Leisure Suit Larry coming in HD next year

by Alexander Sliwinski on Oct 10th 2011 4:20PM

Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards returns in HD for the series' 25th anniversary in Q4 2012. This will be the second update of the bawdy 1987 Sierra adventure game classic, which went from 16-color EGA art and a keyboard interface to stunning VGA graphics and mouse controls in 1991.

EGM reports the update will be handled by Replay Games, with the assistance and blessing of series creator Al Lowe -- something that the most recent entries in the series didn't have. The game is planned for almost every PC, console and mobile digital distribution platform.

"I'm overjoyed to see Larry released from his digital dungeon after all this time, and be placed in the hands of someone who understands him and wants to see him, brought back to the forefront by people who love him and understand him," Lowe told EGM.

If successful, Replay Games plans to keep on doing the HD updates, and doing them well, working its way through the series' original seven installments (Leisure Suite Larry 4: The Missing Floppies will remain missing). Replay is also planning on new adventures for Larry Laffer in the internet age.

Source: EGM

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Now this is the Larry we all know and love. His nephew almost killed the franchise on his own! Can't wait to see more details on this :D

@Cafecito

YEAH!!! FINALLY!!!!!! somebody who knows the kind of awesome job that AL did with larry!!!! man!! i can´t believe this!!!!! great news indeed!!!! i can only hope that they can bring back to life the 8 chapter of larry (lust in space) that Al was never able to make. great news and please.........leave the idiot of larry loveage in the same dungeon that larry was for the next 80 years, and please.... keep team 17 away from larry this time.

They're gonna have to censor this thing pretty hard to make it acceptable fodder for consoles. Maybe they'll replace the word 'boobs' with 'xboxes'?

@343 Guilty Fart Bad Joke = Bad Joke

@343 Guilty Fart

I was thinking the same thing. If they do censor/edit it though, it won't be as funny/risque.

Why? Is there even one person looking forward to this?

@bizzarospeak

Yes, I am very much looking forward to it. Had a ton of fun playing these as a kid.

@Dickhole Pasta

Back in my day a video game cost a nickel. Young whipper snappers like you don't know how good ya got it.

"Ungrateful little kids?" You succeed in sounding like a crotchety old man.

@Dickhole Pasta

I´d add all us old enough to remember when games had story and real humor, not just a guy with a green helmet blowing stuff and selling millions because the company succeed in making kids think it was cool.....

@Hunter141072

Congrats, you just described Doom.

I'm all for old video games, I own half the catalogue on GoG (half of those on the original CDs), but to say video games are universally terrible today is just being ridiculous. There are great moments from every gen.

@Colin

yeah, and halo is another doom clone, so there you have it.

I´m not saying that all current games are bad. hell, i enjoy wasting guys with a gun every now and then, but when a game has an amazing story the quality goes to the sky, that´s something that it was done many times in the old days, that´s why those games are still so admired, that´s something not a lot of companies understand in this times, but when it´s done like the old times the result is amazing, just look at arkham asylum.

@Hunter141072

shut up.

@maveric101

oh sorry!!! i didn´t know you were one of the stupid kids which mind was washed with Halo dreams, sorry..... :D

@343 Guilty Fart

I don't know why you think that. Red Dead Redemption and God of War both show bare breasts and, gasp! They are on consoles. I'm assuming the 360 version of The Witcher 2 will as well.

I wonder if this game is going to be rated M, and show all the "nudity" the originals had.

@El Miye

And at HD resolutions they might actually look like something.

Did you see those pixels? Oh man... those three pixels we so hot!

@GreenElf although for "hot pixels", DOA5 should make your day - boing boing!

@El Miye

Just as long as you can still have sex with that broad without a condom then die of AIDS in like the first 10 minutes of the game, I'm happy. ^sigh^ What a fantastic life lesson I received while being way to young for. Thanks, video games!! 20 yrs later and I'm stil clean!

@El Miye
It'll be rated I for immature..... And I'm so getting this game.

I am a sucker for remakes of old Sierra games.

It's worth noting that even the original Larry is an update of the text adventure Softporn Adventure.

@(Unverified)

I would love it if the old AGI version or even the text adventure were unlockables in the game...

I'm not sure I like the cartoony look of that screenshot...

@Raniz85

It's the same character design as Leisure Suit Larry 7. It's far superior to the shit created for Magna Cum Laude and Box Office Bust, which Al Lowe had NOTHING to do with.

Ahh man, I hope they still include the age based questions at the beginning to prove that you were old enough. I loved the fact that they were questions based on historic events that were current enough for you to remember! Ahhh, pixelated bresteses...

I didn't ask for this.

@sammo21

Good cause no one asked you.

@whylekat I guess I apparently offended your furry sensibilities by making a snarky comment as you seem to be a leisure suit larry fanboy.

don't give a shit.

@sammo21

I've been seeing this comment a lot on Joystiq, and I don't understand it. No one cares what you asked for, so why do people keep saying it?

@gettinmoney662 If you can't google it, then I can't explain it.

@gettinmoney662

It's a line from Deus Ex. And I'm pretty sure the actual quote is "I never asked for this"

@sammo21

Oh sorry, we got forgot you preferred Magna Cum Laude. Dick.

I remember playing this game when i was a teenager, awesome.

"Coming", eh?

A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat, etc etc...

Leisure Suit Larry "cumming" in HD next year?

Umm... yay? Is it going to be like Monkey Island, where you can switch back and forth between the classic and modern version?

I wonder if they'll do Larry 7 though, since that one was already pretty good looking. What they could do would be to re-master it using the original art files, if they still exist...

And then someone could do the same with Monkey island 3... oh please please pretty please.

@bm111

I'm still waiting for Full Throttle HD!!

@bm111

I was wondering the same thing while reading this. I also wonder if they're going to get Jan Rabson to play Larry and Neil Ross to do narration. I love all the Larry games, but 6 and 7 are by far my favorites. Larry 7 is the best classic-style adventure game of all time, I think. Full Throttle comes in second, which I agree with whylekat, it should be remade in HD. I was hoping for that when LucasArts remade the Monkey Island games.

It's amazing to see that ugly dudes can get beautiful women

@Dance Mofo

$$$$$$$$$$$

This is an HD remake I can "get behind" in more ways than one HEYYO

@Crayola Q Pants ESQ It's a little tacky but so is Larry.

@Crayola Q Pants ESQ

I don't get it

Awesome, I hope they continue this trend. I loved the Monkey Island remakes, and I would love all the other Sierra games remade as well.

Say it with me now. Space Quest.

@JRock3x8

Oh please......

OH MY GOD, I think I may die!

Awesome!

I will get an HD version soon as it's out

marianbecnel@linuxmirroreast.com

@marianbecnel

I'll buy it for every console and platform (even if I don't own it) to try to ensure they make it through the entire series. Then maybe they'll decide to remake Space Quest as well. THEN my life will be complete.

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