Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards gets reloaded in June. The game is one of the old-guard of point and click adventures and will definitely be a welcome site for PC, MAC and Linux users in just a few months time.
Al Lowe, Larry’s creator, returns to the game after over 20 years, along with the original writer, Josh Mandel. Together, they will remake the game for a new audience with hi-res, hand-drawn art and animation, new puzzles, locations, humour and gameplay.
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Carl Williams writes, "It is a sad day when we see things like this. Al Lowe, creator of Leisure Suit Larry while at Sierra On-Line, put a few files up for auction on eBay recently. As expected, fans of Leisure Suit Larry 1 and 2 quickly made this become a “big thing” in the retro gaming community. By becoming a big deal though, the auctions caught the eye of current owner of many Sierra On-Line intellectual properties, such as Police Quest and King’s Quest to name a few. This is important because that company is Activision and they have taken legal action against Mr. Lowe in reference to those two auctions. End result, those auctions are now pulled."
So after looking more into what i am seeing is he only did this for purchased distribution. So we would have to see this in court but i doubt this will happen and fuck actoshit for this. They dont even own this IP
i still look at at those sierra games as one of my favorite eras in gaming....kings quests, police quests, colonels bequest (prob my fav ever game)...you had to actually play through and work out puzzles yourself as internet wasnt widely used then....nothing better than the feeling of finding some of the hidden objects and secret passages in colonels bequest....these days you get stuck its easy to search.....can still remember getting stuck on manhunter and had to write to sierra to ask for help....three weeks later got a letter with hints to help me progress lol
Aww that sucks. MetalJesus did a whole video on it too. https://www.youtube.com/wat...
The Indie Game Website writes: "It isn’t often a video game tears you in two directions. Then again, it isn’t often someone has another crack at breathing life into Leisure Suit Larry – a lewd series of adventure games dating back to the late 1980s. As the credits rolled on Wet Dreams Don’t Dry, developer Crazy Bunch’s modern take on the antics of sex-fuelled chauvinist Larry Laffer, I found I’d enjoyed some sights and sounds, but little else."
This is outstanding news. I'm all for remakes/re-release of the originals.