Jonathan Smith (games programmer)

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Jonathan M. "Joffa" Smith (1 February 1967 – 26 June 2010) was a British games programmer, best known for his titles for the ZX Spectrum. His games were notable for containing a large number of sprites and parallax scrolling.

His most notable games include Cobra, (which was a license extremely loosely based on the Sylvester Stallone film) one of the first Spectrum games to exhibit full-colour parallax scrolling and his conversion of the arcade game Green Beret. A notable "trademark" of Smith's was his habit of writing his name (with "Jonathan" and "Smith" spelled various ways) as a mirror-image in his games.

Smith also created the computer displays for the British science fiction comedy series Red Dwarf using an Atari ST.

Notable releases

References

External links

• An interview conducted by ZX Specticle
• An interview at The Spectrum Golden Years
• Another interview
• Smith's Homepage at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
• Obituary on World of Spectrum

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