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Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards
Developer(s)	Sierra On-Line
Publisher(s)	Sierra On-Line
Designer(s)	Al Lowe
Series	Leisure Suit Larry
Platform(s)	MS-DOS, Amiga, Apple II, Atari, Apple IIGS, TRS-80
Release date(s)	NA July 5, 1987 (Original Release), NA 1991 (Remake), NA 1997 (Re-release)
Genre(s)	Adventure
Mode(s)	Single-player
Rating(s)	ESRB: M (1997 re-release of the 1991 remake)
Media	Floppy disk
Input methods	Keyboard

Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards is a computer adventure game game first released in 1987, the first part of the Leisure Suit Larry series.^[1] It was a completely graphical adventure game with 16 color EGA graphics. It utilizes the Adventure Game Interpreter (AGI) engine made famous by King's Quest: Quest for the Crown.^[1] Originally developed for DOS and the Apple II, it was later ported to other platforms such as the Amiga, Atari ST, Apple IIGS and the TRS-80 Color Computer. In 1991, Sierra released a remake that used the Sierra's Creative Interpreter (SCI) engine with 256 colors and icon-driven (as opposed to text-based) interface.^[1][2]

Set in the fictional city of Lost Wages, the story follows a middle-aged virgin named Larry Laffer who resolves to sleep with a woman before midnight. Land of the Lounge Lizards establishes several elements which recur in later games, including Larry's out-of-date attire, perpetually bad luck with women,^[3] and penchant for double-entendres. The story and basic structure of the game are lifted from Softporn Adventure, an 1981 Apple II text adventure.^[1][2]

Gameplay

"Lefty's Bar", the opening scene of the game.

The game begins outside a bar in Lost Wages (a parody of Las Vegas, Nevada). Players are given 2 real-time hours to complete the game, at which point a despairing Larry commits suicide, resulting in game over.^[1] The time limit can be circumvented by speaking to a prostitute (see below). Players control Larry's movements with the directional keys and by inputting commands into a text parser (ex: "talk to man", "open window", etc). If Larry is too far away from a person or object to comply, or if the command is invalid, a caution message appears with hints on what to do.

The city consists of five areas: Lefty's Bar, a hotel casino, a 24-hour wedding chapel, a discotheque, and a convenience store.^[2] The only method of travel between screens is by hailing a taxi, which costs the player money; failure to do so results in Larry being mugged or hit by oncoming traffic.^[1] During the early stages of the game, Larry can survive most premature "deaths": In the original release, a compartment opens beneath Larry's body and takes him to a laboratory where heroes from Sierra's computer games — such as King's Quest — are re-assembled; in the remake, Larry's remains are instead thrown inside a blender and reformed.^[1]

A prostitute is available as soon as the game starts. Should Larry attempt to have intercourse with her, he will contract a venereal disease and die shortly thereafter.^[1][2] This fate may be avoided by purchasing a condom at the convenience store; however, Larry questions the validity of losing his virginity to a hooker, and the game resumes^[1] (though the time limit is removed, nonetheless).

Larry's interactions with key women are accompanied by a detailed image of whomever he is speaking with,^[1] unlike other non-player characters. Each of the women (with the exception of the prostitute) shun Larry at first, but respond favorably to gifts of varying sorts. Although it is not possible to woo all of the women, gift-giving is required in order to progress to the game's final area: the hotel penthouse.^[1] To this end, money is essential for progressing through the game, as it is necessary for taxi fare or buying gifts. The main method of augmenting Larry's funds is to gamble in the casino, playing blackjack or slots,^[1] which is obligatory at least twice over the course of the game.

Plot

Larry Laffer is a 40-year old man who lives in a basement and has not yet lost his virginity. Having grown weary of his lonely existence, he decides to visit the resort city of Lost Wages to experience what he hasn't lived before, and find the woman of his dreams. Larry's quest involves four possible women: a nameless, seedy-looking prostitute; Fawn, a club-goer of low moral fibre; Faith, a receptionist who (true to her name) is faithful to her boyfriend; and Eve, a bathing beauty and Larry's ultimate goal.

Comparison screenshots

EGA (1987)

VGA (1991)

Development

Al Lowe, a former high school teacher, had carved a niche for himself at Sierra with his work on such Disney-licensed edutainment titles as Donald Duck's Playground, Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood, and The Black Cauldron, which he wrote, designed and programmed.^[3] Early in the company's history, Sierra had published a text-only game called Softporn Adventure. Years later, with the success of King's Quest and increasing demand for adventure games, company founder Ken Williams asked Lowe to begin programming a full-color, animated game based on a similar adult theme.^[2]

Lowe, who considered the original Softporn Adventure "a primitive, early effort", borrowed its basic structure and added a new 2D graphic engine, improvised humor, and an on-screen protagonist, Larry Laffer.^[1][2] Chuck Benton, creator of Softporn Adventure, is included in the Leisure Suit Larry's end credits, as the layout and puzzles of the game are identical to those found in the earlier title.^[2] An accomplished jazz musician, Lowe also wrote the main theme music, and some of his compositions appear in later entries of the Leisure Suit Larry series.^[1]

Due to the adult nature of the game, the EGA version includes an age verification system consisting of questions to which the authors reasoned only adults would know the answer.^[1][4] As many of the questions are U.S.-centric, they risked frustrating non-American gamers.^[5] If played today, the questions are also out of date and refer to events or people that younger adults might not know about. In the 1987 re-release, the age verification screen may be skipped by pressing Alt-X (or in the 1991 SCI remake, by pressing Ctrl-Alt-X).^[1]

Reception

Unsure of how the game would be received, Sierra's management chose to release the game without any publicity or advertising budget. Unsurprisingly, its first-month sales were lower than any new Sierra product launch in years;^[2] many large computer chain stores refused to sell it, finding the adult content unacceptable.^[2] However, word-of-mouth quickly spread; by year’s end, Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards became a critical and commercial success,^[2][3] being named the Software Publishers Association’s "Best Fantasy, Role Playing or Adventure Game of 1987" and selling over 250,000 copies. According to marketing director John Williams, "Obviously lots of retailers were selling lots of Leisure Suit Larry, but no one wanted to admit it."^[6]

References

External links

• Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards at MobyGames
• Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards at Hardcore Gaming 101

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Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards
Developer(s)	Sierra Entertainment
Publisher(s)	Sierra Entertainment
Designer(s)	Al Lowe
Engine	AGI
Release date(s)	1987
Genre(s)	Adventure
System(s)	MS-DOS, Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, Apple II, Apple IIGS, TRS-80
Series	Leisure Suit Larry

Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards is the very first Leisure Suit Larry game. It was designed by Al Lowe.

This game is a graphical adaptation of Softporn Adventure, and this walkthrough is almost exactly the same.

Table of Contents

Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards/Table of Contents

Obvious differences from Softporn Adventure

• Graphics.
• The game is actually funny. ;)
• You control Leisure Suit Larry.

Not so obvious differences

• Type FAST to speed up the game.
• Type USE SPRAY when characters comment on your breath.

Don't do these things!

Ways to get stuck

• Eating the apple
• Giving items to people (except where the walkthrough indicates)
• Getting tied to the bed before giving the wino some wine

Ways to die or lose the game

• Failing to lose virginity by midnight
• Walking in the street
• Flushing the toilet in the bar
• Getting beat up in the alley
• Going somewhere in a taxi and exiting without paying
• Attempting to steal from the store
• Entering cab while carrying wine
• Catching an STD from the hooker
• Attempting to lick the hooker
• Failing to remove condom after sex
• Eating pills
• Leaning over the railing without using the rope

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Leisure Suit Larry - In The Land Of The Lounge Lizards
Developer(s)	Sierra On-Line
Publisher(s)
Designer(s)	Al Lowe
Engine	AGI
Release date	1987 Remake: 1991
Genre	Adventure
Mode(s)	Single player
Age rating(s)
Platform(s)	PC
Input	Keyboard
Credits | Soundtrack | Codes | Walkthrough

Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards is a computer game first released in 1987, the first part of the Leisure Suit Larry series. It was a completely graphical adventure game with 16 color EGA graphics. It used the Adventure Game Interpreter (AGI) engine. It ran on DOS and the Apple II and was later ported to other platforms such as the Amiga, Atari ST, Apple IIGS and the TRS-80 Color Computer.

In 1991, Sierra released a remake that used the Sierra's Creative Interpreter (SCI) engine with 256 colors and icon-driven (as opposed to text-based) interface.

Storyline

Remake box

Larry Laffer is a 40-year old virgin. After leaving behind his geeky life, he decides to visit the sinful city of Lost Wages (a reference to Las Vegas), experience what he hasn't lived before, and find the woman of his dreams.

Locations within the city of Lost Wages 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 who is not Larry), and Eve (Larry's girl for this game).

An important part of the game is that the player has to take care of his money, which is spent whenever he travels by taxi or buys things. A way to augment the amount is to gamble in the casino, playing Blackjack or slots, which is obligatory at least twice during the course of the game.

Development

Al Lowe, a former high school teacher, had established himself at Sierra with his work on Disney-licensed edutainment titles, Winnie Pooh in the Hundred-Acre Woods, Mickey's Space Adventure, Donald Duck's Playground, and The Black Cauldron, which he wrote, designed and programmed.

He persuaded Sierra’s president, Ken Williams, to begin work on new project based on Softporn Adventure, a text-only adventure game released several years earlier by Sierra. Lowe started with Softporn’s basic story and puzzles and added a new 2D graphic engine, original jokes, and most famously, an on-screen protagonist, Larry Laffer.

"In a time when 'humorous computer game' was an oxymoron and risqué material was a lo-res lo-cut neckline, Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards created quite a stir among computer users," according to Space Quest designer Mark Crowe, who contributed to the game's design.

Even Sierra management was unsure about how the game might be received and released the game without any 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, Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards 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.

Chuck Benton, the creator of Softporn Adventure, is mentioned in the Larry credits, because the entire layout and the puzzles of the game are the same as in Softporn Adventure; the jokes, however, are Lowe's.

Reception

Because of the adult 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. As the questions were U.S.-centric, they frustrated some non-American gamers. (The verification system could be skipped by pressing Alt-X.)

Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards is believed to be one of the most widely pirated PC games of the late 1980s. Sierra sold many more hint books than it did actual copies of the retail game. Curiously, although the game never sold in Russia, a few copies slipped through the Iron Curtain and soon many thousands of illegal copies were circulating, with students playing it on university PC's and exchanging hints on how to progress through the game.

Today, the game is regarded as the first adult graphic adventure.

Trivia

1. A bizarre, unfounded hoax at the time was that the player's computer would catch a computer virus if Larry had unprotected sex with one of the NPCs; in actuality, if Larry has sex in the game with a prostitute without using a condom, he contracts a particularly virulent sexually transmitted infection, his genitals explode and he commits suicide.
2. There is a controversial joke early on in the game, where the player has the ability to try to get Larry to flirt with the male patrons in the bar, only to cause the offended patron to kill Larry.
3. A running joke is the appearance of a black dog that will pee on Larry (perhaps mistaking him for a fire hydrant) when he stands immobile for some time. The dog also appears briefly in the sequel. However when you eat the pills of spanish fly when the dog is in sight, you end up in jail.
4. In the fall of 1988, a virus contained in pirated copies of the game affected computers in Switzerland, West Germany, The Netherlands and Great Britain. This fact became a plot element (as well as an in-joke) for Space Quest IV, where an infected copy of Larry was the cause of destroying the future Xenonian supercomputer.
5. Al Lowe appears in one of the scenes in the game (sitting on a couch in a disco (remake only)).
6. A napkin with the game logo pictured on it was packaged into many retail boxes.
7. Although most players probably never saw it when playing the game, the game does have an imposed time limit. Basically, if Larry makes it through the night without having sex, the player is shown a close-up of Larry holding a gun to his temple. Larry then commits suicide because it's dawn and he's still a virgin. The time limit that controls this incident, however, is set to several hours, and by that time, most gamers had already gotten Larry in bed with the prostitute

References

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