History VideoGame / LeisureSuitLarry

* ADateWithRosiePalms:
** Land of the Lounge Lizards is a text parser, so if you type this in, the development team anticipated this and tell you off for trying to do so.
** In Shape Up or Slip Out! if you use the hand cream and the hotel brochure ''before'' Thunderbird whips several open wounds into your body, Larry tries to have some "alone time" in his hotel bathroom, which has wide open windows in public view of the swimming pool downstairs. He realizes he's attracted an audience [[TheManyDeathsOfYou and dies of embarrassment]].
** ''Magna Cum Laude'' contains a masturbation minigame where success boosts Larry's confidence, allowing him to interact with certain female characters in the game.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: In LSL 3, Patti can suffer just as much as Larry in [[HaveANiceDeath true Sierra fashion]]. Averted in LSL 5, where you can't die.

* BrotherChuck: Passionate Patti disappears without reason from continuity after her last appearance in LSL 5, according to Official Book of LSL he still lives with her, but they haven't yet married at least up to LSL 7. Larry is now an actor, who works for Sierra, and films "[=LSL6=]/[=LSL7=]" while she remains at home waiting for him at the end of the day. Al Lowe claims the reason why she isn't in the games is they couldn't afford to hire her, to take part in the games. However, in the non-Al Lowe games he's fully broken up with her by the time of Magna Cum Laude, and pining away for her.

* HotScientist: Beatrice from LSL 8.

%%* ButLiquorIsQuicker

--> '''Narrator''': "Lookout, Patti! It's your worst nightmare! Children!"

--->'''Narrator''': "He looks like someone from your distant past, but you just can't put your finger on him!"\\
'''Ken Williams''': "Good thing, too!"

The series has effectively been rebooted with ''Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don't Dry'', which was released in late 2018 and set to bring Larry's brand of... [[WereStillRelevantDammit well, everything...]] [[SettingUpdate to the 21st century]]. Due to the announcement of ''Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Dry Twice'' which continues the story, the series may have a future.

* TheNameIsBondJamesBond: Larry usually introduces himself as "Larry; Larry Laffer". When the games get voiced, he does a short chuckle for the semicolon.

In the early [[TheEighties Eighties]], an up-and-coming programmer named Chuck Benton decided to test his programming skills by churning out a small, [[InteractiveFiction text-based]] AdventureGame for the UsefulNotes/AppleII by the title of ''Softporn Adventure''. After the title received runaway success, its publisher Creator/{{Sierra}} decided that since the game was the only text-based game they'd published, it was due for a graphical upgrade. So they decided to delegate the task to in-house Creator/{{Disney}} game developer Creator/AlLowe who, after taking a look at the game, figured the game was so outdated it might as well be wearing a leisure suit.

* BleachedUnderpants: {{Subverted}}. This doesn't bleach the underpants of ''Softporn Adventure,'' it merrily writes rude jokes on it with a sharpie and flies it from the flagpole.

* DiscoDan: Larry. The original concept of the series came from Al Lowe remarking that remaking ''Softporn Adventure'' would be difficult as it had aged so badly it might as well be wearing a ''leisure suit''. From there, the game was retooled to be about the hopelessly out-of-touch Larry Laffer and his misadventures as he [[strike:tries to get laid]] searches for true love.

* ButLiquorIsQuicker

---> '''Narrator''': "He looks like someone from your distant past, but you just can't put your finger on him!"
---> '''Ken Williams''': "Good thing, too!"

* SexChangesEverything: Deflowering GranolaGirl Shamara at the end of LSL 6 causes her to develop a totally different personality by the start of LSL 7... a few hours later.

* [[ShopliftAndDie Shoplift and Die by an]] AsianStoreOwner: Shoplifters will be ''shot''.

* TookALevelInJerkass: LSL 2, 3 and 7 all begin with the woman Larry got together with at the end of the previous game deciding she doesn't like him any more and treating him quite badly. Justified with Eve, since Larry showed up at her house and moved in without her permission, which would probably freak out anybody in real life. But Kalalau first cheated on him with another woman, then locked him out of their house and divorced him, all just because she wasn't satisfied with his performance in the bedroom. She never told him that she was unhappy before she did these things, and never tried to work things out. At the beginning of LSL 7, Shamara decides that the new age lifestyle isn't for her after all and what she really cares about is money. So she [[ChainedToABed ties Larry up]] and steals his wallet before walking out on him.
* TropicalIslandAdventure: LSL 2 and 3 are set on Nontoonyt Island, a tropical island in the South Pacific ruled by the evil Dr. Nonookee.
** Just as ''Wet Dreams Don't Dry'' was a quasi direct sequel (/requel) to the first game, ''Land of the Lounge Lizards'', ''Wet Dreams Dry Twice'' is a SpiritualSuccessor of being a sequel to its first game, and also takes places on a (collection of) tropical islands.

''Magna Cum Laude'' contains a masturbation minigame where success boosts Larry's confidence, allowing him to interact with certain female characters in the game.

* MythologyGag: For what it's worth, LSL 8 is filled with these, in manners blatant and subtle.

** Wet Dreams Don't Dry has a bunch to LSL1 as well, seeing as it's a SoftReboot/Requel to the original. It's sequel, Wet Dreams Dry Twice, has several to LSL2, including the crazy former Russian mad scientist Dr. No No being alluded to be the JamesBond pastiche Dr. NoNookie from LSL2.

** Just as Wet Dreams Don't Dry was a quasi direct sequel (/requel) to the first game; Land of the Lounge Lizards, Wet Dreams Dry Twice is a SpiritualSuccessor of being a sequel to its first game, and also takes places on a (collection of) tropical islands.

From thereon sprung Al Lowe's idea to take ''Softporn Adventure'' and remake it from the ground up, rewriting its script completely into something much funnier, and replacing its [[FeaturelessProtagonist formerly anonymous protagonist]] with Larry Laffer, a computer programmer in his early 40's who decides to get a life and go woo some women and lose his virginity by the end of his nocturnal visit to [[UsefulNotes/LasVegas Lost Wages]]. Being a big fan of TheSeventies, he loves disco and wears a leisure suit (which he and only he thinks is cool) from which the newly reborn ''Leisure Suit Larry'' took its name.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: ''Magna Cum Laude'' contains a masturbation minigame where success boosts Larry's confidence, allowing him to interact with certain female characters in the game.

** The CDROM version of LSL 6 averted this trope completely, [[DigitalPiracyIsEvilsince nobody would bother with the expense and difficulty of making]] their own [=CDs=] of the game.

** The CDROM version of LSL 6 averted this trope completely, since nobody would bother with the expense and difficulty of making their own [=CDs=] of the game.

** The same joke is used in LSL 5. When attempting to search any trash can (e.g. at an airport), the narrator will ask whether Larry is expecting to find a disco club membership card - like he did in LSL 1.

** Larry looked more like an 8-bit [[Film/SaturdayNightFever John Travolta]] in the first three games and didn't take on his more [[http://larrylaffer.net/images/evolutionoflarry.png distinctive cartoony look]] until the ''Larry 1'' VGA remake, shortly followed by ''Larry 5''.

* BleachedUnderpants: {{Subverted}}. This doesn't bleach the underpants of ''Softporn Adventure,'' it merrily writes [[CrossesTheLineTwice rude jokes on it with a sharpie and flies it from the flagpole.]]

* TookALevelInJerkass: LSL 2, 3 and 7 all begin with the woman Larry got together with at the end of the previous game deciding she doesn't like him any more and treating him quite badly. Justified with Eve, since Larry showed up at her house and moved in without her permission, which would probably freak out anybody in real life. But Kalalau first cheated on him [[LesYay with another woman]], then locked him out of their house and divorced him, all just because she wasn't satisfied with his performance in the bedroom. She never told him that she was unhappy before she did these things, and never tried to work things out. At the beginning of LSL 7, Shamara decides that the new age lifestyle isn't for her after all and what she really cares about is money. So she [[ChainedToABed ties Larry up]] and steals his wallet before walking out on him.

* UnInstallment: ''Leisure Suit Larry 4'' does not exist. Although, this fact is a plot point in ''[[VideoGame/SpaceQuest Space Quest IV]]''.

** The CDROM version of LSL 6 averted this trope completely, since [[TechnologyMarchesOn nobody would bother with the expense and difficulty of making their own [=CDs=] of the game.]]

* InNameOnly: The games starring Larry Lovage. Even Al Lowe [[CreatorBacklash dismissed]] the Lovage games as Larry Laffer being in a corporate prison.

--> '''Narrator''': "He looks like someone from your distant past, but you just can't put your finger on him!"
--> '''Ken Williams''': "Good thing, too!"

* CharacerTitle

%%** And Larry himself. Laffer, moreso than Lovage.

** And Larry himself. Laffer, moreso than Lovage.

* ''Leisure Suit Larry 4: The Missing Floppies'' ([[UnInstallment Never created or released]], as part of a RunningGag. Al Lowe had promised he wouldn't make ''Leisure Suit Larry 4'', so [[ExactWords the only way to keep the promise]] was to skip to...)
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