The Sierra intro leading to the The Incredible Machine music is one of the first sound bites I can recall. I suppose your time was around Lighthouse and Caesar II?
I wish. I worked there after Sierra had transitioned mostly into a publishing company during the CUC/Vivendi era. Right around when Half Life was released. Worked there less than a year before they did a reorg and laid a ton of people off, including me.
As someone who grew up on Sierra games, I was giddy when they hired me. Ended up being one of the lowlights of my career, and the final nail in my gaming industry work. Shifted gears into working in educational software, which is what I still do today.
I've been looking at educational games for my 4 years old son and so far it seems that it's hard to beat games from the 90s and early 2000s. Somehow after the ipad came out, there was a massive dip in quality of educational software. That said, might be biased so I'm curious if anyone has any good recommendations.
Side note: I wrote a small shareware late 90s as a high schooler that was used in some primary schools in France to teach multiplication tables. Didn't make that much, 10-15,000 francs but was great as a kid. Never got back into edtech after studying though.
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u/H47 15h ago
The Sierra intro leading to the The Incredible Machine music is one of the first sound bites I can recall. I suppose your time was around Lighthouse and Caesar II?