![]() But this didn’t stop Softporn Adventure from becoming a bit of a cultural phenomenon. When put next to the various ‘High-Res Adventures’ being developed by the likes of Roberta Williams, as well as other text adventures from Infocom, technically it looked and felt quite primitive. Why's the waiter in the hot tub?Although well received by some critics, Softporn Adventure was still seen by many as a pretty simple game with very little depth. And as we’re talking about 1981, the year where Luke Skywalker found out some pretty interesting news about his parents, it was strictly a text-based affair. No, Softporn Adventure is about a nameless party-animal type trying to score with a bunch of different women in a Las Vegas-like environment. “A time-travelling cyborg who goes back in time to stop the human resistance from ever getting their hands on his hands?” Not quite, that would be silly. READ HISTORY BOOKIn 1981 Sierra acquired the rights to publish a game for the Apple II called Softporn Adventure, and based on that tile you should be able to guess what it was about. Even if a lot of the humour can feel, well, dated. And in a weird way the fact that Larry’s goals in his early adventures are in finding love, makes both the character and the games endearing. For the most part these games are devoid of any actual nudity or explicit sexual content too. Sex-themed comedies which, even with six Larry games released, is still a pretty rare thing.Ī loveable loser.Anyone who has spent any real time with a Leisure Suit Larry game will know that the majority of the laughs are mined from Larry Laffer being the lovable loser, trying and subsequently failing in his efforts to seduce various women. In fact they’re quite funny, and when you get right down to it are comedies. The Leisure Suit Larry games can get crude and for many entries the goals are that simple, but what almost always gets lost in the translation is that as a whole these games (well, the ones developed and overseen by Al Lowe) are not malicious or predatory in any way. ![]() ![]() Unfortunate, but also not entirely unfair because in some ways that sentiment is right. It’s unfortunate that many see this long running series from Sierra as a set of crude games where the goals are to seduce and sleep with a bunch of different women. ![]()
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