There's no denying that gameplay that revolves around staring blankly at a room dense with interactive people and objects, and putting the square peg in all the circular holes (pun intended) until something sticks is hopelessly dated. A more rewarding problem to ponder though is how the humor of a game like 1987's Leisure Suit Larry cannot be extricated from its gameplay counterpart and adapted into some other genre or medium. Banking on nostalgia and some twists thrown in for good measure, developer N-Fusion Interactive has re-remade the game from the ground up, seemingly certain that this classic speaks for itself. You apparently agree, since this game was funded on Kickstarter.
Unlike most games in the '80s and '90s, the Leisure Suit Larry series dared to be risqué. The creators didn't shy away from then-taboo content like sexual humor and nudity, which is one of the reasons we still remember the series so fondly today. The other reason, of course, is that many of the games were incredibly solid point-and-click adventure titles. And with a Kickstartered remake of the first game in the series coming soon, we couldn't pass up the opportunity to spend a little time with it at this year's GDC.
If you owned a computer in the '80s or '90s, then you probably bought Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards. Wait, correction: it's more likely you actually pirated Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards. It's okay. No one's judging you, least of all Al Lowe. In fact, Larry Laffer's legitimate daddy wants to give you another chance to help Larry score true love.
Set your wayback machine to June 6, 2011. That was the day that we gleefully broke the news that not only was Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards getting a re-release, but that it would be coming in a matter of weeks. Those weeks turned to months, and still, not a peep was heard... until now.