Jonathan Smith (games programmer), Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJonathan Smith (games programmer)
British video game programmer
Date of Birth: 01-Feb-1967
Date of Death: 26-Jun-2010
Profession: engineer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Jonathan Smith (games programmer)
- 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, features which were largely unknown on the Spectrum at the time. His most notable games include Cobra, (which was a license extremely loosely based on a 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.
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