So, tonight I was chatting with Duke, and we ended up talking about old computer games. The actual conversation chain went something like...
SPEMIN is not a valid scrabble word. Damn, I've seen it somewhere before.
and then
Oh, I remember it from this old school computer game... Starflight.
From here we ended up talking about game software publishers, and Blizzard Entertainment, the makers of the mega-popular Warcraft series, came up. Anyway, that's not really the interesting thing. So, I was curious about the corporate side of Blizzard and found that it was owned by Vivendi Games.
Naturally, I looked into Vivendi Games. I typed www.vivendigames.com into my browser, and I was transported to its website. And, what I see is none other than our old friend, Sierra Entertainment, maker of the amazing King's Quest (among other Quest) series. I mean it's all owned by Vivendi now, but it's amazing to see how companies evolve naturally or forcibly.
Anyway, it's nice to learn something new each day. So, what did I learn?
Sierra is still alive and kicking, and SPEMIN is not a word.
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