Missing in Action: Gabriel Knight 4

Looking to the Past

During the ’80s and ’90s, Sierra Online was a pioneer and major player in the computer software market, particularly in the graphic adventure genre. They introduced important innovations to adventure games, which had been purely text-based experiences with parser interfaces until then. Sierra introduced actual graphics to the genre – primitive and crude line drawings at first, and more elaborate as time went on, culminating in cutting edge full-motion video and early 3D graphics. Later, they helped to replace text interfaces with point-and-click controlled games.