Being the ripe young age of 21, I find that I completely missed out a lot of the classic adventure games of the 80's and 90's. When someone mentions the name "Sierra" my mind immediately jumps to Half-life which I'm told is wrong. See, before I could even read, Sierra was one of the major creators of the Adventure game genre that I missed out on. Since I feel like they all passed me by, I think I'm going to go ahead and play through some of them.The first game on my list is the first Leisure Suit Larry game as I'm sure you've probably
gathered by the screen posted about an inch above this. Actually, this isn't going to be the first place I start. In 1981, a game by the name of Softporn Adventure came out and it served as pretty much the backbone of the original Larry. This game was completely text based and started you out in a seedy bar with nothing around but the bartender and a curtain with a button next to it. First thing I did as any good man of age should do was order myself a shot of whiskey. Apparently, the virtual version of myself doesn't have the same taste for the stuff that the legit version does, so simply took it with me out the door. Outside I found a drunkard in the hallway lousing it out and making all kinds of noise. I figured he would probably enjoy the whiskey more than I would, so I gave it to him and proceeded to the bathroom. After dealing with a bout of the constipation blues, I read some of the graffiti in the stalls and found the message "Password Bellybutton". After finding that detail out, I proceeded back into the bar and pressed the button next to the curtain. An eerie voice came out towards me and asked "Password?". Luckily for me, I cleaned out my system and found out that bellybutton was in fact the password for the "button". I'm curious as to whether or not the button was some sort of pun, I'll just assume that it is. Anyways, I went into a room and went up the stairs and found a seedy looking hooker. It was here that I got stuck and couldn't figure out what to do. I tried to kill myself, but I didn't have a knife. It was an interesting little diversion but I found myself frustrated that the game didn't give you a list of phrases to try out.
Anyways, on to Larry, the game starts out asking your age to determine whether or not you should even be playing a risque game like this in the first place. Once again, being 21, I found that I should in theory be able to play the game since I could pretty much go to any sexshop in town and buy a DVD. The game itself didn't think so however, I'll let the screenshots tell the story this time around.
I decided to see what would happen to a curious yet honest minor when they tried to play the game.
Well, now that I know the game will end itself here, let's proceed.
My first attempt to pass through the trivia wasn't a successful one. My inner fratboy says that I should have probably known the answer to this question, but I guess he had a hangover
Okay, enough fun and games.
The actual game itself is pretty much the same as 
Softporn Adventure, you go around and try to progress through a series of odd, contrived puzzles and try to score. This time though, you get the benefit to see crude pixel art of whatever you're trying to do. Movement is now handled by the arrow keys instead of using compass directionals; it's a whole lot flashier, but takes up more time. If you stick around long enough, a dog will come up and prance around the place. I kinda wanted to see if I could use a "pet" command but I ended up getting run over by a car.At this point I decided I was done with Larry for the night, we'll have to see if I continue through the game and if I decide to go through it's many sequels. Keep tuned to see for yourself.
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