On-Line Systems leased their first office space from Ponderosa Printing, a modest space in the back of a small town print shop. With Ken's help in some of the programming, Roberta designed Mystery House, inspired by the novel And Then There Were None and the board game Clue, using text commands and printout combined with rudimentary graphics depicting the current setting. Dissatisfied with the text-only format, she realized that the graphics display capability of the Apple II could enhance the adventure gaming experience. He encouraged Roberta to join him in playing it, and she was enthralled by the game after Ken had brought an Apple II to their home, she played through other text adventures such as those by Scott Adams and Softape to study them. Ken had brought a teletype terminal home one day in 1979, and while looking through the host system's catalog of programs, discovered the text adventure Colossal Cave Adventure.
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Ken, a programmer for IBM, had planned to use the company to create business software for the TRS-80 and Apple II. Sierra Entertainment was founded in 1979 as On-Line Systems in Simi Valley, California, by husband-and-wife Ken and Roberta Williams.
The Sierra brand was revived by Activision in 2014 to re-release former Sierra games and some independently developed games. The Sierra division continued to operate through Vivendi Games' merger with Activision to form Activision Blizzard on July 10, 2008, but was shut down later that year.
The former CUC Software group was acquired by Vivendi and branded as Vivendi Games in 2006. Sierra remained as part of CUC Software as it was sold and renamed several times over the next few years Sierra was formally disestablished as a company and reformed as a division of this group in August 2004. However, CUC International was caught in an accounting scandal in 1998, and many of the original founders of Sierra including the Williamses left the company.
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It is also known for its graphical adventure game series King's Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest, Gabriel Knight, Leisure Suit Larry, and Quest for Glory, as well as being the original publishers of Valve's Half-Life series.Īfter seventeen years as an independent company, Sierra was acquired by CUC International in February 1996 to become part of CUC Software. The company is known for pioneering the graphic adventure game genre, including the first such game, Mystery House.
(formerly On-Line Systems and Sierra On-Line, Inc.) was an American video game developer and publisher founded in 1979 by Ken and Roberta Williams.
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