Poster:B.C.'s Quest for Tires Poster

Laine Nooney, a video games historian and postdoc researcher at NYU, collected this group of materials while conducting oral histories with former employees of Sierra On-Line in 2014. This item belonged to Dale Carlson, head of Quality Assurance and Director of Future Technologies for Sierra.

Founded in 1979, Sierra On-Line grew into one of the largest computer game companies in the 1980s and 1990s, and they produced some of the most popular and influential games of the era. These include the first graphical computer adventure, Mystery House, the first third-person graphical adventure game, King's Quest (plus its many sequels). Other popular titles include The Black Cauldron, Mixed-Up Mother Goose, Leisure Suit Larry, Gabriel Knight, and Phantasmagoria. Sierra is also famous for pioneering the use of animation, video, and humor in computer games.