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* [[Crazy Nick's Software Picks: King Graham's Board Game Challenge]] (1992) | * [[Crazy Nick's Software Picks: King Graham's Board Game Challenge]] (1992) | ||
Revision as of 17:15, 1 September 2012
Sierra is a video game company founded by Ken and Roberta Williams.
The company built its reputation as a company for excellent graphic adventures beginning in the early 1980s, and continued even after it was sold to CUC International in 1996. In December 1997, CUC International merged with HFS Incorporated to become the Cendant Corporation. After the Cendant book cooking scandal in 1998, Sierra was sold to Havas S.A, which was purchased by Vivendi (renamed Vivendi Universal in 2000 and now known as Vivendi SA) the same year. Sierra stopped producing adventure games in 1999. Vivendi merged with Activision (forming Activision-Blizzard) in 2008, and the entire Sierra staff was laid off and the Sierra building was closed. Sierra now only exists as a label.
The adventure games created with Sierra's Adventure Game Interpreter (and its predecessors) are implemented in ScummVM using the code base from the Sarien and TrollVM projects. The adventure games created with Sierra's Creative Interpreter are implemented in ScummVM using the code base from the FreeSCI project. All of them were done with permission obtained from the original authors of those projects.
PreAGI
There were several games that used some parts of the AGI engine, before it was mature enough (see TrollVM):
- Dragon's Keep (1982)
- The Gelfling Adventure (1983)
- Troll's Tale (1983)
- Mickey's Space Adventure (1984)
- Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood (1984)
AGI
- King's Quest (1984)
- King's Quest II (1985)
- The Black Cauldron (1986)
- Donald Duck's Playground (1986)
- King's Quest III (1986)
- Space Quest (1986)
- Christmas Card 1986 (1986)
- AGI Demo (1987 through 1988)
- Leisure Suit Larry (1987)
- Mixed-Up Mother Goose (1987)
- Police Quest (1987)
- Space Quest II (1987)
- Gold Rush (1988)
- King's Quest IV (1988)
- Manhunter (1988)
- Manhunter 2 (1989)
SCI
Starting in 1988, adventure game development switched to the more versatile SCI (Sierra's Creative Interpreter) engine. This new engine is object oriented, contrary to AGI that is procedural.
- King's Quest IV (1988 - SCI remake)
- Christmas Card 1988 (1988)
- Leisure Suit Larry 2 (1988)
- Space Quest III (1988)
- Astro Chicken (1988 - from Space Quest III)
- Quest for Glory / Hero's Quest (1989)
- Police Quest II (1989)
- Leisure Suit Larry 3 (1989)
- Laura Bow: The Colonel's Bequest (1989)
- Codename: ICEMAN (1989)
- Hoyle's Official Book of Games: Volume 1 (1989)
- Christmas Card 1990: The Seasoned Professional (1990)
- Conquests of Camelot (1990)
- Hoyle's Official Book of Games: Volume 2 (1990)
- Mixed-Up Mother Goose (1990 - SCI remake)
- King's Quest I (1990 - SCI remake)
- Quest for Glory II (1990)
- King's Quest V (1990)
- Jones in the Fast Lane (1991)
- Leisure Suit Larry 1 (1991 - SCI remake)
- Leisure Suit Larry 5 (1991)
- EcoQuest (1991)
- Mixed-Up Fairy Tales (1991)
- Police Quest III (1991)
- Space Quest (1991 - SCI remake)
- Space Quest IV (1991)
- Castle of Dr. Brain (1991)
- Fun Seeker's Guide to Eastern Madera County (1991)
- Ms. Astro Chicken (1991 - from Space Quest IV)
- Crazy Nick's Software Picks: King Graham's Board Game Challenge (1992)
- Crazy Nick's Software Picks: Parlor Games with Laura Bow (1992)
- Crazy Nick's Software Picks: Robin Hood's Game of Skill and Chance (1992)
- Crazy Nick's Software Picks: Roger Wilco's Spaced Out Game Pack (1992)
- Crazy Nick's Software Picks: Leisure Suit Larry Casino (1992)
- Hoyle's Official Book of Games: Volume 3 (1992)
- Police Quest (1992 - SCI remake)
- Conquests of the Longbow (1992)
- Christmas Card 1992 (1992)
- The Island of Dr. Brain (1992)
- King's Quest VI (1992)
- The Dagger of Amon Ra (1992)
- Quest for Glory III (1992)
- EcoQuest II (1993)
- Hoyle Classic Card Games (1993)
- Slater & Charlie Go Camping (1993)
- Freddy Pharkas (1993)
- Leisure Suit Larry 6 (1993)
- Pepper's Adventures in Time (1993)
- Space Quest V (1993)
- Leisure Suit Larry 6 (1993)
- Gabriel Knight (1993)
- Police Quest IV (1993)
- Quest for Glory IV (1993)
- King's Quest VII (1994)
- Inside The Chest (1994)
- Behind the Developers' Shield (1994)
- King's Questions (1994)
- Phantasmagoria (1995)
- The Beast Within (1995)
- Shivers (1995)
- Space Quest 6 (1995)
- Torin's Passage (1995)
- Police Quest: SWAT (1995)
- Leisure Suit Larry 7 (1996)
- Lighthouse (1996)
- Phantasmagoria II (1996)
- RAMA (1996)
- Shivers 2 (1997)
- Leisure Suit Larry Casino (1998)
A version history of Sierra's games can be found under Sierra Game Versions.