Category Archives: Sierra

Shapeshifters All Around

Posted on June 11, 2026 by Nathan

Dragonsphere – This is a MicroProse point-and-click adventure game from 1994, which is quite similar in its interface to the last two games I played, Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender by the same publisher, and Inherit the Earth … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Arabian, Art, Celtic, Games, Language, lucasarts, Magic, Maps, Mythology, Names, Sierra, Video Games | Tagged bears, bryn-fann, butterfly king, cailleach, dragonsphere, fairies, grand callahach, hightower, king callash, microprose, rex nebular and the cosmic gender bender, rocs, sanwe, seals, shaks, shape shifters, slathan ni patan, snakes, soptus ecliptus, toads, transformation | Leave a comment

Outfoxed

Posted on June 3, 2026 by Nathan

Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb – From 1994, this point-and-click adventure game takes place in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by anthropomorphic animals, called Morphs. It’s pretty short, but generally enjoyable and charming. The graphics are appealing, and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Comics, Lewis Carroll, Maps, Music, Names, Prejudice, quest for glory, Sierra, Technology, Video Games | Tagged aesop, alice in wonderland, boar king, boars, dogs, eeah the elk, elara the cat, elk, erana, ferrets, foxes, inherit the earth, kylas honeyfoot, mazes, okk the boar, quest for the orb, rabbits, rats, rif the fox, robin hood, white rabbit, wolves | 1 Comment

Undoing the Undead

Posted on May 21, 2026 by Nathan

Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness – This is the fourth game in the series, but the number doesn’t officially appear in the title. I think there was kind of a stigma on using numbers for too many sequels at … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Celebrities, Gender, Humor, infocom, lucasarts, Magic, Maps, Medicine, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Prejudice, quest for glory, Russian, Science, Sierra, Slavic, space quest, Video Games, zork | Tagged ad avis, avoozl, baba yaga, domovoi, dr. brain, dr. cranium, erana, fairies, frankenstein, gnomes, gypsies, jack nicholson, leshy, machopolis, microprose, monkey island 2, mordavia, punny bones, quest for glory iii, quest for glory iv, rabbits, rex nebular, rex nebular and the cosmic gender bender, rodney dangerfield, rusalka, shadows of darkness, Street Fighter, vampires, vorpal bunnies, werewolves, wraiths | 1 Comment

A Knight in Jackson Square

Posted on April 22, 2026 by Nathan

Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers – This is a point-and-click supernatural mystery adventure game from Sierra, created by Jane Jensen, who had worked on King’s Quest VI. I played the twentieth anniversary edition, which has souped-up graphics and sound. … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Conspiracy Theories, Dreams, Families, History, Magic, Religion, Sierra, Video Games, Voodoo | Tagged damballa, franklin mosely, gabriel knight, grace nakimura, gunter ritter, jane jensen, loa, malia gedde, murder, schattenjaeger, sins of the fathers, snakes, tetelo | Leave a comment

Curves and Angles

Posted on April 16, 2026 by Nathan

Leather Goddesses of Phobos – Released in 1986, this is an Infocom text adventure with some raunchy elements. They aren’t the main focus of the game, but that kind of thing is usually going to stand out. It’s mostly a campy … Continue reading →

Posted in Gender, Greek Mythology, Humor, infocom, Language, Mathematics, Mythology, Sexuality, Sierra, space quest, Video Games | Tagged aliens, king midas, latex babes of estros, leather goddesses of phobos, mars, mazes, phobos, puzzles, robots, sex, space quest iv, steve meretzky, venus | 2 Comments

Rumble in the Jungle

Posted on April 9, 2026 by Nathan

SpiritWrak – Since I’ve played pretty much all of the official Zork games, I decided to try this fan game that I’d seen mentioned, created by Daniel S. Yu. It definitely feels like something a fan would make, in the … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Animals, Authors, Conspiracy Theories, Egyptian, Food, Humor, infocom, jules verne, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Mythology, Prejudice, quest for glory, Relationships, Sierra, Television, Video Games, zork | Tagged aardvarks, daniel s. yu, demons, dinosaurs, fricana, golems, journey to the center of the earth, katta, kreesha mar asha, laurel and hardy, law, leopardmen, liontaurs, monks, paladins, puzzles, quest for glory i, quest for glory ii, quest for glory iii, rajah sah tarna, rakeesh sah tarna, reeshaka dar kreesha, sanford and son, sekhmet, simbani, spellbreaker, spiritwrak, tarna, tyrannosaurus, wages of war, zork grand inquisitor | 1 Comment

More Kings, More Quests

Posted on March 18, 2026 by Nathan

In the mid-nineties, Sierra officially licensed a series of King’s Quest novels based on the adventure games. From what I’ve seen, neither Roberta Williams nor anyone else who worked on the games had any involvement in these. And really, for … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Fairy Tales, king's quest, Magic, Monsters, Names, Sierra, Video Games | Tagged craig mills, daventry, fairies, farquhar, frogs, giants, gnomes, ifrit, imps, keynon moore, king graham, king's quest ii, king's quest iii, kingdom of sorrow, kuzgu, laburnum, lizards, marella sands, mark sumner, prince alexander, princess rosella, see no weevil, slizard, spiders, telgrin, the floating castle, the pied piper of hamelin, three-toed sloks | 1 Comment

A Sight for Saurus Eyes

Posted on February 26, 2026 by Nathan

Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire – While the first game placed the town and the wild areas on the same grid, this one takes place mostly within the city of Shapeir. It’s in a Middle Eastern setting where … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Animals, Arabian, Art, Dragon Quest, Humor, infocom, king's quest, Language, Magic, Maps, Mario, Medicine, Monsters, Monty Python, Mythology, Names, Politics, quest for glory, Relationships, Sierra, Star Trek, Video Games, zork | Tagged ad avis, ali fakir, amusement parks, belboz, bozbarland, circle of enchanters, demons, dinosaurs, elementals, enchanter, ghouls, gloriana, great underground empire, iblis, jackalmen, jinn, katta, liontaurs, locusts, mazes, paladins, potions, quest for glory ii, rakeesh sah tarna, raseir, saurus, scorpions, shapeir, sorcerer, super mario world, time travel, trial by fire, yoshi | 4 Comments

Mirth and Magic

Posted on February 4, 2026 by Nathan

Celtic Mythology: The Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook, by Sorcha and Aron Hegarty – This a guide to the characters in this mythology, which provides a few pages on the key details of each one, and an lush illustration by … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Arthurian Legend, Authors, Book Reviews, British, Celtic, Christmas, craig shaw gardner, Discworld, Fairy Tales, Greek Mythology, History, Holidays, Humor, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Norse, Pac-Man, Relationships, Sierra, space quest, Star Trek, Television, Terry Pratchett, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged a malady of magicks, aliens, amy myers, anna stead, aphrodite's new temple, aron hegarty, astro chicken, ba hubba tree bob, beatrice wankmeister, brutus of britain, carmen sandiego, celtic mythology, chris genoa, chris geona, cohen the barbarian, conan the barbarian, cornucopia agricorp, david langford, death swatch, dragons at crumbling castle, dragons at crumbling castle and other tales, elmo pug, esther friesner, fall'n into the sear, father christmas, father christmas goes to work, foop!, jack sharkey, james bibby, jeremy spear, king arthur, mabinogion, mike ashley, molly brown, monkeys, peter spear, queen of the green sun, quentin blake, richard lupoff, roald dahl, robots, roger wilco, ruella in love, seven-league boots, sludge vohaul, sorcha hegarty, space quest iii, space quest v, star generator, swineoids, sword and sorcery, tales of the carpet people, the 59a bus goes back in time, the abominable snowman, the distressing damsel, the frog prince, the mammoth book of comic fantasy, the space quest companion, through the looking-glass, time travel, troll bridge, trolls, two guys from andromeda, war of the doom zombies, witches, wizards, yeti | Leave a comment

Eye Between the Worlds

Posted on January 23, 2026 by Nathan

Off with Their Heads!: Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood, by Maria Tatar – This book addresses how fairy tales have been interpreted over time, particularly in terms of how they gradually became primarily for children, and how that led … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Authors, Book Reviews, British, Celtic, Dreams, Fairy Tales, Families, Gender, Greek Mythology, History, Humor, king's quest, Magic, Maps, Music, Mythology, Prejudice, Relationships, Sierra, Video Games, William Shakespeare | Tagged aunt charlotte and the nga portraits, bluebeard, boggarts, bruno bettelheim, childhood, count dracula, crispinophur, daventry, derek karlavaegen, donkeyskin, elves, emily wilde, emily wilde's map of the otherlands, factory, fairies, fauns, greensleeves, incest, instead of three wishes, king graham, king's quest iii, king's quest iv, king's quest v, little red riding hood, llewdor, maria tatar, megan whalen turner, off with their heads!, peter spear, psychology, roberta williams, selkies, serenia, sigmund freud, the baker king, the king's quest companion, the nightmare, wendell bambleby | Leave a comment

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