leisure suit larry and the lounge lizards

The dawn of true 3-D adventures was upon the gaming industry, but Sierra did not have the cash reserves to retool their flagship titles to the new standard. Lowe’s final Larry game was 1996’s Leisure Suit Larry: Love For Sail. Lowe followed up that game in 1993 with Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up Or Slip Out!. Typical of Lowe’s humorous approach to the series, the fourth game released in 1991 was actually entitled Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work. Lounge Lizards was followed by 1988’s Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking For Love (in Several Wrong Places), which was followed by 1989’s Leisure Suit Larry III: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals. (Al Lowe claims the ratio to be 100,000 Apple II PCs and 25,000 Softporn games sold, but his statement may have been a little bit of poetic license.) Here’s a little historical tidbit for you: check out the lady on the right in the pic above…that’s Roberta Williams, in the buff.Īl Lowe’s creation sold well enough that sequels were a highly anticipated inevitability. Given that the Software Piracy Association’s estimated piracy rate was 40%, it was more likely that there were 70,000 copies floating around, which would be closer to 20% total market penetration. Considering Apple had sold around 350,000 Apple II systems by 1981, Softporn Adventure was a decent sized hit. The game revolved around the player finding various inventory items to get into the pants of several women – sound familiar? Softporn Adventure was released for the Apple II system in 1981, selling 50,000 units for its publisher, On-Line Systems, (which eventually became Sierra On-Line).

Box art for Softporn Adventure by On-Line Systemsīy his own admission, Al Lowe based much of Leisure Suit Larry on an old text adventure game written by Chuck Benton called Softporn Adventure.

Leisure suit larry and the lounge lizards