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 personal computers.
Scott was the first known person to put an adventure-style game on a personal computer, in 1978 (on a 16K Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I. - at the time written in the BASIC programming language). These early text adventure games use a minimal parser, recognizing 2-word commands of the form VERB NOUN.
Adams's games include:
- 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 (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)
- Questprobe #1: The Hulk (1984)
- Questprobe #2: Spiderman (1984)
- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai (In collaboration with Phillip Case) (?)
- Return to Pirate's Island 2 (2003)
He is working on a new adventure game entitled "The Inheritance".
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