PC

Video Game’s Most-Celebrated Sex Comedy Is Coming Back

Yesterday, Al Lowe told me a dirty joke. “What do you call a redneck with a pig under one arm and a sheep under the other arm?” “Bisexual.”


May 2, 2012
News

75% Of Video Game Kickstarters Fail

Turns out not everybody is Tim Schafer. Though the creator of Grim Fandango set Kickstarter records earlier this year, raising over $US3 million for his point-and-click adventure game, most crowdfunded gaming projects aren’t nearly as successful.


April 26, 2012
News

Leisure Suit Larry Remake Makes Its Half-Million Bucks, Thanks To You?

The guy on the left is Al Lowe, adventure game pioneer and lead creative force behind the Leisure Suit Larry games. The guy on the right is Tim Schafer, adventure game pioneer and lead creative force behind Day of the Tentacle and other LucasArts classics.


April 3, 2012
News

The Creator Of Leisure Suit Larry Wants Half A Million To Bring It Back

Al Lowe, creator of the lecherous adventure game series, has started a Kickstarter to develop a “Reloaded” edition of the original Leisure Suit Larry. They hope to raise $US500,000 and release the game for PC, consoles and mobile. [Kickstarter]


October 11, 2011
News

Do We Really Need This Leisure Suit Larry HD Remake?

Kotaku AU

Since the mechanics of old-school adventure games are relatively simple, they tend to age quite well — which is why I loved both Monkey Island remakes (with the voice acting turned off obviously). But now EGM are reporting that a Leisure Suit Larry remake is in the works, and I don’t really know how I feel about that.


October 4, 2011
News

Less Than One Hour To Bid On This Porny 1990s Sierra Game

A copy of the Sierra On-Line’s 1991 Apple II game Softporn Adventure is about to sell on eBay, and you could still be the one to walk off with it!


July 6, 2011
In Real Life

The GameFAQs Of 1994 Was Way Cooler

These days, if you’re stuck in a game, you hit the internet. YouTube and GameFAQs are your best friends. Back in the 1990s, things weren’t so simple!


January 30, 2011
News

Classic PC Games Site Will Return — With Activision’s Authorization

Though the front of Sarien.net still says the site hosting classic Sierra PC games has gone dark, its owner, Martin Kool, says that it’s secured permission from Activision and will “become an authorised game portal with a bright future.”


January 14, 2011
Mobile

Play Leisure Suit Larry On Your iPad or iPhone For Free

Kotaku AU

And King’s Quest, and Space Quest… and whole host of others. If you head to this nifty website with your iPad web browser, you can gain access to a whole set of old-school Sierra point and click adventures, tailored for the iPad touch interface.


May 20, 2010
In Real Life

Leisure Suit…Lenny?

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Alright Ashcraft. I’ll see your Japanese schoolgirl drumming and raise you a one-man bad, who is named after a classic 80′s/90′s adventure game series from Sierra.