Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire (1990) — Sierra’s Adventure-RPG Hybrid Matures
From a Germanic Village to an Arabian Nights City The first Quest for Glory game (originally titled Hero’s Quest) planted […]
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Space Quest IV (1991): Sierra’s Funniest Time-Travel Send-Up of Itself
Few adventure game sequels have the nerve to make fun of their own earlier installments’ graphics. Space Quest IV does
Space Quest III (1989): Roger Wilco Cleans Up After Vohaul
Roger Wilco, the least likely hero in Sierra’s catalog, spends the opening minutes of Space Quest III doing exactly what
King’s Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow (1992): Sierra’s Fairy Tale Peak
Ask a handful of Sierra fans which King’s Quest is the best one, and an awful lot of them will
King’s Quest I (1984): Roberta Williams’ PCjr Showcase That Started It All
In 1984, IBM needed something to show off the graphics capability of its new PCjr, and Sierra On-Line’s Roberta Williams
Crusader: No Remorse (1995): Origin’s Forgotten Isometric Shooter
Ask a room of DOS gaming fans to name Origin Systems’ best 1995 release and most will say Ultima VIII.
King’s Quest V (1990): The VGA Leap That Redefined Sierra Adventures
What happens when a text parser and EGA graphics both disappear from a Sierra game at once? King’s Quest V
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers (1993): Jane Jensen’s New Orleans Ghost Story
Jane Jensen’s New Orleans Some adventure games hand you a joke shop and a string of one-liners. Gabriel Knight: Sins
Master of Magic (1994): The 4X Strategy Game That Out-Civilized Civilization
Sid Meier’s Civilization gets credit for inventing the modern 4X genre, but a small MicroProse-published game from 1994 quietly out-did
Pirates! Gold (1993): Sid Meier’s Caribbean Sandbox, Revisited
There’s a specific kind of magic in a game that lets you start a session planning a treasure hunt and
Eye of the Beholder (1991): Westwood’s D&D Dungeon Crawl Debut
Before Command & Conquer made Westwood a household name, the studio cut its teeth on something very different: a first-person
Mortal Kombat II (1994): Midway’s Roster Doubles, the Gore Gets Weirder
Twelve fighters, three ways to end a match, and a sequel that fixed nearly everything players complained about in the