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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 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. |
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Sierra's works are gaming classics and Sierra is now commonly associated with three things: |
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. |
Compare [[LucasArts]], their main rival, whose games were decidedly more forgiving. |
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* Aces series (''Aces Over Europe'', ''Aces of the Pacific'', ''Aces of the Deep''; developed by Dynamix, published by Sierra) |
* Aces series (''Aces Over Europe'', ''Aces of the Pacific'', ''Aces of the Deep''; developed by Dynamix, published by Sierra) |
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* [[The Adventures of Willy Beamish]] |
* [[The Adventures of Willy Beamish]] |
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* [[Torin's Passage]] |
* [[Torin's Passage]] |
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* [[Turbo Science]] |
* [[Turbo Science]] |
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* [[Action Bar]] |
* [[Action Bar]] |
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* [[Adventure Game]] |
* [[Adventure Game]] |
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* [[You Can't Get Ye Flask]] |
* [[You Can't Get Ye Flask]] |
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