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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 Lowe famously remarked that the game was so outdated, it "might as well be wearing a leisure suit".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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