Scott Adams (game designer)

:For the cartoonist and creator of Dilbert, see Scott Adams.

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Dilbert - Scott Adams

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Scott Adams (born July 10, 1952) is the co-founder, with wife Alexis, of Adventure International, the first company producing games for personal computers.

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July 10 - 1952 - Adventure International

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Scott was the first person to put an adventure-style game on a personal computer, in 1978 (on a 16K Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I.) These early text adventure games use a minimal parser, recognizing 2-word commands of the form VERB NOUN.

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1978 - K - Radio Shack - TRS-80 - Text adventure

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Adams' games include:

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• Adventureland
• Pirate Adventure
• Mission Impossible
• Voodoo Castle
• The Count
• Strange Odyssey
• Mystery Fun House
• Pyramid of Doom
• Ghost Town
• Savage Island, Part I
• Savage Island, Part II
• Golden Voyage
• Sorcerer of Claymorgue Castle
• Questprobe #1: The Hulk
• Questprobe #2: Spiderman
• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
• Return to Pirate's Island 2

He is working on a new Adventure game entitled "The Inheritence".

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