Scott Adams

Founder of Adventure International.

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.

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.)

1. Adventureland
2. Pirate Adventure (aka Pirates Cove)
3. Mission Impossible (aka Impossible Mission, Secret Mission, Atomic Mission)
4. Voodoo Castle
5. The Count
6. Strange Odyssey
7. Mystery Fun House (aka Fun House Mystery)
8. Pyramid of Doom
9. Ghost Town
10. Savage Island, Part I
11. Savage Island, Part II
12. Golden Voyage
13. Sorcerer of Claymorgue Castle
14. 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 our of business..

• Questprobe #1: The Hulk
• Questprobe #2: Spiderman
• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
• X-Men (Unreleased)

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
• wikipedia:Scott Adams (game designer)

Interviews

• Scott Adams Speaks at UWEC English Festival (2001). * Adventure Collective 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.)