History VideoGame / LeisureSuitLarry

Al Lowe and fellow Sierra On-Line adventure game alumnus Paul Trowe 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 Website/{{Kickstarter}} [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/leisuresuitlarry/make-leisure-suit-larry-come-again campaign]] to fund it. The remake of the first game, ''Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded'', has since been released. However, after Al Lowe decided not to renew his contract with Trowe, the certainty of remakes of the rest of the series is currently up in the air. A new entry: ''Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don't Dry'' was confirmed for late 2018.

* 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 LSL7. 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.

* MeaningfulName: ''Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust''. It was unanimously named as the ''worst'' game of 2009.

** In the remakes, you can actually see their silhouettes through the coat..

* BrotherChuck: Passionate Patti disappears without reason from continuity after her last appearance in LSL 5, although one could assume she broke up with Larry [[spoiler: after seeing the video tapes he recorded for America's Sexiest Home Videos, unaware that they contain footage of him having sex with the potential hosts.]]

Al Lowe and fellow Sierra On-Line adventure game alumnus Paul Trowe 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 Website/{{Kickstarter}} [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/leisuresuitlarry/make-leisure-suit-larry-come-again campaign]] to fund it. The remake of the first game, ''Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded'', has since been released. However, after Al Lowe decided not to renew his contract with Trowe, the certainty of remakes of the rest of the series is currently up in the air.

%%* EroticEating: Eve, with an apple, at the end of ''Larry 1''.
%%--> "She's really turning you on! You had no idea fruit could be so exciting."
%%** Michelle Milkem eating a banana split in LSL 5.

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

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, the game was due for an 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.

** In Reloaded, one of the random doors you can knock on in the hotel has someone proclaim: "Never mind, [[Creator/AlysonHannigan Alyson]], just tell me again about that [[Film/AmericanPie one time in band camp]].."

* ''Leisure Suit Larry: Love For Sail Mobile'' (2007) An all original story set during the [=LSL4=] era (while Larry Laffer works for Sierra), and self referential about the making of [=LSL4=].

Al Lowe and fellow Sierra On-Line adventure game alumnus Paul Trowe 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. The remake of the first game, ''Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded'', has since been released. However, after Al Lowe decided not to renew his contract with Trowe, the certainty of remakes of the rest of the series is currently up in the air.

** Averted in the games ''LSL2'' and ''LSL3'' proper where he has a character design relatively similar to any other SCI games of the era, and where full portraits show him as somewhat realistic. Played straight for covers though.

* ''Leisure Suit Larry: Love For Sail Mobile'' (2007) An all original story set during the LSL4 era (while Larry Laffer works for Sierra), and self referential about the making of LSL4.

-->*Larry burns his hand trying to open a window*\\

* TimedMission: In the first game you have two real-life hours to make Larry lose his virginity before he is DrivenToSuicide. You can either do this the hard way by advancing trough the story, or go for the easy option by buying a condom and hiring the prostitute who is available from the beginning of the game. Doing the latter removes the two hour limit, but as Larry questions the validity of losing his virginity to a prostitute, the game continues, although you are now allowed to TakeYourTime.

* TrilogyCreep: Al Lowe wanted to end the series with ''Larry 3'', joking that he would never do ''Larry 4''. When the third game came out and he decided to do another game anyway, he skipped directly to ''Larry 5'' to keep his word.

** In Reloaded, one of the random doors you can knock on in the hotel has someone proclaim: "Never mind, [[AlysonHannigan Alyson]], just tell me again about that [[Film/AmericanPie one time in band camp]].."

*** ...not tying the rope or improperly tying it or [[TooDumbToLive untying]] it or [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything cutting]] it while hanging from a certain balcony...

* ''Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust'' (2009) Developed by Team 17.[[note]]Developers of ''VideoGame/{{Worms}}''
* ''Leisure Suit Larry: Love For Sail Mobile'' (2007) An all original story set during the LSL4 era (while Larry Laffer works for Sierra), and self referential about the making of LSL4.
and ''VideoGame/AlienBreed''[[/note]]

* ''Leisure Suit Larry: Love For Sail Mobile'' (2007) An all original story set during the LSL4 era, and self referential about the making of LSL4.

* ''Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust'' (2009) Developed by Team 17.[[note]]Developers of ''VideoGame/{{Worms}}'' and ''VideoGame/AlienBreed''[[/note]]

** In LSL 6: Shape Up or Slip Out, [[spoiler: the dark-skinned makeup artist Shablee turns out to be a transvestite/male-to-female transexual, still sporting a sizable phallus.]] As Larry learns the truth only after some passionate kissing, his immediate after-the-reveal reaction is to recoil and start spitting and gagging. The next morning's shot shows him in his room rinsing furiously.

* AllGuysWantCheerleaders: The [[FetishFuel point]] of Barbara Jo from LSL 8.

* {{Black Comedy Rape}}/RapeAsComedy: In Larry 6, [[spoiler: it's heavily implied that trans*woman Shablee rapes Larry; after her UnsettlingGenderReveal, she walks towards Larry, the screen goes black, and there is a strange trumpet noise followed by Larry's pained/disgusted scream.]]

* 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, although 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]]. One would think that would make for a distinctly misshapen bosom...

* IdenticalGrandfather: "Zircon Jim" Laffer makes a ContinuityCameo in Lowe's ''FreddyPharkasFrontierPharmacist''.