On one level I understand what people found interesting about it. I booted up the original version rather than the Kickstarted ‘Reloaded’ one, to get that pure, unadulterated Larry experience. When you begin you’re led to believe that Larry, who is 38, desires nothing more in his blocky, pixely heart than to get his end away. The evidence cited for this is usually the ‘hooker’ scene. Forget what your kneejerk reaction is! The original Leisure Suit Larry trilogy is about finding true love! Or possibly they’re not even really about sex at all, but about the search for something more meaningful. It’s an adult sex comedy adventure game from the 80s, but Larry’s games are “comedies about sex”.

Like, I don't care, you can just like it.

I’ve wanted to do this for some time because people, people writing for this very website, no less, have done a lot of work to defend the fact that they like it. So it made sense, in my mind, to play Leisure Suit Larry 1 (aka Leisure Suit Larry In The Land Of The Lounge Lizards). Romancing The Code is a regular series (although it's been a while) where Alice Bee writes about the different ways games make us fall in love, without the actual sex bit.Ī couple of weeks ago I was at GDC, surrounded by hundreds of people talking about the present and future of games.

Larry the lounge lizard online