Box art for Softporn Adventure by On-Line Systemsīy his own admission, Al Lowe based much of Leisure Suit Larry on an old text adventure game written by Chuck Benton called Softporn Adventure. He completed a few games ( Troll’s Tale and Dragon’s Keepwere two of them) and sold them to the fledgling Sierra On-Line company, and stayed with them for 16 years. He enjoyed playing games, and decided to teach himself programming to make his own, and enter a new career. Based on that body of work, who knew that Al Lowe would have such a twisted sense of humor? Al Lowe was an accomplished musician ( complete with a degree in music), and had spent 15 years in the public school system teaching music. The creative force tapped to make Leisure Suit Larry a reality was a programmer at Sierra who had previously guided some of the Disney licenses, such as The Black Cauldron, Donald Duck’s Playground, and Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood. If Larry could get lucky, any of us could, darn it! Leisure Suit Larry creator, Al Lowe For many gamers, Leisure Suit Larry symbolized their own struggle to negotiate the turbulent waters of dealing with the opposite gender, and the game struck a nerve. The game began outside a bar with Larry vowing to become an ex-virgin. He dressed in badly dated clothing and wore a gold chain, and by the start of the game, had come to the city of Lost Wages for one last shot at sleeping with a woman. Poor Larry was a luckless virgin with absolutely no game. (A little tidbit: 3D in this case meant “Dancing, Drinking, and Dames.”)īox art for Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards With the release of Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards Sierra On-Line in 1987, the 3D animated adventure game series entered a new, more (im)mature era, and a gaming icon was born. He wasn’t your typical adventure game hero: he was a bumbler, a loser, an everyman shooting for the DD stars. I remember very well the buzz at the gaming table about a certain balding protagonist of a now-classic Sierra adventure game. Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards
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