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Yes this is yet sierra fan site, I've created it for a few reasons...
For several years I was a web developer, but have since moved on to other things. I spent a lot of years learning web skills, and don't want to lose them, so I decided I to create a hobby site to play with. For years I've been wanting to create a site for my Sierra Collection, but just never had the time or energy after a day of coding at work. Well, I no longer code for work, so I'm finally trying to make the time for a Sierra site.
So, I've put together a thoroughly normalized database, populated with what I could off the net, and from my own collection, wrote some code to generate most of the site pages from the database, designed the interface, and well, this is the site so far.
Lots of work left to do, and I'm hoping there are people out there willing to contribute their time and knowledge to fill in the blanks.
Why Sierra?
I was exposed to computers from an early age, the first was an atari 2600 console system, the next a commodore vic-20 (purchased used when I was in grade 3), growing up on a farm left me with some slow summer days when I was younger to learn about programming, and develop an interest in computers in general, so when I finally had some money saved up, I purchased a Tandy 1000SX (1 floppy, 384k, 16 shades of green) from a local Radio Shack (1988 I think, so I was getting a pretty old model). Mainly to help with school, as I was, and am, a terrible speller, and trust me, the word processor probably saved my academic life.
I had some money left over the day I picked up the PC, so I decided I wanted to buy a game, and there was this set of three games called the "Sierra Value Pack" that would work with my new Tandy, on sale for $50. The pack contained Helicopter Simulator, Thexder and Space Quest II.
I brought the system home, set it up, and started checking things out.
The first thing I noticed was the sound, specifically Thexder's intro with moonlight sonata, the next were the graphics, and the interactive animation quality of Space Quest II, even in 16 shades of green (as I said, I had a monochrome monitor) the images were fair more detailed than what I was used to, I didn't realize it until later, but the Tandy was one of the best PC's for playing Sierra games at the time, with the 3-Voice chip and 16 color graphics.
The finally thing that caught and held my attention was the puzzles, humor and death scenes. Space Quest II was a pretty warped little game.
Ever since then, I've had a thing for the early Sierra games, the bizarre humor, silly, and sometimes senseless puzzle logic, great sound, and for it's day, incredible animation.
They gave my mind a workout that I might have missed otherwise, and helped put me on a path I may have missed, I respect them for that, and have created this site in the memory of the Sierra that was, and for people like me, who were in someway shaped by these games, and as a way to practice the skill that these games encouraged me to learn (for a while in high-school I wanted to program so I could work a Sierra).
To the Sierra I knew
fatally injured in 1996
shut down 1999
Rest in Peace.