Wanting to license all the Sierra properties – need your help, Ken/Roberta

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Ken & Roberta,

I’m not sure if you remember who I am.  When I was 12 I sent in a letter to you, quadruple spaced on a typewriter asking to beta test your games, telling you how many bugs I’ve found in the previous King’s Quest I game.  When I called (a follow up) several weeks later, Cyndi (your assistant at the time) passed me over to Guruka and I became your first teenage beta tester.  I then went to work for you after college.  I’m still a huge fan to be perfectly honest.  I actually still keep in touch with Jerry Bowerman since he now also lives in Austin as well.

I was wondering if you could help me.  I’ve got a new cross platform development company (before you say you don’t want to do anything in the industry please hear me out) and I really believe in digital distribution.  I think it’s the wave of the future and I fully believe that we can still capitalize on the Sierra fan base since it’s now an older demographic and those “retro” games are extremely popular (I can show you charts that have a very solid ROI on all retro titles for XBOX Live Arcade downloads.  The help I need is going in to Activision with your muscle and getting those properties out so we can re-tool them for digital download one at a time.  And then once we’re done releasing them one at a time I’d like to release the entire pack online as well as at retail.  Please let me know if you’re willing to help.  I know you don’t want to jump back in to the business but since this is your baby and all; and since Bobby Kotick at Activision isn’t doing JACK with the highly valuable Sierra properties I figured you and Roberta would like to help me save them.  Please let me know what you think.

Best as always,
-Paul Trowe
paul@L337media.com
512-970-0097 mobile

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Guruka Singh Khalsa seemed to be involved in some of the more visible games at Sierra that got a lot of accolade and positive responses. I was wondering what happened to him. Is he still designing games?

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This would be cool……… especially the Windows titles tweaked to be able to work in 64bit. 🙂

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Remember that the Sierra DOS games can easily be run in DOSBox on Win64, Mac OSX, Linux, etc. Check my site for new installers that will setup the games in DOSBox for you. http://www.sierrahelp.com/Patches-Updates/DOSBoxInstallers.html

It is the few Windows only games that are a problem. For some of those, see http://www.squirtthecat.com/ for new installers.

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