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Scott Adams Scoops
''Scott Adams Scoops'' is a compilation of video games designed by Scott Adams and published by U.S. Gold for a variety of home computers: '' Pirate Adventure'', '' Strange Odyssey'', '' Voodoo Castle'', and ''Buckaroo Banzai''. Development The compilation features text–only versions of four games designed by Scott Adams and previously published by Adams' Adventure International: '' Pirate Adventure'' (1979), '' Strange Odyssey'' (1979), '' Voodoo Castle'' (1979), and ''Buckaroo Banzai'' (1985). ''Buckaroo Banzai'' (co-written with Philip Case) is based on the 1984 film '' The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension'' and was previously only released for the TI-99/4A. Reception ''Scott Adams Scoops'' received mixed to negative reviews. Peter Sweasey from ''ZX Computing Monthly'' rated the game as "Grim". A reviewer for ''Computer and Video Games ''Computer and Video Games'' (also known as ''CVG'', ''Computer & Video Games'', ''C&VG'', ''Computer + Video ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Adams (game Designer)
Scott Adams (born July 10, 1952) is an American entrepreneur, computer programmer, and video game designer. He co-founded, with then-wife Alexis, Adventure International in 1979. The company developed and published video games for home computers. The cornerstone products of Adventure International in its early years were the ''Adventure'' series of text adventures written by Adams. Adventure International Born in Miami, Florida, Adams had access to an advanced 16-bit computer at home, built by his brother Richard Adams, that gave him a jump on game programming in his leisure time. Adams wrote a graphical action game similar to '' Spacewar!'' on this system in 1975. Scott Adams was the first person known to create an adventure-style game for personal computers, in 1978 on a 16 KB Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I, written in BASIC. '' Colossal Cave'' was written two years earlier by Will Crowther, but on a mainframe computer (the PDP-10). These early text adventures recognize tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |