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Leisure Suit Larry 1: VGA Review

By Jonathan Mills
January 25, 2006 - 00:27

Leisure Suit Larry is a point and click adventure series that started in the late 80s, this game is actually a remake of the first Leisure Suit Larry game and includes updated graphics, sound and an entirely mouse driven interface (the original game was text driven)

Point and click adventure games were extremely popular in the early 90's, with the game Mist, starting the genre. These games have you control your character through either a 3rd or 1st person perspective, collecting items and solving puzzles to move forward in the game. These types of games focus mainly on the story to be told, rather then complex gameplay.

In Leasure Suit Larry, you play as Larry Laffer, a 40'ish, Leasure Suit wearing loser who's goal is to lose his Virginity. Your quest involves you trying anything possible to achieve this.

As you progress though the game world, you'll pick up various item's, which are used to move along through the game. Unlike a lot of point and Click adventure games, the puzzles in this game seem logical and arent very hard to figure out when you think about them. Also, unlike other point and click games, you can die, this usually happens when you make a wrong choice or walk out into traffic.

Leisure Suit Larry can have you doubled over laughing at times, in fact, that's the games strongest point, it's humor. The only major negative to speak of is the money system, if you run out of money, you won't be able to progress through the game. It's always important to have multiple backup save's incase this happens. Graphically, you can't complain, for a game made in 1990, it holds up very well, with it's colorful and vibrant graphics. Sound, while MIDI's, are still very well done, you may even catch yourself humming along.

Let's do this!!!

For the 6 to 8 hour's I played Leisure Suit Larry, I had a great time, this is one of those games that's so good, it stands the test of time, providing as much fun now as it did back then. If you see it anywhere cheap, buy it.

NOTE: As this is a DOS game, Windows XP users will need a free program called DOSBox in order to run it.

Overall score is not based on a average

Last Updated: August 31, 2023 - 08:12