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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 16 K 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)

  • 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".


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