History VideoGame / LeisureSuitLarry

** Subverted in "Love for Sail", with Wang, who is actually Irish, but speaks in this manner because he feels it sounds awkward otherwise. [[OhMeAccentsSlipping Sometimes he'll slip back into the Irish accent though]].

** Averted in ''Reloaded'', as he has speaks SurprisinglyGoodEnglish while having an Indian accent.

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 AppleII by the title of ''Softporn Adventure''. After the title received runaway success, its publisher SierraOnline decided that since the game was the only text-based game they'd published, the game was due for an upgrade, so they decided to delegate the task to in-house {{Disney}} game developer Al Lowe who, after taking a look at the game, figured the game was so outdated it might as well be wearing a leisure suit.

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 [[{{AFGNCAAP}} 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 [[AManIsNotAVirgin lose his virginity by the end of his nocturnal visit to]] [[VivaLasVegas 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.

* BetweenMyLegs: On the box art, pictured above.

* BetweenMyLegs: In the image pictured above.

* TakeThat: From ''Reloaded''[[note]]if you use the "Zipper" icon on the sign that says "LIQUOR" in the "Come 'n Go"[[/note]]:

** In the Reloaded version, you can actually see this yourself, thanks to improved graphics.

* OverlyLongGag: To name a few (both from LSL 2, the scene where Larry finds himself lost in a jungle ([[GetOnWithIt you go through this every time you come there]])[[note]] Thankfully, there's a way to skip it. Just type "leave", and Larry will find a shortcut.[[/note]], and the seating scene:

* TakeThat: If you use the "Zipper" icon on the sign saying "LIQUOR" in the "Come 'n Go" in ''Reloaded'':

* BlatantLies: The store clerk in all versions of LSL 1 claims to be discrete about customers buying condoms, which he keeps stocked behind the counter. He asks a questionnaire about what kind Larry wants... then shouts out the "answers" while calling Larry weird, causing a crowd to ''appear out of nowhere from behind the display shelving'' and yell out "What a pervert!".

** Apparently, Kalalau's time with Larry is so horrible that she goes lesbian between LSL 2 and 3 and cheats him with the female electrician.

** ''Reloaded'' has the hooker become Russian, Eve is either Latina or a rather tanned White, and the Come 'n' Go Clerk is returned to being Indian.

** Michelle Milkem eating a banana split in LSL 5.

* ''Leisure Suit Larry: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards'' (1987); got an "enhanced" point-and-click remake in 1991; a second remake subtitled ''Reloaded'' was released in 2013.
* ''Videogame/LeisureSuitLarryGoesLookingForLoveInSeveralWrongPlaces'' (1988)

* AsianSpeekeeEngrish: Although the AsianShopOwner in LSL 1 isn't ''East'' Asian, he speaks and even writes like this.

** Fixed if you use ScummVM.

* ChainedToABed: Twice. More than that if you count death scenes in [=LSL2=].

%%** Michelle Milkem eating a banana split in LSL 5.

** The reason that there is no LSL4 is that according to SQ4, that game contains a virus written by Vohaul (Though they could have made that game open with '''WILCO MUST DIE!''' instead).

* ThemeNaming: All of the women in LSL 3 have names ending in "i" (Tawni, Cherri, Suzi, Bambi, Patti . . . and even Bobbi, the woman Kalalau leaves Larry for at the beginning).

%%** In ''Larry 2'', whole sections of the game are designed around the premise that the player is SaveScumming.

** Michelle Milkem eating a banana split in LSL 5.

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

* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Larry has polka-dot boxers when he gets [[ChainedToABed tied to the bed]] in the VGA version of LSL 1.

Al Lowe and fellow Sierra On-Line adventure game alumnus Paul Trow have [[http://www.strategyinformer.com/news/14913/leisure-suit-larry-games-being-remade-in-hd announced]] that the first few ''LSL'' games will be remade with new artwork and HD graphics, and created a {{Kickstarter}} [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/leisuresuitlarry/make-leisure-suit-larry-come-again campaign]] to fund it.

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-->--'''Official product description''', ''Leisure Suit Larry in The Land of the Lounge Lizards''

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* ''Leisure Suit Larry: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards'' (1987); got a "enhanced" point-and-click remake in 1991; another high definition remake is coming in 2013.
* ''LeisureSuitLarryGoesLookingForLoveInSeveralWrongPlaces'' (1988)

* ''[[VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarryMagnaCumLaude Leisure Suit Larry : Magna Cum Laude]]'' (2004); First appearance of Larry Lovage. Developed by High Voltage Software.[[note]]Developers of ''TheConduit'', the ''HunterTheReckoning'' videogame and a truckload of {{Licensed Game}}s.[[/note]]

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* AlliterativeName: Larry Laffer.
** And, later, his nephew Larry Lovage.

* ApatheticCitizens: ''Everyone'' in ''Leisure Suit Larry 2''. They don't give a bleep if you are drugged, choking to death, drowning, or dying of bad food. In fact, they ALL WANT YOU TO DIE! Except for the hairstylists, that is. (Also see EverythingTryingToKillYou, below.)
** Taken UpToEleven during the airport segment of the game. You find a suitcase with a ticking bomb in it and you decide to get it out of there before it kills everybody. You shout that you have a bomb and that everybody should get to safety, and they all ignore you. Even the guard seen in the way out (a local who knows just basic English) is informed of the bomb and replies "Have a nice day"

* AttractiveBentGender: Larry just needs to remove his body hair, have long blonde hair and wear a bikini with a stuffed top to pass as an attractive woman near KGB agents. But he is not so lucky at the airport...
** Oddly enough, one of the things you can stuff your top with is [[spoiler: a handful of bars of hotel soap]]. [[FridgeLogic One would think that would make for a distinctly misshapen bosom...]]
* AuthorAvatar: Al Lowe inserted lookalikes of himself and many other Sierra staff members in the games: for example, the disco in the first game is full of Sierra employees.
** Not to mention Ken Williams who makes an appearance in every game (I don't know about the ones with Larry Lovage). Larry even calls him out on that in LSL 7.
** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in LSL 3 where Larry can find Al Lowe and Ken Williams hanging out in a club, say any short phrase to the two, and then hear the two of them talk about putting themselves in the game, having Larry say whichever phrase the player just typed, and concluding that it was a lame idea and then vanishing out of existence.
** The third game ends with Larry and Patti [[spoiler: falling into a dimensional rift and appearing at Roberta Williams' place.]]
** Ken Williams gets another cameo in LSL 1 Reloaded.
-->'''Narrator:''' He looks like someone from your distant past, but you just can't put your finger on him!
-->'''Ken Williams:''' Good thing, too!

* DancePartyEnding: LSL 8.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: If the player tries to make Larry masturbate in the first game:
--> '''Narrator''': Larry, the whole idea was to stop doing that!
** You can also "use" the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmmQ0mzCy-w&t=248 inflatable doll in the penthouse closet]], although [[InteractiveNarrator he doesn't like that much]], either.

** While it takes some extra effort to accomplish, using the lotion bottle together with the resort pamphlet while on the toilet in the bathroom in Larry 6 results in Larry [[HaveANiceDeath literally dying of embarrassment]], as the entire cast of the game lines up outside the window to catch him in the act

* DeanBitterman: Assistant Dean Abrahamson, the BigBad of LSL 8.

* DiscoDan: Larry. Who else?

* DistaffCounterpart: Passionate Patti.

* EroticEating: Eve, with an apple, at the end of LSL 1.
-->She's really turning you on! You had no idea fruit could be so exciting.

** Amusingly (or not, as many fans of the original were quick to point out), Larry's usual MO of trying to get laid works against him in Larry 2. In addition to the above deaths via KGB, one notable death involves talking a maid into bedding down with you... only to [[spoiler: get shot by her overprotective brother.]] On the other hand, if you gotta go...
** Notably {{subverted|Trope}} in Larry 5, in which it was impossible to die, despite at least one scene [[spoiler: involving a plane on the verge of crashing]] where it sure ''looked'' like you could die if you didn't do something. Larry 6 moved on to purely jocular death scenes which can be undone with one click, and Larry 7 had none.

* EvilRedhead: Tilly from LSL 8.

* GainaxEnding: In LSL 3.

* MafiaPrincess: Analisa from LSL 8.
* MaleGaze: This is played with in LSL 7, when Larry slowly tries to look down (twice) on Drew's breasts while they are talking but he fails as she tells him to look at her straight in the eyes.
** Humorously, there's an EasterEgg way to get your money's worth here. Larry simply has to plug his ears, and he won't hear her.
** One of the obstacles in LSL 8's conversation minigame causes this (which counts against your KarmaMeter).

* MercyMode: In LSL 8.

* MolotovCocktail
* MotherDaughterThreesome: In ''Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail!'', Larry seduces mother-daughter country duet Juggs.

* PressXToDie: Typing "give onklunk" any time you have the onklunk in LSL 2. You traitor!

* TrialAndErrorGameplay: LSL 2. Whole sections of the game are designed around the premise that the player is SaveScumming.
** There's also the bamboo forest in ''[=LSL3=]''. Similar to the desert in ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVAbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder'', it's a large area to explore, in which Patti will die of dehydration after so many screens. It's also a lengthy maze, so if you don't know the layout, be ready to redo this segment many, many times until you've mapped out the exact path you have to take.
*** The "Nontoonyt Tonight" magazine/manual that comes with the game ''does'' give you directions through the maze, but it's done in a way that is very easy to overlook. One of the many things in the book is a jingle advertising Nontoonyt Nectarines. If one were to look at it closely, they might notice that every word in the song begins with either N, S, W or E. So it tells you whether to go north, east, south or west and in what order, but lots of players will just dismiss it as a mildly amusing song at first glance and then forget about it.
** LSL 6 has an element of this in the broken liposuction machine. Three parts of the machine are broken. Only one of the broken components is visibly obvious. Activating the machine without repairing either of the two other non-visible malfunctioning components results in death, but this is the only real way of figuring out that they are broken. Fortunately, DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist in 6, so a player can simply "Try Again" and continue just before the fatal activation.
* TrilogyCreep: Played with: Al Lowe wanted to end the series with Larry 3, hence the whole rigamarole with Larry 4.
* {{Trope 2000}}: The Cybersniff 2000 in LSL 7.

* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Happens twice in the series, so far.

* UnwinnableByDesign: Can happen in the first three games, though it is especially terrible in LSL 2.
* VideoGameRemake: The original game is a double-example, first remade from ''Softporn'' to ''Leisure Suit Larry'', and again with upgraded graphics and a [[PointAndClickGame point-and-click]] interface a few years later.
* VivaLasVegas: "Lost Wages", the setting of the original, complete with a quickie wedding chapel.

* WhatTheHellHero: Arguably the point of the optional "Ione(L[[note]]esbian[[/note]])" storyline. (That or seeing Ione make out with Luba. Your call.)
* YouCantGetYeFlask: One of the most infamous cases is in LSL 2. You're supposed to make a bomb out of a hair lotion bottle and an airsick bag as the wick. You can't just type "bag", you have to refer it as ''"airsick bag"''. See more details on the trope page.

** Oddly enough, one of the things you can stuff your top with is [[spoiler: a handful of bars of hotel soap]]. [[FridgeLogic One would think that would make for]] [[NightmareFuel a distinctly misshapen bosom...]]

** Since Larry is stuck in TheSeventies (and dressed appropriately), he partly dances at the club in LSL 1 like JohnTravolta in ''Film/SaturdayNightFever''. And like a Cossack, similarly to the ''Film/SaturdayNightFever'' parody in ''Film/{{Airplane}}''.

* InSovietRussiaTropeMocksYou: Larry is pursued by KGB agents in LSL 2. He has to pass some of them disguised as a woman. He needs to not only have long blonde hair, but also be wearing a bikini, have stuffed his bikini top and have had his body hair removed. If not, they will catch him and say that ''"only in Russia do women wear leisure suits/have such flat breasts/are so hairy"''.

* LegacyCharacter: Larry Lovage in LSL 8 and 9.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: If the player tries to make Larry masturbate:

** You can also "use" the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmmQ0mzCy-w&t=248 inflatable doll in the penthouse closet]] in the first game, although [[InteractiveNarrator he doesn't like that much]], either.

** Use the lotion bottle together with the resort pamphlet in the bathroom in Larry 6 to make Larry do this. It results in Larry literally dying of embarrassment, as the entire cast of the game then marches up to catch him in the act