In the first game, in which series hero Sonny Bonds was a California patrol officer in the fictional town of Lytton, it meant pulling people over and spending a lot of time gambling undercover. The concept was ambitious, as Ken Williams and former police officer Jim Walls sought to create an interactive crime thriller not only set in the real world but beholden to actual regulations and procedure. Of Sierra’s Quest Family, Police Quest is probably the most underappreciated series. But with appreciation slowly returning for these classics, it seems a fitting time to re-examine the best works developed by this dream-factory.
#Ranking the best detective games software#
For many of us, these were our introduction not just to computer games, but to computers in general I can’t say for sure that I’d know half of what I do about Windows if Ken and Roberta Williams didn’t force me to make sure I had sufficient “heap space” to run their software (and if you get THAT reference, you probably need a hug and a good cry).
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But for much the ’80’s and ’90s, Sierra was an indisputable powerhouse and set the standard for the graphical exploration-based game heck, they practically invented it.Īs with a lot of older pieces of entertainment, it can be difficult to look at these titles without one’s judgment getting completely be-fogged by nostalgia. Now, it and fellow adventure legend LucasArts are both seen as icons of a bygone age though, perhaps “bygone” isn’t exactly the right word, seeing as adventure games seem to be having a comeback. With that legendary crest logo and accompanying theme, they were, in there heyday, like the Hollywood of electronic entertainment, or at least the Disney.
The name alone is enough to conjure up titanic waves of nostalgia for any gamer with a sense of history.
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