Line #14 Creator/AlLowe


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4	Al Lowe (born July 24, 1946) is an American video game designer, programmer, and musician who worked on several adventure games, mostly for [[Creator/{{Sierra}} Sierra On-Line]]. He is best known for creating the ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry'' series.
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6	Originally a high school music teacher, Lowe decided to teach himself computer programming and, with the help of his wife and a few friends, founded Sunnyside Soft; his first game, ''Dragon's Keep'', was released for the Platform/AppleII computer. The game, along with later games ''Troll's Tale'' and ''Bop-A-Bet'', caught the attention of Sierra co-founders Ken and Roberta Williams, who saw the games at a convention. Seeing how similar they were to their own ''Hi-Res Adventures'' series, they hired him on the spot. With Sierra, he started out with Creator/{{Disney}} games like ''VideoGame/TheBlackCauldron'' and ''Donald Duck's Playground''. In keeping with his musical background, he also composed music for games like ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIIRomancingTheThrone'' and ''Mickey's Space Adventure''.
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8	After helping program ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIIIToHeirIsHuman'', Lowe was tasked with developing a graphical remake of Sierra's only text adventure, ''Softporn Adventure'', made by fellow employee Chuck Benton. Lowe famously remarked that the game was so outdated, it "might as well be wearing a leisure suit". It was that remark that gave Lowe the idea to rework the FeaturelessProtagonist of ''Softporn'' into the DiscoDan computer programmer himself, Larry Laffer.
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10	In between ''Larry'' games, Lowe worked on other games, including ''VideoGame/PoliceQuest1InPursuitOfTheDeathAngel'', ''VideoGame/FreddyPharkasFrontierPharmacist'', and ''VideoGame/TorinsPassage''.
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12	In 1999, Lowe butted heads with Sierra's then-current owners, CUC Software, after they attempted to get him to design a game without signing a contract first, which resulted him him leaving the company. He has since gone on to make [[http://www.allowe.com/index.htm his own personal site]], which provides walkthroughs for his games and manuals to bypass copy protection, and a daily joke mailing list, called [=CyberJoke=] 3000.
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14	In the early 2010s, he joined Replay Games, a studio headed by former Sierra employees, to work on remaking ''Leisure Suit Larry'' games in HD. However, this was short-lived; after remaking the first ''Larry'' game, he chose not to renew his contract with Replay and went back into retirement.
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17	!!Games Al Lowe has worked on:
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19	* ''Dragon's Keep'' (1982)
20	* ''Bop-A-Bet'' (1982)
21	* ''Troll's Tale'' (1982)
22	* ''High-Res Adventure #6: Film/TheDarkCrystal'' (1983)
23	* ''Gefling Adventure'' (1984)
24	* ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh in the Hundred Acre Wood'' (1984)
25	* ''Mickey's Space Adventure'' (1984)
26	* ''Donald Duck's Playground'' (1984)
27	* ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIIRomancingTheThrone'' (1985)
28	* ''VideoGame/TheBlackCauldron'' (1986)
29	* ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIIIToHeirIsHuman'' (1986)
30	* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry1InTheLandOfTheLoungeLizards'' (1987)
31	** VGA remake (1991)
32	** ''Reloaded'' (2013)
33	* ''VideoGame/PoliceQuest1InPursuitOfTheDeathAngel'' (1987)
34	* ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIVThePerilsOfRosella'' (1988)
35	* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry2LookingForLoveInSeveralWrongPlaces'' (1988)
36	* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry3PassionatePattiInPursuitOfThePulsatingPectorals'' (1989)
37	* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry5PassionatePattiDoesALittleUndercoverWork'' (1991)
38	* ''The Laffer Utilities'' (1992)
39	* ''VideoGame/FreddyPharkasFrontierPharmacist'' (1993)
40	* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry6ShapeUpOrSlipOut'' (1993)
41	* ''VideoGame/TorinsPassage'' (1995)
42	* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry7LoveForSail'' (1996)
43	* ''Leisure Suit Larry's Casino'' (1998)

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