Sir-Tech
Sir-Tech Software, Inc., branded as just Sir-Tech, was a video game developer and publisher from 1979-2003.
The company was originally founded in the USA as Sirotech Software in 1979 by Norman Sirotek and Robert Woodhead to publish a database management program called Info Tree, but they quickly changed direction to publish video games and, in 1981, changed their name to Sir-Tech Software.
For its first ten years, the company existed primarily to publish their very successful Wizardry series, although it did occasionally publish other titles as well. In the mid-1990s, Sir-Tech picked up two other successful franchises, Realms of Arkania and Jagged Alliance. The company opened an office in Canada in 1994, but began seeing reduced sales in the later 1990s. They closed down their US office in 1998, and finally shut down the Canada office when they went out of business in 2003.
Personal
My first experience with Sir-Tech was around 1991 when, on a whim, I bought a discounted copy of Wizardry: Bane of the Cosmic Forge at RadioShack (which sold a special censored version of the game). Although I found the game to be very slow paced, my friend Kevin and I would spend hours playing the game. Not too long after, I found that Wizardry: Crusaders of the Dark Savant had been released and bought it. My friend and I abandoned Bane to play it. We sunk countless hours into it as well, and, when the Gold version came out, my friend bought it assuming it was the next game in the series, and were disappointed it was just an updated version of Crusaders. We never beat either game, and, while I had decent memories of each, I now find them both severely flawed and have little desire to return to them. I never played any other Sir-Tech games around the time.
Games
These are the games Sir-Tech worked on that are important to me. For all Sir-Tech games, see the categories for games developed or published.
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