Rather than the simple four colors and static images of earlier Sierra games, it allowed players to control their character and see them moving, and to interact with an environment as if it was three dimensional. That same year, though, Roberta Williams wrote the game she’s still best known for, King’s Quest. That game came out three years after Mystery House and was developed by a different company. “The first true graphical adventure, with fully animated visuals, appears to have been Valhalla,” writes Neal Roger Tringham in his book on early video games. Their second game, The Wizard and the Princess, also came out in 1980. After their first game was a modest success, they formed On-Line Systems, which became Sierra On-Line. No programs existed to accommodate the addition of graphics, writes MIT, so Ken Williams wrote one. Previous games for the Apple II and other home computers were text-only, like a choose-your-own-adventure book in game form.
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She didn’t know how to program computers, but Ken Williams, her husband, did, and provided the technical knowhow for Williams's game. “Williams had no experience in gaming or computers-only in simple reading and storytelling,” according to MIT. The detective story, inspired by Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, was the brainchild of pioneering video game designer Roberta Williams, born on this day in 1953.
When you enter, using keyboard commands like “open door,” you meet seven people and the mystery of Mystery House begins. That’s how the first home computer game to include graphics begins. “You are in the front yard of a large abandoned Victorian house.
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