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Hi Ken and Roberta, I am Dan Buske. I have contacted you before. I am the one who helped with the bios setting problem on the canopus video card you sold. And Roberta, if only you would have added mouse control for Mask of Eternity (right mouse forward, left mouse fire) it would have sold more. Thanks for sending me the Nascar game Ken, for helping with the bios settings! I am really disgusted with the new Sierra. Zero support for older games, and the greatest crime: they dropped Adventure Games! Hope you both and your 2 kids are healthy and happy. Thanks for Sierra and all the fun I had playing your games.
Spoiling any Grand Kids Yet?
Daniel J. Buske -
(I always like Sierra) I starting gaming in 1985. The best games out were Sierra Adventure Games. Space Quest, King’s Quest, I bought all the Adventure games. Even at the price at the time of 50 bucks.
Ken and Roberta just were ordinary folks who started making games. They were straight forward and honest. I was really suprised when they sold it. Maybe it would have been better for them to stay a private company.
Do you think Ken and Roberta that Adventure games will make a comeback? There is one called “Journey to the Center of the Earth” coming out. The last good one was “The longest Journey.”
I asked this in the messages section but I will ask here. Are you spoiling any grand kids yet? -
(re: I always like Sierra) Would it have been better for us to have stayed a private company? … the answer is that I honestly don’t know. I also ask myself at least once per day if we would have been better off if we hadn’t sold the company. These kinds of questions make you crazy…
As to grand kids … we wish. Neither of our sons are very good at finding girlfriends. DJ is 30 and Chris is 24. By the time I was 20 I already had a house, a wife and two kids. They’re both good looking, intelligent, and have great jobs — so, I’m not sure what the problem is. Somehow we must have raised them wrong…
On the future of Adventure games: Roberta is absolutely convinced that the market is huge for adventure games, and that it is just a matter of someone making a good one. She says she will consider coming back to the industry when adventure games start selling again.
I’m less optimistic. I do believe there’s room for an adventure game to succeed, but only if it does something new. The old style games are best left in the past. Someone needs to move the state of the art another generation forward. I don’t see any companies innovative enough to do so.
-Ken W -
(re: re: I always like Sierra) Well I have to agree with Roberta, we just need that one Adventure block buster to open the gate.
I have an idea, every time your kids come over bug them about getting girlfriends and having kids. Tell them you want grand children. Of course you would have to be more subtle then that. They will do it just to get you off their back! -
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