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Scott Adams (game designer)

Scott Adams (game designer)

Scott Adams (born July 10, 1952) is the co-founder, with ex-wife Alexis, of Adventure International, an early publisher of games for home computers.

Born in Miami, Florida, Adams was the first person known to create an adventure-style game for personal computers, in 1978 (on a 16KB Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I, written in the BASIC programming language). These early text adventure games use a minimal parser, recognizing 2-word commands of the form VERB NOUN. The games were subsequently released on most of the major home PC platforms of the day, including TRS-80, Apple II series, Atari 8-bit series and Commodore PET. Versions of the games were also made for later platforms such as Vic-20 and some also had versions produced with rudimentary graphics.

Games

* "Adventureland" (1978)
* "Pirate Adventure" (1978–1979)
* "Secret Mission" (1979)
* "Voodoo Castle" (In collaboration with Alexis Adams) (1980)
* "The Count" (1981)
* "Strange Odyssey" (1981)
* "Mystery Fun House" (1981)
* "Pyramid of Doom" (In collaboration with Alvin Files) (1981)
* "Ghost Town" (1981)
* "Savage Island, Part I" (1982)
* "Savage Island, Part II" (In collaboration with Russ Wetmore) (1982)
* "Golden Voyage" (In collaboration with William Demas) (1982)
* "Sorcerer of Claymorgue Castle" (1982)
* "Return to Pirate's Isle" (Exclusively for TI-99/4A systems) (1983)
* "Questprobe" series:
** "Questprobe #1: The Hulk" (1984)
** "Questprobe #2: Spiderman" (1984)
** "Questprobe #3: The Fantastic Four" (1984)
* "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai" (in collaboration with Phillip Case) (1984)
* "Return to Pirate's Island 2" (2003)

External links

* [http://www.msadams.com/index.htm Scott Adams Grand Adventures]
*moby developer|id=19676|name=Scott Adams
* [http://www.adventureclassicgaming.com/index.php/site/interviews/129/ Scott Adams interview] , "Adventure Classic Gaming", 1998
* [http://www.uwec.edu/jerzdg/orr/articles/if/adams/ Academic panel] featuring Scott Adams
* [http://www.crashonline.org.uk/15/adams.htm 1986 CRASH magazine interview]
* [http://www.if-legends.org/~aimemorial/ Adventure International Memorial] games for download, solutions, map files)


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