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)
• Return to Pirate's Isle (Exclusively for TI-99/4A systems) (1983)
• 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".

External links

• Scott Adams Grand Adventures
• Scott Adams Interview (English), Adventure Classic Gaming, 1998
• Academic panel featuring Scott Adams
• 1986 CRASH magazine interview
• Adventure International Memorial (games for download, solutions, map files)

1952 births | Living people | Computer and video game designers | Game programmers | interactive fiction writers

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