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'''Sierra Entertainment, Inc.''', more popularly known under their former name '''Sierra On-Line''', was an early game developer. The company is credited with various milestones in video game history, such as creating the very first "graphic adventure game" (''[[Mystery House]]'', essentially [[Interactive Fiction]] with extremely crude lineart drawings), some of the earliest animated games (''[[King's Quest]]''), and implementing beyond PC-Speaker sound into a game (''[[King's Quest IV]]: The Perils of Rosella''). Sierra also was responsible for introducing the Japanese PC games ''[[Thexder]]'', ''Fire Hawk'', ''Silpheed'', ''[[Zeliard]]'' and ''Sorcerian'' to Western audiences. Sierra's milk and honey days were the mid-80s to the mid-90s: this was the era of [[Adventure Game|adventure gaming]], when games focused more on testing the player's ingenuity than their reflexes.
Sierra's works are gaming classics and Sierra is now commonly associated with three things:
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Compare [[LucasArts]], their main rival, whose games were decidedly more forgiving.
=== Notable Games and Series include: ===▼
* Aces series (''Aces Over Europe'', ''Aces of the Pacific'', ''Aces of the Deep''; developed by Dynamix, published by Sierra)
* [[The Adventures of Willy Beamish]]
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* [[Mystery House]]
* [[Phantasmagoria]]
* [[Pharaoh]] and Cleopatra, a game where you create Egyptian cities.
* [[Pepper's Adventures in Time]]
* [[Police Quest]]
** SWAT
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* [[Torin's Passage]]
* [[Turbo Science]]
* [[World in Conflict]] (developed by [[Massive Entertainment]], published by Sierra and [[Ubisoft]])
=== Tropes associated with Sierra's work: ===▼
* [[Action Bar]]
* [[Adventure Game]]
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* [[You Can't Get Ye Flask]]
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