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| 06:09, January 28, 2026 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Kings Quest 8 Notepad design ocean.jpg (file) |  |
105 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 402. | 1 |
| 06:07, January 28, 2026 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Kings Quest 8 Notepad design idol.jpg (file) |  |
98 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 401. This is unrelated to the book, but I stumbled onto a full notepad of Roberta's scribblings from when she was designing King's Quest 8. Most of her design notes were given to the Strong museum in Rochester New York, but this notepad was hiding. I enjoyed seeing her efforts to design what ultimately became the Mask of Eternity. | 1 |
| 03:58, January 20, 2026 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Starbucks photo.jpg (file) |  |
33 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 374. Photo of Starbucks. | 1 |
| 03:57, January 20, 2026 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Kings Quest 2025 screenshot.jpg (file) |  |
26 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 371. | 1 |
| 03:56, January 20, 2026 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Sierra Stock Certificate.jpg (file) |  |
39 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 363. A souvenir from better times. For years we tracked our sales of PC software against a competitor, Electronic Arts (EA). I told the staff that on the day we topped EA, I would issue EVERYONE in the company ten shares of Sierra stock. It wasn't fast or easy, but we did it! This is Roberta's actual stock certificate, which we keep framed at our home. | 1 |
| 03:54, January 20, 2026 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings David Grenewetzki.jpg (file) |  |
12 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 361. David Grenewetzki (aka Greno). | 1 |
| 03:53, January 20, 2026 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Al Lowe video background.jpg (file) |  |
27 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 353. Al Lowe, author of many hit games for Sierra. One would think that the new Sierra would show proper respect. Yes. One might think that... | 1 |
| 03:51, January 20, 2026 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Rock Quest.jpg (file) |  |
13 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 353. Rock Quest. Would you buy this game? | 1 |
| 03:51, January 20, 2026 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Kings Quest 8 cover.jpg (file) |  |
69 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 348. KQ8 was to be Roberta's last game for Sierra. | 1 |
| 03:50, January 20, 2026 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Cendant share price crash.jpg (file) |  |
14 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 342. The Cendant stock price crash wiped out many at Sierra. | 1 |
| 03:47, January 20, 2026 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Photo of lightning.jpg (file) |  |
19 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 338. As I left Sierra, I remember thinking that "At least things can't get worse." | 1 |
| 03:46, January 20, 2026 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings netMarket logo.jpg (file) |  |
12 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 331. netMarket logo. | 1 |
| 03:45, January 20, 2026 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Photo CUC Annual Report 1997.jpg (file) |  |
37 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 324. Picture from CUC Annual Report in 1997. Left-to-Right: Ken Williams, CUC Public Relations person whose name I don't remember, Kirk Shelton, Walter Forbes, Cosmo Corigliano, Amy Lipton, Chris McLeod. | 1 |
| 03:43, January 20, 2026 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Dennis Cloutier.jpg (file) |  |
20 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 322. Dennis Cloutier. Possibly the best Sales VP who ever lived. | 1 |
| 03:42, January 20, 2026 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Chris McLeod.jpg (file) |  |
7 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 320. Chris McLeod. CUC Office of the President. | 1 |
| 03:41, January 20, 2026 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Sierra Davidson Lucasarts Broderbund logos.jpg (file) |  |
29 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 318. | 1 |
| 03:40, January 20, 2026 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Lobby Bristol Hotel.jpg (file) |  |
60 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 313. Lobby at the Bristol Hotel. I suspect ours wasn't the first deal that originated from these chairs. | 1 |
| 03:39, January 20, 2026 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings TSN Drag on Profits.jpg (file) |  |
9 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 312. Here you can see why it was important to take TSN off of Sierra's financial statements. The start-up costs were a major drag on profits. Without TSN we earned over $16 million in 1996! | 1 |
| 03:38, January 20, 2026 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Sierra Revenue 1992-1996.jpg (file) |  |
11 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 312. From 1992 to 1996 Sierra's revenues from $47 million to nearly $160 million! | 1 |
| 03:37, January 20, 2026 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Walter Forbes.jpg (file) |  |
38 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 310. Walter Forbes. Sierra Board member, and CEO of CUC Corporation. Federal Prisoner # 23905-050 (more on that later). | 1 |
| 03:35, January 20, 2026 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Half-Life Screenshot.jpg (file) |  |
40 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 308. Half-Life. | 1 |
| 03:35, January 20, 2026 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Quake Screenshot.jpg (file) |  |
33 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 307. Quake from id Software. | 1 |
| 03:34, January 20, 2026 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Half-Life Retail Box.jpg (file) |  |
76 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 306. Sierra's entry into the 3D shooter market, a massive hit called Half-Life. | 1 |
| 03:33, January 20, 2026 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Phantasmagoria M-Mature Rating.jpg (file) |  |
9 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 303. Mature rating label. | 1 |
| 03:32, January 20, 2026 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Phantasmagoria Victoria Morsell.jpg (file) |  |
45 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 303. Victoria Morsell, who played Adrienne Delaney in Phantasmagoria. | 1 |
| 03:31, January 20, 2026 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Phantasmagoria 7 CDs.jpg (file) |  |
30 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 302. Phantasmagoria was so large that we had to ship it on seven CD-ROMs! | 1 |
| 05:50, November 29, 2025 | Id Software 1996.jpg (file) |  |
19 KB | id Software logo 1996 | 1 |
| 05:14, November 27, 2025 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Shooting Phantasmagoria.jpg (file) |  |
35 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 301. Shooting Phantasmagoria. | 1 |
| 05:13, November 27, 2025 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Robertas directors chair.jpg (file) |  |
20 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 301. Here's an amazing souvenir that was saved from the production. The back of Roberta's director's chair! | 1 |
| 05:10, November 27, 2025 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Phantasmagoria Behind the scenes.jpg (file) |  |
31 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 299. Behind the scenes on Phantasmagoria. Using blue screen video effects to blend live action and 3D rendered backgrounds. | 1 |
| 05:08, November 27, 2025 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Phantasmagoria box front cover.jpg (file) |  |
30 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 295. Phantasmagoria. Sierra's first game to use live actors. | 1 |
| 05:07, November 27, 2025 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings The Realm screenshot online comment.jpg (file) |  |
34 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 294. I saw one comment online indicating that the Realm was later re-coded in a more traditional programming language (C++). | 1 |
| 05:06, November 27, 2025 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings The Realm packaging back cover.jpg (file) |  |
50 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 294. The Realm is a multiplayer fantasy role playing game played with people from all over the world, over the Internet. Thousands of people meet everyday, to explore, interact, and entertain each other, in this amazing real-time world... | 1 |
| 05:04, November 27, 2025 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings The Realm Starter Kit.jpg (file) |  |
26 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 293. The Realm Starter Kit, sold at retail stores for $49.95, including three months of online play. | 1 |
| 05:03, November 27, 2025 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings The Realm screenshot.jpg (file) |  |
61 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 293. An online massively multiplayer online game, "Just" another Sierra first! | 1 |
| 05:02, November 27, 2025 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings 1981 early Sierra staff.jpg (file) |  |
34 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 287. Left-to-Right: Rob Davis, Warren Schwader, Jeff Stephenson, Eric ?, Rourke Weigandt, John Williams (in 1981). | 1 |
| 05:01, November 27, 2025 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Space Quest III screenshot Rick Cavin.jpg (file) |  |
77 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 286. Rick Cavin cracks the whip. | 1 |
| 05:00, November 27, 2025 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Outpost screenshot.jpg (file) |  |
34 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 283. Outpost should have been Sierra's biggest hit. It had all the potential but just never quite realized its full potential. | 1 |
| 04:59, November 27, 2025 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Outpost box front cover.jpg (file) |  |
24 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 279. Outpost. Proof that Sierra was not perfect. | 1 |
| 04:58, November 27, 2025 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Sierra Corporate Offices Bellevue Washington.jpg (file) |  |
42 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 277. Sierra's Corporate Offices, Bellevue, Washington. | 1 |
| 04:56, November 27, 2025 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Microsoft stock price history.jpg (file) |  |
12 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 275. Microsoft Stock Price History. | 1 |
| 04:53, November 24, 2025 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings California map Oakhurst.jpg (file) |  |
18 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 273. Oakhurst CA. | 1 |
| 04:53, November 24, 2025 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Doom screenshot.jpg (file) |  |
33 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 272. Doom, by Id Software, published in 1993. It could have, and should have, been a Sierra product. | 1 |
| 04:52, November 24, 2025 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Ernas Elderberry House Oakhurst CA.jpg (file) |  |
55 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 270. Erna's Elderberry House, Oakhurst, CA. | 1 |
| 04:51, November 24, 2025 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Wolfenstein 3D screenshot.jpg (file) |  |
34 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 269. Wolfenstein 3D, from Id Software- I think of it as the beginning of the 3D shooter game craze that became much larger than I ever would have expected. | 1 |
| 04:49, November 24, 2025 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Commander Keen screenshot.jpg (file) |  |
69 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 268. Commander Keen, from Id Software. Released in 1990, it was a massive innovation for PC games, and a huge success from Id. Smooth side-scrolling, exactly like a Nintendo console but thru PC hardware, was finally achievable on a PC. | 1 |
| 04:47, November 24, 2025 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Chief Daryl F Gates Funeral.jpg (file) |  |
38 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 265. From an article on Dailynews.com: "In the weeks before he died, bedridden from fighting a losing battle with cancer, former LAPD Chief Daryl F. Gates was visited by an LAPD helicopter hovering outside his hospital window. Even though Gates was weak, he got up, put on his SWAT hat and stood at attention. He continued to salute the crew even as the chopper flew away, tears streaming down his cheeks." | 1 |
| 04:45, November 24, 2025 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Police Quest SWAT Box front cover.jpg (file) |  |
31 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 264. Police Quest SWAT box packaging front cover. | 1 |
| 04:44, November 24, 2025 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Chief Daryl F Gates.jpg (file) |  |
16 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 262. Chief Daryl F. Gates. | 1 |
| 04:43, November 24, 2025 | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Redmond Washington Digipen.jpg (file) |  |
31 KB | Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings Page 258. Redmond WA based Digipen offers Bachelor's degrees in game development. | 1 |
