshop porting other authors' adventures from machines like the ZX Spectrum to the Amstrad CPC.

Simon was best known for his humorous adventures but he also wrote some more serious (or adult-orientated) titles under the pseudonym Michael Hunt.

In the early 1990s, Simon ran a public domain/freeware service for Amstrad CPC under the name Round Corner Software.

Author Credits

• Adult One (Amstrad CPC).
• Boredom (Amstrad CPC).
• Can I Cheat Death (Amstrad CPC).
• Grimwold's Big Adventure (Spectrum).
• Pre-History (Spectrum).
• Roog (Amstrad CPC).
• Tizpan (Amstrad CPC, Spectrum).
• Welladay (Amstrad CPC).
• Doomlords (publisher: Wow Software; 1988; Amstrad CPC).
• Adult Two (1990; Amstrad CPC).
• A Day In The Life of a Tupperware Salesman (publisher: The Adventure Workshop; 1990; Spectrum).
• Dungeon Adventure (1990; Amstrad CPC).
• The Firestone (1990; Amstrad CPC).
• Jason of the Argonauts (1990; Amstrad CPC).
  • Commodore 64 port (porter: Dorothy Millard; 1990).
  • Spectrum port (publisher: The Guild; 1990).
• Labarinth (1990; Amstrad CPC).
• A Magician's Apprentice (1990; Amstrad CPC, Commodore, Spectrum).
• Spaced-Out (1990; Amstrad CPC).
• Danger! Adventurer at Work! (publisher: Wow Software; 1991; Amstrad CPC).
  • Commodore and Spectrum ports (publisher: The Guild; 1991).
  • Ported to Z-code by Duncan Cross.
• The Gerbil Riot of '67 (publisher: Wow Software; 1991?; Amstrad CPC).
  • Commodore port (publisher: The Guild; c. 1992).
  • Spectrum port (publisher: The Guild; 1992).
  • Ported to MS-DOS (with TADS 2) by Simon Avery (1994).
  • Ported to Z-code by Duncan Cross.
• The House Out of Town (1991; Amstrad CPC, Spectrum).
• Prison Blues (1991; Amstrad CPC, Spectrum).
• Rouge Midget (1991; Amstrad CPC, Spectrum).
• A Thief's Tale (1991; Amstrad CPC, Spectrum).
• Total Reality Delusion (1991; Amstrad CPC, Spectrum).
• Dances with Bunny Rabbits (publisher: Wow Software; 1992; Amstrad CPC).
  • Commodore port (porter: Anthony Collins, developer: Pegasus Software, publisher: The Guild; c. 1993).
  • Spectrum port (porter: Philip Reynolds, publisher: The Adventure Workshop; 1993).
• Danger! Adventurer at Work! Two (publisher: Wow Software; 1992; Amstrad CPC).
  • Commodore and Spectrum ports (publisher: The Guild; 1992).
• Seven Lost Gnomes (Dorothy Jones, programming: Simon Avery, graphics: Margaret Crewdson, publisher: Wow Software; 1992; Amstrad CPC).

Review and Article Credits

• Ramblings of an old timer - SynTax #29, 1994.

Links

• Digital Dilemma - author's website
• Text Adventures by Simon Avery on Github.
  • "I have released all my text adventures up until 2004 as public domain. All copyright notices are void insofar as they apply to me."
• Simon Avery (archived) - at Baf's Guide.
• Simon Avery (as author) - at IFDB.