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What‘s your favorite Sierra game from the 80s to early 90s? I think for me it’s probably Space Quest III. It‘s a very short game, and not a great game, but I have a lots of nostalgia for it.
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Sierra were just the poor man's LucasArts.
Instant deaths do not belong in point and click adventures.
@[email protected] I wouldn't say "poor man's". They basically invented the graphical adventure genre and were feeling their way around how to make games, and how to make better games. Yes, they were more quantity than quality, compared to LucasArts, but I give them the benefit of doubt, as it was definitely a pioneering task.
Maybe I'm being a little harsh.
Their games very much felt like text adventures with a thin graphical veneer on top (some of them even needed you to type iirc), and all the warts that came with those. And even a few early LucasArts games had deaths and failures. I think Loom was the first to really follow a rule they had since that the player can only be stuck, no game over screens.
And fair play to Roberta Williams. Being a woman in the games industry isn't an easy task today, and she was there in the mid 1980s.
@[email protected] she was even there in 1980! Mystery House was the reason Sierra was founded in the first place.