Sierra Entertainment: Difference between revisions

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.

* [[Adventure Game|Adventure Games]], which made up the majority of its line

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.

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=== Notable Games and Series include: ===

* Birthright

* [[The Black Cauldron (video game)|The Black Cauldron]]: Yes, based on [[Disney|the movie]].

* [[Conquests of Camelot]]

* [[Conquests of the Longbow]]

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