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Leisure Suit Larry in HTML5

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Ooooh nOOOOooo! Don't click that link! Please! NOOOOOOOO!

It's 1987, in the wee hours of some morning. I'm tired and frustrated, staring at the green-on-black screen of a 640k XT running Leisure Suit Larry, my first-ever video game (on my first-ever computer, too). I've been up all night, trying all kinds of ways to get those pills off the window sill. Failing again. And again.

I notice that the screen is kinda blurry now; then I realize that it's because my eyes water. I need to stop playing this - now! Save game, turn off computer, go to bed.

Can't sleep.

How do I get those pills without falling off the balcony? Maybe tie a rope to the railing and hold on to it while leaning over to the next window, where the pills are. There is a rope in the game, but it only appears when your bride ties you to the bed and leaves you there, forcing you to restore. How could I get that?

Need to sleep.

Can't.

The knife! One of the bums has a knife! Maybe you need the knife before you marry, to cut the rope in the wedding suite, later. Then use the rope on the balcony, hold on, lean over, grab the pillbox. This could work.

How do I get that knife?

The wine! You can buy a bottle of wine in the 7/11. The trick, maybe, is to trade in the wine for the bum's knife. Of course, all this has to be done before you first meet the bride in the disco...Imma try this - now!

Get up, boot computer, load game...

I (mostly) stopped videogaming after my Larry Laffer experience. Much too dangerous. Could have ruined my life.

But before I stopped, I did see the fireworks. Would be kinda nice to see them again, after all these years...

NOOOOO!!! Must...resist...clicking...

I played LSL as a kid and assumed that "lubber" was another name for "condom." I got the joke a decade later while sitting in traffic (if you haven't played the game, the clerk was Indian).

You should put SPOILER somewhere in the beginning of your comment, because it does contain them, on some of the best parts of the game too

Shix, it's too late to edit... but you're right. Got carried away writing this, and didn't think far enough - sorry!

not only that, its multi-user - you walk around with a lot of other Larrys, all completing the same quests, drinking the same beers, etc. - World of Larrycraft?

I have been joking about a "World of King's Quest" MMO for a looong time. And now it's a reality! :D

Amazing to think that this was the closest you could get to porn on a computer back then.

"Porn", here, means that you see a bed with a fat black bar which says CENSORED and blocks your view on what's going on.

IIRC, that black bar is shaking, though.

Our imagination can beat the best (pornographic) film directory. Imagination is the reason why books are so much more vivid than films eventhough they're "just text". It probably was more exciting¹ than the instant youporn videos these days.

¹) Disclaimer: Although, back in the LSL days I was barely past the age when I would get excited by thinking about girls during class which might explain a bit...

The hell it was! I remember finding a low-res pinup on a shareware game disk and then examining the contents of every pirated or shareware disk I had. My parents asked me what I was doing, and I told them it was something terribly technical. I didn't find any more that day, but after that I looked at every disk I could get my hands on and did find naughty pictures from time to time. I even found a couple of programs that did nothing but display crude animations of people having sex. Some of the pictures were pretty good given the display limitations; I think they were scanned from magazines and then touched up by hand.

National Geographic and those shareware disks were my only sources of female nudity until I got older and managed to get my hands on R-rated movies. (Sheltered, yes, I know.)

All these years later, I still get nightmares in which I'm stuck in King's Quest III and trying to walk that damned narrow path around the mountain.

!Flash != HTML5

Sweet! They need to add Quest for Glory I and II though - those were the best.

Unfortunately the original Quest for Glory games ran on Sierra's SGI and not the AGI which is used for the games here. This link has a good write-up about game interpreters: http://oss.sgi.com/LDP/HOWTO/Linux-Gamers-HOWTO/interpreters...

Not the same, but ScummVM supports QFG1/QFG2 now:

http://scummvm.org/

(adventure games aficionado here)

I've played all King's Quest and Space Quest titles. Though I played and enjoyed "Love for Sail", I never tried the older titles of Leisure Suit Larry. Now I'll give it a try :)

Seems to work just fine on my iPad(I just got one)

http://ipad.sarien.net/ offers an iBooks-esque iPad specific library view of the games available.

they don't make 'em like they used to. the games on this site are some of my favorites.

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