The three women were Roberta and two other women employees of On-Line Systems. The packaging was revised to include the now famous, or infamous, photo of three topless women in a hot tub.
Ken soon bought the right to publish the game. Softporn proved to be the only adventure game that Ken ever sat down, played straight thru, and solved on his own. Ken met Benton at the Boston AppleFest trade show in 1981 and bought a copy of Benton’s risqué adventure game, Softporn Adventure. One of those independent developers was Chuck Benton. Buoyed by this success On-line Systems shifted from business software to adventure games.īesides doing in-house game development, the company also started to publish games from independent game developers. Released in 1980 Mystery House sold 15,000 copies sold and earned some $167,000 (about $565,000 today). Thus, with Roberta designing and Ken doing some programming, they developed Mystery House, the first graphic adventure game. But the couple soon discovered text adventure games and Roberta had the brainwave of adding graphics to such adventure games. The husband-and-wife team of Ken and Roberta Williams founded Sierra Entertainment as On-Line Systems in 1979 to develop and market business software for the TRS-80 and Apple II.
“This game is so out of date, anybody who plays it would have to wear a leisure suit.”
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