![]() ![]() There's a rather lax time limit, Larry has seven real-time hours to beat the game. Graphics are very simple EGA sprites except for the detailed pictures of women. Larry's movements are controlled with the arrow keys and commands must be typed into a text parser. Easier said than done, especially for an aging, physically unimpressive nerd with poor taste in fashion! ![]() ![]() In a desperate bid to turn his life around, Larry has takes a trip to the casino city of Lost Wages, in the hopes of losing his virginity, and maybe even finding true love. ![]() note (Which in the 80s was considered to be the mark of a failure much more than it is now) But when his mother decides to sell her house and go on an indefinite cruise around the world, Larry ended up homeless and it was then that he came to a revelation: he has never found true love, even more shamefully, he is still a virgin! Larry is an aging computer programmer, who has been living his mother's basement for most of his adulthood. Instead, he came up with the idea of turning the protagonist into a rather pathetic, yet lovable loser and played the plot entirely for laughs. Well, Al looked over the game, and concluded that it was so poorly written and outdated that a straight-up remake would only be an exercise in bad taste. Sierra hoped that remaking the game with the new, more modern development tools at their disposal could bring in some quick cash. Al Lowe was then called in to remake a game from Sierra's back catalogue, a little known title Softporn Adventure, a game that contained Exactly What It Says on the Tin that had been released in 1981. The game was conceptualized after a deal between Sierra and Disney about creating an adventure based on Disney's properties fell through, and a replacement was needed. It's the first installment in the Leisure Suit Larry series. Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards is a video game programmed, co-written, and designed by Al Lowe (who also composed the soundtrack) and published by Sierra in 1987. ![]()
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