Romancing The Code is a regular series (although it’s been a while) where Alice Bee writes about the different ways games make us fall in love, without the actual sex bit.
A couple of weeks ago I was at GDC, surrounded by hundreds of people talking about the present and future of games. So it made sense, in my mind, to play Leisure Suit Larry 1 (aka Leisure Suit Larry In The Land Of The Lounge Lizards). I ve wanted to do this for some time because people, people writing for this very website, no less, have done a lot of work to defend the fact that they like it. Like, I don’t care, you can just like it. But protest too much, perhaps?
It s an adult sex comedy adventure game from the 80s, but Larry s games are comedies about sex . Or possibly they re not even really about sex at all, but about the search for something more meaningful. Forget what your kneejerk reaction is! The original Leisure Suit Larry trilogy is about finding true love!
The evidence cited for this is usually the hooker scene. Go on, then. Convince me.