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 | |
Item Size: 2147483647 | |
Language: English | |
Media Type: movies | |
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