Jonathan Smith

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

Title Developer Publisher Year Platform Airlock Rage Software Orange Multimedia 2000 WAP All Star Baseball 2004 Acclaim Studios Manchester Acclaim Entertainment 2004 Game Boy Advance Apprentise aka Fluffy Software Creations unfinished and unpublished 2001 Game Boy Advance Batman: The Caped Crusader Special FX Software Ocean Software 1988 ZX Spectrum Cluster Bluster SNES Cobra Ocean Software Ocean Software 1986 ZX Spectrum Daley Thompson's Supertest Ocean Software Ocean Software 1985 ZX Spectrum Firefly Special FX Software Ocean Software 1988 ZX Spectrum Green Beret Imagine Software Ocean Software 1986 ZX Spectrum Hudson Hawk Special FX Software Ocean Software 1991 Atari ST Hyper Active Special FX Software Sinclair User 1988 ZX Spectrum Hyper Sports Imagine Software Ocean Software 1985 ZX Spectrum Hysteria Special FX Software Software Projects 1987 ZX Spectrum Kong Strikes Back! Ocean Software Ocean Software 1984 ZX Spectrum Looney Tunes Back in Action Warthog Games Electronic Arts 2003 Game Boy Advance Momma Can I Mow The Lawn? Gizmondo Studios Gizmondo Studios 2005 Gizmondo Midnight Resistance Special FX Software Ocean Software 1990 Atari ST Mikie Imagine Software Ocean Software 1986 ZX Spectrum Power Drive Rage Software US Gold 1994 Sega Genesis Pud Pud Ocean Software Ocean Software 1984 ZX Spectrum Red Heat Special FX Software Ocean Software 1989–90 Amiga Atari ST Recoil Special FX Software Ocean Software 1989 Atari ST Retaliot Video Hazard Video Hazard 2009 MSX Ripping Friends Software Creations THQ 2002 Game Boy Advance Saucer Shorten Suite Software unfinished and unpublished 2006 ZX Spectrum Spider-Man/X-Men: Arcade's Revenge Software Creations Acclaim Entertainment 1992 SNES Street Hawk Ocean Software Ocean Software 1985 ZX Spectrum Terra Cresta Imagine Software Ocean Software 1986 ZX Spectrum