Editing Zenobi

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'''Zenobi''' was a [[video game]] company that was known for its [[interactive fiction]]. The company was started by John Wilson in 1986 and continued in various forms until 2013.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/RochBalrog/status/1076390500838621184|title=John Wilson on Twitter
}}</ref>  The company produced and published adventure games for the [[ZX Spectrum]] (along with the [[Atari ST]]) range of home computers, operating as a commercial entity from 1986 to 1997, selling the titles by mail-order. Zenobi's titles included adaptations of ''[[Jack the Ripper (1987 video game)|Jack the Ripper]]'', ''[[Bored of the Rings]]'', ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]'' and ''[[Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde|Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde]]''. Emulator images were also available for PC and Amiga users. In its later years Zenobi concentrated on [[emulator]] users and produced numerous compilation CDs and DVDs.

On September 1, 2018, after a thirty-year hiatus,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.zenobi.co.uk/2018/09/first-in-thirty-years.html |title=First In Thirty Years ...}}</ref> a Zenobi adventure game written by John Wilson, ''Ramsbottom Smith and the Quest For the Yellow Spheroid'', was released for the ZX Spectrum.

John Wilson produced games for various platforms under the moniker Pension Productions until his death in 2021.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.php?cat=999&label_id=18920 |title=List of Pension Productions games at Spectrum Computing}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=John Wilson has died|url=https://twitter.com/rochbalrog/status/1400031810420101121|access-date=2021-06-15|website=Twitter|language=en}}</ref>

==References==
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== External links ==
*[https://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/Zenobi_Software Games List]
*{{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161002092252/http://zenobi.co.uk/|date=2 October 2016|title=Official website}}
*[https://gnomeslair.blogspot.com/2008/05/few-gnomish-questions-balrog-of-zenobi.html A Zenobi Interview with the Balrog]

[[Category:Interactive fiction]]
[[Category:Defunct video game companies of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Video game companies established in 1986]]
[[Category:Video game development companies]]
[[Category:Video game publishers]]
[[Category:1986 establishments in England]]