Level 9

British text-adventure game company, founded by the Austin brothers (Pete, Mike and Nick) in 1981. Level 9 produced about twenty text adventures from 1981-1991, and thus was the major supplier of interactive fiction for British microcomputers. As was the case with Adventure International and Infocom, Level 9's early success was due in large part to its creation of a development system, called A-code around 1979, that produced highly portable game files.

Games

• Colossal Adventure (Pete Austin, Mike Austin and Nick Austin, publisher: Level 9; 1983; Spectrum).
• Adventure Quest (Pete Austin, Nick Austin and Mike Austin, publisher: Level 9; 1983; Atari 800, BBC Micro, Spectrum).
• Lords of Time (Ian Buxton and Sue Gazzard, publisher: Level 9; 1983; Atari 800, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Spectrum).
• Snowball (Pete Austin, Nick Austin, Mike Austin, Simon Aspinall and Ian Buxton, publisher: Level 9; 1983; Atari 800, BBC Micro, Spectrum).
• Dungeon Adventure (Pete Austin, Nick Austin and Mike Austin, publisher: Level 9; 1984; Atari 800, BBC Micro, Spectrum).
• Return to Eden (Nick Austin, Tim Noyce and Chris Queen, publisher: Level 9; 1984; Atari 800, BBC Micro, Spectrum).
• The Saga of Erik the Viking (publisher: Level 9, artist: Joan Lamb; 1984; Commodore, Spectrum).
• Emerald Isle (Shaun D. Abbott; publisher: Level 9, artist: James Horsler; 1985; Atari 800, BBC Micro, Spectrum).
• Red Moon (Pete Austin, David Williamson, publisher: Level 9, implementors: Simon Aspinall and Pete Austin, artist: James Horsler; 1985; BBC Micro, Spectrum).
• The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4 (Pete Austin, publisher: Level 9, implementors: Nick Austin and Mike Austin; artist: by James Horsler; 1985, BBC Micro, Spectrum).
• The Worm in Paradise (Pete Austin, Nick Austin and Mike Austin, publisher: Level 9; 1985, artist: James Horsler; Spectrum).
• The Price of Magik (Pete Austin; publisher: Level 9, implementors: Mike Austin, Nick Austin, Simon Aspinall artist: James Horsler; 1986; Spectrum).
• The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (Pete Austin; publisher: Level 9, artist: Joan Lamb; 1987; BBC Micro, Spectrum).
• Knight Orc (Pete Austin; publisher: Level 9; 1987; Spectrum).
• Lancelot (author: Christina Erskin, publisher: Mandarin Software, implementors: Mike Austin, Nick Austin, Mike Bryant and John Jones-Steele, artists: Nusarath Jahan, Joan Lamb, Dicken Peeke and Neil Scrimgeour; 1988; BBC Micro).
• The Archers (Pete Austin and Joan Lamb; Level 9; 1987; Spectrum).
• Gnome Ranger (Pete Austin; Level 9; 1987; Spectrum).
• Ingrid´s Back! (Pete Austin, Peter McBride, Godfrey Dowson and Graham Jones; Level 9; 1988; Spectrum).
• Scapeghost (Pete Austin; Level 9; 1988; Spectrum).

Links

• Level 9 Memorial at IF-Legends.
• Level 9, The Lords of Adventure - article published in Amstrad Action #8, May 1986.

Interviews

• Expanding the quest for success - Micro Adventurer #10, August 1984.