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Due to conflicting reasons, a game in the series titled #4 was ever released.
This "fifth" game was the first of the series that used the new icon interface and
VGA graphics. It is also notable that unlike all previous games in the series, Larry
cannot die and the game cannot be brought in an unwinnable state. The player controls
both Larry and Patti as in Larry 3, but this time alternatively (when one character
finishes a mission, the scenario automatically switches to the other). The absence
of the fourth game is itself used as a plot element: Julius Biggs has stolen the
'missing floppies' of the game and so Larry Laffer appears amnesiac. Larry is now
working for PornProdCorp, and is sent across the US to find three sexy girls to appear
in a new TV show. Meanwhile, Patti is assigned by the FBI to find incriminating
evidence against two music companies. The action is broken by cutscenes showing mob
personnel working to eliminate their porn competition: they donate money to a group
called CANE (Conservatives Against Nearly Everything), who strive to enact
television-regulation legislation (which would neutralize the threat that
increasingly-racy TV shows pose to the porn industry). The scenarios finally merge
at the end of the game. |