{"id":186781,"date":"2024-08-05T19:30:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T00:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/?p=186781"},"modified":"2024-08-05T19:56:38","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T00:56:38","slug":"sierra-online-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2024\/08\/05\/sierra-online-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"New documentary will take us back to the beginning of adventure games with the story of Sierra On-Line \u2014\u00a0now in its last day of crowdfunding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sierra On-Line was a mainstay in classic adventure games, and a new documentary promises to unravel the story behind the company and its many games. (Side note: the Sierra game library eventually found its way into Activision&#8217;s hands, which means it&#8217;s now in Microsoft&#8217;s hands.) The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerkit.com\/c\/projects\/legends-of-adventure\/legends-of-adventure\"><em>Legends of Adventure: The Story of Sierra On-Line<\/em><\/a> campaign is in its last 24 hours on Backerkit, and will end on August 6.<\/p>\n<p>The project appears to be doing well: the documentary is fully funded and the first interviews \u2014 with Sierra founders Ken and Roberta Williams \u2014 have already been recorded. Ken explains that it&#8217;s &#8220;a story that has good guys, bad guys, and a lot of crazy stuff.&#8221; Well, <em>we&#8217;ll be the judge of that.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"arve\" data-mode=\"normal\" data-oembed=\"1\" data-provider=\"youtube\" id=\"arve-youtube-0wqapcjrwko66dfceebf3991712247467\" style=\"max-width:900px;\">\n<span class=\"arve-inner\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"arve-embed arve-embed--has-aspect-ratio\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 500 \/ 281\"><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen class=\"arve-iframe fitvidsignore\" data-arve=\"arve-youtube-0wqapcjrwko66dfceebf3991712247467\" data-src-no-ap=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/0WqaPCJRwko?feature=oembed&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;autoplay=0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"505.8\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/0WqaPCJRwko?feature=oembed&#038;iv_load_policy=3&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autoplay=0\" width=\"900\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"http:\\\/\\\/schema.org\\\/\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blizzardwatch.com\\\/2024\\\/08\\\/05\\\/sierra-online-documentary\\\/#arve-youtube-0wqapcjrwko66dfceebf3991712247467\",\"type\":\"VideoObject\",\"embedURL\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\\\/embed\\\/0WqaPCJRwko?feature=oembed&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&autohide=1&playsinline=0&autoplay=0\"}<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Legends of Adventure<\/em> is now well over 400% funded, and in addition to the core documentary (now expanded with more interviews), the project also includes a full original soundtrack, a six-part mini-documentary series covering classic Sierra games, and a Legends of Adventure book telling the story of the company.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re now into the last day of the campaign if you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerkit.com\/c\/projects\/legends-of-adventure\/legends-of-adventure\/pledge_levels\">back the project<\/a> and pre-order the documentary (in digital or physical formats) \u2014 but as with most crowdfunding projects there isn&#8217;t a hard release date yet.<\/p>\n<p><em>Originally published July 18, 2024; updated August 5, 2024.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sierra On-Line was a mainstay in classic adventure games, and a new documentary promises to unravel the story behind the company and its many games. (Side note: the Sierra game library eventually found its way into Activision&#8217;s hands, which means it&#8217;s now in Microsoft&#8217;s hands.) The Legends of Adventure: The Story of Sierra On-Line campaign&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":187230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43498,66854],"tags":[78707,16707,78706],"yst_prominent_words":[9763,10098,9011,8297,13377,16705,21752,12668,18456,8186],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188216,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186781\/revisions\/188216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186781"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=186781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}