Sierra Entertainment
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Sierra Entertainment, Inc. is an American computer game developer and publisher headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The company is currently a subsidiary of Vivendi Games (a subsidiary of Vivendi SA). Sierra itself owns four in-house development studios: High Moon Studios, Massive Entertainment, Radical Entertainment and Swordfish Studios.
The history of Sierra Entertainment started back in 1979 in the California home of Ken and Roberta Williams.
At the time, Ken was working as a contract programmer for IBM, developing an income tax program on a mainframe computer 3,000 miles away from L.A. One night he found a program labeled Adventure on the mainframe. Curious of what it could be, he downloaded it and it turned out to be a copy of Colossal Caves. It was the first true "interactive fiction" computer game and Ken became fascinated with it.
Roberta was not very interested in computers at the time, but Ken showed her the game on a terminal he had brought home from work....
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