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Leisure Suit Larry is an adult-themed sex comedy video game series created by Al Lowe.Drawing inspiration from Softporn Adventure, the Leisure Suit Larry series centers on Larry Laffer—a middle-aged man known for his balding head, penchant for double entendre, and iconic leisure suits. [1]
In 2003, Sierra Entertainment announced that the Leisure Suit Larry franchise was being revived with a seventh game, called Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude. This is the first game in which Al Lowe is not involved in any way, as this game was created by game developer High Voltage Software, Inc. On his website, Lowe talks about how he was in ...
Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded is a point-and-click adventure game released on June 27, 2013, by N-Fusion Interactive, Intermarum and Replay Games working with series creator Al Lowe and intellectual property holder Codemasters. The game is available for Microsoft Windows via Steam [3] and GOG, OS X, Linux, [4] Android and iOS.
Unlike most games in the '80s and '90s, the Leisure Suit Larry series dared to be risqué. The creators didn't shy away from then-taboo content like sexual humor and nudity, which is one of the ...
The total sales of the first five Leisure Suit Larry games had surpassed 2 million copies by the time of Love for Sail ' s launch. [5] Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places) received mostly highly positive reviews upon its release, including the overall scores of 9/10 from Commodore User and 90% from Computer & Video ...
Leisure Suit Larry 6 debuted at #6 on PC Research's computer game sales chart for the month of November 1993. [10] It placed variously in sixth and seventh for the next three months. [11] [12] [13] Al Lowe has said that each game in the Leisure Suit Larry franchise, including Leisure Suit Larry 6, sold over 250,000 copies. [14]
With Leisure Suit Larry III, Sierra decided to return to the adult-oriented themes, which were almost absent from Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (In Several Wrong Places). The artistic style of the game's characters (particularly Larry) are more cartoony and exaggerated than in the previous game, which opted for a realistic approach. [1]
Regarding Larry's male chauvinism, his designer Al Lowe said that Larry is intended as a satire of that type of man, rather than an endorsement of it. Lowe said he looked for an unconventional adventure game protagonist that could be "butt of all the jokes" in a game that would not be about saving the world or rescuing princesses but would rather deal with adult themes using humor.