Sierra Entertainment
Sierra Entertainment started modestly as On-Line Systems in 1980, with founders Ken and Roberta Williams programming games and managing the company from their own home. Their first game was Mystery House, the world's first graphic adventure game.In 1982 the company changed its name to Sierra On-Line and moved to Oakhurst, California, where they stayed until 1994. Today, its headquarters are located in Bellevue, Washington. In 2001, the name was changed to Sierra Entertainment.
In 1984, Sierra published King's Quest to show off the advanced technology of the IBM PC. The success of that game set forth one of the most popular series Sierra has ever created, and spurred them into creating numerous adventure series based on the Quest theme. In the years to come Sierra would remain on the forefront of groundbreaking computer game design, sometimes creating large blockbusters and other times, failed experiments.
In 1991 Sierra started an online serviced called The Sierra Network. Pre-Internet, it was comparable to services like CompuServe or Prodigy except that its interface was completely graphical. Thematically it was a "kingdom" in which you visited different "lands" to post on message boardss, exchange emails and play games. It was renamed The ImagiNation Network and sold to AT&T in 1994 who sold it to AOL in 1996.
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