If you never figured it out, the "Details" slider in any Sierra SCI engine game changes how many extra animated objects are onscreen. If you turned it all the way down, you'd see the people at the bar stop moving so much, and things like that, to lower the CPU burden.
I was reading through the official hintbook for the original 1987 version and apparently he kills himself at dawn or about 5:00am, giving you seven hours to complete the game.
Al contacted you?? You must be doing something right! I take this opportunity to thank Mr. Lowe, for been one of the individuals, who made game after game of top quality entertaiment for generations of people interested in computers at the start of home PC revolution. You made things different around the globe; even here, in the rural parts of Finland!
+Peli Mies Actually, the way it worked is I contacted him when I did Donald Duck's Playground to let him know about my coverage of it and when he replied he suggested doing LSL for Episode 69, which was still 30 episodes away at the time. :B
Thanks for the clarification. Well, he obviously was a fan of your series, which is great! LLLLL was actually one of the very games that I was able to obtain. First game that came with the 8088 EuroPC, was King of Chicago, might want do a review sometimes, tho it was a crappy game compared to giants like LLLLL or Falcon XT. Sorry, Al, but your copy was a pirate. It was the late part of the eighties, and in rural parts of Finland they were selling computers in backroom of shoe shops, and such.. The PC market was picking up speed fast, but the whole business scene was in the hands of few pioneering enthustiasts, and had a distinct appeal and feel, in retrospect. The prior boom of Commodore devices had established a gaming generation that were growing up and Pole Position did not cut it anymore, so PC was there just in the right time to catch the interest (and the wallet). Season's Greatings to all viewers!
The reason why I brought up Commodore, was that C64 started the homecompurization in Finland; It sold really well here; in fact, Finland had most C64s per capita in the world! Something like 10% of the households with underage bought C64 in the first year after launch (1984). Here is a book store add from 1984. It sells the base unit for around $400 (1995 finnish marks). Which was a months salary, or so. Same as now-a-days one would buy a basic iMac+iPad. m.imgur.com/QaTMoJL
I managed to guess my way through the age check questions for LSL 4 when I was maybe twelve. I do recall a question “the Bay of Pigs was:” and their desired answer “a mistake”. The game was underwhelming and I never got far due to never saving a game, being terrified of getting caught and certain that someone would find my save file :D
Leisure Suit Larry is kinda like a Warner Bros. cartoon, perhaps the Private SNAFU shorts they did for the Army during WWII, which also had tons of innudendo.
Lazy Larry was a very popular game in The Netherlands but many people had a pirated copy. I remember back in july 1988 a serious investigative news show on tv (called "Brandpunt") warned about illegal copies of Larry containing a virus. There even were rumours that the virus would only be activated when you finished the game.
Incidentally, its too bad that when you had the chance to talk to Al Lowe, you didn't warn him to make sure that there's not an evil scientist's personality on the floppies of Leisure Suit Larry 4.
Un hunh. Go ahead and believe that if you want but to put in perspective how much my mind doesn't work that way, I used to believe that the phrase "send nudes" meant to send nude people to someone's home; My brain doesn't go for the naughty joke right away because quite frankly, I barely know any of them! :P
I think these days a lot of people playing these games will play them using SCUMMVM, that's how GOG package them. I just tried pressing Alt-X in the game on my Mac and that didn't work. In DOSBox, Alt is mapped to Option on the Mac keyboard, perhaps this doesn't work the same way on the Mac, so I'll have to try it on my Windows 10 PC and see if it works there, otherwise I'll have to resort to using my Amazon Echo or Google Home to answer the questions. I have to say that the age verification is the reason I've never been able to play these games despite buying them on GOG in 2013.
+Lachlant1984 Mac keyboards didn't originally have an alt key on them, so generally speaking with older software, DOS/Windows Alt = Mac Option. It's not only like this in DOSBox but with most software ported from DOS/Windows to Mac.
@@PhantomFellows I'm sure they're not. And I suspect they're not Alexa proof either. Back when I first bought this game, I didn't realise I could just press alt-enter to switch to windowed mode and then open my web browser.
For some reason I never watched this review until now. In general I tend to prefer Sierra's originals over the remakes, though I think its just a case of liking whatever version I experienced first (Space Quest I, the only case where I prefer the remake, is also a case where I played the remake first). Quest for Glory is the only time I feel the original is objectively superior. As for Larry, from what I understand the collection "Ultimate Pleasure Pack" is the one to look out for... it is also probably the hardest one to get. I myself have the Collection Series release, which to me is fine as its consistent with the rest of my collection. The only thing is that its missing the final LSL game, Love for Sail, though that's easy enough to get separately.
While I've never played a Leisure Suit Larry game in my life, I can understand how depressing it is being a fan in this day n age, with that appalling Xbox360 game, and that kickstarted HD remake that suffered poor reviews from critics, for being an ugly mess.
"Sex belongs in the bedroom. Humor belongs in video games." -Al Lowe, in an interview with German magazine GameStar, ca. 2000
Episode 69. I see what you did there.
If you never figured it out, the "Details" slider in any Sierra SCI engine game changes how many extra animated objects are onscreen. If you turned it all the way down, you'd see the people at the bar stop moving so much, and things like that, to lower the CPU burden.
+Jason Blalock Ah. That makes sense! :B
I was reading through the official hintbook for the original 1987 version and apparently he kills himself at dawn or about 5:00am, giving you seven hours to complete the game.
Al contacted you?? You must be doing something right! I take this opportunity to thank Mr. Lowe, for been one of the individuals, who made game after game of top quality entertaiment for generations of people interested in computers at the start of home PC revolution. You made things different around the globe; even here, in the rural parts of Finland!
+Peli Mies Actually, the way it worked is I contacted him when I did Donald Duck's Playground to let him know about my coverage of it and when he replied he suggested doing LSL for Episode 69, which was still 30 episodes away at the time. :B
Thanks for the clarification. Well, he obviously was a fan of your series, which is great! LLLLL was actually one of the very games that I was able to obtain. First game that came with the 8088 EuroPC, was King of Chicago, might want do a review sometimes, tho it was a crappy game compared to giants like LLLLL or Falcon XT. Sorry, Al, but your copy was a pirate. It was the late part of the eighties, and in rural parts of Finland they were selling computers in backroom of shoe shops, and such.. The PC market was picking up speed fast, but the whole business scene was in the hands of few pioneering enthustiasts, and had a distinct appeal and feel, in retrospect. The prior boom of Commodore devices had established a gaming generation that were growing up and Pole Position did not cut it anymore, so PC was there just in the right time to catch the interest (and the wallet). Season's Greatings to all viewers!
The reason why I brought up Commodore, was that C64 started the homecompurization in Finland; It sold really well here; in fact, Finland had most C64s per capita in the world! Something like 10% of the households with underage bought C64 in the first year after launch (1984). Here is a book store add from 1984. It sells the base unit for around $400 (1995 finnish marks). Which was a months salary, or so. Same as now-a-days one would buy a basic iMac+iPad. m.imgur.com/QaTMoJL
That the developers even bothered to include a rudimentary safeguard against kids playing this game is surprisingly wholesome.
I managed to guess my way through the age check questions for LSL 4 when I was maybe twelve.
I do recall a question “the Bay of Pigs was:” and their desired answer “a mistake”.
The game was underwhelming and I never got far due to never saving a game, being terrified of getting caught and certain that someone would find my save file :D
Leisure Suit Larry is kinda like a Warner Bros. cartoon, perhaps the Private SNAFU shorts they did for the Army during WWII, which also had tons of innudendo.
Lazy Larry was a very popular game in The Netherlands but many people had a pirated copy. I remember back in july 1988 a serious investigative news show on tv (called "Brandpunt") warned about illegal copies of Larry containing a virus. There even were rumours that the virus would only be activated when you finished the game.
Incidentally, its too bad that when you had the chance to talk to Al Lowe, you didn't warn him to make sure that there's not an evil scientist's personality on the floppies of Leisure Suit Larry 4.
All I did was eMail him; You could probably tell him yourself if you really wanted to. ;)
This is the first adventure game I've ever played! Not that I made much progress, not knowing English.
Giggity giggity... giggity goo.
>"To be perfectly honest..."
>Isn't close to perfectly honest.
Un hunh. Go ahead and believe that if you want but to put in perspective how much my mind doesn't work that way, I used to believe that the phrase "send nudes" meant to send nude people to someone's home; My brain doesn't go for the naughty joke right away because quite frankly, I barely know any of them! :P
Talk about memories!!!
How "Can-Can" they think that was a good idea :D "Nothing" Me :(
I think these days a lot of people playing these games will play them using SCUMMVM, that's how GOG package them. I just tried pressing Alt-X in the game on my Mac and that didn't work. In DOSBox, Alt is mapped to Option on the Mac keyboard, perhaps this doesn't work the same way on the Mac, so I'll have to try it on my Windows 10 PC and see if it works there, otherwise I'll have to resort to using my Amazon Echo or Google Home to answer the questions. I have to say that the age verification is the reason I've never been able to play these games despite buying them on GOG in 2013.
+Lachlant1984 Mac keyboards didn't originally have an alt key on them, so generally speaking with older software, DOS/Windows Alt = Mac Option. It's not only like this in DOSBox but with most software ported from DOS/Windows to Mac.
The age verification questions aren’t google-proof :)
@@PhantomFellows I'm sure they're not. And I suspect they're not Alexa proof either. Back when I first bought this game, I didn't realise I could just press alt-enter to switch to windowed mode and then open my web browser.
For some reason I never watched this review until now.
In general I tend to prefer Sierra's originals over the remakes, though I think its just a case of liking whatever version I experienced first (Space Quest I, the only case where I prefer the remake, is also a case where I played the remake first). Quest for Glory is the only time I feel the original is objectively superior.
As for Larry, from what I understand the collection "Ultimate Pleasure Pack" is the one to look out for... it is also probably the hardest one to get. I myself have the Collection Series release, which to me is fine as its consistent with the rest of my collection. The only thing is that its missing the final LSL game, Love for Sail, though that's easy enough to get separately.
I never finished this game... still a great game
you have way too few subscribers and views.. you deserver much more
Nice
alt x for the first game and ctrl alt x for second.
While I've never played a Leisure Suit Larry game in my life, I can understand how depressing it is being a fan in this day n age, with that appalling Xbox360 game, and that kickstarted HD remake that suffered poor reviews from critics, for being an ugly mess.
>it took me a while go get the joke.
Because you're not 12.
Lol
Too bad the new HD remake is terrible. :c