Shockingly, she follows in the footsteps of every “dream girl” Larry’s had and shows him the door, or more accurately the balcony. As the game opens, Larry is still in Shamara’s penthouse suite in the La Costa Lotta resort from Larry 6. Among these was Al Lowe’s final gift to single swingers everywhere: Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail.Īl must have known that he nailed the formula perfectly in Larry 6, because Larry 7 is more of the same, but better. Ironically, because the creators had had plenty of practice at this point, and because the technology was now better than ever, these final hours of the genre’s dominance produced some of its best entries like Full Throttle, The Curse of Monkey Island, and of course, the last of the great adventures, Grim Fandango. And while we all fell in love with Quake and Doom, publishers slowly gave up on graphical adventures. Goodbye puzzles and story, hello big ass guns. AOL”, it became much more profitable to release games that better fit the attention span of your average consumer. But as the PC began to sneak into the home of “John Q. Back when computers were exclusively for geeks, it’s no surprise that cerebral games with irreverent humor topped the sales charts. By the time the mid-1990’s rolled around, the adventure game genre was beginning its decline.
