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Scott Adams, 2007. From GET LAMP.

Co-founder of Adventure International, credited with being one of the earliest home computer entertainment software companies (possibly the first, depending on various factors).

Author of Adventureland and many other early IF games. In the United Kingdom the company Adventuresoft UK traded under Adventure International UK and republished their own games as well as the Adventure International games. The company traded from roughly 1979 to 1984 before it was shut down.

Games

The first fourteen games form the Scott Adams Classic Games series (Sometimes known as 'Scott Adams Adventures of the Mind' series). On several platforms some of these games were extended to include Graphics (under the SAGA and SAGA+ names.)

Adventureland
Pirate Adventure (aka Pirates Cove)
Mission Impossible (aka Impossible Mission, Secret Mission, Atomic Mission)
Voodoo Castle
The Count
Strange Odyssey
Mystery Fun House (aka Fun House Mystery)
Pyramid of Doom
Ghost Town
Savage Island, Part I
Savage Island, Part II
Golden Voyage
Sorcerer of Claymorgue Castle
Return to Pirate's Island

These three games were released as the Questprobe Series. There was supposed to be a fourth game in the series featuring the X-Men but was stopped when they went out of business.

The Hulk
Spiderman
The Fantastic Four
X-Men (Unreleased)

This was an independant game, delivered in the same style as the other games.

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai

Scott's last release was the sequel

Return to Pirate's Island 2

Samplers

Adventureland Demo

Home Formats

The games appeared on various home machines

Apple II
Atari 8-bit
BBC Micro
Commodore PET, C+4, C16
Commodore 64
Commodore VIC-20
PC
Spectrum
TI-99/4A
TRS-80 (I + III), (Dragon / Coco)

Links

Scott Adams's homepage.
Baf's Guide listing for Scott Adams.
Scott Adams (game designer) - at Wikipedia.

Interviews

Adventure Classic Gaming interview - by Francesco Cordella, September 1998. Updated November 1999.
My fantasy against Infocom parser - Interview by L'avventura è L'avventura, September 1999. (Also in Italian.)
"YOHO" Strikes Again! -- The Second Coming of Scott Adams - SPAG #22, September 15, 2000.
Scott Adams Speaks at UWEC English Festival (2001). - A panel organized by Dennis G. Jerz. Text and audio.

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 [[Image:Gl-sadams.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Scott Adams, 2007. From GET LAMP.]]
-Founder of [[Adventure International]].
+Co-founder of [[Adventure International]], credited with being one of the earliest home computer entertainment software companies (possibly the first, depending on various factors).
-Author of ''Adventureland'' and many other early IF games. In the United Kingdom the company Adventuresoft UK traded under [[Adventure International UK]] and republished their own games as well as the Adventure International games. The company traded from roughly 1979 to 1984 before it was shutdown.
+Author of ''Adventureland'' and many other early IF games. In the United Kingdom the company Adventuresoft UK traded under [[Adventure International UK]] and republished their own games as well as the Adventure International games. The company traded from roughly 1979 to 1984 before it was shut down.
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 * [http://www.wurb.com/if/person/27 Baf's Guide listing for Scott Adams].
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/Scott_Adams_%28game_designer%29 Scott Adams (game designer)] - at Wikipedia.
 ===Interviews===
 * [http://www.adventureclassicgaming.com/index.php/site/interviews/129/ Adventure Classic Gaming interview] - by [[Francesco Cordella]], September 1998. Updated November 1999.