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''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:
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* [[The Adventures of Willy Beamish]]
* Birthright
* [[The Black Cauldron (Videovideo Gamegame)|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 QuestEcoQuest]]
* [[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: IcemanICEMAN]]
* [[The Incredible Machine]]
* [[King's Quest]]: The series that spawned other Quest games and launched Sierra into the mainstream
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** SWAT
* [[Quest for Glory]]
* [[Red Baron (Videovideo Gamegame)|Red Baron]] (developed by Dynamix, published by Sierra)
* [[Space Quest]]
* [[Spyro]]
* [[TorinsTorin's Passage]]
* [[Turbo Science]]
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* [[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]]
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[[color:white:<ref>[[Rule of Three|Sierra Sierra Sierra ]] ''[[Room Full of Crazy|Sierra Sierra]]'' [[Madness Mantra|SIERRA]] [[This Is Sparta|SIERRA]] '''[[Large Ham|SIERRA]] [[Running Gag|SIERRA]] ''[[Ax Crazy|ARARARRRGGGH]][[Discworld (Literature)/Maskerade|!!!!!]]'''''--[[Unwinnable|the ''Unwinnable'' page, formerly]]</ref>
 
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