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GET LAMP: Scott Adams Interview
by Jason Scott
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Scott Adams is considered one of the giants of adventure
games, especially text-based adventures (The Scott Adams
Grand Adventures (SAGA) series is especially cited). He
is the founder of Adventure International, which sold
software for a variety of platforms, mostly involving
entertainment. This company grew wildly through the early
1980s but eventually went bankrupt in the inevitable
industry shake-out, but should be considered one of the
top "old-school" microcomputer software companies. His
adventures were of the two-word parser variety, with
sweeping general themes: the pirate adventure, the
mystery game, the jungle.
From Scott Adams' own website: "Scott was the first
person to put an Adventure game (also known as
Interactive Fiction) on a personal computer. This was in
1978 and the computer was a 16k Radio Shack TRS-80 model
I. Scott went on to write over a dozen different
adventure games for the personal computers of the 1980s.
He is credited with starting the entire multi billion
dollar a year computer game industry. Many people have
written Scott and explained how his early games help led
them into a career in computers today. Scott is 50 years
old now and living in Wisconsin. He is married and has 5
children."
Scott divorced Alexis, his wife and co-creator of some of
the adventures, a good number of years ago, and has since
remarried with a large family. Alexis continued to live
in Florida until her passing in April of 2008.
This interview was nearly missed because it had been
snowing rather fiercely and my rental car slid out of
control multiple times getting to the hotel - Scott
graciously drove into town where I was and picked me up,
taking me out to his farm to conduct the interview. A
huge thanks to him for his generosity in sitting for this
taping, and contributing so much to the final work.
Mr. Adams has said in several contexts that he finds text
adventures boring in the modern world, and spends a lot
of his "gaming time" online with games like Everquest,
Baldur's Gate, and so on.
Date Published: 2011-06-28 14:00:58
Identifier: GETLAMP-ScottAdams
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Language: English
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