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Mystery House
Mystery House is an adventure game released in 1980 by Roberta and Ken Williams for the Apple II. The game is remembered as one of the first adventure games to feature computer graphics and the first game produced by On-Line Systems, the company...
Initial release date:
- 1980
The Wizard and the Princess
Wizard and the Princess (1980), also known as Adventure in Serenia (1982), is a 1980s computer game by On-Line Systems for the Apple II, Apple II Plus, and Commodore 64. It is the second title released in On-Line Systems' "Hi-Res Adventure" series...
Initial release date:
- 1980
The Dark Crystal
The Dark Crystal is a graphic adventure computer game based on Jim Henson's fantasy film, The Dark Crystal. The game was designed by Roberta Williams and published under the SierraVenture line in 1983 as Hi-Res Adventure #6: The Dark Crystal. It was...
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- 1982
King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown
King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown VGA by AGD Interactive (formerly Tierra) is an unofficial 2001/2009 direct remake of the 1990 King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown SCI remake. It includes improved VGA graphics, sound, and full voice over cast. It...
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- May 10, 1984
King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne
King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne is the second installment in the King's Quest series created by Sierra Entertainment (formerly Sierra On-Line). It uses the same AGI game engine as King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown and features King Graham as...
Initial release date:
- 1985
The Black Cauldron
The Black Cauldron is an adventure game designed by Al Lowe of Sierra On-Line and released in 1986. The game is based on the Disney film The Black Cauldron, which was itself based on the Chronicles of Prydain novel of the same name by Lloyd...
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- 1986
Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter
Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter was a video game released in October of 1986 and quickly became a hit, selling in excess of 100,000 copies (sales are believed to be around 200,000 to date, not including the many compilations it has been included...
Initial release date:
- 1986
King's Quest III: To Heir Is Human
King's Quest III: To Heir Is Human is the third installment in the King's Quest series of computer games produced by Sierra On-Line. It was the first game in the series not to feature King Graham as the player character.
The game was released for...
Initial release date:
- Oct 1, 1986
Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards
Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards is the alliterative title to an adventure computer game first released in 1987, the first part of the Leisure Suit Larry series. It was a completely graphical adventure game with 16 color EGA...
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- 1987
Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge
Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge was released on November 14, 1987 and it was the sequel to Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter; this game once again used Sierra's AGI.
A comic is included in the manual to explain to the player what events have...
Initial release date:
- 1987
Police Quest I: In Pursuit of the Death Angel
Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel is an adventure game produced by Jim Walls for Sierra On-Line, and originally released in 1987 built on their AGI. It was remade in 1992 using 256 color VGA graphics and the SCI engine.
It is the first...
Initial release date:
- 1987
Manhunter: New York
Manhunter: New York is a post-apocalyptic adventure game designed by Barry Murry, Dave Murry and Dee Dee Murry of Evryware and published in 1988 by Sierra On-Line. A sequel, Manhunter 2: San Francisco was released the next year in 1989
It is set in...
Initial release date:
- 1988
Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love
Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places) is the second game in the Leisure Suit Larry series of graphical adventure games by Sierra On Line, released in 1988. Like its predecessor, it was developed for multiple platforms,...
Initial release date:
- 1988
Police Quest II: The Vengeance
Police Quest II: The Vengeance is an adventure game produced by Jim Walls for Sierra On-Line, and released in 1988. It is the sequel to Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel and is part of the Police Quest series.
A typed command driver...
Initial release date:
- 1988
King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella
King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella, released in 1988, was the first major graphical computer adventure game with a female protagonist. The player takes on the role of Princess Rosella, daughter of King Graham of Daventry (KQI and KQII) and the...
Initial release date:
- Aug 16, 1988
The Colonel's Bequest
The Colonel's Bequest is a computer game published by Sierra On-Line in 1989. This graphic adventure game was the first of the short-lived Laura Bow Mysteries series created by Roberta Williams and used many elements from the original Mystery House....
Initial release date:
- 1989
Codename: ICEMAN
Codename: ICEMAN is a graphical adventure game made with the SCI engine and published by the American computer game company Sierra On-Line in 1989. The lead designer was Jim Walls, who also created several Police Quest games. Mention of a "Codename:...
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- 1989
Leisure Suit Larry 3: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals
Leisure Suit Larry III: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals is the third entry in the Leisure Suit Larry series of graphical adventure games published by Sierra Entertainment. It was developed for multiple platforms including DOS,...
Initial release date:
- 1989
Quest for Glory I: So You Want To Be A Hero
Hero's Quest: So You Want to Be a Hero (later re-released as Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero because of trademark issues involving the HeroQuest boardgame) is an adventure game/role-playing game hybrid, designed by Lori Ann Cole and...
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Initial release date:
- 1989
Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon
Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon, the third game in Sierra Entertainment's Space Quest series, was released on March 24, 1989, and was developed using an early version of Sierra's SCI engine.
Roger Wilco's escape pod from the end of SQ2 is...
Initial release date:
- 1989
Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail
Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail is a graphic adventure game released in 1989 by Sierra. It was the first game in the Conquests series designed by Christy Marx and her husband Peter Ledger. The only other game in the series was 1992's...
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Initial release date:
- 1990
Manhunter 2: San Francisco
Manhunter 2: San Francisco is a post-apocalyptic adventure game designed by Barry Murry, Dave Murry and Dee Dee Murry of Evryware and published in 1989 by Sierra On-Line. It is the sequel to Manhunter: New York, developed by the same authors. As of...
Initial release date:
- 1990
Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire
Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire is the second video game in Sierra's Quest for Glory series, and the sequel to Hero's Quest: So You Want to Be a Hero (following the renaming of the series over trademark issues).
The game follows the path of its...
Initial release date:
- Nov 1990
King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder!
King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder! is a 1990 adventure game released by Sierra. Released in November 1990, it featured a significant improvement in graphics (achieved through the introduction of VGA into the series). It was also the...
Initial release date:
- Nov 9, 1990
Mixed-Up Fairy Tales
Mixed-Up Fairy Tales was a graphic adventure game released by Sierra On-Line in 1991. It was made for younger players than those of Sierra's King's Quest or Space Quest series. In it, the player controls a child - selected from one of six and named...
Initial release date:
- 1991
Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers
Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and The Time Rippers was released on floppy disks on March 4, 1991, and released on CD-ROM in December 1992 with full speech support and featuring Laugh-In announcer Gary Owens as the voice of the narrator. It featured...
Initial release date:
- 1991
Police Quest III: The Kindred
Police Quest III: The Kindred is an adventure game produced by Jim Walls for Sierra On-Line, and released in 1991. It is the second sequel to Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel and is part of the Police Quest series.
Sierra's standard point...
Initial release date:
- 1991
Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work
Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work is the fourth entry in the Leisure Suit Larry series of graphical adventure games published by Sierra Entertainment. It is the first title in the series available for play on...
Initial release date:
- Sep 11, 1991
Quest for Glory III: Wages of War
Quest for Glory III: Wages of War is a hybrid adventure/role-playing video game released in 1992 for MS-DOS PC and Apple Macintosh. It is the sequel to Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire.
Quest for Glory II hinted that Ad Avis would return in this...
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Initial release date:
- 1992
The Dagger of Amon Ra
Roberta Williams' Laura Bow in: The Dagger of Amon Ra (usually just called The Dagger of Amon Ra or Laura Bow II) is a computer game published by Sierra On-Line in 1992. The game is the second and final installment in the Laura Bow Mysteries line of...
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- 1992
King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow is the sixth installment in the King's Quest series of adventure games produced by Sierra Entertainment. Written by Roberta Williams and Jane Jensen, KQVI is widely recognized as the high point in the...
Initial release date:
- Sep 30, 1992
Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out!
Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out! is the fifth entry in the Leisure Suit Larry series of graphical adventure games published by Sierra Entertainment. Originally developed for DOS, a remake was produced in CD-ROM format a year after its...
Initial release date:
- 1993
Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness
Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness is an adventure game/role-playing video game hybrid. It is the fourth installment of the Quest for Glory computer game series by Sierra Entertainment.
Initially, the game was released in March 1993 on nine 3.5"...
Initial release date:
- 1993
Pepper's Adventures in Time
Pepper's Adventures in Time is an educational game/adventure game released in 1993 by Sierra On-Line. The project was based on a concept by Sierra VP of Development/Creative Director, Bill Davis, who also designed the game's main characters. The...
Initial release date:
- 1993
Police Quest IV: Open Season
Daryl F. Gates' Police Quest: Open Season is the fourth installment of Sierra Entertainment's popular Police Quest computer game series. Released in 1993, it was created by retired Police Chief Daryl F. Gates, who was the Chief of the Los Angeles...
Initial release date:
- 1993
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers (also known as Gabriel Knight 1 or GK1) is a 1993 point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line, Inc. (the now defunct Sierra Entertainment). It is the first game of the Gabriel Knight...
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- 1993
King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride
King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride is an adventure game released in 1994 by Sierra On-Line. It featured high-resolution graphics in a style reminiscent of Disney animated films. It is also the only King's Quest game with multiple protagonists,...
Initial release date:
- Nov 23, 1994
Torin's Passage
Torin's Passage is a graphic adventure game developed and released by Sierra On-Line, designed by Al Lowe. The game holds the distinction of being a family friendly game by Lowe, designer of the adult-oriented Leisure Suit Larry series of games.
The...
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Initial release date:
- 1995
Space Quest 6: The Spinal Frontier
Space Quest 6: Roger Wilco in The Spinal Frontier is the 6th computer game in Sierra's Space Quest series, released in 1995.
Space Quest 6: Roger Wilco in The Spinal Frontier ran on the last version of the SCI engine, SCI3. This allowed it to use...
Initial release date:
- 1995
The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery
The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery (also known as Gabriel Knight 2 or GK2) is an interactive movie point-and-click adventure game released by Sierra On-Line in 1995. Unlike the first Gabriel Knight game, released in 1993, The Beast Within...
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Initial release date:
- 1995
Shivers
Shivers is a single-player horror-themed PC adventure game, released on CD-ROM by Sierra On-line on September 30, 1995.
The Player steps into the shoes of a teenager who is dared by his friends to spend the night in the grounds of a haunted museum -...
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Initial release date:
- Sep 30, 1995
Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail!
Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail! is a video game, part of the Leisure Suit Larry series. It was the last LSL game written by series creator Al Lowe, and the last (to date) to feature original protagonist Larry Laffer as the main character.
Despite...
Initial release date:
- 1996
Phantasmagoria
Phantasmagoria is an interactive movie point-and-click adventure game created by Sierra On-line for the PC, and later for the Sega Saturn in Japan. The game was released in 1995 and was followed by a sequel, Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh in 1996...
Initial release date:
- 1996
RAMA
Rama is a first-person adventure game developed and published by Sierra Entertainment in 1996. The game is based on Arthur C. Clarke's books Rendezvous with Rama and Rama II and supports both MS-DOS and Windows 95. It is the second Rama game to be...
Initial release date:
- 1996
Lighthouse: The Dark Being
Lighthouse: The Dark Being is an adventure game developed and released by Sierra On-Line.
The game is a first person adventure with a point and click interface, similar to Myst.
The Player starts the game in their new cottage on the Oregon coast....
Initial release date:
- 1996
Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire
Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire is the fifth and final game in the Quest for Glory computer game series by Sierra Entertainment. Unlike the first four games, Dragon Fire is an action role-playing game with few elements of Adventure.
Erasmus...
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Initial release date:
- 1998
King's Quest: Mask of Eternity
King's Quest: Mask of Eternity (also known as King's Quest VIII or King's Quest 8: Mask of Eternity) is a "3D Adventure" written and designed by Roberta Williams and released in 1998 by Sierra Studios, is the eighth, and at present remains the final...
Initial release date:
- Dec 1998
Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned is the third and final game in the Gabriel Knight series of point-and-click adventure games by Sierra Online. The game was designed by Jane Jensen, Gabriel Knight's creator. In a departure...
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Initial release date:
- 1999
