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Comment by arcboii92 | Hacker News Reader

The most viewed game at the time I post this comment:

Leisure Suit Larry 6

A huge archive of playable games from a wonderful era, and everyone rushed for the 8 bit tiddies.

To be fair, that game is going places no AAA title in existence today will go. So it’s debatable that anyone visiting that archive will have experienced a contemporary, mainstream game that does the same themes. It even makes the most sense for Archive.org, because the Apple App Store would never allow that game.

While I personally find nudity and sex conquest games pretty stupid, and I recognize there are a lot of interesting boundary pushing indie titles out there, it does show how utterly dead games distribution and production has gotten if people find Leisure Suit Larry in Archive.org interesting enough to try.

From what I remember when I was 14, besides the nudity, the game is still an actual sierra game with good brain wracking puzzles (a bit more unfair and rough than lucasart games) and goofiness...

It pushed boundaries and the theme is not necessarily politically correct but below the surface the game is also good and cannot just be reduced to that

Isn't Steam full of games that would make Larry blush? I thought it was a mjor point of controversy. True they are not AAA titles, but it's not like the options aren't there.

Yeah but skewed towards Japanese anime-eque visual novels, plus a lot of low hanging fruit, like tetris... but naked.

Source: had a roommate/former coworker that was deep into that rabbit hole.

>Isn't Steam full of games that would make Larry blush?

Yes, and also there's porn.

Larry was an actual game, and a great one, at that.

And it never took itself too seriously.

I really don't think this is a reflection of the current games industry. It's people's nostalgia for a game they played when they were fourteen and hormonal.

There's a remake of the original game on the iOS and Macintosh App Stores:

> Now Larry’s original creator, the world-famous game designer Al Lowe, has teamed up with Sierra Veteran Josh Mandel, to bring this amazing, perverted game back to life – updated and expanded in every way imaginable! All we kept from the original game is the plot.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/leisure-suit-larry-reloaded/id...

Jason Scott here. Just want to mention that if you see any games with over 50 views in the collection, it usually means the game was around previously, but not working and was taken out of circulation, and now the configuration to make it work within the Internet Archive system was complete and it's ready. I also used it as an indication of what people were looking for.

There's plenty of X-rated content out there, but there's nothing like Leisure Suit Larry.

You've got to give it to Al Lowe[1]: the game was a masterpiece in the best of Sierra's traditions - with a lot of humor, interesting puzzles, and a great soundtrack - and yes, great graphics.

I still remember the theme that you heard when you were in the hotel hallways (AdLib-compatible MIDI rendition on my ES1868 FM soundcard).

Some of the humor in LSL has not aged well, but a lot did.

And there's not anything like LSL today - or even back then. The sort of light-hearted, but high quality art that has some sort of nakedness/"adult" themes (let's be honest, the people who enjoyed LSL the most were teens) seems to comprise solely of LSL series.

[1]http://allowe.com/

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