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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 a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard. Sierra is best known today for...
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Diablo II
Diablo II is a sequel to the game Diablo, a dark fantasy-themed action role-playing game in a hack and slash and "dungeon roaming" style. It was released for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS in 2000 by Blizzard Entertainment, and was developed by...
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Diablo II: Lord of Destruction
Diablo II: Lord of Destruction (commonly abbreviated LoD) is an expansion pack for the hack and slash action role-playing game Diablo II. Unlike the original Diablo's expansion pack, Diablo: Hellfire, it is an official expansion designed by Blizzard...
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- Jun 29, 2001
StarCraft
StarCraft is a military science fiction real-time strategy video game developed by Blizzard Entertainment. The first game of the StarCraft series was released for Microsoft Windows on 31 March 1998. With more than 11 million copies sold worldwide as...
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Half-Life
Half-Life is a science fiction first-person shooter video game developed by Valve Software and the company's debut product. First released by Sierra Studios on November 19, 1998, the game was also released for the PlayStation 2 on November 14, 2001....
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- Nov 19, 1998
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (War3 or WC3 or RoC) is a real-time strategy computer game released by Blizzard Entertainment on July 3, 2002 (US). It is the second sequel to Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, and it is the third game set in the Warcraft...
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Grand Prix Legends
Grand Prix Legends (nicknamed GPL) is a computer racing simulator developed by Papyrus Design Group and published in 1998 by Sierra Entertainment. It simulates the 1967 Formula One season and is considered by many people who play with it one of the...
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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
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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
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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
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Empire Earth
Empire Earth, also known as EE, is a real-time strategy computer game developed by Stainless Steel Studios and released on November 23, 2001. It is the first game in the Empire Earth series. It has been described as very similar to the Age of...
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- Nov 2001
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Team Fortress Classic
Team Fortress Classic, also known as Team Fortress 1.5, is a team-based multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed by the Valve Corporation. A remake of the Team Fortress modification for Quake, Team Fortress Classic was originally...
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- 1999
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You Don't Know Jack
You Don't Know Jack (commonly abbreviated YDKJ) is a series of computer games developed by Jellyvision and Berkeley Systems, as well as the title of the first game in the series. YDKJ, promoted as the games "where high culture and pop culture...
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- 1995
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Half-Life: Opposing Force
Half-Life: Opposing Force is an expansion pack for Valve Software's science fiction first-person shooter video game Half-Life. The game was developed by Gearbox Software and published by Sierra Entertainment on November 1, 1999. Opposing Force is...
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Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura (aka Arcanum) is a single player computer role-playing game developed by Troika Games and published by Sierra Entertainment. It was released in North America and Europe in August, 2001 for Microsoft Windows....
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Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne is a real-time strategy computer game developed for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS and Mac OS X by Blizzard Entertainment. It is the official expansion pack to Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, requiring Reign of Chaos to play...
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Diablo: Hellfire
Diablo: Hellfire is an expansion pack that Sierra On-Line (now known as Sierra Entertainment) produced for the video game Diablo. It was released in 1997 and developed by Synergistic Software, a Sierra division. Hellfire is the only authorized...
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Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2 is the well-recieved sequel to Half-Life. Half-Life 2 takes place in the dystopian City 17 and the surrounding area, almost 20 years after the events of the original Half-Life. In the intervening years, Gordon Freeman has presumably been...
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- Nov 14, 2004
The Adventures of Willy Beamish
The Adventures of Willy Beamish is a graphic adventure game developed by Dynamix, using their newly-developed Dynamix Game Development System (DGDS). It was published in 1991 by Sierra Entertainment. The player takes on the role of nine-year-old...
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- 1991
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Homeworld: Cataclysm
Homeworld: Cataclysm was originally developed in 2000 as an expansion of Homeworld, but was released as a stand-alone game. It was produced by Sierra Entertainment, as was the original, but it was developed by Barking Dog Studios.
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- Jun 30, 2000
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Starsiege: Tribes
Starsiege: Tribes is a sci-fi first-person shooter video game. It is the first of the Tribes video game series and follows the story from Earthsiege and Starsiege. It was developed by Dynamix and published by the company now known as Sierra...
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Tribes 2
Tribes 2 (commonly abbreviated to T2) is a sci-fi first-person shooter (FPS) computer game based in the fictional Earthsiege universe. As the name indicates it is the second game in the Tribes franchise, following Starsiege: Tribes. It was developed...
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- 2001
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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
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- 1988
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Ground Control
Ground Control is a 2000 real-time tactics video games developed by Massive Entertainment. It features 3D graphics and a free-floating camera which allows one to zoom in and out and view the action from any angle, from a bird's-eye view to the...
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- Jun 1, 2000
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Aces Of The Deep
Aces of the Deep is a World War II U-boat combat simulation game developed and published by Dynamix for MS-DOS in 1994.
"Aces of the Deep" was the last installment of Dynamix "Aces" series, which included the flight simulators Red Baron, Aces of the...
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- 1994
StarCraft: Brood War
StarCraft: Brood War is an expansion pack for the award winning military science fiction, real-time strategy video game StarCraft. Released in 1998 for Windows and Mac OS, it was co-developed by Saffire and Blizzard Entertainment. The expansion pack...
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- Nov 30, 1998
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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Caesar
Caesar is a city-building computer game where the player undertakes the role of a Roman governor, building ancient Roman cities.
Released in 1992 on the Amiga, ported the next year to Atari ST, PC and Macintosh, the game was similar to SimCity. In...
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Red Baron
Red Baron is a computer game for the PC, created by Damon Slye at Dynamix and published by Sierra Entertainment. It was released in 1990.
As the name suggests, the game is a flying simulation set on the Western Front of World War I. The player can...
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- 1990
Alien Legacy
Alien Legacy is a sci-fi strategy game published by Sierra On-Line in 1994.
The game includes elements of city construction, research, resource management, industrial production and combat. Players must colonize a star system light years from earth...
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- 1994
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Time Zone
Time Zone is a multi-disk graphical adventure game written and directed by Roberta Williams for the Apple II. Developed in 1981 and released in 1982 by On-Line Systems (now Sierra Entertainment), the game was shipped with six double sided floppy...
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- 1982
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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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Homeworld 2
Homeworld 2 is a real-time strategy computer game sequel to Homeworld, developed by Relic Entertainment. It takes place after the events in Homeworld and concerns Hiigara's response to a new enemy called the Vaygr. It features enhanced graphics and...
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- Sep 16, 2003
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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
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Half-Life: Blue Shift
Half-Life: Blue Shift is an expansion pack for Valve Software's science fiction first-person shooter video game Half-Life. The game was developed by Gearbox Software and published by Sierra Entertainment on June 12, 2001. Blue Shift is the second...
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- Jun 12, 2001
Betrayal at Krondor
Betrayal at Krondor is a DOS-based computer role-playing game developed by Dynamix and published by Sierra On-Line in 1993. Betrayal at Krondor takes place largely in Midkemia, the fantasy world developed by Raymond E. Feist in his Riftwar novels....
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- Jun 22, 1993
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B.C. II: Grog's Revenge
B.C. II: Grog's Revenge is a 1984 video game by Sierra On-Line for the Commodore 64, ColecoVision, and MSX. It is the sequel to B.C.'s Quest For Tires and is based on B.C., the newspaper comic strip by Johnny Hart.
The player controls Thor, a...
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- 1984
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B.C.'s Quest For Tires
B.C.'s Quest for Tires is a 1983 video game developed by Sydney Development Corp. and published by Sierra On-Line. It was released for the Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit, ColecoVision, ZX Spectrum, MSX, and Apple II, based on the comic strip B.C. by...
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- 1983
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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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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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Counter-Strike: Condition Zero
Counter-Strike: Condition Zero (CS:CZ or CZ) is a multiplayer computer game and the follow-up to Counter-Strike. The game was released in 2004 using the GoldSrc Half-Life engine. CS:CZ features a multiplayer mode, which features updated character...
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- Mar 21, 2004
Evil Genius
Evil Genius is a 2004 real-time strategy and simulation video game developed by Elixir Studios and published by Sierra Entertainment, released on 28 September 2004. The game is inspired by the spy thriller genre (notably the James Bond film series)....
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- Sep 28, 2004
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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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Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist
Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist is a comic Old West adventure computer game created by Al Lowe (of Leisure Suit Larry fame) and Josh Mandel (of Callahan's Crosstime Saloon fame) and published by Sierra On-Line in 1993. It was dubbed "the Blazing...
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Aliens versus Predator
Aliens versus Predator is a science fiction first-person shooter computer game developed by Rebellion Developments and published by Sierra On-Line, Inc. for PC and Apple Macintosh computers in 1999. It is based on the Alien and Predator media...
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Ultima I
Ultima, later known as Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness or simply Ultima I, is the first game in the Ultima series of computer role-playing games. It was first published in the United States by California Pacific Computer Company, in 1981. Since...
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Ultima II
Ultima II: The Revenge of the Enchantress, released on August 24, 1982 (USCO# PA-317-502), is the second computer role-playing game in the Ultima series.
It was also the last Ultima game published by Sierra On-Line. Controversy with Sierra over...
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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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Aliens versus Predator 2
Aliens versus Predator 2 is a science fiction first-person shooter computer game developed by Monolith Productions. It was published by Sierra Entertainment, and released through Fox Interactive for PC and Apple Macintosh computers in 2001. It is a...
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Half-Life: Decay
Half-Life: Decay is an expansion pack for Valve Software's science fiction, first-person shooter video game Half-Life. Developed by Gearbox Software and published by Sierra Entertainment, Decay was released as part of the PlayStation 2 version of...
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Crash Bash
Crash Bash, released in Japan as Crash Bandicoot Carnival (クラッシュ・バンディクー カーニバル, Kurasshu Bandikū Kānibaru) is a party game published by Sony Computer Entertainment and developed by Eurocom for the PlayStation. It was released in North America on...
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- Nov 9, 2000
Quarky & Quaysoo's Turbo Science
Quarky & Quaysoo's Turbo Science was an educational computer game developed by Jeff Tunnell Productions and published by Sierra On-Line for MS-DOS in early 1992. It was designed to teach scientific concepts to children.
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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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Red Baron 3D
Red Baron II is a computer game for the PC, developed by Dynamix and published by Sierra Entertainment. It is the follow up to the immensely successful flight simulation Red Baron, released in 1990. Red Baron II was released in 1997. The game...
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The Realm Online
The Realm Online, originally known simply as The Realm, was among the first MMORPGs (massively multiplayer online role-playing games) for public release. 'The Realm Online', often referred to as 'The Realm,' is still being played by a small number...
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- Dec 31, 1996
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Attack Retrieve Capture
Attack Retrieve Capture (ARC) was a free multiplayer, 2D computer game created by John Vechey (jv) and Brian Fiete (bf) as a college project and later published by Hoopy Entertainment in 1997. The game was primarily capture the flag (CTF), but other...
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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
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Tribes Aerial Assault
Tribes Aerial Assault is an online first-person shooter computer game released for PlayStation 2 in 2002 by Sierra Entertainment. Tribes Aerial Assault is essentially a port of the popular PC title Tribes 2.
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Softporn Adventure
Softporn Adventure was a comedic, adult-oriented text adventure game produced for the Apple II in 1981. The game was created by Chuck Benton and released by On-Line Systems (now known as Sierra Entertainment). This is the only game Sierra...
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- 1981
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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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Caesar III
Caesar III is a video game developed by Impressions Games and published by Sierra Entertainment; the third installment of the Caesar series, part of Sierra's City Building Series. It was released in October 1998.
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