Okay I need some help, I have been looking absolutely everywhere for Ken Williams old Campaign pictures that were plastered on bus stop benches and billboards. Specifically the “Would you let this man sell your house? What about this one?” and the “wanted” signs. Such a creepy/funny way to go about advertising and I absolutely love it haha.
Chuck Webb
- 100m - 10.68
- 1987 Ohio AAA State Champion in 100m
Will Hernandez
- Shot Put (HS) - 54' 04.75
- Discus (HS) - 167' 06
- 2013 Nevada 3A State Champion in Shot Put & Discus
Duke Williams
- Triple Jump - 49' 0
- 2009 Nevada 4A State Champion in Triple Jump
- 2008 Nevada 4A State Champion in 4x100m
Josh Mauga
- Discus (HS) - 186' 03
- 2005 Nevada 4A State Champion in Discus
Ben Jacobs
- Discus (HS) - 160' 01
- 2006 Nevada 4A State Champion in Discus
Jeff Powell
- 110mH (HS) - 13.7
- 300mH - 37.4
- 120ydH - 13.7
- 330ydH - 38.3
- 1981 Tennessee AAA State Champion in 110m Hurdles and 300m Hurdles
- 1980 Tennessee AAA State Champion in 120yd Hurdles and 330yd Hurdles
Will Blackmon
- 200m - 22.2
- High Jump - 5' 04
- 2002 Rhode Island A State Champion in 100m & 4x100m
Steve Furness
- Shot Put (HS) - 50' 06.5
- 1968 Rhode Island A State Champion in Shot Put
Jamie Silva
- 100m - 11.8
- Long Jump - 19' 04
- Shot Put (HS) - 47' 11.5
- Hammer (HS) - 139' 11
- Rhode Island A State Champion in Shot Put in 2001, 2002 & 2003
Deon Anderson
- Triple Jump - 39' 10
- Shot Put (HS) - 44' 03
Earl Audet
- Shot Put (HS) - 47' 06.25
- Discus (HS) - 104' 11
- Hammer (HS) - 143' 05
- 1938 Rhode Island B State Champion in Shot Put & Hammer
Ken Steinmetz
- Shot Put (HS) - 46' 08.5
- Discus (College) - 106' 11
- Javelin (Old) - 171' 03
- 1942 Rhode Island B State Champion in Shot Put, Discus & Javelin
Gordon Polofsky
- Javelin (Old) - 171' 11.75
- 1947 Rhode Island A State Champion in Javelin
Fred Whittingham
- Discus (College) - 127' 04
- 1956 Rhode Island A State Champion in Discus
"Dear former Sierra employees,
Roberta and I wish to express our deepest sympathies for the recent loss of your jobs. Hopefully, it will not be long before you resume work at Sierra in Seattle, or at some other company... in Oakhurst, or elsewhere. According to tradition, I'm supposed to say something uplifting and motivational to help everyone feel better. Unfortunately, I have failed at this task. There is really nothing good that can be said. This is a sad ending to Sierra's twenty-year operating history in Oakhurst, which at one time, represented over 550 Oakhurst-based employees. This story should have had a happy ending, but instead has had a long string of bad news concluding with the shutdown yesterday of all of Sierra's Oakhurst-based product development activities.
The problems began with the move of corporate to Seattle. The move to Seattle was mandated for several reasons, primarily due to the difficulty we were having recruiting senior management staff and software engineers. The relocation, although it was painful for Oakhurst, was instrumental in our tremendous growth from 1993 through 1996. I remain convinced that this relocation was the right decision for Sierra, and that we would not have prospered without it.
I can't say the same about either the sale of The ImagiNation Network (INN) in 1993, or the sale of Sierra itself in 1996. When Sierra started INN in 1991, it was a decade ahead of its time. After investing millions in INN, Sierra found that it did not have the financial resources to support INN's continued operations. In 1993, AT&T sought aggressively to acquire INN, promising to market the service and grow the company. Unfortunately, AT&T lost interest in INN and sold it to AOL, who to my great disappointment, shut INN down.
Sierra, as you know, was purchased by CUC International in 1996. Because CUC was offering to buy the company at a price roughly 90% higher than it was trading, the decision was out of management's hands. At the time of the purchase, we did believe that through consolidation with several Sierra competitors (Blizzard, Knowledge Adventure, Davidson and others), Sierra would become a much stronger company. We had good reason to believe that the acquisition would cause us to grow faster, not shrink. Unfortunately, CUC elected to transfer control of the company to Davidson, and shut down several groups at Sierra. Later, as we all know, CUC was merged with another company, HFS, to form the Ce
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More news on the new Ken Williams game...
So not sure if this has already been posted, it didn't come up in my main page news feed, but...
Ken and Roberta Williams are making a new game.
The impact that King's Quest on the future of gaming really can't be underestimated. At a time where most of its contemporaries had, at most, the thinnest of plots to excuse the action, King's Quest was one of the earliest games (other than, perhaps, text-based RPGs) to truly integrate the plot with gameplay.
This isn't even getting into just out profoundly influential Sierra On-Line was in the early days of computer gaming. The news of Ken and Roberta making a new game is to gamers, without hyperbole, what Zeppelin reuniting for a new tour would be for rock fans.
Update: Thanks for the response! I'm out of codes at the moment (unless you're in the UK - I have some of those codes - PM me) but you can still get the audiobook for free with a 30 day Audible trial (which you can cancel and keep the audiobook if you like). Use this link: https://www.audible.com/pd/B08R6M34H9/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWU-BK-ACX0-229016&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_229016_pd_us
So, I'm going to be interviewing Ken Williams (founder of Sierra) in regard to his excellent new book, Not All Fairytales Have Happy Endings. Anyone out there have any burning questions you'd like me to ask Mr. Williams?
Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings by Ken Williams just released.
Printed book: https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/ken-williams/not-all-fairy-tales-have-happy-endings/paperback/product-5jgwme.html
Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Fairy-Tales-Happy-Endings-Line-ebook/dp/B08KG2XLMR
Haven't read it yet. But 408 pages of Sierra history gotta be interesting for most of us around here. Lets hope it's a good one.
ken sent me 😛
