Zenobi was a

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company that was known for its

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. The company was started by John Wilson in 1986 and continued in various forms until 2013. The company produced and published adventure games for the

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(along with the

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) 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 ''

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'', '' Bored of the Rings'', '' The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' and '' Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde''. Emulator images were also available for PC and Amiga users. In its later years Zenobi concentrated on

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users and produced numerous compilation CDs and DVDs. On September 1, 2018, after a thirty-year hiatus, 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.

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External links

Games List
*{{webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161002092252/http://zenobi.co.uk/, date=2 October 2016, title=Official website

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