This actually popped up a week or so back, but hasn’t got much play - 1UP has a fun little feature on ‘Two Decades Of Leisure-Suit Larry’, with Chris Kohler quizzing the supremely affable Al Lowe on the history of the lounge lizard himself.
The intro is a good set-up too: “The amount of sexually explicit scenes in every Larry game combined wouldn’t fill a floppy disk. It was the comedy that made the games worth playing, and even that rarely rose above the level of PG-13 gags, sly references that the kids wouldn’t understand anyway. Not to mention that the games had all the tricky puzzles of their family-friendly counterparts.”
The quotes are a little short, and it’s a couple of months late, but we do get some neat insight on why Larry was perversely… girl-friendly? “Although men were the vast majority of Larry players, says Lowe, the games […]
Original post by editors@gamesetwatch.com (simonc) and software by Elliott Back
Recently:
- Interview: EA Korea Studio Head Talks Transitions, Challenges
- The RePlay Files: A Trip To The 1986 JAMMA Arcade Game Show, Part 1
- GameSetLinks: Indie, Indie, Indie
- Interview: Capcom’s Nakai On Remaking Dead Rising For Wii
- GDC 2009 Reveals Localization Summit Specifics
- Postmortem: (I Fell In Love With) The Majesty of Colors’
- 2009 Independent Games Festival Announces Finalists
- GameSetLinks: Requiem For A Dream
- Oh the Humanity!
- Magweasel Extra: EGM Closing, Sorrow Ensues
Category: