What is Sierra Entertainment?
{{wikify|date=February 2022}} '''''Sierra Entertainment''''' was an American [[video game]] developer/publisher founded in the late 1970s by Ken and Roberta Williams. ==Games== The company is known for making the graphic adventure game genre, including the first game, [[Mystery House]]. It is also known for its adventure game series [[King's Quest]], [[Space Quest]], [[Police Quest]], [[Gabriel Knight]], [[Leisure Suit Larry]], and [[Quest for Glory,|Quest for Glory]], as well as being the original publishers of [[Half-Life (video game)|Half-Life]]. ==Affiliation== After 17 years as a lone company, Sierra was bought by CUC International in February 1996 to become part of CUC Software. However, CUC International was caught in an [[scandal]] in 1998. Therefore many of the original founders of Sierra including the Williamses left the [[company]]. Sierra remained as part of CUC Software as it was sold and renamed several times over the next few years; Sierra was dissolved as a company and reformed as a division of this group in 2004. The former CUC Software group was acquired by Vivendi and branded as Vivendi Games in 2006. The Sierra division continued to operate through Vivendi Games' merger with [[Activision]] to form [[Activision Blizzard]] in 2008. However, it was shut down later. The Sierra brand was revived by Activision in 2014 to re-release former Sierra games and some independently developed games. == History == === Founding (1979 - 1982) === Sierra Entertainment was founded in 1979 as On-Line Systems in [[Simi Valley, California]], by Ken and Roberta Williams. Ken, a programmer for [[IBM]], had planned to use the company to create business software for the [[TRS-80]] and [[Apple Inc.|Apple II]]. Ken had brought a teletype terminal home one day in 1979, and while looking through the host system's catalog of programs, discovered the text adventure ''Colossal Cave Adventure''. He encouraged Roberta to join him in playing it, and she was thrilled by the game; after Ken had brought an Apple II to their home,