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I played Larry as a Dutch kid with only a bit of English, and the questions seemed utterly impossible. I needed to brute force them and write down the answers I

I played Larry as a Dutch kid with only a bit of English, and the questions seemed utterly impossible. I needed to brute force them and write down the answers I tried for each. I learned a lot of things in that game, but not what the mysterious terms "leisure suit" or "lounge lizard" meant...

vidarh 3y ago
I knew a reasonable amount of English when I came across it, but yeah, there was still an element of brute-forcing involved, which was also a part of how ludicrous it was, which fit in with the game, I guess: Of course kids our age wanting access to a game like that would have no issue brute forcing the limited number of questions - we were used to waiting often many minutes for games to load, or spending hours typing game listings in from magazines - repeatedly retrying an "age" protection like that was no harder or more annoying than any number of the other things we endured in the quest for access to games. In comparison the age check of Leisure Suit Larry was part of the fun - increasing the feeling we were about to get access to something forbidden.
gbraad 3y ago
Same here... played it on an Amiga. ... not sure how I passed the questions at the beginning each time either. Have many memorable moments. it is one of those games that enhanced my level of English a lot! ;-)
NikkiA 3y ago
A leisure suit is just a suit that's only used for discos/night clubbing, they were often white with big lapels - a style that only miami vice agents could really pull off as 'work' attire. A lounge lizard was someone that frequented the type of pick-up orientated disco/lounge/night clubs that were the rage at the time. 'lounge' as a type of bar with easy listening or jazz 'soft music' in the background often used as pick-up grounds seem to have been mostly an american thing, although I wouldn't be surprised if they were common in Germany too for some reason. edit: I suppose 'wine bars' are the modernish (european) equivalent to american 'lounge' bars, but I have no idea if they were similar in their 80s incantation since I never had any interest in wine bars at that time.

vidarh 3y ago

I knew a reasonable amount of English when I came across it, but yeah, there was still an element of brute-forcing involved, which was also a part of how ludicrous it was, which fit in with the game, I guess: Of course kids our age wanting access to a game like that would have no issue brute forcing the limited number of questions - we were used to waiting often many minutes for games to load, or spending hours typing game listings in from magazines - repeatedly retrying an "age" protection like that was no harder or more annoying than any number of the other things we endured in the quest for access to games. In comparison the age check of Leisure Suit Larry was part of the fun - increasing the feeling we were about to get access to something forbidden.

gbraad 3y ago

Same here... played it on an Amiga. ... not sure how I passed the questions at the beginning each time either. Have many memorable moments. it is one of those games that enhanced my level of English a lot! ;-)

NikkiA 3y ago

A leisure suit is just a suit that's only used for discos/night clubbing, they were often white with big lapels - a style that only miami vice agents could really pull off as 'work' attire. A lounge lizard was someone that frequented the type of pick-up orientated disco/lounge/night clubs that were the rage at the time. 'lounge' as a type of bar with easy listening or jazz 'soft music' in the background often used as pick-up grounds seem to have been mostly an american thing, although I wouldn't be surprised if they were common in Germany too for some reason. edit: I suppose 'wine bars' are the modernish (european) equivalent to american 'lounge' bars, but I have no idea if they were similar in their 80s incantation since I never had any interest in wine bars at that time.