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Line 1: {{~~trope~~creator}} ~~{{quote box\|~~[[File:sierra-logo-225px.jpg\|frame]]}} ''Save early, save often, and don't overwrite saves.'' '''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 (Video Game)\|~~Thexder]]'', ''Fire Hawk'', ''Silpheed'', ''[[~~Zeliard (Video Game)\|~~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: * [[Adventure Game\|Adventure Games]], which made up the majority of its line Line 19: Sierra fizzled out in the late 90s, with the decline of Adventure gaming. It was bought by Vivendi Universal, who were cool enough to let amateur game makers create fan games of their series until 2009, when it was transferred to [[Activision]]. There are currently no plans to restart the adventure gaming department. Sierra, you will be missed. Compare [[~~Lucas Arts~~LucasArts]], their main rival, whose games were decidedly more forgiving. ~~----~~ === Notable Games and Series include: ===▼ ▲~~===~~ {{examples\|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]] * Birthright * [[The Black Cauldron (~~Video~~video ~~Game~~game)\|The Black Cauldron]]: Yes, based on [[Disney\|the movie]]. * [[Caesar]] and [[Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom\|Emperor]] (developed by [[Impressions Games]]) * [[Conquests of Camelot]] * [[Conquests of the Longbow]] * [[Doctor Brain]] * [[~~Eco Quest~~EcoQuest]] * [[~~Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist\|~~Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist]] * [[~~Gabriel Knight (Video Game)\|~~Gabriel Knight]] * [[Gold Rush ~~(Video Game)~~!\|Gold Rush]] * [[Half Life]] * [[~~Codename Iceman\|~~Codename: ~~Iceman~~ICEMAN]] * [[The Incredible Machine]] * [[King's Quest]]: The series that spawned other Quest games and launched Sierra into the mainstream Line 45 ⟶ 44: * [[Mystery House]] * [[Phantasmagoria]] * [[Pharaoh]] and Cleopatra, a game where you create Egyptian cities. * [[Pepper's Adventures in Time]] * [[Police Quest]] ** SWAT * [[Quest for Glory]] * [[Red Baron (~~Video~~video ~~Game~~game)\|Red Baron]] (developed by Dynamix, published by Sierra) * [[Space Quest]] * [[Spyro]] * [[~~Torins~~Torin's Passage]] * [[Turbo Science]] * [[World in Conflict]] (developed by [[Massive Entertainment]], published by Sierra and [[Ubisoft]]) ~~----~~ === Tropes associated with Sierra's work: ===▼ ▲~~===~~ {{creatortropes\|Tropes associated with Sierra's work: ~~===~~}} * [[Action Bar]] * [[Adventure Game]] Line 86: * [[Trial and Error Gameplay]]: In some circles, this is actually known as ''"Curse You Sierra."'' * [[Unwinnable]]: So bad that Sierra has its own section in ''both of the tropes'': [[Unwinnable Byby Design]] [[Unwinnable By Mistake]] * [[You Can't Get Ye Flask]] ---- ~~[[color:white:<ref>~~{{quote\|[[Rule of Three\|Sierra Sierra Sierra ]] ''[[Room Full of Crazy\|Sierra Sierra]]'' [[Madness Mantra\|SIERRA]] [[~~This~~Punctuated! IsFor! ~~Sparta~~Emphasis!\|SIERRA]] '''[[Large Ham\|SIERRA]] [[Running Gag\|SIERRA]] ''[[Ax Crazy\|ARARARRRGGGH]][[~~Discworld (Literature)/~~Maskerade\|!!!!!]]'''''--\|[[Unwinnable\|~~the~~The ''Unwinnable'' page, formerly]]~~</ref>~~}} {{reflist}} [[Category:~~Sierra~~{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ [[Category:Video Game Companies]] ▲[[Category:Sierra]] ~~[[Category:Trope]]~~