The most recent logo (Sierra Entertainment)

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History

One of the first Sierra logos (Sierra On-Line)

Sierra started modestly as On-Line Systems in 1980, with founders Ken and Roberta Williams programming games and managing the company from their own home. Their first game was Mystery House, the world's first graphic adventure game. Image File history File links One of Sierras first logos File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links One of Sierras first logos File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Ken Williams (born October 1954) is a programmer and co-founder with his wife Roberta Williams of On-Line Systems which later became Sierra Entertainment. ... Roberta Heuer Williams (born February 16, 1953) is one of the most accomplished and respected computer game designers, and arguably the most influential female gamer of her time. ... Mystery House on the Apple II showcases the Apples weak graphic capabilities compared to modern PCs. ... Adventure is a genre of video game typified by exploration, puzzle-solving, interaction with game characters, and a focus on narrative rather than reflex-based challenges. ...

In 1982 the company changed its name to Sierra On-Line and moved to Oakhurst, California. 1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Oakhurst is a census-designated place located in Madera County, California, 14 miles south of the entrance to Yosemite National Park, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. ...

In 1984, Sierra developed King's Quest, initially published by IBM, to show off the advanced technology of the IBM PCjr. The success of that game (subsequently ported to other platforms) set forth one of the most popular series Sierra has ever created, and spurred them into creating numerous adventure game series based on the Quest theme. In the years to come Sierra would remain on the forefront of groundbreaking computer game design, sometimes creating large blockbusters and other times, failed experiments. Sierra revealed openly that their main rival is television and that their aim is to rescue young people from couch-potatoism. This page is about the year 1984. ... Kings Quest IV screenshot (low resolution 160x200 version. ... The IBM PCjr was a relatively inexpensive home computer of the 1980s, and it was IBMs first attempt to enter the educational and home computer markets. ... In computing, a port (derived from seaport) is usually a connection through which data is sent and received. ... Game design is the process of designing the content, background and rules of a game. ...

Starting in 1990, Sierra began acquiring other companies, including Dynamix (1990), Bright Star Technologies (1992), Coktel Vision (1993) and Impressions Games (1995). Further acquisitions included Green Thumb Software (1995), Arion Software (1995), Papyrus Design Group (1995), Berkeley Systems (1997), Books That Work (1997), PyroTechnix (1997) and Headgate (1997). Sierra also acquired the rights to use Print Artist, a computer publishing program which allowed users to make high quality picture prints, in 1995. For the Temptations album, see 1990 (Temptations album) MCMXC redirects here; for the Enigma album, see MCMXC a. ... This article is about Dynamix, a defunct company that developed computer games. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Coktel Vision is a french company that made many video games. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Impressions Games was a computer game development studio founded by David Lester (currently of Firefly Studios), in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Papyrus Design Group, Inc. ... Berkeley Systems is a San Francisco Bay area software company cofounded in 1987 by Wes Boyd and Joan Blades. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 1991 Sierra started an online service called The Sierra Network. Pre-WWW, it was comparable to services like CompuServe or Prodigy except that its interface was completely graphical. Thematically, it was a cross between a kingdom and a theme park in which users could visit different "lands" to post on message boards, exchange emails and play games. It was renamed ImagiNation Network and sold in 1994 to AT&T, who sold it to AOL in 1996. 1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Categories: Computer and video games | Computer and video game stubs ... Graphic representation of the world wide web around Wikipedia The World Wide Web (WWW, or simply Web) is an information space in which the items of interest, referred to as resources, are identified by global identifiers called Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI). ... CompuServe, (CompuServe Information Services, or CIS for short), was the first major commercial online service in the US, dominating the field during the 1980s and remaining a major player through the mid-1990s when it was sidelined by the rise of GUI-based services such as America Online (AOL). ... Prodigy Communications Corporation was a dialup service (a sort of mega-BBS) for home computers in the United States before the advent of the Internet. ... A monarchy, (from the Greek monos, one, and archein, to rule) is a form of government that has a monarch as Head of State. ... Theme Park Theme Park is a simulation computer game designed by Bullfrog Productions, released in 1994, in which the player designs and operates an amusement park. ... A bulletin board system or BBS is a computer system running software that allows users to dial into the system over a phone line and, using a terminal program, perform functions such as downloading software and data, uploading data, playing games, reading news, and exchanging messages with other users. ... E-mail, or email, is short for electronic mail and is a method of composing, sending, and receiving messages over electronic communication systems. ... The main GUI interface for the ImagiNation Network shows the colorful art treatment meant to appeal to children. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... AT&T Inc. ... America Online, or AOL for short, is a U.S.-based online service provider and Internet service provider that is owned by Time Warner. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

In 1994, Sierra moved its headquarters to Bellevue, Washington to attract more talent. 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Location Location of Bellevue within King County, Washington, and King County within Washington. ...

In July 1996, the company was sold to CUC International; Ken Williams left Sierra one year later. In December 1997, CUC merged with HFS Incorporated to form Cendant Software. In April 1998, Cendant disclosed that CUC had falsified its books over the past decade, inflating its purported worth before the merger by over US$500 million. The president of CUC, Kirk Shelton, was subsequently convicted of 14 counts of fraud and related charges, sentenced to 10 years in prison, and fined US$3.27 billion; and the criminal trial of the CEO of CUC, Walter Forbes, is still underway as of October, 2005. Forbes had been on Sierra's board of directors and had suggested the CUC purchase in the first place. CUC International was originally named Comp-U-Card. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Cendant Corporation (NYSE: CD) is a New York-based provider of business and consumer services, primarily within the real estate and travel sectors. ... Cendant Corporation (NYSE: CD) is a New York-based provider of business and consumer services, primarily within the real estate and travel sectors. ... USD redirects here. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A board of directors, also called board of trustees, board of governors, board of managers, or board of curators, is a group of individuals who govern the affairs of a corporation. ...

Following disclosure of the fraud, Cendant's stock price dropped from $39 to $20, resulting in a loss of about $14 billion of its market capitalization in a single day.

After this shock, Sierra and Cendant's other game studios, including Blizzard Entertainment, were sold again to French publisher Havas, who in turn were acquired by French giant Vivendi. Blizzard Entertainment is a PC game developer and publisher. ... Vivendi was the name of a French company, which merged in 2000 with Canal+ television networks and the Canadian company Seagram, the owner of Universal Studios film company, to become Vivendi Universal. ...

In 1998, the company was reorganized into five distinct groups:

1. Sierra Attractions--this division would develop such series as "Hoyle", "You Don't Know Jack" and others.
2. Sierra Home-- This division would publish consumer friendly home improvement programs such as "Print Artist", "Hallmark Card Studios", "MasterCook series", etc.
3. Sierra Sports--This division would function to publish sports entertainment series developed by Papyrus Design Group and other studios.
4. Sierra Studios--This division developed the "big" games such as "King's Quest" and also would be used to publish Sierra's games. The division's main offices were in Bellevue and development groups at Impressions Software and PyroTechnix. It would also be the publisher of independent developers.
5. Dynamix, a Sierra Company-- The same company which was purchased in 1990 specialized in developing 3D combat simulation games such as "Red Baron", "Starsiege" and "Pro Pilot", flight simulator game series.

Sierra's location in Oakhurst was renamed Yosemite Entertainment in 1998. 1998(MCMXCVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...

On February 22, 1999, a decision within Sierra resulted in the shutdown of many Sierra development studios. Most shocking was the closing of Yosemite Entertainment. This day would later come to be known by Sierra fans as "Black Monday," or "Chainsaw Monday." The shutdown came with Sierra's announcement of a major reorganization of the company. Other development groups within Sierra such as PyroTechnix, Books That Work Inc., and Synergistic were shut down that fateful day. About 135 people were laid off because of these changes. February 22 is the 53rd day of every year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) is a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

Another reorganization of divisions within Sierra came in 1999, this time to "Core Games" (Sierra Studios), Sierra Sports (Sierra Attractions), and Casual Entertainment (Sierra Home). 105 more employees were laid off as a result. Around this time, Sierra also changed from being a major developer of computer games to being a major publisher of games (for independent companies). Sierra Entertainment was a computer game developer and publisher active from 1980 to 2004. ...

The company was renamed Sierra Entertainment in 2002. 2002 (MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In June 2004, Vivendi reorganized the Vivendi Universal games group, distributing Sierra's work to other units and finally shutting down Sierra's Bellevue location in August. The Sierra brand lives on in name only. Only the Leisure Suit Larry franchise survived. 2004 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December See also: June 2004 in sports Deaths in June • 28 Anthony Buckeridge • 26 Naomi Shemer • 26 Yash Johar • 22 Bob Bemer • 22 Thomas Gold • 22 Francisco Ortiz Franco • 16 Thanom Kittikachorn • 10 Ray Charles • 5 Ronald Reagan... Vivendi Universal (VU) (Euronext: EX, NYSE: V) is a French company active in media and communications with activities in music, television and film, publishing, telecommunications and the Internet. ... Leisure Suit Larry is the title character of a series of adult adventure games written by Al Lowe and published by Sierra On-Line from the 1980s to the present. ...

Trivia

• An independent group known as AGD Interactive have also remade and updated several of Sierra's classic adventure games from the 1980s and 1990s.

• In the late 1990s, many Sierra games had a rather serious bug. If one were to uninstall a game, the unistaller would delete an important DLL needed for Windows to work properly.

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Sierra's breakthroughs

• Mystery House: First text adventure to incorporate graphics.
• King's Quest I: First "3D" game
• King's Quest IV: Day/night cycle, first game to support stereo sound card.

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Companies under the Sierra umbrella

Fully-owned subsidiaries of Sierra

• Coktel Vision
• Dynamix (Closed)
• Impressions Games (Closed)
• Papyrus Design Group

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Developers whose games Sierra has published

• Breakaway Games
• Evryware
• Game Arts
• Nihon Falcom
• Relic Entertainment
• Stainless Steel Studios

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Sierra's games

Adventure games

• Mystery House (1980, produced in 1979, re-released by SierraVenture in 1982)
• Mission Asteroid (1980, re-released by SierraVenture, 1982)
• The Wizard and the Princess / Adventure in Serenia (1980, re-released by SierraVenture in 1982)
• Cranston Manor (1981)
• Ulysses and the Golden Fleece (1981, re-released by SierraVenture in 1982)
• Time Zone (1982, produced in 1981, re-released by SierraVenture in 1982)
• The Dark Crystal (1982)
• Gelfling Adventure (1984)
• Mickey's Space Adventure (1984)
• The Black Cauldron (1984, re-released in 1986)
• Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood (1984)
• Dragon's Keep (1983)
• Troll's Tale (1983)
• Gold Rush! (1988)
• Codename: Iceman (1989)
• The Adventures of Willy Beamish (1991)
• Heart of China (1991)
• Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist (1993)
• Betrayal at Krondor (1993)
• Slater & Charlie Go Camping (1993)
• Urban Runner (1995)
• Torin's Passage (1995)
• Rama (1996)
• Lighthouse: The Dark Being (1996)
• Betrayal in Antara (1997)

• King's Quest series
  1. King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown (1984, produced in 1983, re-released in 1987, improved version 1989)
  2. King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne (1985)
  3. King's Quest III: To Heir Is Human (1986)
  4. King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella (1988)
  5. King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder! (1990, CD-ROM version 1991)
  6. King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow (1992, CD-ROM version 1993)
  7. King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride (1994)
  8. King's Quest VIII: The Mask of Eternity (1998)

• Space Quest series
  1. Space Quest I: The Sarien Encounter (1986, improved version 1990)
  2. Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge (1987)
  3. Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon (1989)
  4. Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers (1991)
  5. Space Quest V: Roger Wilco in the Next Mutation (1993)
  6. Space Quest VI: The Spinal Frontier (1995)

• Leisure Suit Larry series
  1. Softporn Adventure (1981, precursor to Leisure Suit Larry)
  2. Leisure Suit Larry In the Land of the Lounge Lizards / Leisure Suit Larry 1 (1987, improved version in 1991)
  3. Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (In Several Wrong Places) / Leisure Suit Larry 2 (1988)
  4. Leisure Suit Larry 3: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals (1989)
  5. Leisure Suit Larry 4 (unwritten, unreleased - number skipped as a gag)
  6. Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work (1991)
  7. Laffer Utilities (1992)
  8. Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out! (1993)
  9. Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail (1995)
  10. Leisure Suit Larry's Casino (1998) (a non-adventure Vegas-style spinoff game)
  11. Leisure Suit Larry 8: Lust in Space (unreleased)
  12. Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude (2004), not by Al Lowe

• Police Quest series
  1. Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel (1987, improved version in 1991)
  2. Police Quest II: The Vengeance (1988)
  3. Police Quest III: The Kindred (1990)
  4. Police Quest IV: Open Season (1993)

• Manhunter series
  1. Manhunter: New York (1988)
  2. Manhunter 2: San Francisco (1989)

• Laura Bow series
  1. The Colonel's Bequest (1989)
  2. Laura Bow II: The Dagger of Amon Ra (1991)

• Conquests series
  1. Conquests of Camelot: King Arthur, The Search for the Grail (1989)
  2. Conquests of the Longbow: The Adventures of Robin Hood (1992)

• Quest for Glory series (formerly Hero's Quest)
  1. Quest for Glory I (a.k.a. Hero's Quest I): So You Want to be a Hero (1989, enhanced version in 1991)
  2. Quest for Glory II (a.k.a. Hero's Quest II): Trial by Fire (1990)
  3. Quest for Glory III: Wages of War (1992)
  4. Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness (1994)
  5. Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire (1998)

• EcoQuest series
  1. EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus (1991)
  2. EcoQuest 2: Lost Secret of the Rainforest (1993)

• Gabriel Knight series
  1. Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers (1993)
  2. Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within (1995)
  3. Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned (1999)

• Phantasmagoria series
  1. Phantasmagoria (1995)
  2. Phantasmagoria II: A Puzzle of Flesh (1996)

• Shivers series
  1. Shivers (1996)
  2. Shivers II: Harvest of Souls (1997)

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Other notable games

• Sammy Lightfoot (1983)
• Donald Duck's Playground (1984)
• Jones in the Fast Lane (1991)
• Quarky & Quaysoo's Turbo Science (1992)
• The Realm Online
• Sierra Championship Boxing
• Ultima II: Revenge of the Enchantress
• No One Lives Forever (series)
• Red Baron (developed by Dynamix)
• Aces of the Pacific
• SWAT (series)
• NASCAR Racing
• Tribes: Aerial Assault
• Metal Arms: Glitch in the System
• Homeworld and Homeworld 2
• Half-Life and Half-Life 2

• 3-D Ultra Pinball series
  1. 3-D Ultra Pinball (1996)
  2. 3-D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night (1996)
  3. 3-D Ultra Pinball: The Lost Continent (1998)
  4. 3-D Ultra Pinball: Thrill Ride (2000)

• Dr. Brain series
  1. Castle of Dr. Brain (1991)
  2. Island of Dr. Brain (1992)
  3. The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain (1995)
  4. The Time Warp of Dr. Brain (1996)
  5. Dr. Brain Thinking Games: Puzzle Madness (1998)

• The Incredible Machine series (developed by Dynamix)
  1. The Incredible Machine (1992)
  2. The Even More Incredible Machine (1993)
  3. Sid & Al's Incredible Toons (1993)
  4. The Incredible Machine 2 (1994)
  5. The Incredible Toon Machine (1994)
  6. The Incredible Machine 3.0 (1995)
  7. Return of the Incredible Machine: Contraptions (2000)
  8. The Incredible Machine: Even More Contraptions (2001)

• City Building Series
  1. Caesar (1993)
  2. Caesar II (1995)
  3. Caesar III (1998)
  4. Pharaoh (1999) and Cleopatra: Queen Of The Nile (2000)
  5. Zeus: Master of Olympus (2001) and Poseidon: Master of Atlantis (2002)
  6. Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom (2003)

• Football Pro series
• Baseball Pro series
• Outpost series
  1. Outpost (1994)
  2. Outpost 2: Divided Destiny (1997)

• Hoyle's series
  1. Hoyle's Official Book of Games: Volume 1 (1989)
  2. Hoyle's Official Book of Games: Volume 2 (1990)
  3. Hoyle's Official Book of Games: Volume 3 (1991)
  4. Hoyle Casino
  5. Hoyle Board Games
  6. Hoyle Card Games
  7. Hoyle Kids Games
  8. Hoyle Puzzle Games
  9. Hoyle Table Games
  10. Hoyle Solitaire (1996)
  11. Hoyle Majestic Chess (2003)
  12. Hoyle Backgammon and Cribbage (1999)
  13. Hoyle Casino Empire (2002)

• Field & Stream series
  1. Field & Stream: Trophy Bass 3D
  2. Field & Stream: Trophy Bass 4
  3. Field & Stream: Trophy Buck 'n Bass 2
  4. Field & Stream: Trophy Hunting 4
  5. Field & Stream: Trophy Hunting 5

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References

• Interview with Ken Williams, Gamasutra, October 2005

External links

• Sierra's official website
• Vivendi Universal Games - official site of the current owners of Sierra
• Al Lowe's Humor Site - official website of Al Lowe, the creator of Leisure Suit Larry
• Evryware - official site of Evryware, the design team which created the Manhunter series and Sierra Championship Boxing
• AGD Interactive - a group dedicated to remaking and updating Sierra's classic Adventure Games from the 80's and 90's
• Sierra Gamers - fan site maintained by Ken Williams, founder of Sierra
• Vintage Sierra - fan site
• Sierra Planet - fan site, containing archives of various Sierra-related websites
• Online Sierra - fan site
• Quest Studios - fan site, mainly containing MIDI music (and some MP3/OGG soundtracks too) recorded from Sierra games, as well as other Sierra-related materials
• Sierra Music Central - fan site, containing MP3/OGG soundtracks recorded from Sierra games
• Sierra Classics - abandonware site containing many Sierra games (as of 12.10.05 this site seems to be out of action: download links appear to be broken and email appears not to exist any more)
• Sierra Entertainment - analysis and critique.
• Sierra Game Patches - patches for the classic games so that they work on modern operating systems. Use with DOSBox for best results.