Leisure Suit Larry Collection

by VIVENDI JEUX PC

Product Features

• 5 Complete Games. Now playable on today's PC's, including, for the first time ever, Windows XP. All the origional risque humor and obscure inside jokes make Larry equally entertaining for older teens and adults. Nostalgic point and click gameplay makes Leisure Suit Larry accessible to gamers of any skill level. Retrace the steps of 40 something lovable loser Larry Laffer from the original Land of the Lounge Lizards through luxury cruises, tropical isles and beyond in search of Miss Right - or at least Miss Right Now. All five hilarious games are included for hours of risque play. Whatever your age, Larry will make you feel better about your love life.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000AYIP8A
• Item Weight: 4 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: September 15, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,848 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

A compilation of the classic adventure series originally by the beloved Sierra On-Line.Product Information The Amorous Escapades That Shocked America. A decade of debauchery now on one Compilation.Larry Laffer is a loveable loser on the most desperate of quests: lose hisvirginity or die trying. Armed with his trademark leisure suit breath spray thedream of true love (or at least fake love) he heads to the sinful Lost Wages TheLand of the Lounge Lizards.When the girl of his dreams has second thoughts Larry finds himself on thestreet again but this time in Los Angeles. Larry Goes Looking for Love(in Several Wrong Places) amidst KGB agents island natives and theevil Dr. Nonookee.Larry may finally have found The One on Nontoonyt Island but a misunderstandingseparates him from his lascivious lounge singer love. Explore the jungle withlovelorn Larry or aid Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the PulsatingPectorals.After suffering amnesia induced by The Case of the Missing FloppiesLarry must find three hot women to appear on America's Sexiest Home Videos.Meanwhile Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work as anFBI agent investigating corruption in the music industry. Help the lost loverstake on organized crime and Larry regain his memory.Alone again Larry finds himself at a spa resort as a consolation prize on a TVdating game. To try to win the hearts of the beautiful vacationers Larry must ShapeUp or Slip Out! You'll pick up more than a few one-liners when you pick up this anthology. This is the big one the one you've been waiting all your life to get sandwiched into one collector's size mega-morphed CD. You get more than you ever imagined more than you ever bargained for more than ought to be legally permissible of Leisure Suit Larry's outrageously outlandish attitude.Product Features Five Hilarious Hits! Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards:  Th

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70 of 72 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A+ for games, C for effort, September 27, 2006

By 

J. McCormick - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Leisure Suit Larry Collection (CD-ROM)

The Leisure Suit Larry games are some of the best games that came out in the late 80s and early 90s, so a collection that contains all of them is certainly welcome. However, this is not that collection.

As the box says, there are only 5 games in the collection: 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6. Take note: they inexplicably only included the Larry 1 remake here, not the original Leisure Suit Larry 1. That's fine if you just care about being able to play a version of Larry 1 but for a box that seems to want to emphasize its nostalgic value, to not include the original in all its blocky-graphics glory is inexcusable. The omission is even more glaring because they manual contains a section devoted to the original AGI version of the game.

The box also lacks Leisure Suit Larry 7, which unlike the more recent (and poor) Magna Cum Laude was one of Al Lowe's originals and should have been included, especially since an earlier Larry collection released by Sierra (before the soul was sucked out of the company) DID contain that game. I was especially annoyed that Larry 7 was not included, since it's the only Larry game I've never played. There was apparently also a version of Larry 6 with voice acting that didn't make it into this box. Again, inexcusable.

As another reviewer mentioned, they spared every expense on packaging - the disc comes in a white sleeve with no manual. Actually, it comes with a sheet of paper asking you to print the manual yourself, because you'll need it for the copy protection, which was annoyingly left enabled. They also left the age verification questions in there, which would have been fine if they weren't so period specific. There are ways around them (e.g., Ctrl+Alt+X in Larry 1) but as far as I can tell they weren't documented.

I do have a few positive things to say about the collection. It's nice to see an affordably-priced collection of these games available again, since the older collections are going for $100+ on Amazon. The games also come with a nice, easy installer and are set up to work without any extra effort on the part of the player. There's very little reason for a computer-savvy player who already owns the games to buy this collection, since it just uses DOSBox to make the games work, which is available online for free. But for anyone who is not so computer-savvy, the collection requires very little effort to get set up, which is nice considering that it tends to take some effort to make these games work on modern PCs.

All in all, the games in this collection are great, but the collection itself is a little disappointing, since it actually contains less than previous Larry collections did.

(If you are one of the [relatively few] who are not running Windows XP with an administrator account, see my technical footnote in the comments for this review).

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Larry the classic adult game from the 80's, December 24, 2006

By 

Janice M. Hamilton (Bfookhaven, Pa) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Leisure Suit Larry Collection (CD-ROM)

Well what can you say about LS Larry? IT is an adults only game, because of content. It is a blast to play for us 40 somethings and at this price it should be on every adult with a sick mind and dirty sense of humor's computer! The game after installation needs you to print out the rather lengthy "Books" that go with it, because you will need to access them each time in order to get into the game-remember this is not a kids game and the questions are designed to keep kids out, but any kid who is good in history could get the questions correct so as a final step, the manufactor put in this fail safe-which means adults need to keep it away from kids so that they can't also download it.

Now as to the game-poor loveable LS Larry is exactly as you remember him-a born loser with women, who with your help will over come his problem. The game is hysterical with its cheesy animations and gags. Nothing high tech here, just your basic 80's game reconfigured so it works with the newer versions of windows. It is a great game full of dumb laughs and sight gags. If you are looking for a no brainer game to play that causes laughter this is it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How to Fix if Windows Launcher Will Not Start Games, March 28, 2010

By 

The Wamp (IL) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Leisure Suit Larry Collection (CD-ROM)

Leisure Suit Larry Collection
I tried installing this collection in two computers running Windows XP Service Pack 3. The Windows Launcher did not allow starting the games. Also, if I tried to start DOSBox-0.63 by itself, the DOS window only flashed on the scree but would not stay started. So, I implemented the following fix:
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28 March 2010 Modification by me:
DOSBox-0.63 did not allow starting the (6) lsl programs when using the "SierraLauncher"
and also, DOSBox-0.63 by itself would not start. The DOS window would only
flash on the screen.
Fix: I downloaded DOSBox-0.73 (latest version) and installed at "C:\DOSBox". Then
I uninstalled DOSBox-0.63 that was installed in the "C:\Program Files\Sierra\Leisure Suit Larry Collection(TM)"
folder and pasted the new "DOSBox-0.73" folder into the Leisure Suit Larry Collection(TM) folder. In order to make the
"SierraLauncher" work, the "DOSBox-0.73" folder was renamed to "DOSBox-0.63".
Note: The lsl6 program folder has an sierraw.exe program file that will run under windows in addition to the sierra.exe
program file.
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I am happly with the collection.