Jonathan Scott

Dr Jonathan M. Scott is a Northern Irish academic, researcher and author, who also wrote text adventures and interactive fiction in the 1990s and 2000s.

He wrote his first game Escape from Hodgkin's Manor for the ZX Spectrum when he was thirteen-years old.

Many of his games were collaborations with his friend Stephen Boyd. Their games were mostly published by the mail-order firms Zenobi Software (on Spectrum) and WoW Software (on Amstrad CP/M).

Jonathan is also responsible some of the Spectrum ports of games by Frank Fridd and Peter Clark.

In 2004 he published a novel, A Brief Tale that included many of the characters from his 1990s text adventures.

Author Credits

• Escape from Hodgkin's Manor (publisher: Zenobi Software; 1990; Quill; Spectrum).
  • Escape from Hodgkin's Manor (ported by Stephen Boyd, publisher WoW Software; PAW; Amstrad CPC & PCW).
• Red Alert (publisher: Zenobi Software; 1991; PAW; Spectrum).
  • Red Alert (ported by Stephen Boyd, publisher WoW Software; PAW; Amstrad CPC & PCW).
• The Beginning of the End (publisher: Zenobi Software; 1992; PAW; Spectrum).
  • The Beginning of the End (ported by Stephen Boyd, publisher WoW Software; PAW; Amstrad CPC & PCW).
• Out of the Limelight (publisher: Zenobi Software; 1992; PAW; Spectrum).
  • Out of the Limelight (ported by Stephen Boyd, publisher WoW Software; PAW; Amstrad CPC & PCW).
• For Pete's Sake (with Stephen Boyd, publisher: Zenobi Software; 1993; PAW; Spectrum).
  • For Pete's Sake (ported by Stephen Boyd, publisher WoW Software; PAW; Amstrad CPC & PCW).
• Lycanthropy (publisher: Zenobi Software; 1993; PAW; Spectrum).
• The End is Nigh (with Stephen Boyd, publisher: Zenobi Software; 1994; PAW; Spectrum).
  • The End is Nigh (ported by Stephen Boyd, publisher WoW Software; PAW; Amstrad CPC & PCW).
• Labour Pains (with Stephen Boyd, publisher: Zenobi Software; PAW; Spectrum).
• Loose Ends (publisher: Zenobi Software; 1995; PAW; Spectrum).
• Why Is the World Round Anyway? (with Stephen Boyd, publisher: Zenobi Software; 1995; PAW; Spectrum).
• Mutiny! (publisher: Zenobi Software; 1996; PAW; Spectrum).
• Toddler Trouble (with Stephen Boyd, publisher: Zenobi Software; 1996; PAW; Spectrum).
• All in a Day's Work (publisher: Zenobi Software; 1996; PAW; Spectrum).
• Murder Mystery Weekend (publisher: Zenobi Software; PAW; Spectrum).
• Who is Gordon Bennet? (with Stephen Boyd, unpublished; PAW; Spectrum).
• Wartorn Land (unpublished; PAW; Spectrum).
• 25 (1998; PAW; Spectrum).
• The New Venue (with Frank Fridd; 2001; CAT; PC).

Porting Credits

• Knight Life (Author: Stephen Boyd, publisher: Zenobi Software; PAW; Spectrum).
• Where is Zeus? (Author: Frank Fridd, publisher: The Adventure Workshop; PAW; Spectrum).
• Midsummer Day's Dream'' (Author: Peter Clark, publisher: The Adventure Workshop; PAW; Spectrum).
• Hounds of Hell'' (Author: Peter Clark, publisher: The Adventure Workshop; PAW; Spectrum).

Interviews

• An interview with Jonathan Scott from 8bitAG.com. (April 2022)

Links

• Jonathan Scott (archived) - at Baf's Guide