Ken Williams Timeline By kylejohnson5 Oct 30, 1954 Born in Evansville, Indiana 1971 Graduated high school a year early at age 16 Nov 4, 1972 Married Roberta Williams, having been 18 for only 5 days 1973 Attended 9-month programming trade school, Control Data Institute, in Los Angeles 1973 Dropped out of college 1979 Founded On-Line Systems with wife Period: 1979 to 1996 Sierra On-Line's Chairman and CEO 1980 Programmed the first graphical adventure game: "Mystery House" 1981 Discovered "Softporn Adventure" at a trade show and released it for On-Line Systems 1982 Renamed company to Sierra On-Line 1983 Released first installment in popular King's Quest series 1983 Wrote Textbook: "Apple II Computer Graphics" 1990 Produced King's Quest 5: sold 500,000 copies and won Best Adventure Game of the Year 1996 Sold Sierra for $1.5 billion to CUC International 1998 Retired at age 44 1998 Started a dot-com called Talkspot, that does entertainment broadcasting
