Monday, June 16, 2008

Leisure Suit Larry

Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards is the first game in the Leisure Suit Larry series.  It is a graphical remake of the text adventure Softporn Adventure.  It is an adult adventure game where a loser hits on women all night before he finds one that will sleep with him.

The game was released in 1987 as a keyboard controlled graphical adventure game with a text parser using Sierra's AGI engine.  In 1991, it was remade as a point-and-click adventure game with remade art in 256 colors using Sierra's SCI engine.  Replay Games is planning on releasing a new remake with high definition graphics in the style of later Leisure Suit Larry games in 2013.

Both the original AGI version and the SCI remake of Leisure Suit Larry are now supported by ScummVM, a program designed to let 2D adventure games run on multiple platforms. With ScummVM, Leisure Suit Larry now runs on modern versions of windows, as well as Linux, Mac OS X, and many consoles such as Dreamcast, Wii, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation Portable. For a complete list of platforms supported by ScummVM, see here.