Back in 1991, I operated a small software company in Australia named Entertainment Software. Essentially, it was a mail-order business, complemented by several independent computer stores that carried my products.
During that same year, I reached out to Jack Lockerby, an adventure game author from the UK who ran a small business called River Software. Jack had published several text adventure games for the Commodore 64. My goal was to strike a deal with him and bring his adventure games to the Australian market.
I contacted Jack to explore the possibility of striking a deal to sell his adventure games in Australia.
We reached an agreement, and Entertainment Software began selling River Software adventures through mail order and small advertisements in local Commodore computer magazines. Although these games didn’t generate significant sales for me, they were of high quality. However, the market had shifted away from adventure games in general, so we decided to retire the game series in late 1994 before venturing into a new business called Southern Star Computers.
