Scott Adams (game designer)

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Scott Adams

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,^[1] 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. ^[1] Scott had access to an advanced (for the era) 16 bit computer at home, built by Richard Adams, that gave him a jump on game programming in his leisure time. ^[1]

The Adventure International 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.

[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 (August 2000)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Scott Adams official website
• Scott Adams Grand Adventures
• Scott Adams at MobyGames
• Scott Adams interview, Adventure Classic Gaming, 1998
• Academic panel featuring Scott Adams^{[dead link]}
• 1986 CRASH magazine interview
• Adventure International Memorial games for download, solutions, map files)
• Scott's first home brew computer graphics game

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