Kenneth A. Williams (born October 30, 1954) is an American businessman and game programmer who co-founded On-Line Systems together with his wife Roberta...
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singer Ken Williams (composer) (born 1952), Canadian composer for film and television Ken Williams (game developer) (born 1954), computer game developer and...
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who co-founded Sierra On-Line with her husband, game developer Ken Williams. In 1980, her first game, Mystery House, became a modest commercial success;...
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The Game Developers Choice Awards are awards annually presented at the Game Developers Conference for outstanding game developers and games. Introduced...
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games, and defunct video game companies for a more specific list of companies that no longer exist. Many of the developers publish their own games. Contents...
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Sierra Entertainment (redirect from Paint Ball (video game))
video game developer and publisher founded in 1979 by Ken and Roberta Williams. The company is known for pioneering the graphic adventure game genre,...
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The Build Engine is a first-person shooter engine created by Ken Silverman, author of Ken's Labyrinth, for 3D Realms. Like the Doom engine, the Build Engine...
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BioShock Infinite (category Game Developers Choice Award winners)
director Ken Levine were initially uninterested in creating a sequel, but they later renegotiated with 2K to produce another BioShock game. Irrational...
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a 1981 horizontally scrolling shooter video game developed by Williams Electronics for arcades. The game is set on either an unnamed planet or city (depending...
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List of Sierra Entertainment video games (category Video game lists by company)
software label which publishes games from indie developers. Founded in 1979 by Ken and Roberta Williams, it developed and published a large variety of...
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tops list of Game Developers Choice nominees". Polygon. Archived from the original on January 5, 2019. Retrieved January 6, 2019. Williams, Mike (March...
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Mystery House (redirect from Mystery House (computer game))
adventure game released by On-Line Systems in 1980. It was designed, written and illustrated by Roberta Williams, and programmed by Ken Williams for the...
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Kenneth Alan Lobb (also credited as Ken Lobb, KAL, and K. Lobb) is an American video game designer formerly employed by Taxan USA Corp., Namco Hometek...
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Bubbles is a 2D action game developed by Williams Electronics and released in arcades in 1982. The player uses a joystick to control a bubble in a kitchen...
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is an action game developed by Williams Electronics and released in arcades in 1982. While not the first two-player cooperative video game, Joust's success...
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Warren Schwader and Ken Williams for the Apple II and published by On-Line Systems in 1981. Based on Sega's Astro Blaster arcade video game, Threshold introduces...
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Sinistar (category Williams video games)
Sinistar is a 1983 multidirectional shooter arcade video game developed and manufactured by Williams Electronics. It was created by Sam Dicker, Jack Haeger...
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Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings: The Rise and Fall of Sierra On-Line (category Video game book stubs)
Fall of Sierra On-Line is a memoir by Ken Williams, co-founder and former CEO of defunct American video game developer and publisher Sierra On-Line. Published...
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Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball is a 1994 baseball video game developed by Software Creations and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo...
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Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits is a video game anthology of Williams Entertainment's early arcade games from the golden age of arcade games. The title...
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Phantasmagoria is a point-and-click adventure horror video game designed by Roberta Williams for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows and released by Sierra On-Line...
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a game developer conference at which he was presenting. The delay in writing the game also led to complications between Harris and his employer, Ken Williams...
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Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards (redirect from Leisure Suit Larry (video game))
Lowe served as director and designer, also helping to program the game, and Ken Williams became executive producer. Other key people included Stuart Moulder...
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Colossal Cave Adventure (redirect from Adventure (text game))
adventure game, released in 1976 by developer Will Crowther for the PDP-10 mainframe computer. It was expanded upon in 1977 by Don Woods. In the game, the...
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between a film and a video game led Williams to walk out of the meeting and threaten to leave the project until her husband Ken, head of Sierra, stepped...
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BioShock (series) (redirect from BioShock (video game series))
BioShock is a retrofuturistic video game series created by Ken Levine, published by 2K and developed by several studios, including Irrational Games and...
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Jim Walls (category American video game designers)
officer from 1971 to 1986, Walls met Sierra president Ken Williams, who wished to create an adventure game in the police procedural genre. Walls, though inexperienced...
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fighting game, the third in the Killer Instinct series, originally developed by Double Helix Games, followed by Iron Galaxy, under supervision of Ken Lobb...
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including Reggie Fils-Aimé, Al Pacino, Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, and Ken and Roberta Williams. The show introduced a new Best Adaptation award for media adapted...
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Star Rider (category Williams video games)
LaserDisc video game developed by Computer Creations and Williams Electronics, and released for arcades in 1983. The object of the game is to win a futuristic...
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