[rtrooney]

@K - Nice charts! I mean it. That took some work. But do have one issue with one of your comments: "Sierra and LEC had failed to see the potential of the CD-ROM"

One of the complaints about Sierra, in the day, was that they were the ones that continually pushed the envelope requiring better machines to play thier games. They were the first to push games from 2088 to 386 to 486 to 586 and beyond. Several Sierra games in the compendium were the "last of their kind" for a given platform. Example, Freddy Pharkus Frontier Pharmacist was the last Sierra game to play on a 486 platform. You wanted to play newer games, it required a system upgrade. I'll say the same about CD-based games. I don't recall what the last disc-based game was, but once Phantasmagoria was released you never saw another disc-based game from Sierra.

They may not have exploited the medium, but they certainly were among the first in line to adopt it.