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How Sierra Was Captured, Then Killed, by a Massive Accounting Fraud (historical game sierraonline fraud industry collapse acquisition scandal) (vice.com | ia)

7 points by bmonkey325 409 days ago | 3 comments

shdon 408 days ago
Such a tragedy. Sierra games were responsible for my love of adventure games and if it wasn't for them, I never would have made the games I have.
- bmonkey325 408 days ago
  That the scenes were vector drawn that materialized unlike the raster images that just appeared as you saw in graphical text adventures gave it a visceral quality I can’t explain. But totally enjoy seeing.
  Also. The story telling was good. Which helped :-)
  - shdon 408 days ago
    With the very first version of the GAL (Game Adaptation Language) that would later evolve into AGI, you could actually see the images being drawn... That was with the self-booting floppy versions of King's Quest 1 and 2.