Colonel's Bequest
''The Colonel's Bequest'' is a character-driven graphic adventure game by Sierra Entertainment, Sierra On-Line featuring the character of Laura Bow. It was developed for MS-DOS in 1989 in video gaming, 1989. Ports for Amiga and Atari ST were released in 1990 in video gaming, 1990. It was the first of the short-lived ''Laura Bow Mysteries'' series created by Roberta Williams, which used many elements from the game ''Mystery House''. ''The Colonel's Bequest'' was created with SCI0, and employed Color depth#4-bit color, 4-bit color (16 colors) and a typing interface. Its sequel ''The Dagger of Amon Ra'' was released in 1992. Gameplay ''The Colonel's Bequest'' is one of the few Sierra On-Line adventure games to focus more on the characters than puzzles. Although solving puzzles is required to obtain a high score, it is more important to discover information about the characters' backgrounds and relationships with each other. Regardless of the importance of these elements, it is poss ...
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Sierra Entertainment
Sierra Entertainment, Inc. (formerly On-Line Systems and Sierra On-Line, Inc.) was an American video game developer and publisher founded in 1979 by Ken and Roberta Williams. The company is known for pioneering the graphic adventure game genre, including the first such game, ''Mystery House''. It is also known for its graphical adventure game series ''King's Quest'', ''Space Quest'', ''Police Quest'', ''Gabriel Knight'', ''Leisure Suit Larry'', and ''Quest for Glory'', as well as being the original publishers of Valve's ''Half-Life'' series. After seventeen years as an independent company, Sierra was acquired by CUC International in February 1996 to become part of CUC Software. However, CUC International was caught in an accounting scandal in 1998, and many of the original founders of Sierra including the Williamses left the company. Sierra remained as part of CUC Software as it was sold and renamed several times over the next few years; Sierra was formally disestablished as a c ...
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