For example, Sierra's 1991 remake of Space Quest, the developers used the engine, point-and-click interface, and graphical style of Space Quest IV, replacing the dated graphics and text parser interface of the original.

These games used the technology and interface of the most recent games in Sierra's series, and original assets in a dramatically different style.

The game was re-released for DOS ( the original was on a self-booting disk ) in 1987 using Sierra's updated AGI V3 engine.

In 2001, the group AGD Interactive ( then known as Tierra Entertainment ) released an unofficial remake based on Sierra's 1990 version, updating the graphics to use VGA colors, dropping the parser in favor of an interface that mimics that of King's Quest V, and full speech-including the voice of the original voice actor for King Graham in Sierra's official CD-ROM full-speech versions of King's Quest V and VI, Josh Mandel.

Impressions Games and the Papyrus Design Group were shut down in the spring of 2004, and about 50 people lost their jobs in those cuts ; 180 Sierra-related positions were eliminated at Vivendi ’ s Los Angeles offices ; and finally in June 2004, VU Games shut down Sierra's Bellevue location, which cost over 100 people their jobs, and dispersed Sierra ’ s work to other VU Games divisions.

In the game, the player takes the role of Freddy Pharkas, a 1880s-era pharmacist in the town of Coarsegold, California which was the location of Sierra's headquarters in 1993.

Sierra's Srini Vasan and Sierra UK fought for continued Atari ST development but unfortunately Sierra Online discontinued Atari ST support entirely shortly afterwards.

Manhunter: New York used Sierra's Adventure Game Interpreter ( AGI ) development tool.

By that time, Sierra had unveiled their more impressive Sierra's Creative Interpreter ( SCI ) development system.

The Dynamix studio was closed by its parent company Sierra Entertainment on August 14, 2001, as part of Sierra's restructuring under Vivendi Universal.

However, the studio was closed on February 22, 1999 as part of a Sierra's restructuring plan.

* The Space Quest 15th Anniversary Collector's Edition ( 1994 ) – Released for Sierra's 15th anniversary, this contained games I-V and Roger Wilco's Spaced Out Game Pack, plus a video featuring the Two Guys from Andromeda and a complete history of the game series.

The first official merged version appeared in October 2010, introducing support for Sierra's Creative Interpreter games.

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 ).

* In Sierra's 1993 role-playing game Quest for Glory IV, the hero encounters a leshy in the forest who offers game clues as rewards for solving riddles.

Sierra's Creative Interpreter ( SCI ) is the scripting language created by Jeff Stephenson of Sierra On-Line for its adventure games after the older AGI, and the runtime environment for such adventure games.

In addition, Gates had been the principal consultant for Sierra's SWAT series, appearing in them as well.

Although the MT-32's high price prevented it from dominating the end-user market of gamers, other PC publishers quickly followed Sierra's lead, expanding the role of music in their own game titles with Roland supporting the industry by releasing CM modules for computer users.

The school also maintains base camps in the Sespe Wilderness and the Eastern Sierra's Golden Trout Wilderness, which it uses for back country trips, educational programs, and alumni retreats

In 2003, during Sierra's third stint with the Rangers, he was traded back to the Yankees, who were looking for a power-hitter off the bench.

Gaining market share, Tundra sales for the month of July were 23, 150, out pacing the GMC Sierra for that same month, although its sales were significantly less than the Sierra's corporate twin, the Chevrolet Silverado.

Some of Sierra's most famous works have involved paying a man to live behind a brick wall for 15 days, paying Iraqi immigrants to wear protective clothing and be coated in hardening polyetherane foam as “ free form ” sculptures ,< Ref > Searle, Adrian http :// www. guardian. co. uk / culture / 2004 / jul / 13 / 1 “ Buried Alive ” The Guardian 13 July, 2001.

His appearance has inspired Sierra's designers for some sprites, honoring Ken with cameo appearances in some games.

Sierra's Hintbook for the game was written by Al Lowe the creator of the Leisure Suit Larry series.

Notably for an unofficial, fan-made project, the game's protagonist King Graham is voiced by Josh Mandel, who also voiced the part in Sierra's official CD-ROM full-speech versions of King's Quest V and VI.

The Search for Cetus introduced the recycling symbol to Sierra's standard palette of command icons, giving the player bonus points for picking up litter.

The series stands out among Sierra's catalog in that they are the only games the company produced that contain significant sexual themes.

* Dynamix ( 1984 – 2001 ) is closed by its parent company Sierra Entertainment on August 14, 2001 as part of Sierra's restructuring under Vivendi Universal.

The game was the last to be released by the company before EA Sports bought the NASCAR license exclusively from 2004-09 ( parent company Sierra's successor company, Activision Blizzard, reacquired NASCAR rights in 2011, with NASCAR 2011: The Game ).

Space Quest III was written in Sierra's Creative Interpreter ( SCI ), which had 3-D capabilities.

Originally stemmed from ideas of Sierra's adventure game Softporn Adventure created by designer Chuck Benton, the " Larry " games were one of Sierra's most popular game series during the genre's heyday when it was first released in the mid 1980s.

The point system was similar to that of Sierra's adventure games, however when the game was restarted or restored, the total IQ of your previous game was retained.

Although the term was first used in the 1990s, there are a few earlier systems in the 1980s that are also considered to be game engines, such as Sierra's Adventure Game Interpreter ( AGI ) and SCI systems, LucasArts ' SCUMM system and Incentive Software's Freescape engine.

It was later in the Sierra's life that the styling began to pay off ; ten years after its introduction, the Sierra's styling was not nearly as outdated as its contemporaries, even though all major competitors were newer designs, although the Sierra had been tweaked on several occasions.

All of these features appeared on the Sierra's replacement, the front-wheel-drive Mondeo, which was unveiled at the end of 1992 and launched the following March.

Sierra's first re-release of the games in a collection was in 1995 as " Daryl F. Gates ' Police Quest Collection: The Four Most Wanted ".

Martínez Sierra's influence was largely as a publisher and director.

Amongst a series of Spanish and foreign playwrights whose work he produced " in a new, forward-looking style ", it was at Martínez Sierra's invitation that Federico García Lorca created and staged, at the Eslava, his first play, El maleficio de la mariposa (' The Curse of the Butterfly '), in 1920.

Opposing Force was also published as part of Sierra's Half-Life: Generation compilation in 2002, and as part of Valve Software and Electronic Arts ' Half Life 1: Anthology on September 26, 2005.

The Dagger of Amon Ra was developed using Sierra's Creative Interpreter ( SCI1. 1 ).

Blue Shift was also published as part of Sierra's Half-Life: Generation compilation in 2002, and as part of Valve Software and Electronic Arts ' Half Life 1: Anthology on September 26, 2005.

The track was used in Sierra's NASCAR Legends NASCAR Heat and later was converted to NASCAR 4, NASCAR Season 2002, 2003 and rFactor

This bug-fixed version was then released on Sierra's collector's edition CD-ROM.