Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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]
The total sales of the first five Leisure Suit Larry games had surpassed 2 million copies by the time of Love for Sale ' s launch. [ 6 ] In the May 1990 edition of Games International , Theo Clarke commented that front-loading the credits at the start of the game by inserting them into an opening sequence that cannot be skipped "makes Leisure ...
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 ...
It is known for its graphical adventure game series King's Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest, Gabriel Knight, Leisure Suit Larry, and Quest for Glory, and as the original publisher of Valve's Half-Life series. After seventeen years as an independent company, Sierra was acquired by CUC International in February 1996 to become part of CUC Software ...
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]
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 ...
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.