Jonathan Smith (games programmer)
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Jonathan "Joffa" M. Smith (1 February 1967 – 26 June 2010)[1] was a British games programmer, best known for his titles for the ZX Spectrum. His games[2] were notable for containing a large number of sprites and parallax scrolling, features which were largely unknown on the Spectrum at the time[citation needed].
His most notable games include Cobra,[3] (which was a license extremely loosely based on a Sylvester Stallone film) one of the first Spectrum games to exhibit full-colour parallax scrolling and his critically acclaimed conversion of the arcade game Green Beret.[4] A notable "trademark" of Smith's was his habit of writing his name (with "Jonathan" and "Smith" spelled various ways) as a mirror-image in his games.
Notable releases
References
- ^ World of Spectrum: Jonathan M Smith
- ^ van der Heide, Martijn. "Sinclair Infoseek: Jonathan Smith [1]". World of Spectrum. Retrieved 2006-08-12.
- ^ "Cobra". CRASH (35): 140–141. December 1986. Retrieved 2006-08-12.
- ^ Smith, Rachael (June 1986). "Green Beret". Your Sinclair (6): 30. Retrieved 2006-08-12.
External links
- An interview conducted by ZX Specticle
- An interview at The Spectrum Golden Years
- Another interview
- Smith's Homepage at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
- Obituary on World of Spectrum
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