And while the humor can get pretty risqué the actual graphics are far from explicit – Naked Larry’s just a grinning orange blob and your inept pawings are always obscured by a big black CENSORED bar as it thrusts up and down.

The bed’s a mess, ditto the hooker!” or that the bartender “appears to be perverted, twisted and sick! You instantly take a liking to him.” But most importantly the puzzles are all solid and not overly difficult to figure out even if a few of them suffer from adventure game logic, like a drunk slouched outside the bathroom handing you a TV remote if you ply him with booze. Speaking of which, the text parser is pretty clever and recognizes some rather colorful ideas like a little masturbation: “Larry, the whole idea was to stop doing that!” The descriptions whenever you examine something are often just as amusing, informing you “This is the hooker’s seedy bedroom. Even today you’d be hard-pressed to find a game that has you getting flashed by trenchcoat-wearing perverts in front of the “Quiki-Wed” shotgun wedding chapel, building up your self-esteem (not to mention some other things) on a deluxe model inflatable woman, or getting down and dirty with an inexpensive prostitute who’ll bite your miniscule member clean off if you had the temerity to type “eat pussy.” Released at a time when virtually the entire genre consisted of family-friendly fantasy quests, Larry’s misadventures are set in the “real” world and ready to explode with wads of raunchy adult-themed humor.

'Are you a hopeless dork? A real pathetic loser? Do your nights of great lays involve a bag of potato chips? Well take heart, for you’re not alone! Come along with Larry Laffer, socially inept computer programmer turned socially inept polyester paramour and the original 40-year old virgin, as he bumbles around the seedy city of Lost Wages looking to finally get laid!'Īre you a hopeless dork? A real pathetic loser? Do your nights of great lays involve a bag of potato chips? Well take heart, for you’re not alone! Come along with Larry Laffer, socially inept computer programmer turned socially inept polyester paramour and the original 40-year old virgin, as he bumbles around the seedy city of Lost Wages looking to finally get laid!

Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards (PC) review

Larry the lounge lizard