Jones was inspired by the apparent simplicity of Sierra On-Line's adventure game interface, specifically as showcased in Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers.

Sierra On-Line's comedy / sci-fi adventure game Space Quest III had a so-called boss key available from the game's pulldown menu.

Many people were buying new, more powerful computers expressly for games, and the days were long-gone when people would be satisfied with simple vectored line drawings, such as those that made the Wizardry games famous, or with the blocky graphics that were used in Sierra Entertainment's King's Quest games.

The book, like other Sierra books by Peter Spear such as The King's Quest Companion, was revised and edited so that there was a second edition ( 1991 ) covering Larry V.

A long series of Leisure Suit Larry games would follow in the coming years and become the second best selling game series of Sierra On-Line after King's Quest.

In 1990, Sierra released King's Quest V. It would be the first Sierra On-Line game ever to sell more than 500, 000 copies and was the highest selling game for the next five years.

* In the 1988 Sierra game King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella, the player must steal the eye from the three witches in order to barter it for a puzzle piece that is critical to solving the game.

The name Gwydion also appears in the Sierra game King's Quest III, where a Prince Alexander of Daventry has been kidnapped by an evil wizard named Manannan who renames him Gwydion.

Many industry firsts were achieved in Oakhurst including the development of the first 3D adventure game ( King's Quest, 1984 ) and one of the first online gaming networks ( The Sierra Network, 1989 ).

King's Quest is an adventure game series created by the American software company Sierra Entertainment.

Roberta Williams, co-founder and former co-owner of Sierra, designed all of the King's Quest games.

The game is the most realistic of those developed by Sierra in the late 1980s when compared to Leisure Suit Larry, King's Quest, or Space Quest, and featured many puzzles where proper police procedure is required to succeed.

When Roberta Williams and her husband Ken discovered the game, and were subsequently unable to find anything similar, they were inspired to create their own software house, founding On-Line Software ( later Sierra Online, and then Sierra Entertainment ), which created the first graphical adventure game ( Mystery House ), and quickly became a dominant player in the entertainment software market for the next two decades, creating successful adventures such as King's Quest, Space Quest, and Leisure Suit Larry.

King's Quest, a popular adventure game series, was originally developed for the PCjr, as IBM had commissioned Sierra On-Line for a game that would take advantage of the PCjr's expanded graphics and sound capabilities for the product's launch.

Fans of the adventure games released by Sierra Entertainment in the 1980s such as King's Quest and Space Quest are also familiar with the decoder pen, which was used to reveal the answers to hints in the hints book sold for each game.

After Sierra dismissed Abraham, IBM contributed to the development of King's Quests game engine in order to help ensure the project's success.

King's Quest caused a sensation in the burgeoning market of PC-compatible computers, and Sierra eventually sold more than half a million copies.

Roberta Williams ' King's Quest established a new type of interactive adventure game, and Sierra named their new game engine the Adventure Game Interpreter.

In 1988, with the release of King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella, Sierra debuted a more sophisticated proprietary game engine: Sierra's Creative Interpreter, or SCI.

With the shift to SCI1, Sierra began using a digitized painting process for background artwork, rather than the pixel-by-pixel process of previous engines: the difference is readily apparent if one compares, for example, King's Quest 4 against King's Quest 5.

1993's Goblins Quest 3 was originally known as just Goblins 3, but after Sierra got involved they decided to add the-Quest suffix in an attempt to align the game with their other Quest series ( see King's Quest, Police Quest and Space Quest ).

Gray Design Associates ( GDA ) created a parser-based adventure game, reminiscent of the Sierra Entertainment " Quest " games ( such as King's Quest ) and thematically similar to Maniac Mansion.

Development teams AGD Interactive and Infamous Adventures have remade and updated King's Quest and other Sierra releases.

Although the series was originally titled Hero's Quest, Sierra failed to trademark the name.

Milton Bradley successfully trademarked an electronic version of their unrelated joint Games Workshop board game, HeroQuest, which forced Sierra to change the series ' title to Quest for Glory.

Sierra tried on several occasions to revive the series for another episode, with a working subtitle of The Return to Roman Numerals, since the previous game was titled Space Quest 6, not Space Quest VI.

Development of Space Quest VII was underway in 1996 when Sierra released The Space Quest Collection, which consisted of Space Quest I through 6 and included a brief trailer of Space Quest VII ( consisting of Roger strapping a giant rocket to his back and using it to push himself forward on roller skates in a scene reminiscent of Wile E. Coyote ).

Due to poor sales of Grim Fandango, a high-profile adventure game by LucasArts, there was a perception that humorous adventure games were no longer viable, so when Vivendi Games took over Sierra, Space Quest VII was canceled.

In the Sierra Entertainment PC game Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire, you get to meet some of the Marx brothers: Groucho Marx ( Ali Fakir, the saurus seller ), Harpo Marx ( wandering around Shapeir's streets with a horn ) and Chico Marx ( the merchant Ali Chica ).

Police Quest is a series of video games produced and published by Sierra On-Line between 1987 and 1993.

SWAT founder Daryl F. Gates was named to take over the Police Quest series while Walls-along with several former Sierra employees-would go on to design Blue Force, an adventure game similar to the Police Quest series.

She has been involved in a number of deployments, most successfully during the Sierra Leonean Civil War in 2000 including Operation Barras, and Operation Telic IV in the Persian Gulf from February-August 2005.

In South Africa it also powered the 1. 6l Mk II, Mk III, Mk IV, & Mk V Ford Cortina and 1. 6l Ford Sierra.

Proposed manned Commercial Crew Development Vehicle alternatives to Ares I for servicing the Space Station are the Boeing / Bigelow Aerospace unofficially-named " Orion-Lite " capsule launched on a future-man-rated Delta IV Heavy, the manned version of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, and Sierra Nevada Dreamchaser.

* Caesar IV ( 2006 ), a city-building game set in ancient Rome and published through Sierra Entertainment

Gates remained active after leaving the LAPD, working with Sierra to create the computer game Police Quest IV: Open Season, an adventure game set in Los Angeles where gamers play the role of a Robbery-Homicide detective trying to solve a series of brutal murders.

King's Quest IV, released in 1988, was the first Sierra title with a complete musical soundtrack scored on the MT-32.

Due to the large number of ships that transit the strait, there is always a danger of accidents and in recent years there have been a small number of sinkings, groundings and collisions in both Gibraltar and Spain resulting in oil spills ( New Flame, Spa Bunker IV Samothraki, Sierra Nava, Tawe or Fedra ).

Starting with King's Quest IV, later Sierra games would instead open with a dialog requesting that the player enter word X from page Y of the manual.

* King's Quest IV at the Sierra Chest

In 2000 Guinea became embroiled in the instability which had long blighted the rest of West Africa as rebels crossed the borders with Liberia and Sierra Leone and it seemed for a time that the country was headed for civil war.

The name was derived, described by Hanno the Navigator, a Carthaginian navigator and possible visitor ( circa 480 BC ) to the area that later became Sierra Leone.

* John Harris: One of the first programmers hired at On-Line Systems ( which later became Sierra Entertainment )

Those Maroons, first shipped from Jamaica to Nova Scotia, eventually became part of the core of the Creole community of Sierra Leone.

The second expedition became snowbound in the Sierra Nevadas that winter.

However unfair treatment and harsh conditions caused about one-third of the Black Loyalists to resettle in Sierra Leone in 1792 where they founded Freetown and became known in Africa as the Nova Scotian Settlers.

The history of Sierra Leone began when the lands became inhabited at least 2, 500 years ago.

Sierra Leone played a significant part in modern African political liberty and nationalism, and became an independent nation in 1961.

This pattern of activity became permanent: even after the Mane had blended with the indigenous population — a process which was completed in the early 17th century — the various kingdoms in Sierra Leone remained in a fairly continual state of flux and conflict.

In the 17th century Portuguese imperialism waned and, in Sierra Leone, the most significant European group became the British.

On 27 April 1961, Sir Milton Margai lead Sierra Leone to Independence from Britain and became the country's first Prime Minister.

On 19 April 1971, when Sierra Leone became a republic, the Royal Sierra Leone Military Force was renamed as the Republic of Sierra Leone Military Force ( RSLMF ).

The core of the army was based on the Sierra Leone Battalion of the Royal West African Frontier Force, which became the Royal Sierra Leone Regiment and later the Republic of Sierra Leone Regiment.

These California bound emigrants became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1846 – 1847, and some had resorted to cannibalism to survive.

Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards was a great hit ( although it first became famous as an early example of software piracy, as Sierra sold many more hintbooks than actual copies of the game ) and won the Software Publishers Association's Best Adventure Game award of 1987.

On November 20, 1998, Cendant announced the sale of its entire consumer software division to Paris-based Havas S. A. With this sale, Sierra became a part of Havas Interactive, the interactive entertainment division of the company.

After 1999, Sierra almost entirely ceased to be a developer of games and, as time went on, instead became a publisher of games by independent developers.

During his expeditions in the Sierra Nevada, Frémont became the first American to see Lake Tahoe.

Jesús became the new NABF Super Middleweight Champion, by beating tough veteran Francisco Sierra on July 8, 2011 at US Airways Center in Phoenix, AZ.

Residents and health professionals became concerned after observing an elevated number of leukemia and related childhood cancer cases being reported in Sierra Vista since 1995.