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It pains me to know that Sierra has turned into something totally different from what everyone remembers. I should have done my research because then I would have known about the money problems (which you did tell me) and the new management. One of the top game design companies known for a slew of high quality games is now only known for two. Half-Life and of course your bouncing baby bachelor. There's even a site (I forgot which) that has a poll as to which company disappoints you the most. No surprise that it was Sierra. That hurts.
What I wanted to tell you is that one of these days it's going to blow up in everyone's face. I'm into most forms of entertainment. I'm working on a graphic novel, trying to get money for a film short, developing my own graphic adventure idea and even thinking about joining my friend on her website venture. All of this is on a very, I think the term is, grassroots level. I know what you're saying about money, but I'm still young and I want to love something before I go straight. Hopefully, I'll be able to do it for life (I'd love to hear your music).
What I see now is people lazily going about making everyone happy. There should be no such thing as a CGI Yoda! Sooner or later (probably later) we'll realize what's out there and demand some quality.
Every ten years the old generation starts to show itself in it's children. I'm asking only that you keep that wonderful imagination you have. If you look at Resident Evil, the brilliant Final Fantasy series and the many games out there with CG cut-scenes you'll see a little bit of the past there.
It's good to be social, don't get me wrong, but the multiplayer is becoming the standard. I'm sure you have DVD's that you and your family can watch. A good action movie that everyone can get excited over. There are, lurking somewhere in the collection, personal films that you can relate to. Video games are at that level, but they got here at the wrong time. In this age of 'what fad can we pimp next', the gamers are getting first rate systems that play third (or 97th) rate games. If you don't have a good series going, then throw some more patches on that broadband version of 'Don't Wait To See The Whites Of Their Eyes'.
If there are so many people in that vast cyber world then why is Larry alone (again!)? Larry is all alone again, but at the same time with everyone. Books and Films are one thing, but it's rare that a video game character can become it's own being. You are the only one I can think of who's done it. You served your purpose on this plane, I believe and made people smile.
You don't have to do it again. That's not what I'm saying. You should be a household name though.
I know what everyone wants and I want it too, but what I see is a talent, not a character. I'd like to see one more 'matured' version of Larry. Let him win and then go in peace. You, on the other hand are larger than the Internet. I don't want to see you get lost in the sea of search engines.
"Oh, I remember him. He made that game with that guy."
Not that there all bad, but some of these games have no heart. I remember when rap became accepted. When comic books became accepted. Before these video games go down I would love to see you and maybe Tim Schafer GET DOWN and do what Tony Alva and Tony Hawk did for skateboarding: Bring it to the forefront without letting it lose it's heart.
Maybe in my future I could develop one of your scripts into a movie (or give you all the money you want to make more games), but until then...
...you are etched in the mind of every old school gamer.
PS: You're not going to believe this, but my wife works for a financial company and one day, when greeting a client, she asked his name. It was Larry Laffer. What a geek!
Hi Al,
I read your interview with the German Magazine PC-Games and after i read it i cant find words to tell you how f**ked Sierra is. What the hell are they waiting for? I mean you created Larry and Designed Games for so long years and now they keep their fucking Copyrights in their fucking safes. And why dont you find another publisher? Well Al, If i become once rich, you can count on me!!
Spiros Chantzaras (16) Germany
I have to tell you I hope you get to make another leisure suit larry game I will be the first in line to get it they really dont make walk yhrough games like that anymore most people are into those shoot um up games but I would rather sit down and play one of you creations to this day i still play 5 and love for sale I cant Find my original number 1 copy which i hate but what are you going to do its not they sell it anymore. Thank for taking the time to read this I just wanted to say I love your humor and work you put into The leisure series and I hope to see another with your name in the credits.
Joe
Number 1 Lesuire Suit Larry Fan
Hey Al,
Just wanted to let you know that as a loyal LSL player (learned to type on lsl 1 on my tandy 1000 in 1990) I really miss your stuff. You brought a true contrast (lsl/softporn vs, disney) to the gaming world in it's infancy, and since I lost track of you and Jane Jensen, I havent seen a good thing come out of Sierra since Half-Life, which isn' really in the same category as your single player masterpieces. On behalf of the gaming world: make fore stuff, I'll even help with sound, I have a degree in audio engineering (and I'm Canadian, so I can work cheap). Really though, just wanted to say, thanks for teaching me to tyepe!!!
Mike Bourgeault
Hi Al,
Or shall i say Mr. Lowe? I don't know. First of all imagine you can read all this "I love your Games" and "Your the greatest Designer" Stuff here. I think thats faster and more econimic ;)
And finally some ideas: like i mentioned in the GB how about making a paypal account for "Save Larry Laffer". So we could probably get some Money for the Laffer Licence. I could sleep better if Larry's Name is in it's Dads hands ;)
And even if it won't be enough how about makin a Larry game without it. Gary Fleffner or sth like this. I can imagine that there will be friends and fans who develope for free. i'm common to it cuz i come from the MOD scene. There are great Free Engines on the Net. Oh btw. i do 3D Modeling as Hobby for a Mod. I will try a Larry Model soon, cuz i don't like Jason Zayas' Model very much. It's nice but 1st with today's technique there are more polygons and details possibile and i would make a 1:1 model of the Character in LSL7. He's really great with his big eyes and head shape, everything.
Hope i don't bore you. Maybe a little commercial break: Drink more Dr Pepper Cola !!! Yes, it's really great. Forget about Pepsi and Coke, only Dr Pepper has it's own unbelievable refreshing taste *grinning to the camera* (<- yes i love this stuff, good that i live near the Hollandish Border because Dr Pepper isn't produced in Germany)
Ok back to boring stuff: when there is a demo or running version of Gary Fleffner maybe Sierra would take it over. Although this kind of development is slow because the developers just conntact over the net (they live everywhere because there aren't all Skills availible for free next to your place) it's for free. If it gets better there will be more money and meetings and stuff, we do this at our MOD like this, and without any know VIP in our team we were in several Magazine's and TV Shows with our game althoug there is not even a playable BETA done.
I know a programmer who would probably join, he studies and is very good in codin. You can make any team you wish of course, but please make Larry 8. What am i saying this is just a suggestion, i think im dreaming again hehe. (Larry 9 will do it as well ;)
Regards Milho aka Blasius Floch
"i had a dream..." :)
Mr. Lowe,
Just wanted to say that I'm going to miss the Larry series. That was one of the funniest games I have ever seen! Do you have any plans on making a part 8 or finding the lost disk for part 4? ... probably not... anyway, as a fan of your work, just wanted to say Hi ... appreciate the lighter side of tryin' to hook up with a girl, and hope you're having a great time with what you possibly could be doing now. Do you still work for the game industry?
So without further ado and bothering you further, I'll say goodbye and thanks for the entertainment while it lasted!
-a fan named Shane
hey there.
you very certainly don't know me, but i've been playing your computer games pretty much since they started coming out all those years ago.
i was doing research for an oral presentation i have to do tomorrow morning - which is essentially about the death of the adventure game and was running some searches to see what kind of stuff i got back and your page was pretty literally one of the last i found while doing my search.
i wanted to say two things...the first is that i wholeheartedly concur with a lot of what you said in your article on the subject...and the second is thankyou for the very good times that you [and the pre-1998] set of programmers at sierra gave me as a game player. i remember that one of my earliest dreams ever [and i still harbor it somewhere, although, not in the same form, certainly] was to come and work at sierra because back when i started playing computer games, they'd basically given me the kind of things i wanted to play - stories. which i don't find so much outside of rpg's anymore.
i really do appreciate all the jokes and the many, many hours of entertainment your games provided.
good luck.
julian comley
Thanks a lot for the great games, Al, and thanks for the website as well. I have some fond memories of the Larry games and your webpage is like taking a walk down nostalgia lane.
I really think that if Myst never appeared, I'd probably be happily playing Larry 8 right now, with Sam & Max 3 and Monkey Island 5 awaiting its completion. It's quite amazing what damage one huge-selling, horribly flawed adventure game can do.
Thomas M. Freeman
Hi Al!
I just want to tell you how much i've enjoyed your Larry-games and how sad I am to hear, that there wont be another one. Since I was six, I know its a bit early :-), I've played the game and always been looking forward to the sequel, when one was about to be released. Anyway, you made a game that I think is the best of games ever and Larry will always be remembered by me. Hope you can finish your piece of art someday with Leasure Suit Larry 8.
Best Regards
Thomas
Denmark
I did a web search asking for stuff about the death of compuer games and your site came up. It did make for interesting reading. I'm always curious to see what other people think about the whole issue...and to get an opinion from someone in the industry - that I have played games by - gave a whole new perspective on the subject.
I remember, very vividly, specifically buying (at great expense, in South Africa, at the time) an entire computer because i wanted to play space quest one. I'd seen it running on a friend's machine one december holiday and saved up money and spoke to my parents about it and they were ok with the whole thing - and that's pretty literally how i got started with computer games - space quest one, king's quest three and some shareware.
Speaking from the outside looking in, i started having very bad feelings about the whole thing when i saw phantasmagoria for the first time. That's when i started wondering, seriously, where the whole thing was going. What made me more worried (particularly about the adventure game as a genre) was The Seventh Guest. I could, pretty literally, only see bad things coming out of that. The entire game, while graphically beautiful was merely a string of puzzles thrown together. the point where i think i sudeenly realized that sierra was starting to have problems was when i saw Police Quest Four.
i wasn't as fond of Police Quest as i was of Space Quest particularly but since my sister got involved and liked the whole thing, i got her a copy and we started playing it together...and from about that point on, i knew something was missing. after that it was pretty much all downhill for me, with regards to Sierra.
I'd already decided that i didn't like first person shooter games [i played the entire first episode of Doom and thought, 'ah. wait a second. i just wasted a week or so of my life shooting things...?'] so when Half-Life came along and King's Quest Eight did shortly after that and then Gabriel Knight Three [i'd really liked Gabriel Knight up to about then...] it was pretty much over.
Your point about the 'me too' games is very accurate here - i just found that Sierra were starting to do things 'wrong' and were letting the people go that had made them. it was frustrating, looking fromt he outside...seeing how it was going...and knowing that it could never go back...like you, i still kind of have hopes for Sierra working things out and getting the old franchises going again, but... my hopes dimmed, after seeing King's Quest Eight/Quest For Glory Five/Gabriel Knight Three.
It is sad.
Nicodemus Caine
Hi Mr. Lowe.
I just found your site. I have the Larry ultimate pleasure pack (I was fortunate enough to find it last April), and I saw your site on it. So I thought I’d give it a try.
I love the Larry games! I remember playing those years ago, before I was really allowed to play them (I’m only 25 now.) Now my biggest problem is getting them to play on windows XP!
I don’t know why Sierra ever stopped making the good games. Some, like Larry, they won’t even sell anymore. I have been trying to find the “quest for glory” games forever, and recently I was able to find good old “Colonels Bequest”. There are not too many adult oriented games anymore, Actually, I don’t remember there ever really being too many. But, Larry was always a great game. Besides the issue of getting Larry to work On Win XP, It’s figuring them out! I’m totally stuck on Larry 5. Are there still guides available? I haven’t checked your whole site yet, so maybe you mention that?
Anyway, I just wanted to tell you that I hope to hear from you again in the gaming world. Maybe since you can’t do Larry again without Sierra, you can start a new game, perhaps the adventures of some new fella, or woman. Whatever you do, I can’t wait to get it! I think your games are great, and it’s a shame you don’t own the rights to your own creation.
Take care.
Vince
Hi,
I've spent about 6 or 7 years almost totally out of the "games" world wrapped up in "internet" stuff...now that that bubble has burst I find myself with plenty of time on my hands, and decided to seek out a great new adventure game for my new computer, and have some real fun...(last time I had a cutting edge game capable machine was about '93 and I remember playing SQ4, KQ5, LSL5 and like...) To cut a long story short I ended up downloading a bunch of old Sierra adventures, which I was shocked to find languishing on "abandonware" sites, with nothing even remotely like them available commercially.
I hope you don't take offense at my technical theft of what might be some of your property, but unfortunately it has become the only way to obtain any of the classic adventure games like Sierra and Lucasfilm releases. They are now commercially non-existant. I found Sierra's own site totally lacking even an "adventure" category... let alone the slightest mention of any "Quest" beyond Masks of Eternity - which didn't really catch my interest.
This poses an interesting question. What is the status of this "abandoned" software. Movies and books have tended to "keep" and can be constantly re-released, rented on video, DVD, etc. Things like classic James Bond movies, Star Wars movies, Tolkien, even books by Stephen King or Clive Cussler, say, still remain valuable intellectual property decades after their initial release. The first Stephen King novel is still just as satisfying an experience for the new reader as his latest "bestseller"... and just as profitable for the publisher, who still no doubt still stocks it in bookstores. Lucas can seemingly endlessly tweak and re-release Star Wars and make more money on each new "special edition" than the last. Films with Sean Connery & Roger Moore as 007 still regularly crop up on network television, faithfully reaping in royalties as the original actors enter old age.
Yet Leisure Suit Larry languishes in the land of the lost code... virtually disowned by Sierra, his creator "banished", so to speak, without any rights to the creation. He is available only on the "underground", if you can even make him run on your new-fangled PC. As I see it, the only way I could get any reimbursement to you, as the creator of any further Larry games I play, would be to write out a personal check to "Al Lowe" and ask you for somewhere to send it... My mind boggles at this weird situation. Any thoughts?
I have to say that I have always admired you as the creative force behind the Larry games. Only upon discovering this web site did I realize how much you'd contributed to so many of the games I enjoyed over the years. Man, you wore a lot of hats there! More respect to you!
Anyway,
I have always enjoyed the idea of "adventure games". Even before personal computers were common I played paper based RPGs, and loved "Fighting Fantasy" type adventure books. What attracted me to these games was the idea of an original world with a story, plot advancement, characters and objects you could interact with and problems to solve, all integrated into the advancing story with you controlling the actions of the main character.
Sure, there was combat and some mechanics, but they were supposed to "serve" the story-telling. As the roleplaying world progressed, it actually became good gamesmaster practise to hide as much of the "background" dice rolling as possible from the players, fudge dice rolls to keep the plot moving along, and encourage players to use good roleplaying and ingenuity to get out of situations. Some systems even dispensed with the dice altogether and relied on the gamesmasters decided opinion as to what was and wasn't possible.
When the computer gaming industry matured sufficiently that identifiable genres like "adventure" or "RPG" became common, I found it interesting that the supposed computer "RPGs" tended to focus on mechanics, randomness and combat, with character advancement largely increased scores and little real sense of story or plot flow beyond hacking maze after maze of monsters and gathering generic treasure items.
"Adventure" games largely dispensed with the mechanics and combat and focused on creating real individual worlds and locations with atmosphere, plot, characters that integrate with the story, and solving logic/lateral thinking based problems with interaction between objects and characters in the game world.
It was these adventure games attracted me the most when I got access to a computer. The day I first saw and played Space Quest II, the first Sierra graphic adventure I ever saw, I was hooked. I felt I had discovered the "ideal" computer game format, from my point of view. Lush graphics, the best possible for a computer of the day, individually drawn for every scene, wandering around like a vast movie set with things to do and play with in all sorts of ways.
And, ironically, this was what I thought of as a 3D graphic adventure, as you could wander around objects in a seemingly real 3D third person space. It was different from first person 3D, but to my mind better, more immersive, more like a movie than a simulation. This was how games should be. I didn't miss the fighting and combat... it was more fun to get around monsters and things with cunning rather than arbitrary point scores or arcade skills. In fact I found that some games like Monkey Island, where you could hardly ever die, were actually more fun. Also I found that the Quest for Glory series was (minus the corny humor) closer to the spirit of original "tabletop" roleplaying games with a proper setting and campaign purpose, than the supposed "true RPGs" that were being released. Combat was there, but well integrated, not TOO much hassle, and not too reliant on arcade skills.
And when my Dad said I could play Larry 1 if I could answer the quiz - and I got it right, yeah! Great game. I enjoyed all the Leisure Suit Larry games I played immensely. When I read somewhere on this site that they are some of the best adventure games ever, I have to agree. LSL2 in particular stands out in my mind as a classic. So many locations, so many cool problems, something different always happening somewhere different, and such a great ending.
I spent years trying to figure out how to do a game like these, never coming close, as I had nowhere near the resources or knowledge at the time. So I played a lot of Sierra and other adventure and role playing games, programmed my own small text adventures and basic 2D graphic games, finished high school, got a job, got into the internet and multimedia, learnt a lot about graphics and animation and design and music, got a degree in multimedia design, worked in the internet industry until the bubble burst, and now find myself with lots of free time... and in a world where I realize the gaming scene has changed dramatically.
All of Sierras "star" designers gone - no more Al Lowe, Two Guys from Andromeda, Lori Cole... no more "adventure" games, King's Quest a first person action game with plenty of hack-n-slash and platform leaping...
Somewhere along the line the arcade action game has merged with the RPG, which has merged with the simulation into the sort of Quake style game that has taken over the industry. "3D" has become this odd buzzword that means exactly what the industry decides to define it as, but is is "must have" therefore "de-rigeur", no matter what. And currently it is defined as Quake style engines with first person 3D. Total focus seems to be on as fast a frame rate in real time as possible, with as much realistically rendered carnage and blood as possible, with blasting the crap out of everything the only gratification to be obtained. Basic gameplay remains unchaged from the ancient "Gauntlet" game - run around level after level of anonymous maze blasting everything in sight.
In this whole mess somewhere the entire adventure game concept either merged into this 3D first person aracde action game, or disappeared completely... no-one is exactly sure. Problems degenerated from relatively "realistic" interaction with an environment to rubiks cube type "puzzles" and mechanical problems involving pushing the rights buttons or knobs or whatevers the rights way in the right combination. This is really a completely different sort of game altogether, not problem solving.
Even the venerated Kings Quest has turned in this direction. But as I said, I'm not really that attracted to the game. I played both Ultima Underworlds ten years ago, realtime first person 3D is nothing new. I remember when it used to be plain vectors on an 8-bit system... and how revolutionary it was when computers were fast enough to actually fill them in with solid colors in real-time.
But the graphic adventure was always a seperate category that stood apart from, and in my mind above, these other games. I considered third person view with background art to be an artistic directional choice, not just a technical limitation to one day be overcome. The quality of the art in a graphic adventure was always the best of any game. Nothing else has ever captured the same individual atmosphere of each game so well, and allowed such exploitation of artistic flair and style over mere technical limitation.
Even now, if I look at screenshots of Kings Quest 7, the quality and richness of the imagery amazes me, but if I look at KQ8... it looks like something I could knock together in five minutes using Bryce... sure I know I can move around real time and all, but the individual detail is all gone.
Real time rendering simply cannot compete with what can be done given some time, either rendering a really detailed atmospheric picture with correct texturing and scaling and lighting, or getting an artist to draw something good. Even with 3D rendering, the result will always be better if the computer can take some time to do it properly and render really detailed models - good images take hours to render, not 1/24th of a second.
Besides, none of this is reason to dispense with plot and some decent involving puzzles.
Anyway, as I now have the resources and experience needed to actually develop something myself, I would like to give it a go. I've been rendering background graphics and models that I am happy with and would like to start building into a world to explore.
I was inspired by "fan" remakes of Kings Quest 1, redone in VGA with the AGS engine. Someone else is planning to do an SQ7, now that Sierra won't... Now I'm not actually interested in remaking some Sierra property, but I do like the concept, particularly the later icon driven adventures.
I've got engines like AGAST which can create graphic adventures, and I can load my backgrounds, program interfaces and objects and watch in awe as a sprite finally wanders around my own adventure world. (Eh.. if only I had these tools ten years ago!) Of course I have all my other pro graphics software and stuff, as well as a home music studio and recording equipment, plenty of development experience in other stuff, so I figure I can cover all the bases technically. Artistically I'll probably need some assistance with some things, as I'm a decent background and object artist and interface designer, but poor at people, realistic animals, their movements and animation, etc.
I plan to use high resolution, 24 bit color backgrounds with full anti-aliasing of sprites, good quality sounds and music, plenty of close up shots, and to try and make the interface as intuitive yet flexible as possible. Beyond that, everything is still on the drawing board.
But I noticed that you say on your site that you have some definite ideas on where adventure games should go.("...I've got some great ideas for revitalizing adventure games...") I can't exactly claim to be a publisher with a big budget ready to go, but I was wondering if you'd still be willing to share a few general ideas on where you think the genre should go, and how a modern adventure game should be done. I'm not asking for your secret plot ideas or how to make the next Larry game ;-) Just your ideas on the whole "3D/action/RPG/shoot-em-up/adventure" that we have now, whether you think a traditional adventure, albiet with modern high res (but largely pre-drawn/rendered) graphics and quality sound, can compete today, not necessarily as #1 best-seller award winning mega-game, but as a quality experience that many gamers would enjoy, perhaps even be commercially viable on a small but reasonable scale (i.e. paying production costs, not earning billions) if marketted and distributed properly. Or would you see the adventure evolve in a new, as yet unexplored direction?
I have a nasty suspicion about the gaming industry, which is that the whole thing comes down to expense.
Producing beautiful background screens and rendered animations is time consuming, requires real artists, and is thus expensive. Producing basic shapes rendered with generic textures is easy and faster, needs less "artistic" input as the "computer does the work" ;-), and is thus cheap.
Designing plots and characters with depth and problems to solve is time consuming, and requires real writers and people with ideas, and is thus expensive. Designing generic levels and populating them with generic "monsters" to kill and generic "puzzle" problems is easy, faster, doesn't need talented writers, and is much cheaper.
Was it really lack of interest/demand that killed adventure games, or just cost of production vs shoot-em ups?
Am I walking down a darkened dead end alley, or can you throw me a torch here?
Thanking you now for all the great games, and in advance for any reply I may receive,
Caleb Fuller
Hey Al,
It is really an honour to have a chat with the man who gave me my education with Leisure Suit Larry Series.
I read the article about Larry being dead and that the "Ultimate pleasure Pack" ended up an "Utimate Failure Pack", or so I believe. ( How did it sell by the way?)
I played my first Larry when I was 5 , Leisure suit Larry 3 , 'cos my mom was a technical support person for Unisys South Africa, I was into computers from the time my eyes opened for the first time. Larry was a big hit in South Africa amongst gamers for years and I still have people today asking me where they can find stores that sell copies of the series, and it makes me wanna cry when I say that larry is no more.
I was "educated" by the likes of Larry, and his quest partners from the kings quest,hero's quest, eco quest, space quest, series'.. you name 'em I played 'em. There is not a single adventure I have not played, that is why I am so passionate patti, about all this whole "Larry being iced" saga.
I think sierra are damn ungrateful and should hang their heads in shame for discarding the very characters who made them what they are, Its an outrage!! If it weren't for you and the Williams' they would have been out collecting trash today!!....You all are the legacy of Sierra.
Anyway, they do not have an excuse for what they did, it was plain stoopid. I mean, Lucasarts released a press article that they are re-introducing the Full Throttle Title because it is the most-beloved classic, I quote Simon Jeffrey - Lucasarts President : "We can't think of a better brand or character to lead LucasArts' charge into a new era of original game development. Ben so perfectly symbolizes our legacy and yet has just the right mix of attitude and edge to appeal to a new generation of game players."
Why the hell can't Sierra do the same...Their dumb,dumb, dumb.......The just can't market a product those dummies. Have you approached Lucasarts perhaps, do you think they might be interestedin ressurrecting our little buddy? I bet there are millions of supporters out there who would back you. Let me know your thoughts
Have a nice day !!!
Clinton Rabe'
Selby, JHB, South Africa
from London, Uk
May 28, 2002
Keep it up Al - I am 25 and I feel sorry for all those kids who will never really know what a good adventure game is. Made of weird things like 'scenario', 'plot', 'real scanned drawings', 'fun'! You've done something to be proud of, thanks again
from Vora, Vaasa, Finland
May 27, 2002
May Al lowe live to see the daylight of another great Leisure suit Larry game! Thank you!
from Louisville, Kentucky, Usa
May 25, 2002
Dear Al Lowe, Hello. My name is Jennifer and I am a huge fan of your's. I replay the LSL series all the time and just got Freddy Pharkas. (can't get the theme song out of my head.) I thought maybe you'd be interested in knowing that Larry kindof had a role in my marriage. You see along time ago, when I still dating, I met this guy. We went on a couple of dates and to my dismay he didn't seem to have a sense of humor. He was sweet, kind, good looking, and all that jazz, but not humorous at all. I was seriously contemplating leaving the relationship over this. ( I know, it's a little shallow. But who wants to be with someone they can't laugh with.) We went over to his place and he showed me some of his games. six were LSL games. He went on and on about how much he liked them. Laughing and joking on the things that happened in them. And I realized, hey, he was just shy. You have to have a good sense of humor if you love LSL. I loved (and still do) them too. Long story slightly shorter, we married 1 year later and have been playing and replaying the games ever since. So Larry saved a wonderful relationship. I truely hope Sierra someday figures out what they lost. LSL is a lot cleaner than shootum ups. I hope you are someday able to make another one. Thank you for your great programming skills, wonderful sense of humor, and caring ways(as evident in the making of this site.) It has been a plesure playing your games and going through your site. Fondest Regards, Jennifer M. Gipson
May 25, 2002
I loved the Adventures of Larry Laffer ... and i still hope, that the last game will be continued.
from La, Ca, Usa
May 24, 2002
Oh, how tragic things are these days. Games use to be fun. Games use to have content. Now it’s all about blowing people away on the Quake engine (although that is fun too). I think it’s truly sad that Sierra swept under the carpet the people who made them what they are. No more Larry games, Space Quest, Quest for Glory, or any other of the great games that had the word “quest” in the title. It took me a looong time to find Larry games. And I even found The Quest for Glory games on a classic trash website. Unfortunately, they stopped posting the games since they say it breaks some copyright law (even though Sierra doesn’t even sell those games anymore, so why do they care?) I think AL made some damn good games; I’m still looking for Freddy Pharkas, Frontier Pharmacist, though I doubt I’ll ever get to play it. I just hope Mr. Lowe can once again produce the great games that use to grace our PC’s. Who knows, Maybe we can see a comedy slash action, western, RPG/Shooter built on the Quake engine some day. ;)
from Amstetten, Austria
May 23, 2002
And Thank you for the very funny Leisure Siut Larry Games Al Lowe !!!!!!! Daniel Deuschl from Austria
from Amstetten, Austria
May 23, 2002
This page is wonderfull ! Sorry for my English !!!!!! I have the url to this Page from Pcgames . Can you send me a e-mail Al Lowe ? In German please ! Daniel Deuschl from Austria
from Wedel, Germany
May 23, 2002
greetings from Germany and thx for the great Games
Holland, Europe
May 23, 2002
just hád to say hello to someone who created 'Donald Ducks playground'... :) really was one of my favourite games when I grew up, and after playing it a few minutes just now it still remains a great game... well, good luck with everything and goodbye... :)
from Arnhem, The Netherlands
May 22, 2002
Yo Al! Your work is great! I especially enjoyed Leisure Suit Larry 6. Great memories of my early computer years! I was so hooked, staying awake at night for HOURS! I'd love to see a game like that again!! Thanks man
from Kozani, West Macedonia, Greece
May 22, 2002
larry in the land of the lounge lizards was my first adventure game on a XT with 640 kb RAM and monochrome monitor. i loved that character... i loved the girl in the hot tub even better, i think her name was eve (it's been a while)... i think the balding nerd looser in larry 2 was the most adorable character type (graphically) of all times in adventures... i've been a great sierra fan thanks to you even though the hero's quest games are my favorite... i became an adventure games player thanks to you... i really don't like most of todays adventure games. i wish that games like the ones you made could still be around for me to play... mr Al Lowe THANK YOU sir!
from , Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland
21/5/2002
this website is ok some things are funny and some simply arent but u cant please every1 can ya!! but it is good!!! thanx for keeping me entertained for an hour!! cheers xx
from Linfield, Pa, Usa
May 19, 2002
Hi AL, Just wanted you to know i built my first computer just to play LARRY LAFFER. GEEZe that was way back in 91. I have loved your sense of humour and your LSL games from the begining. THANK YOU so much for years of great entertainment.I hope someday you can breathe life back into Larry for our amusement. Take care Al Lowe and let Larry know that i have a full bottle of VIAGRA waiting for him when he returns. Rod Smith
Norway
Sunday 05/19/2002 3:43:39am
Yo man Leisure suit larry rulez! who cares about Sierra man... there just stupid to put a stop 2 it now!! so just stuff them i say you start up your own buisness!!! i mean... why not?? and then see Sierra come crawling back asking to have you back!!! pleaze man for the sake of the larry fans!!!! you can do anything if you put your mind 2 it!!! LARRY SHALL LIVE ON!!! :)
from Santa Clarita, Ca, Usa
May 18, 2002
I know you get this a lot, but you are one of the greatest programmers around, in my opinion, and keep me playing The Black Cauldron constantly. Too bad I lost Freddy Pharkas, I really miss that game....
from Sundsvall, Medelpad, Sweden
May 15, 2002
sierra are so lame, dropping LSL without no reason.. there aren't many companys hwo make these kind of humor-adventure games anymore.. the only one i know off is Lucasarts (thinking of Escape from monkey island) .. wonder if they would be intressted in LSL?
Australia
May 14, 2002
Al! You have put so much work into creating such an excellent game, leaving fans craving for the next episode. I am really sad to see that Larry 8 won't be made, if only we could convince Sierra. It's so different to all other games and to find one to compare would be impossible. And just as the graphics and effects were getting so good......a very witty game, indeed. Well, I could go on and on about how passionate I feel about the game being cancelled, but I think you get the idea!
from Sunnyvale, Ca, Usa
May 13, 2002
I have loved every game you've created Al. I grew up on Larry. I wish I could do something to convince Sierra to bring him back -- the rich scenes in that game were billions of times more attractive than the rendered texture-mapped graphics of today. There was nothing like it and there is nothing like it. I pray for the day Sierra wakes up and gives LSL8 the green light. All the best to you and yours, Seth
from Berlin, Germany,
12.05.2002
Hey Al Lowe! I `m a big fan from your games, and i hope that i see in the future a new from your. My english is not perfect. Sorry Have a nice Future André
from Rome And Vienna, Italy And Austria
12.05.2002
Thank you for Larry... AND THANK YOU FOR THE THEME SONG... IT'S GREAT !!! Larry Forever, the best adventure ever :-D You're great, Al Lowe :-)
Germany
10.05.2002
Wow, really a great page. Its funny and a whole lot of Larry stuff. I hope Sierra and you will develope a new episode of Larry. Or you`ll find another publischer to do so. And thanks fo creating Larry Mr.Lowe :-)
from Neumarkt, Germany
May 8th 2002
You are sooooooooo great!!!!!!
from Stanhope, Vic, Australia
July 5, 2002
Leisure Suit Larry is the best
from Moab, Utah, Usa
May 5, 2002
Al I am hoping that Seirra wasn't kidding about reviving your game series. It is my favorite computer game series. May Larry live on ~Calvin~
from Stockholm, Sweden
April 7, 2038
Awh man! I can say from only viewing the main pagen that this is gonna be one serious trip down memory lane. "Al Lowes page"...a real shrine. I´m 25 soon. I´m a Swede. I grew up with Larry and Sonny Bonds, they taught me english. Nothing give me a softer heart than playing those old babies over again. I my book yoy Mr Lowe stand right next to Bill Gates and Linus Torvals as defining powers of the early computer world. Bless you forever mr Lowe Fredrik Hofgren (devotee) Sweden
Sweden
May 5, 2002
Hello my Larry friends, i have a problem in Larry2. I cant go into the airport, the KGB team take me. I red in a walktrought and there they are saying i should go left to a barber but i cant go left outside the airport. Pleas help me, sen a mail to me. Thanx
from Idar-Oberstein, Germany
May 5, 2002
Hi Mr. Lowe, I really hope that you programm another Larry Game. I played Part one on C64, and had a lot of fun with the rest of the Series. Another Freddie would be nice to. Hope my English was not to bad. Good wishes for the future for you and your family. John
from Bronston, Kentucky, Usa
May 2, 2002
I wanted to thank you and your team for the great games over the years. They were a real enjoyement. I hope for another one day.
May 2, 2002
I love Al Lowe he is one of the best damn programmers I LOVED all the Lesuire Suit Larry Games and no matter anyone say I will still Pray for another. Thanks Al
from Berlin, Germany
May 2, 2002
Whhooooaaaahhahaahahahouwww!!! Great site! Respect to all owe! Fantastic stuff and just cool gags, but i´m sorry, I can´t say more ´cuz I´m german (i´m soooo sooorrryyy for beeing german)!!!!
from Bad Kreuznach, Rheinland Pfalz, Germany
May 1, 2002
go to al talk to al "HOW CAN YOU DO THAT?" kick computer crunsch "WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SAY TO AL?" Dear Mr. Lowe, at first I want to excuse for my bad englisch grammar and typing. Its just I had written for years just things like "look girl", "buy apple", "buy lubber"... And who is the reason? YOU! YOU AND YOUR LITTLE, HORNY FRIEND! And I love you for this. Both... Best wishes for your future. (And for your future too, AL) Heiko from Krautland (a.k.a. Germany)
from Lincoln Park, Mi, Usa
May 1, 2002
Does anyone have any information on a fan site for the sierra network/the imagination network? Man this game network ate up a whole summer for me and my buddy a few years back..there was a great adventure game we got addicted to... i would just love some graphics to download...thanks rickysad
from Wembach, Germany
May 1, 2002
HI. I love the Larry Adventures, and so I love Al Lowe, too.
from Aachen, Nrw, Germany
April 30, 2002
Yup i waited for an article like "What does Al Lowe do now?" in the PC Games (Ger). Can't forget my first Larry play at a friends. LSL 1 of course. I was very very young and on my 13th birthday i think when i got LSL7. Later i bought the 1-6 Collection but i think i will spends some bucks on the Ultimative Collection hrhr... I want the shoe camera in Larry 8!!! Please. Why don't you make such a account like PayPal or sth like thin on the net for weird fans like me to donate. probably this will make up the needed 3 or 4 .. millions? damn! that's a lot of money. but at least with you can spend the 3000 , 30000 or more bucks for such important things like a new saxaphon or some cool drinks on hawaii grin. you deserve it. regards B. Floch - milho
from Wuppertal, Germany, Nrw
April 30, 2002
Hy it is a very good Page. One of my favorit's
from Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
April 30, 2002
YO AL! I loved your Larry-Games... and I just came to your Site after I read your Interview in the German Computer Magazine "PC GAMES". After laughing a lot about your gags I ventured into the download section - only to find some of my favorite classics from the way back then (as I was a proud owner of an Commodore C64) ! I also look forward to the renaissance of the adventure... and some new game/s from you! I just put your page into my favorites
from Berlin, Berlin, Germany
April 28, 2002
Its been a long time since i shaked your hand and you gave me an autographe on my fresh Lesiure Suit Larry7 Copy. I think it was in December 1996, you where on a promo tour through Germany, inside a small crowded Shop. Inside it was hot and sweaty, outside frozen cold. I am sure you wont remember, but for me it was an important moment. Since 97 the computer games are getting much more boring. Its a pity that Larry vanished into the darkness of software history. We all need a hero like him... I will always remember the good Sierra times: Leisure Suit Larry was my first Computer Game and i will never forget all the fun and laughter i had. Not to mention that i learned English through these Parser Games. Best whishes from a good fan of your workxx.
from Redondo Beach, Ca, Usa
April 27, 2002
Hi Al, Have been a fan of your games for at least 17 years. I hope you will get the oppertunity and finances to produce another LSL game. GOOD LUCK. Alan
from Bochum, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
April 27, 2002
Hello, Mr Lowe! ^_^ I've been one of the greatest Leisure Suit Larry-Fans for a long time a few years ago. Maybe you can't remember of the event, that i'll try to describe to you now but i do much :D I guess it was in the year 1996, when i was a little boy: I finally got my first own computer and i read about a new adventure called Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail! My parents got mad, when they found out that i've become a Laffer-Fan (i was 13 years at that time and we germans have strict orders which concerns sex and stuff O_o) but i didn't mind that much... I just loved the funny adventures of Larry and always laughed so much when he got in trouble again!! Anyway there was the day in 96, it was December (almost christmas) when i've heared that Al Lowe, the "God of Larry" would visit a computer games shop to give some autographes! Well and then i stood there in front of you and i got a Leisure Suit Larry 7 Demo with your name on the CD. The next day there was a article about you in a regional newsletter and it had been written that you have been wondering about the fact, that there would be so many young Larry Fans! :D Well i guess many people really didn't knew who you were, and they just came to you to get somethin for free! :P But it was and it still is a great honour to be the owner of that CD with your signs on it! Can you still remember of that? I guess it was a promotion tour for LSL 7 after all. Anyway, it is really sad that it has become so quiet about you and your work. I HATE SIERRA FOR THAT! >:( I hope there will be a publisher that will allow you to work out your ideas. Maybe it just isn't the time now for Larry. You can say that adventures have become a dead genre right now... Well, so much to tell i guess. Friendly Greetings from a loyal fan of yours from Germany (excuse my terrible english) Sincerely René Hintz P.S. I don't know if you could do me that favour, but i would be really happy if you could mail me and tell me if you can remember our "date" ;-D It would be a great honour for me!!!
from Erfurt, Thüringen - Thuringia, Deutschland - Germany
April 27, 2002
Hi! Nice page! Greetings to Al Lowe and Larry from Germany -> exactly from me! see y´all PS: WE WANT LARRY 8!!!!!!!!!!!!
from Ramat Hasharon, Israel, Israel
April 27, 2002
Hi AL I am 28 years old and I am playing sierra games since 86 86/87 was a good year that year I started to play Larry, space quest and king quest games. Since then I played all your games.and many more from your company sierra. The gaming experience changed my life and as an adult I decided to find my way in the gaming industry. I am not talented or even funny as you so I decided to distribute sierra games in Israel. My first dealing was with George nikas and after short dealing bug multisystem started to distribute the sierra games in Israel. Before bug mahcsevet distributed the sierra games in Israel. After that havas forced me to deal with France and not the us. I entered the business only in mid 99 after sierra was closed. So I never had the chance to speak with you or Roberta.(2 of my roll model). In any case I just wanted to tell you that you and Roberta shaped me as a person and I feel I need to Thank you from the bottom of my heart. . Yours eyal katz
from Saint Paul, Mn, United States
April 26, 2002
Sup? I own Larry 1, 2, &5. All i have to say is... WOW! what a fun game! It has been along time since a quality game, like the Larry series, has come out. So... if anyone thats reads this and has not yet plaied Larry... PLAY IT!!!
from Terryville, Connecticut, Usa
April 26, 2002
Just writing to say that I love the Leisure Suit Larry games. I have them all and love playing them. I just wish Sierra would smartin' up and let Larry continue his adventures. Long live Larry Laffer!!!
from Eden, Nsw, Australia
April 24, 2002
LSL rocks, I've got 1, 2, and 3, and want to know why you never released 4? Could you just distribute it as freeware over the net? And do you like Weird Al Yankovic?
from Jacksonville Beach, Fl, Usa
April 22, 2002
Al, Leisure Suit Larry games were the best. You and Sierra brought my friends and I lots of entertainment. We're only six people but we've all vowed to never buy a Sierra Game again. Sierra really needs to unload their license on Larry because there are a lot of angry game players who are like us who really felt we built a relationship with the gamemaker. We've enjoyed other Sierra games but the Sierra mark will never be brought into our homes again until Larry is allowed to roam free again. P.S. There are more like us cause we are really getting impatient on waiting for Larry or your next game.
from Macomb, Michigan,
April 22, 2002
If there is only one thing you should do before you die it's make another Larry game. Ever since Larry 7 there has not been a game even close to it! You've gotta make another one, you've just gotta.
from , Nebraska,
April 22, 2002
Hey Al, you rock! You are truly a generous person to continue to humor your Leisure Suit Larry audience at no charge! I'm grateful for all the freebies that you've put on your site for downloads. I'm so grateful that Leisure Suit Larry lasted long enough to be able to see him actually animated and talking in Leisure Suit Larry 7! Whoever got the guy from Laugh In to narrate that one and Space Quest 6 is a genius. I love those humorous asides with for just about everything. I used to love to click on things that weren't of a vital nature to solve the game for the narrator's funny remarks. I used to love to solve the great Sierra adventure sagas with buddies from college. When none of us had dates we'd crowd around a computer and solve these together. They'll be fond memories of Al Lowe, Roberta Williams and the Two Guys from Andromeda. I wish you all success in future endeavors. Truly thanks for the memories.
from Wyoming(Grand Rapids), Mi, Usa
April 22, 2002
Saw you on the sceensavers
U.S.A.
April 22, 2002
I saw you on the screen savers, great interview. The LSL games were great. You should make LSL 8. I would buy it or any game you make. Keep up the great work AL.
from Mobile, Alabama, Usa
April 20, 2002
Al, I will always remember a LSL game (tho I can't recall which one) in which I was standing close to a cliff (and the always present drop to a Purina Checkerboard Square product) when the game told me I needed to stand closer to the cliff and chuckled. I had been at the game since 3 in the afternoon and it was now 2 in the morning. Really broke me up. You are a deeply weird and strangely twisted. Thanks for all the games. Roy
from Burtonsville, Md, Usa
April 20, 2002
Saw you on The Screen Savers - great interview. I have always loved your games and hopefully humor will come back to games so you can write some more.
from Manchester, Tn, Usa
April 20, 2002
I also saw you on The Screen Savers. You were so funny on the show I had to check your site out. This is some of the funniest stuff I've ever seen! Thanks for the laughs!
from Pittsburgh, ,
April 20, 2002
Holy mother god! I totally grew up with all the Larry games! By the way, has anyone seen Colonel's Bequest? Al, Let me paint your chariacture!!! cheers! Jason
Canada
April 20 2002
Great site Al! Enjoyed your games over the years.
from Spooner, Wi, 54801
April 20 2002
Hey! Just saw your interview on TechTV. I had to check out your site. I bet your web stats jumped after that interview was aired!! Drop me an email if you think you know what a gazoat is.
from Grand Rapids, Michigan, Usa
April 19, 2002
I miss my Larry! Same thing with Freddy Pharkas. Any thought at all into publishing a new Freddy or Larry on your own? Want to give me some names of folks at Sierra to beat some sense into? Kills me to see them giving up a "cash cow" like Larry. Thanks for all the corny jokes and LOTS of fun re-play time with all the Larry games. (Yes, I have them all including the original "Softporn" title).
from Hamilton, Ont, Canada
April 19, 2002
great stuff, i have enjoyed your works from the begining, and i am a collector, I have most of the Larry issues even though i dont have all, I am still looking
from Council Bluffs, Ia, Usa
April 19, 2002
Seen you on screen savers and wanted to say hello. Good luck on getting to make Larry 4 (or 8). I miss these games and I would love to see a new release using today's techonology for music and video, etc. It would be awesome.
from Fort Worth, Texas, Usa
April 19, 2002
from Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
April 19, 2002
Great interview on techtv and love LSL great timeless game. Keep up the good work.
from Dillon, Co, Usa
April 19, 2002
I saw you on The Screen Savers, and just had to check your site out. It is great, and signed up for your e-mail jokes. Everyone needs a good laugh these days.
from Crawfordsville, In, Usa
April 19, 2002
I saw your Interview with Leo LaPorte on TechTV... LSL 1 was the second adventure game I had ever played and was second only to Space Quest... I loved the Humor and the wit behind it... I played every single one and enjoyed every minute of them... Thank you for the fun and I would love to see Larry resurface... I am not a game player but, found your title to interesting and funny to not play... You had a great interview and I enjoyed seeing the man behind the game... Good luck in your endeavours..!!!
from Afton, Ny, Usa
April 18, 2002
great site. i saw it on the technology chanel this morning before i left my house. yo u have some great jokes. i like how they are clean, but still funny.
from , Oregon,
April 18, 2002
Great site my sides are hurting. Liked it so much I even linked to your page. Thanks for the great games and the great website.
Usa
April 18, 2002
I saw your interview on The Screen Savers today. That brought back such fond memories for me. Sitting their for hours playing LSL1, LSL5, and Freddy Pharkas. I used to laugh my butt off playing those games. I still play games today but I miss the days of the true adventure game. I still remember one time playing Freddy Pharkus, and it came to a part where the horses in town were passing gas, I remember my father coming into the computer room and laughing his butt off at the noises he heard because he thought it was me, when it was the game making the noise. For a few years after that I would play the game and at that piont in the game I would lose it and crak up. Sadly I movied shortly after that and lost all my computer games I had at the time. But I hope someday I can find a place that has the LS Ultimate Pleasure Pack and Freddy Pharkus(CD Version), so I can buy them and once again enjoy your wonderful games. Thank you once again for have the great sense of humor that you do, this world needs more laughter.
from Mckees Rocks, Pa, Usa
April 18, 2002
Actually, I just watched your appearance on The Screen Savers on Tech TV. I am one of the few old Apple users that never played any of your games. I am now using a Mac. I still have my old Apple II-GS, but I never use it any more. I started in 1981 with an old Apple II+, upgraded to IIe, then to the GS. This is my second Mac.
Usa
April 18, 2002
Oh Al, your interview on The Screen Savers brought back such memories. Thanks for doing the interview. As an old Apple 2 fanatic, I love seeing guys like you being accessible these days—we never heard from the programmers when their software was popular! I only wish there was a forum for you earlier than TSS. But that's life. Whatever happened to Silas Warner, the creator of the first Castle Wolfenstein (Apple 2, 1981)? Al, you and your kind always have a place in my heart. My 300 baud modem resides next to my Leisure Suit Larry software in the museum case. -a friend.
from Bartlett, Tn., Usa
April 18, 2002
saw you on scrensavers al
from Huntington, Wv,
April 18, 2002
Oh please, please do another Leisure Suit Larry. I don't care if it is 4 or 8. I also wished that Sierra would offer a update for LSL for Win XP.
from Oakville, Canada
April 13, 2002
Not sure if I should thank you or curse the ground you walk on for being one of the main reasons I spend so much time on computers..... I think I'll go with the first one... THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES!
from Faaborg, Fyn, Denmark
April 9, 2002
Hi Al! I just wanna say that I think you did a great job on the Larry-games (but I bet you've heard that line before). Also, I really hope that Larry will return soon. That's all! Take care!
from Netherlands, Netherlands, Netherlands
April 9, 2002
Thanks Al Lowe!!!!! My favorite girls: * Fawn * Eve * Tawni * Michelle * Lana * Rose * Thunderbird * Charlotte * Merrily * Shamara (sweeetttt shamara) * Drew Barringmore * Dewmi Moore * The Juggs * Annette Boning * Captain Thygh * Victorian Principles * Jamie Lee Coitus and of course THE PASSIONATE PATTI.. I never played LSL7 cause it isn't available anymore in the stores. I couldn't buy in the early years. Please if someone want to give a copy to me I really would appreciate that. Thanks Al Lowe and I hope LSL8 will come . Cheers Marco van den Hees (SUPER FAN !!! played since 1987 or 1988 )
April 7, 2002
Is it true that Sierra Asked you Al Lowe about a new Leisure Suit Larry?? Someone on the message board posted a message where it stood about The New LEISURE SUIT LARRY!!!!
from Uc San Diego, Ca, Usa
April 2, 2002
I've played ALL the Larry games and loved every one of them. Thanx for the great times, Al!
from N/A, N/A, Australia
April 2, 2002
i have leisure suit larry 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6. all games are unreal and i wish that Sierra would make the 8th one.
from N/A, N/A, Australia
April 2, 2002
i have leisure suit larry 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6. all games are unreal and i wish that Sierra would make the 8th one.
from Oberhausen, Nrw, Germany
March 31, 2002
Hell no, please tell me this is not the truth: Larry can´t be dead !!!! He was the one who taught me my very first english when I was a jungster playing Larry I (CGA Version on my first b/w Macintosh Classic). I was really looking forward to Larry 8 and now I have to read he´s never going to make anymore? He´s never going to score again? That´s impossible. But I think I´m going to create a "Remember Larry"-Section at my homepage to keep him a little bit alive if you don´t mind ... please tell me ... Sincerly Your biggest fan Chriss
from Caracas, Df, Venezuela
March 31, 2002
I think computer games are works of art and yours are like the Sistine Chapel Ceiling . Thank you so much for your games and for somehow keeping them alive with this webpage, I love it, keep it on.
from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
March 26, 2002
Hi Al, Great site! I've always loved playing your games. The graphics and sound of todays games are great, but they lack the subtle witt and playability of your Leasure Suit Larry games. I hope that you make another game soon, regardless of if it stars Larry, Freddy, or a new character. I would defintely play it!
from Erie, Pa, Usa
March 23, 2002
The first time I played Larry was when the remake of the fist one came out. My Friend Got it. Even though we were not old enough to answer the questions at the begining we actually were able to play the game. LOL I bought the whole pack with all the games, and it really rocks. It would be cool if you would come back from your retirement and make Larry 8 with sierra. LHEAT
from Leverkusen, Near Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
March 23, 2002
Well, I was actually glad that you haven't vanished with the closing of Sierra Studios ! It's a neat site, it's fun to look around there ! Only two things: First, I found out that in the "Modern book of Health and Hygiene" (The Manual) there is something called "Ipecac", which I also know from Monkey Island 3... I don't know how it got there... Second, I'd whish that the cover of the Black Cauldron game would be a little bigger to look at. Anyway, I whish everyone who's got there (to al Lowe's site) much fun ! It's a neat site !
from Townsville, Qld, Australia
March 23, 2002
I would like to thankyou for all the humor that you have created threw the ages, those long nights with my eyes pressed against the screen fighting back sleep with a stick so i could work out puzzles was great, i do show affection to one game, that being Space Quest Serries, and although they are gone, there is plenty of Fan Fiction being written, thank you, and goodnight. Daniel
from Elqana, Israel, Israel
March 23, 2002
I love Larry and I love this site!!! I want more music from Lsl7 because thats my favorite game ever!!! I want the music from the cock contest...please get it for me...
from Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
March 23, 2002
Al, Thank you very much for bringing us Larry. I loved every moment of playing your games. I wish Sierra would see the light and let Larry ride again.... Until then I'll be hoping like all the other fans. Kind regards Ernst
from Glasgow, Uk, Scotland
March 23, 2002
Larry is God Al Lowe is God Sierra is Satan for taking our Gods away from us I think Sierra SUCK!!! Leisure Suit Larry was the best thing that happened to them and they don't even know it bunch of retards so they r. P.S. I'm afraid of my shadow I think it's a phyco it keeps following me. can any1 help me with my shadow problem???
from Ghent, Belgium
March 23, 2002
Dear God, I've just found out that a very close friend of mine is no longer. Why did you take Larry from us? Please send Sierra to hell or bring Larry back from heaven.
from College Place, Washington, Usa
March 19, 2002
Have Freddy Pharkas and enjoyed it.
from Detroit Lakes, Mn, Us
March 19, 2002
I must say, being a neanderthal like myself, I finally hooked up to the web... I'd say I was 5 years late for the appointment. I feel it a privelege to be able to tell you, Mr. Lowe, that you have been the man that kept a smile on my face and a laugh in my heart on those 'days' at work and at home. I thank you for bringing much needed humor into my life and am eternally grateful. At times I felt like I was really Larry Laffer and he was just a window into my life for all to see. Even if the blinds were closed. ^_^ I see no need for a 'Who's Al Lowe' section. If anyone doesn't know you, they're probably dead or don't have enough humor in their diet. Well, before I completely take up the whole guestbook, I wish you only the best and hopes of making more ground-breaking software for people to enjoy. Thanks again and keep laughing!
from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
March 18, 2002
Leisure Suit Larry was the best series of games that I have ever played. It was funny and challenging at the same time. I enjoyed every adventure I had with Larry and wish that there were more games like it today.
from Perth, Wa, Perth
March 18, 2002
I played the first 2 larry game but I don't know where i can get the other 4 games.
from Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
March 18, 2002
Dear Al! I love your games. I'm playing Larry and other Sierra games for more than 10 years. Larry 6 and 7 are my favorites quests! I wish you not to give up and continue creating quests (especial Larry) .... we need them.
from Linkoping, Sweden
March 13, 2002
I just want to say that your games are the best!!! Every time I play the games I get a good laugh! B) Thanx! Best wishes from Sweden
from Columbus, Ohio, Usa
March 13, 2002
Thank you for all you do. I really enjoy the games and play them over and over again. Just finished Freddy for the upteenth time. PLEASE tell Sierra to let you do "Lust in Space". We fans just gotta have more fun.
from Moscow, Russia
March 13, 2002
Al, I've been playing your games for at least 10 years and I still do! Thank you very much.
from Saint-Peterburg, Russia
March 13, 2002
Dear Al Lowe, I started playing you games about 5 years ago, and this is one of the best series of games I have ever played. They are soooo comfortable, relaxing and happy! I admire your talent and definitely will buy your future games... Sierra can't just take Larry away, and if so, I personally will boycott their other games for the rest of my life...:o)
The Netherlands
March 10, 2002
Love your work since Larry I, that we played with many friends. Keep up the good work!!
from Kealakekua, Hi, Usa
March 10, 2002
Have always been a big fan of the work you have done for oh say about 15 years or so. I used to play your titles when I was a child. Glad to see your still around. Best wishes. Mengsk
from London, Uk
March 10, 2002
Super site. Love the gags.
from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
March 10, 2002
Al, I am a big fan of yours and I just want to say that the games you have developed played a part of my life and are reffered to in some of my social conversations. Thanks Al
from Netherlands, Netherlands, Netherlands
March 8, 2002
Hi mr Lowe, How are you doing? How is it with larry and passionate patti? I bought the larry collection (without Larry 7 snik.. snik.. :-( ) I read the offical book of leisure suit larry special edtion. I would like to thank Ralph Roberts for helping you and Larry. The book is great ! Larry is my favourite character. He is cool and is always curius about girls.But it goes always wrong with the girls.. I laughed a lot with all larry games. I think that there will be no games like this be developed. Only Al Lowe can make it happen. Passionate Patti is a great girl of my heart. (oops sorry larry .I meant she is nice.) Patti and Larry fits together. I have played only the demo of larry 7. (craps table with Drew. .. whaaaoo She is HOT) I won of her.But then the game ends.. snik. I searched the game everywhere in the stores.But it isn't available anymore. I checked at Sierra But they don't sell larry games anymore.Why? Mr Al Lowe where can I get a copy of Larry 7? I don't have a visa or a mastercard.I just have cash (Euro) and a regalur bank account. I would like to thank all Larry developers for creating a cool game! And of course Larry and Patti! Greetz, Marco van den Hees
Germany
March 8, 2002
Heah Al, nice to see you on the web and thanks for all the great laughs you gave me! Marco
from San Luis Obispo, Ca, Usa
March 8, 2002
Norway
March 6, 2002
Thanks, million of thanls, for providing my childhood with fond memories. MAn, that was really exiting, and it thaught me a lot about... about... well, you know... Anyhow, you gotta fight for LSL 8 man! Use you powerfull influence and whathaveya, and force sierra to make it! I live for LSL! Respect!
from Frostburg, Md 21532,
March 6, 2002
i love lsl!! had lsl1 on my computer in late 80's and missed it dearly when 'puter died—have really good 'puter now & lsl pleasure pack—YYYYIIIIPPPPEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! thanks for so many hours of fun!!
Germany
March 2nd, 2002
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!!!!!!!!! Fight for Larry!!!!!!!!!!! God save Larry!!!!
from , Oregon,
March 2nd, 2002
Oh my gosh, I can't believe it was you who wrote Winnie the Pooh... I used to play that game in second grade, on an Apple or Apple ][ or whatever. Heh, I didn't know it had colour... Thanks so much for making it available for download (and, of course, for writing it). -Jason-
from Nicosia, Cyprus
March 2, 2002
Keep on the good work AL!!!!!!!!!
from Malmö, Sweden
March 2, 2002
"Quest"-Games where the first games I really played on my first PC.. a 486 25mhz with windows 3.1.. Larry 1.. wow.. typing in what you did/wanted and it happend..wow.. It wasn't easy not for a not-so-old swede. Police Quest was a favorite too but it was the balding little man who came into my heart. Just finished playing Larry 7 in a two day marathon (better late then never lol) on my latest PC a P4 2Ghz with Windows XP.. feeling old... Just wanted to say: Al you are the King of Adventure Gaming. so in good old Larry 1 style.. [ Give Al a big thanks for all the memories. - [ You Get a Remote Control. Ehh..?!.. well.. lol Hope you will get the rights to Larry and produces an 8'th.. The little man is still going strong.. Peter
February 28, 2002
I've been playing LSL since I was 12...but not to worry, it didn't warp me any. :-) I love this site! You rock, Al.
Germany
February 28, 2002
Hi Al, PLEASE DON'T STOP PROGRAMMING LARRY GAMES. MAKE A NEW LARRY TITLE FOR US!! YOUR FANS NEED IT.
from Rishon Le Ziyyion, N/A, Israel
February 28, 2002
Norway
February 28, 2002
Hi there! :) I'm a 20 years old girl who grew up with the sleazebag Larry.. And I have always loved him!! ;D
Finland
February 27, 2002
Greetings from Finland. Very good site.
Germany
February 27, 2002
Come on Al, do Larry 4 or 8. You must do it. I want to have atleast virtually some sex life, haha. Dont you think there is a possibility to do that title? There are still so much Larry fans out there!! Damn man bring it out!! Thx for the titles so far!
from Kassel, Hessen, Germany
February 27, 2002
Dear, Mr. Lowe. How about, if U take a new Part of Leisure Suit Larry in your own way? Larry mustn´t never die!!! I played every game with fun and every hour I could. Please produce Larry 8 because I think Fans of all over the world would enjoy and love it! Yours Boris!
from Palm Beach, Qld, Australia
February 27, 2002
Great site Al! If you don't remember me, I was the one who asked you to check out my parody of Big Brother. The site is working now. Check it out!
Netherlands
February 27, 2002
Hej there, nice page! It's good to see the man behind the Larries is still active :). I can still remember the day I first typed "open door" and didn't understand a thing of the whole game. Of course, I was only 8 years old then, playing the game at my uncle's place who put me behind his computer probably to get rid of me :) Now, after having played all larries, one after another, I can still work my way through the first one without having to result to a walkthrough :) Anyway, keep on the good work and thanks for all the effort in the Larry games.
February 24, 2002
We want Larry 4!
from Middle Of Nowhere, Lower Saxony, Germany
February 24, 2002
Hi Al! Thanks for all your great games - BUT WHERE THE HECK IS LARRY IV ;o)? I just downloaded Donald Duck's Playground - it's a pity that there isn't a German version, my nephew would apparently love to play it(he's standing next to me and giggles all the time). Well, that's bad luck, I guess ;o)! Greetings from Germany, Mr.Kazoo
from Jakarta, Jak-Sel, Indonesia
February 24, 2002
damnnn i love u old man hehehehe i`m still waiting ur next master piece, c`mon create another larry adventure lot`s of it hehehehe and we have something in common likes sick joke and pervert :)
from Grand Rapids, Mi, Usa
February 22, 2002
Love Your work and thanks for putting some of those old games back up for download. They sure bring back some memories. It means a lot to some people.
from Magdeburg, Sachsen Anhalt, Germany
February 22, 2002
Hello ! Im a 15 jears old by from Germany and I love your Larry Games ! ( RESPECT ! ) But ... whats going on with Leisure Suit Larry 8 ? I read in a big europe PC Games Magezin ( "PC GAMES" ) last year , that Larry 8 is comming from a german programmer team . Is that real ? Hmm ... but that's not important ! I Hope it comes , and I hope it give a german-speaking version . Thats the Same By Simoin 3d ! Its grat and genial to , and it dont comes .... Cr@p ... Plz answer in a email to realdjbuzzfuzz because i cant visit your guestbook every day , if u had answer . Greetings , & live good - René R. ps: Fight 4 Larry 8 ! Larry never Dies in the Heads of the Fans ! ps2: Sorry 4 my bad english ... :-)
from Glasgow, Scotland
February 22, 2002
I love the Larry games I have got Larry 1, 2, 5, 6 and casino and makin my own games and cartoons I really wanna get Larry 7 though I have looked everywhere I have even tried e-mailing sold-out software and valuesoft to re-release Larry 7 since they re-released Larry 6 and casino but I'm still waitin on Valuesoft getting back to me and sold out said "Dear Mr Rod Phillips We have no plans on publishing this game" Total P****s anyone know where I can get this game
from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
February 22, 2002
I'm a fan of your games and disappointed that there is no LSL8
from Wehringen, Germany, Bayern
February 22, 2002
Hey! i love Larry! i have all parts of LSL but where iss Larry 8?? cya Leo
from St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England
February 22, 2002
Calling out to all whom help those that are in need. I need Larry 7. I want to buy Larry 7. It is a fine, fine ass game. Amazon.com won't ship to the U.K. F**king super weak! F**k heads! Amazon suck ass! Al Lowe rules though! If any one can help your e-mail is more than welcome!
from Ccs, Miranda, Venezuela
February 22, 2002
Hey al! whydoncha create a new game that can beat sierra and even larry........ you can create a character even funyer than larry was it can be a third world man and it can be a new and delicious story ( somtehing that larry haven´t) we all know that a larry 8 will be imposible until sierra wants to produce it, , ..... but whydoncha make a little preview game that can be downloading on the intewrnet pages.... liek your friends pages, ....... It is risque but will you ever do a computer game???...... you have to give a last chanca about larry...... we can call it.... FRANK or the "venezuelan comun man Francisco"... i tell you im form Venezuela and i´ve ever heard nothing about venezuelan beaver cheese!!!......i dunno i think you can make an intent and create a new game laki larry kind it could be relationated qith larry.... it could be a larry but a new century larry...... well...... i tlaked too much, , thank you al!
from Carleton Place, Ontario, Canada
February 22, 2002
love Leisure Suit Larry Games keep up the good work =]
from Toronto, Canada
February 22, 2002
I gotta say i'm quite upset at sierra about not going ahead with Lsl8 because they think they wouldn't make any money. That is a joke. they would make SOOO much more money that what the cost is, LSL has such a big fan based all over the world it's unbelievable to not consider making another one. IF i was able to buy them out that would be the first game i would go ahead with, but we can always dream. When i finished Lsl7 and seen that there was another larry game coming out i couldn't wait for it but i hear this. :( I would guarantee everything i have that LSL8 would be the #1 seller. If i have to keep e-mailing them everyday to bring "THE MAN" back then so be it. I hope sierra can get their heads out of their arses and remember who they make the games for and who buys them. They should start listening to the public about what THEY want!!! Sorry it's long but i had to get it off my chest. :)
from The Hague, Netherlands
February 16, 2002
thanxs for the great games i can still remember those hours spent with friends trying to play Lazy larry but failing again and again on the age check questions.....damm we wanted so much to play that game....loved torin passage unfortunately could never make it to the end i always failed even with cheats...have a great life !
February 16, 2002
All I have to say is that I LOVE LARRY! May your name be forever engraved in the stones of hilarity, Al. Ahhh :) - Sam ;)
from Christchurch, New Zealand
February 11, 2002
I wonder if Sierra knew that on Morpheus/Kazaa, Leisure Suit Larry 1 VGA is being downloaded by someone every 5 minutes? Sierra is losing it, that's why they're about to go bankrupt, they don't listen to what people want, they tell us what we want and thats why they lose. Al Lowe, if I was you, i'd try to get your rights to LSL back and go with a company that doesn't get its head stuck up its arse. LSL is a pure winner and its being killed because of some ignorant morons at Sierra. Don't get me wrong, they used to be the greatest, but it feels like someone has taken over the show and ruined it for everyone.
from Aurora, Co, Usa
February 10, 2002
Hi Al! Thanks for all the laughs. My husband introduced me to Larry three years ago, While we were still dating. It's been so much fun playing these games together. We really wish we could play LSL 8. Thanks Again! Maria
from Tel Aviv, -, Israel
February 9, 2002
aww, i remmember the good ol' days when i was a 10 year old in israel playing lsl 1 and all those dumb questions at the begining seemed so difficult;) its a real shame sierra forgot where it came from, but its great thatu didnt cave in and start making crappy LSL games its either a fantastic-wittfull-sex oriented-classic QUEST or nothing! i guess i'll just have to get used to a world without quests...all those damn doom like games...bla hate'em quests rule.
Singapore
February 7, 2002
Dear Al Lowe, are you guys ever gonna come up with a new Larry game or something? Dont leave me hanging after Leisure Suit Larry 7!!!
Germany
February 4, 2001
Hi Al! I want to have Larry8! Can you make it true? I´ll and a lot of other persons will be also very happy! Larry is a very funny game! I like it!! Thanx and Bye Gretel
from Terre Ahute, In, Usa
February 5, 2002
NNNOOOOOO!!! Larry can't die. LSL rocks. I was just in the computer store the other day and asked the guy working if they had anything like LSL, that was a stupid question, nothing like LSL. At any rate, he smiled and said " I wish we did. I don't think they make games like that anymore." Al, you are a god no matter what happens to Larry. I wouldn't mind seeing LSL get 8..: )
from Bern, Switzerland
February 4, 2001
Hello!!!! Your games are wery good. Maybe old, but beautiful and not full with violence and gore like the games today. greets from switzerland: grey_fox
from Sudbury, Ont, Cananda
February 4, 2001
You are a genious! I love LSL! Too bad about what happend...
from Coatesville, Indiana,
January 31, 2002
I was looking for Larry software as I still have most of it in the original boxes from the early Sierra years but I am missing one or two sets of the original floppies. I remember the magazines that they use to send and I would buy some games every christmas. It seems they have lost the personal touch and gone "CORPORATE". Is Ken and Roberta still with them or have they retired?
from Cairo, Egypt
January 31, 2002
Great site, great work from a great developper of a great game called Leisure Suit Larry. Too bad you couldn't come up with LSL8, i really LOVED LSL7, i first played Larry about 6 years ago, and it was LSL4, and i enjoied it very much then. Again nice work, and i'll try to think in some good jokes and send it to you. So long my friend...
from Rochester (Originally From Fremont, Ca), Ny,
January 28, 2002
I'm a long-time fan of LSL games!! Played all of LSL games since I was much, much young. I also liked Black Cauldron & Freddy Pharkas, the Pharmacist. Now, I just ordered the Leisure Suit Larry's Ultimate Pleasure Pack online to make my waiting time worthwhile. So I could be able to re-play! :) I want to see another release from you.. LSL 8!! Only if Sierra would give in. Or get other gaming company to join up with you. Imagine what it would look like in 3-D and more people will probably come running to the store and get one before it runs out within a day! :) A Truly Larry Lafer fan! -Alethea
from Nürnberg, Germany
January 28, 2002
man, I really love the larry series. sometimes when I´m down I play Leisure Suit Larry 1 and the world is turnin´. Al ur the greatest. (thats a f.. fact!!) greetz .tom.
from Stockholm, Sweden
January 27, 2002
It's Larry 8 never again come out ?? the larry Collection is the best games that have came out.
from , Virginia,
January 26, 2002
I Loved all of your games and I hope that you will let us in on some new ones for the future.
from Pärnu, Estonia
January 26, 2002
Hi Al.I am great fan of Larry.And that's all.
from , Md, Usa
January 23, 2002
Enjoy the LSL series. Hope to see another.
from San Francisco, Ca, Usa
January 20, 2002
You are still my favorite guy al , I hope in the future they will bring back larry and thank you again for the best game that i have in my time.
from Plovdiv, Bulgaria
January 19, 2002
Hi! I just wanted to thank you for creating such as an great game. LSL is one of the most interessting games that i've ever played. So please don't let Larry die! Please!
from Cleveland, Oh, Usa
January 19, 2002
Hi! And I've had a great time playing the games you've done -- the LSL series, The Black Cauldron (that was fun!), Torin's Passage (major fun, too!)Just re-played that one recently!
from Tel-Aviv, Israel
January 19, 2002
Just wanted to say thanks. Was playing "The Black Cauldron" for hours and hours, and was playing LSL1 as a kid when I had no idea what some of the stuff meant. Was still having heaps of fun! :) So thanks for your gift to the world of computer gaming!!! Sincerely, A veteran fan :)
January 16, 2002
Just wanted to say thanks for the great Larry games. No other computer game even comes close!!!! Oh yeah, I dont think this was mentioned anywhere on your web site, but I remember once watching Name That Tune on a weekday afternoon, and when they announced you as one of the contestants, I was like Holy Sh*t, I know that guy!!! If i remember correctly u won. With that money, did u use it to create the first Larry game? Anyway best of luck to you and I hope Sierra gets their head out of their a** and allows you to do LSL8!!!
from Caracas, Distrito Federal, Venezuela
January 16, 2002
Don´t let Larry DIE
England
January 16, 2002
Finally i get to talk to the master!!! What a cool game was lsl, there are so many of us real fans out here that you have just gotta release another one. Don't tell us you've not got the time or inclination anymore, hell it would be a best seller. Come on do it for those of us who have supported you from day one. Hope to buy it soon!!! Take care Dawn
from Kaiserslautern, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
January 13, 2002
Thanx allot for Donald's Playground! I loved this game, when I was a child and now I found it here. Thank you!
from Wheeling, Wv, Usa
January 13, 2002
I was looking for LSL for my sister as she just now heard about it when I found "BLACK CAULDRON." That was the first game I had for my Tandy 1000EX back in 1987 or so. I just downloaded it as I never finished it back then and will now give it a try. I had lots of fun with it though. Thanks a bunch!
Germany
January 13, 2002
Your Cyberjoke3000 site is really funny. good jokes, not the typical, more or less boring "internet fun" we all know. greetings from germany!
from St Ninians, Stirlingshire, Scotland
January 13, 2002
Hi Al - after discovering your site I couldn't possibly leave without thanking you for the creation of Larry, he's provided so many of us with hours of fun and frustration over the years. Your website's a goldmine, been looking around it for a good hour now and I'm not bored yet. Here's hoping for an eventual Larry 8 - a new game that might actually be worth playing.
from , Missouri, Usa
January 9, 2002
I am a Granny in all ways! I am just learning most things on the computer. But I can tell that I will like the games you have created and I think my grandkids will too. I must thank my internet server, Socket, for adding this info into their newsletter. I also like your good, clean humor..it is very hard to find these days! God bless you and your work
from Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Serbia
January 9, 2002
j am from country where was been wars and such, only thing that was keep me normal is larry in that days, so j am werry unhappy for lsl8 and just tell people from sierra that ther's lots of fans in Serbia, so they can sea that game is werry popular eaven in such countrys, and there is no need to shutdown the game j am sory that j didnt wrote letter earlear j didnt knowe to write. thank's for lowly games!!!!!!!!!!!!!
from Tel Aviv, Holy Land, Israel
January 7, 2001
Like many surfers in this site I would like to say how I enjoyed playing your games and how they boosted my English with new juicy words. Now let me teach YOU something in English: Plural for mouse is MICE Plural for spouse is SPICE! Have fun! Noam
from Aarhus, Bliss, Denmark
January 7, 2001
Much love for Larry. Many great memories hehe. When I was 13-14 my english teacher asked me if I could get him a copy of lsl for his commodore 64. Teehee. Good times. I miss all those old sierra games. Larry lives forever.
from Odenton, Md, Usa
January 5, 2002
i have played all of your games and i LOVED them all, i hope you will create more. please
from Brisbane, Australia
January 5, 2002
Hey Al, Just read the bad news about Larry 8. I'm really sorry to hear about it, but I hope you find a way to convince Sierra to make Larry 8 a reality. You are one of the best, if not the best, software programmers in the entire industry. AL LOWE AND LARRY LAFFER FOREVER!!!
from Kempten, Bavaria, Germany
January 1, 2002
Hi Al, yes i also would say best thing is that all of you old sierra guys should come together again and get back to work on those good old games that brought many hours of fun to me, al those new supergrafical but no fun games make me ill. so if you can't make larry why not programming a new game with maybe his son as the star of the game ;o) so long, Paul
from Offenbach (Germany), Germany
January 1, 2002
Hey Lowi whats going on my dear Freand? Swing ya ass quickly to your Personal Computer and start with ya work on Larry 8 or i will build up my own Software Design Studio and I´ll be your boss!!! Thanxx for all the good time i spend on Larry 1-7!!!
from Gananoque, Ontario, Canada
December 31, 2001
I am the custodial parent of my seven year old grandson who has ADDHD and has severe learning problems. I have been searching for ways to help him learn to concentrate and to use his fine motor skills. So we started to play my old King's Quest and Hero's Quest games. I would love to be able to play the 3rd and fourth game of the Hero's Quest with him because he loves them and they are really helping him. They have noticed a great change in him at school since we have started playing them. His dexterity is better and so are his fine motor skills and he is learning patience (slowly but it is better). I am on a disablitly pension and when the games came out and I was working then I bought them. I had both a 5 ¼ and a 3 ½ drive then so I gave the 3 ½ inch disks to a friend and he was to give them back when he played the games but he gave them away. My 5 ¼ inch drive has since died and I have not been able to find another. So I am out the games because he gave the disks away instead of returning them. SO I was hoping Sierra would have abandoned them so I could download them but no such luck. I have only spent money on Sierra games since I started because they are the only ones I have found worth the price they charge. I wish I could afford to buy new ones to replace them but can't so we will have to make do with what we have. We will check out these games but want to thank you for sharing them with us. It is greatly appreciated especially by someone like us. So thank you for your fine work and keep it up. Heather
from Copenhagen, Denmark
December 31, 2001
I just finished Torin's Passage for the 3rd time but not untill now did I consider using the bagpipe in the end! That's why I love adventuregames so much - they keep surprising you. I want to thank you personally for creating the game and urge you to consider bringing more to your longing fans. I'm glad this boring world still holds inspiring people such as yourself!
from Harstad, Norway
December 31, 2001
Hi Al! Since you probably get thousands of messages like this, i wont write you a full letter of how much I love your work! I am a lojal larry fan, i have all the games, and finished (once again) the lsl7 15minutes ago! For years your brilliant entertainment has kept me glued to the screen! I BEG YOU!!! Find a way to make LSL8!! do it without SIERRA! those losers dont know what they are missing! Find someone else! PLEASE! You are a true genious! Its so sad...larry must not die!! Take care, if find the time, would you please drop me a line. It would mean much to me... Yours truly Harald Hauknes from Norway (16years old)
from Paris, France
December 27, 2001
Thank you so much for all the laughter. I have just finished LSL 1 for the zillionth time, and I still enjoy it as much as the first time, well, back in 88. Thanks again, and take care.
from Salt Lake City, Ut, Usa
December 27, 2001
The first computer game I ever played was Leisure Suit Larry 2. I loved it, and all your games. I hope you make another someday.
from Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Christmas Day, 2001
Thank you so much for your games
from Haifa, Isreal
December 20, 2001
i grow on larry games you rule al!!!
from Toronto, Canada
December 20, 2001
yo, al! just dropped by to say hey and that larry is the coolest! i remember when me and my cousins were kids, we would try to play it ALL THE TIME trying to answer the questions correctly! anyway, stay cool dude
from Jerusalem, Israel
December 10, 2001
Al, You RULE !!! a f**king genius ! well... i loved your site keep up the good work.
from Odense, Fyb, Denmark
December 10, 2001
Al....Your the greatest!!! The LSL games is the best games ever made!!!
from Oak Hill, Fl, U.S.A.
December 9, 2001
I wish to get in contact with you I have questions about becomeing a programer my number is (386)345-0985 or Email me Thanks
from , California,
December 8, 2001
Good stuff Al...keep it up!
from Wales, United Kingdom
December 8, 2001
We miss you buddy. I loved all the LSL games, and I also loved Torin's Passage. Have you ever thought of developing a game for Playstation2 (hint, hint!) Also, do you own a games console, and if you do, what you favourite game?
from Athens, Greece
December 8, 2001
I grew up with Larry. I have spent many nights with his women :) Thank you for these games, they will never be forgotten. Al, you're the best, man!
from Newport News, Va., Usa
December 6, 2001
I like the games he made.Even though I only played 2 I like the women:).Well You are good.E-mail me back please.And send me a game. #1Fan Josh
from Cincinnati, Oh, Usa
December 4, 2001
Al, You defined my early teens. Thanks for the memories.
from Mosjøen, Norway
December 2, 2001
Larry Kick`s ASS! & Get Sierra To invest in larry 8 Your the best!!
from Granville, Ohio, Usa
November 29, 2001
I heard they may make another LSL adventure. This would be great. Thanks for all the adventures. It's been fun!
from Pretoria, South Africa
November 30, 2001
You RULE Al keep up the great work, don't ever quit and bring us some more games, I know plenty of people that would gobble up anything you write You're the master
from Charleston, West Virginia, Usa
November 29, 2001
We purchased a 486 computer for our daughter to practice on before she gets a new one for Christmas. She says Winnie The Pooh is her favorite game because it has such funny jokes. Thanks for the good work (and the laughs)
from Perth, Western Australia, Australia
November 29, 2001
Love the games Al, I on the pleasure pack!! I'd love to see LSL8, tell Sierra to make it happen!! It would be the cult hit of the new millenium!
from Paranaque, Metro Manila, Philippines
November 26, 2001
All this time, and I never even bothered to check the net whether LSL8 even existed. I've been checking CD stores every month. I really missed the good ol' Larry games... especially the remake of the 1st. :) I salute you Al for a remarkable game! I sure hope you'd make more games of Larry. Hmmm... how 'bout a cartoon series (PG-13)? Now THAT's an idea. :)
November 23, 2001
I´m a spaniard guy, so please forgive my english. Althought I´m young, I´ve played LSL games since I knew about them, including LSL1 text command mode, and I´ve enjoyed a lot with them. Thank you very much, Al, for all those good times we had in front our computers playing your games, and please dont give it up. We´re waiting for more fun!
November 23, 2001
I've been waiting for lsl8 for 2 years now!! Thank God I just got an explanation. Keep up the good work!!!
from , Nevada, Usa
November 18, 2001
I had been looking for the old Black Cauldron game for a long time. It was the first graphic adventure game I'd ever played on the PC...long before I even got my own. I had played the early King's Quests on my Apple IIc, but The Black Cauldron blew me away! I still credit this game with developing my love of reading, because I just had to go read the book that inspired what was at the time and has always remained one of my favorite games. Thanks Al! I never even would've guessed it was you behind that game! Keep up the great work!
from Lisbon, Portugal
November 18, 2001
the site is nice, cool design, perfect jokes, free ol' AL Lowe games (but i still wanna LSL's...legally i mean, the ones i have whre downloaded from abandonware sites) so keep on..... and put softporn on the downloads plz (and someday sierra will lose the LSL rights - that means you can release some source codes, and distribute your perfect games =) and that applies for freddy pharkas)
Norway
November 14, 2001
Hi Al! I really miss the LSL series. I remember watching my friend's older brother play LSL1 when I was 8 years old. It was a lot of fun. Are you ever going to make another computer game? Please do and LSL8! The adventure games these days aren't what they used to be back in the golden days of Sierra's AGI and SCI games... You're my favourite programmer ever! Thanks for all the laughs. JRH
from Seattle, Wa, Usa
November 14, 2001
Hi Dad! Just came to take a look. Looks good, I like it. Talk to you later aligator. Love you!
from , California, Usa
November 11, 2001
Dear Al, I enjoyed each one of the larry games immensely. I really miss your work. Hope to see more of your stuff soon!
from Biggs, Ca, United States
November 10, 2001
Hi, I just want to say that I love every single one of these games and I love your work.They have brought a lot of joy and fun to my day. Thank you
from Lisbon, Portugal
November 10, 2001
i'm planning on making a 3d animation, like a short movie of larry, and wanted to have your permition to do so, its not for commercial use, its just for fun, but i would be glad to have the consent of the maker himself :)
from Hagerstown, Md, Usa
October 28, 2001
The world is again a far too serious place. I started buying Larry with #3, and have even managed to convince my wife that it is the best series of games ever made. We not only need 8, but 9, 10, and 11...
from , Sw Texas, Usa
October 26, 2001
It's a shame that Sierra doesn`t know a good thing when they got it. Would still like to see Larry 8. Hope you can come up with a way to finish it and get it out on the market. your frind JG Anderson
October 25, 2002
why don't you try making a new game with another company i am sure it would be just as good as the ones you made with sierra if not better, if sierra dosn't want to make leisure suit larry maby you can make a game like white suit harry
from London, England, United Kingdom</