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PC Gamer, complete with a special demo-and-other-stuff disc of Sierra products if you took out a subscription. This issue also contains something amusing in retrospect-a two page spread advertising. The official answer to that complaint? "To find even more stuff to be offended about, also check out our latest peek at the juvenile humor of Space Quest 6 (page 28)." Hmmm. Odd, huh? Not as odd as the idea that a picture of a pair of underpants shows disrespect to women, admittedly, but still. This juvenile attempt at humour was totally tasteless, and showed a lack of respect for the many female readers of your magazine." On the same page, along with that picture reprinted: "I want to object to the use of a spaceship that looks like a jockstrap in the pages of your recent magazine. "When my 3 year old daughter opened our issue of InterAction last week, she started to cry when she saw the picture of the bad man hurting the little doggie," kicks off the first one.
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Almost the entire first page of both it, and by extension, the actual magazine is made up of readers complaining. Here's a good example of why InterAction was unusual-the letters page for the "Holiday" 1995 issue. Since you can read any of these issues at your leisure, let's skip forward a little. Wonder how many people write to advertisements these days. As far as Sierra's attempts went, that meant Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within and. Sierra certainly wasn't the only company to make this mistake, not by a long shot, but very, very few realised that there had to be a third pillar there: a game worth playing.
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Still, in retrospect, the claim "We really only need to be able to do two things we can't now: speech and television quality graphics," largely explains why the interactive movie was such a bust for most companies. though the dream turned into a bit of a financial disaster more likely to star a waiter from Cafe Nervosa than Dennis Hopper, unless the company CEO had him as a golfing buddy (opens in new tab). This was a year where the word 'multimedia' was a) exciting and b) had to be explained, with Williams' explanation going on to say "At Sierra, our goal is to someday fulfill our dream of making true interactive films" and "Don't be surprised if someday Hollywood's top actors are performing in Sierra products."īoth ended up happening. There's a fair amount of future-gazing in this issue too, including from Ken Williams. The takeover and collapse of Sierra was brutal and bloody, and the Williams' did indeed go sailing afterwards. I could never not do what I am doing, because I really enjoy it." In fact, that ended up being half-true. "I have dreams of retiring, going off in a sailboat for about two years. The most bittersweet part is when she brings up her retirement plans. I don't know how many of these towels were sold, but I hope the number is between zero and none. It was an InterAction cover star at one point.) Its most famous game in the late '90s? A little something called "Half-Life".
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Sierra became an empire, with multiple development studios and publishing deals. (Needless to say, that happened and then some. The same interview does cover other ground though, including talk of the potential controversy of having a female lead in King's Quest IV (not an industry first, Plundered Hearts having just pipped Princess Rosella to the post, but certainly the first high-profile example) ending up being no big deal, and talk of how one day it would be nice for Sierra to grow big enough for her not to have to do a game every single year. In the same piece, she promotes a mystery game based on Agatha Christie, The Colonel's Bequest, by saying "I'm not really a mystery reader," and Phantasmagoria would later hint that we could probably tack the words "horror watcher" onto that list too. This is Sierra's star designer and co-founder in the official Sierra magazine. But I never sit down to play because I don't have the time." I'll go through a few screens or watch Ken play or watch the kids play. "Nooo," replies Roberta, in one syllable pretty much explaining King's Quest V, Phantasmagoria and the Rumplestiltskin puzzle. "Do you have time to play any computer games yourself?" asks the interviewer.