| Leisure Suit Larry in The Land Of The Lounge Lizards | Sierra On-Line | 1987 | |
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First introduced in Softporn Adventure, Larry Laffer became the star of a funny
series of adult point-and-click adventures with sexual situations aplenty. This was one
of the first completely graphical adventure games with 16 color EGA graphics. It used the Adventure Game Interpreter (AGI) engine and was later remade with VGA graphics in 1991.
Larry is a 38-year old virgin. After leaving behind his geeky life, he decides to visit
the sinful city of Lost Wages, experience what he hasn't lived before, and find the
woman of his dreams. Locations within the city include a casino-hotel, a disco, a
convenience store, a cheap vegas-style wedding chapel, and Lefty's Bar. Larry's quest
involves four women: a prostitute (which leaves Larry's need for love unsatisfied),
Fawn (a material girl of low moral fibre), Faith (a faithful girlfriend of someone
that is not Larry), and Eve (Larry's girl for this game). The game is realistic in that
the player has to take care of his money, which is spent whenever he travels with taxi
or buys things. A way to augment the amount, is to play in the casino Black Jack or
slot machines which is obligatory at least twice during play (perhaps the most infamous
sequences in the game). Because of the nature of the game, it featured an age
verification system, which consisted of a series of questions to which the authors
reasoned only adults would know the answer. Today, the game is regarded as the first
adult graphic adventure and the first comedy game for the PC. Sierra management was
unsure about how the game might be received and released the game without a publicity
or advertising budget. Many of the large computer chain stores refused to sell it,
finding the content unacceptable for their customers. Unsurprisingly, its first-month
sales were lower than any new Sierra product launch in years. However word-of-mouth
quickly spread. By year's end, it became a critical and commercial success, being
named the Software Publishers Association's "Best Fantasy, Role Playing or Adventure
Game of 1987" and selling over 250,000 copies.
Also see: #Leisure Suit Larry 1 VGA Remake |
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