Mike Austin

The Austin brothers (Pete Austin, Mike Austin and Nick Austin) founded the British text-adventure game company Level 9 in 1981.

Author Credits

Adventure Quest (with Nick Austin and Pete Austin, publisher: Level 9; 1983; Atari 800, BBC Micro, Spectrum).
Dungeon Adventure (with Nick Austin and Pete Austin, publisher: Level 9; 1984; Atari 800, BBC Micro, Spectrum).
Snowball (with Nick Austin, Pete Austin, and Ian Buxton, publisher: Level 9; 1983; Atari 800, BBC Micro, Spectrum).
The Worm in Paradise (with Nick Austin and Pete Austin, publisher: Level 9; 1985, artist: James Horsler; Spectrum).

Lancelot (author: Christina Erskin, publisher: Level 9, 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 Price of Magik (Designer: Pete Austin, publisher: Level 9, implementors: Mike Austin, Nick Austin, artist: James Horsler; 1986; Spectrum).

The Level 9 archive: an ongoing project from 2021 (first publicised late 2025) to digitise and preserve electronic and paper material relating to Level 9, including game and system source code.