Scott Adams (game designer)

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Scott Adams (born July 10, 1952) is the co-founder, with 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 Plus, 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.

[edit] 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)