While frustrating, obtuse, absurd, and a plethora of other adjectives aside, those (early, at least) Sierra games had the benefit of being pretty short. If you

While frustrating, obtuse, absurd, and a plethora of other adjectives aside, those (early, at least) Sierra games had the benefit of being pretty short. If you screwed yourself because you walked over the bridge one time extra in King’s Quest 2, a restart only cost you somewhere in the neighborhood of half an hour. (I’m not sure about later games, though. Maybe they were worse?)