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Sierra Entertainment

Sierra Entertainment, Inc. (formerly Sierra On-Line) was an American video game developer and publisher founded in 1979 as On-Line Systems by Ken and Roberta Williams. Based in Los Angeles, California, the company was last owned by Activision, a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard. Sierra is best...
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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...

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  • Nov 1990

Quest for Glory III: Wages of War

Quest for Glory III: Wages of War is a hybrid adventure/role-playing game released in 1992 for the 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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  • 1992

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 featured more fleshed-out, cartoon style graphics and full voice acting, Love for Sail! was the sixth installment in the LSL series (due to the fourth game...

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  • 1996

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...

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  • 1988

The Dagger of Amon Ra

Roberta Williams' Laura Bow in: The Dagger of Amon Ra (usually just called The Dagger of Amon Ra) 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 adventure games...

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  • 1992

Outpost

Outpost is a video game developed and published by Sierra On-Line. In general terms the game is a science-fiction version of SimCity, taking place on a distant planet. The game was noteworthy for having a hard science fiction approach, with one of...

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  • 1994

Jones in the Fast Lane

Jones in the Fast Lane is a life simulation game developed and published by Sierra Entertainment in 1991. The objective of the game is to attain as much money, happiness, status and education as necessary to win. The exact amounts needed are set up...

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  • 1990

ImagiNation Network

The ImagiNation Network (INN), aka The Sierra Network (TSN), was the first online multiplayer gaming system. Developed by Sierra On-Line in 1989, and first available to the public in 1991, the ImagiNation Network was a unique online gaming network...

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  • 1991

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...

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  • 1989

The Shadow of Yserbius

'The Shadow of Yserbius', originally published by Sierra On-Line, was the first of three graphical MUDs for the online community. Opening to rave reviews, The Shadow of Yserbius, according to industry critics, set the standard by which all future...

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  • 1992

Codename: ICEMAN

Codename: ICEMAN is a graphical adventure game made with the SCI engine and published by Sierra in 1989. The lead designer was Jim Walls, who also created the Police Quest games. Iceman was meant to be the first part of a Codename series, but...

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  • 1989

Conquests of Camelot

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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  • 1990

Conquests of the Longbow

Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood is a graphic adventure game designed by Christy Marx and published by Sierra On-Line in 1992. It is considered the second (and last) part of the Conquests series, which began with Conquests of...

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  • 1991

SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle

SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle (also known as SWAT3 or SWAT3:CQB) is a tactical squad-based first-person shooter, developed by Sierra Northwest and published by parent Sierra Entertainment for the PC on November 23, 1999. SWAT3 remains the biggest...

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  • Nov 23, 1999

The Realm Online

The Realm Online, originally known simply as The Realm, was the first internet MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing games) for playable public release and the second to release a full retail game edition. 'The Realm Online', often...

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  • Dec 31, 1996

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

Ultima: Escape from Mt. Drash

Ultima: Escape from Mt. Drash is a computer game for Commodore VIC-20 home computer. In the game, creatures called "garrintrots" have imprisoned the player in Mt. Drash, and the player's task is to escape the dungeons. The game itself is a very...

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  • 1983

Mystery House

Mystery House is an adventure computer 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...

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  • 1980

King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown

King's Quest: Quest for the Crown is a 1984 computer game, originally published for the IBM PCjr simply as King's Quest. The story and the general design of the game was developed by Roberta Williams. Williams was the chief designer of all official...

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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...

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  • 1985

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...

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  • Oct 1, 1986

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...

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  • Aug 16, 1988

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...

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  • Nov 9, 1990

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...

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  • Sep 30, 1992

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,...

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  • Nov 23, 1994

Phantasmagoria

Phantasmagoria is a CD-ROM horror-themed video game created by Sierra On-line for the DOS and Windows platforms, 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...

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  • 1996

Lords of the Realm III

Lords of the Realm III is a real-time strategy computer game published on March 17, 2004 by Sierra Entertainment. It is the latest game in the Lords of the Realm series, and the last game made by Impressions Games. While the game did receive mainly...

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  • 2004

King's Quest: Mask of Eternity

King's Quest: Mask of Eternity, written and designed by Roberta Williams and released in 1998 by Sierra Studios, is the eighth, and currently the final, official computer game in the famous King's Quest series. It is the only game in the series...

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  • Dec 1998

EcoQuest

EcoQuest is a series of two educational adventure games developed by Sierra Entertainment. The original concept was developed by Sierra VP of Creative Development, Bill Davis. The authors of the series game design are Jane Jensen and Gano Haine, but...

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Betrayal in Antara

Betrayal in Antara is a Windows 3.1 computer role-playing game developed and published by Sierra On-Line in 1997, after the success of their previous RPG, Betrayal at Krondor. Sierra had lost the rights to produce another game based on Raymond Feist...

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  • Jul 31, 1997

DuckTales: The Quest for Gold

Duck Tales: The Quest for Gold is a platform game developed by Incredible Technologies for the Amiga, Apple II, Commodore 64 and DOS. It was released in 1990 and published by Walt Disney Computer Software. The game bears little resemblance to the...

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  • 1990

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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  • Sep 30, 1995

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 DOS and Windows 95. It is the second Rama game to be...

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  • 1996

Hoyle's Official Book of Games: Volume 1

Hoyle's Official Book of Games is a series of three games produced by Sierra Entertainment. Volume 1, released in 1989, featured multi-player card games. Volume 2, released in 1990, featured 28 varieties of Solitaire. Volume 3, released in 1992,...

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  • 1989

Hoyle's Official Book of Games: Volume 2

Hoyle' Official Book of Games: Volume 2 is the next volume in the Hoyle card games simulator series by Sierra Entertainment. This time, the pack offered 28 games, as opposed to the first volume's six. The other main difference between the two was...

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  • 1990

Hoyle's Official Book of Games: Volume 3

Hoyle's Official Book of Games: Volume 3 was the third volume in Sierra On-Line's series of computer games based on the officially licensed Hoyle rules and trademark. Unlike the two previous game, this one was made with Sierra's new improved VGA...

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  • 1992

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. Like its predecessor, it was developed for multiple platforms, including DOS,...

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  • 1988

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,...

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  • 1989

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...

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  • Sep 11, 1991

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...

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  • 1993

Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards

Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards is a computer adventure game 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 graphics. It utilizes the...

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  • 1987

Donald Duck's Playground

Donald Duck's Playground is a computer game for the Commodore 64, based on the Walt Disney cartoon and comic book character Donald Duck. It was also ported to the IBM PCjr, Apple II, Atari ST and Amiga. It was designed by Al Lowe, who went on to...

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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...

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  • 1991

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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  • 1995

Shivers 2

Shivers II: Harvest of Souls is a horror-themed point-and-click PC adventure game, released in 1997 by Sierra On-Line. The game was innovative in that there was a series of rock music videos by the fictional band Trip Cyclone, which provided the...

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  • 1997

Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire

Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire is the fifth game in the Quest for Glory computer game series by Sierra Entertainment. Erasmus introduces the Hero to the Greece-like kingdom of Silmaria, whose king was recently murdered. The Rites of Rulership are...

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  • 1998

Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness

Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness is an adventure game/role-playing 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 five 3.5"...

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  • 1993

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

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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  • 1989

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...

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  • 1993

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....

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  • 1996

Oil's Well

Oil's Well is a computer game distributed by Sierra On-Line in 1983, and again in 1990. The game was programmed by Thomas J. Mitchell. The player attempts to manage an oil drilling operation and collect oil, while evading subterranean creatures. The...

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  • 1983

Apple Cider Spider

Apple Cider Spider is a computer game for the Commodore 64. Apple Cider Spider is a platform game where the player takes the role of a spider in an apple cider factory. The object of the game is to simply progress through three screens to reach the...

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  • 1983

Space Quest I: The Sarien Encounter

Space Quest or more formally 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...

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  • 1986

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...

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  • 1991

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...

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  • 1987

Space Quest 6: The Spinal Frontier

Space Quest 6: The Spinal Frontier is the 6th computer game in Sierra's Space Quest series, released in 1995. Space Quest 6: The Spinal Frontier ran on the last version of the SCI engine, SCI3. This allowed it to use Super VGA graphics with 256...

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  • 1995

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...

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  • 1989

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 adventure games by Sierra Online. The game was designed by Jane Jensen, Gabriel Knight's creator. In a departure from the previous...

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  • 1999

Castle of Dr. Brain

Castle of Dr. Brain is a video game of the educational genre released in 1991 by Sierra Online. The object of the game is to successfully navigate the puzzles Dr. Brain has set up in order to become the mad scientist's assistant (a position Dr....

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  • 1991
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