Adventure Probe
Magazine Archive

Under the stewardships of editors Sandra Sharkey, Pat Winstanley, Mandy Rodrigues and Barbara Gibb, Adventure Probe was undoubtely the glue holding the UK homegrown adventure community together.

Released on either a bi-monthly or monthly schedule this A5 magazine (usually consisting of 50-60 photocopied pages), ran for an impressive twenty-one years between 1986 and 2007; at its height reaching over 500 subscribers.

Covering all 8-bit and 16-bit machines, and later PC gaming, the magazine featured news, reviews, articles, hints & tips, and an extremely lively letters section.

Adventure Probe spawned both its own software label and the long running 'The Adventurer's Convention' in the UK.

Click here to access zipped downloads of all currently archived issues of Adventure Probe

See also Zona Fi's collection.

Currently archived (in the zip files above)...

Adventure Probe: Volume 1 [1986/1987]
Issue 1 / Issue 7 / Issue 10 / Issue 11 [all issues now at ZF]

Adventure Probe: Volume 2 [1988]
Issue 8 / Issue 12 [all issues now at ZF]

Adventure Probe: Volume 3 [1989]
Missing Issue 3 & Issue 12

Adventure Probe: Volume 4 [1990]
Missing Issues 2, 3, 4, 5

Adventure Probe: Volume 5 [1991]
Issue 9 / Issue 10 / Issue 11 / Issue 12

Adventure Probe: Volume 6 [1992]
Missing Issues 2, 3 and 7

Adventure Probe: Volume 7 [1993]
Missing Issues 1, 3, 8, 9 and 11

Adventure Probe: Volume 8 [1994]
Missing Issues 1, 4 & 8 - Some pages unordered

Adventure Probe: Volume 9 [1995]
COMPLETE - Some pages unordered

Adventure Probe: Volume 10 [1996]
COMPLETE - Pages unordered

Adventure Probe: Volume 11 [1997]
Missing Issues 3 & 8 - Pages unordered

Adventure Probe: Volume 12 [1998]
Issue 1 / Issue 2 / Issue 3 / Issue 4

Adventure Probe: Volume 13 [1999]
No Issues Archived :(

Adventure Probe: Volume 14 [2000]
COMPLETE - Some pages unordered

Adventure Probe: Volume 15 [2001]
Missing Issues 9, 10, 11, 12 - Pages unordered

Adventure Probe: Volume 16 onwards [2002 -> ]
No Issues Currently Archived

Current Collected Adventure Probe Index Pages (1986 - 1988, 1990 - 1997 & 2000) [PDF]