In order to get a feel for how game might work online, the team created some simple chess, poker, and blackjack games, as well as an avatar creation system that used preset elements to define a character. At the time, Sierra was working on a new online gaming service that would eventually become INN (The Imagination Network), and LarryLand was going to be one of the premier applications to run on the service (which incidentally ran on several chassis filled with 2400 baud modems). Fans wanted more Larry though, so an ambitious project began: to create one of the world's first online-only adventure games. This is why all the loose ends are tied at and the end of LS元, and Al went on to work on new projects.
#LESURE SUIT LARRY SERIES#
Series creator Al Lowe has explained that there was never intended to be another game after the trilogy was finished. Some fans wondered where the missing game was, leading to speculation that it was never released for fear of being too explicit, however the real story is far more mundane. Later, there are references back to "Leisure Suit Larry 4: The Missing Floppies", or other events that might have happened in the intervening years. LS元 ends with Larry writing the introduction to the first game, while LSL5 begins with Larry having no memory of how he came to be working for a record company. Looking at the games in the series, it's fairly obvious that there was never a Leisure Suit Larry 4. The final three games also follow off of each other, but there is no conclusion to the overall story arc as with the third game in the series.
The first three games in the series form a trilogy, with the third game ending with Larry writing his memoirs in the form of a computer game. The series humor typically centers around the misguided attempts of Larry to seduce each game's many female characters, and the equally strange puzzles that players must solve in order to progress. Throughout the various games in the series, players guide Larry through a variety of locations, including versions of US cities Las Vegas and Los Angeles, cruise ships, and tropical islands. Believing that the Leisure Suit represented the pinnacle of fashion (probably after a misguided Saturday Night Fever viewing), Larry sets out to find his, um. The first six Leisure Suit Larry games all featured Larry Laffer, a former computer programmer who decides to change his image, travel the world, and look for love.