From Scott Adams' website:

"Who is Scott Adams?

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."

Uh... I have respect for the man too, but since when was he credited with "starting the entire multi billion dollar a year computer game industry"?

Am I missing something? His early adventures were nice, but with the limited parser in those things I wouldn't exactly call them the germ of the industry.
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Jim Leonard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.oldskool.org/
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