leisure suit larry and the land of the lounge lizards

That last point may seem slightly bigoted, even racist, but it’s not. Why? Because it was called Softporn, it had a cover photo with naked women on it, it had a lewd theme, and it was released in America. It wasn’t very good, and it wasn’t particularly exciting, but it sold by the bucket load. Even calling it an ‘adventure game’ is a bit of a stretch as it was actually little more than a technical exercise and demonstration for cross-disk data access. Softporn Adventure was a pretty poor text-based adventure game for the Apple II. It was called, somewhat unsubtly, Softporn Adventure. Despite the limitations of technical hardware, in 1981 a game came out that trod this line of explicit content. It is of little surprise that into this fledgling industry came the idea of a game that crossed gently into the pornography sector. The 80s holds a huge number of influential titles, and games that burst with original ideas and created precedents for everything that came since. While the concept of computer games was born in the 70s, it was the following decade that the structure was defined. The 1980s were a very important time for computer games. Have you ever wondered what life was like for a sleazy American in the 1980s? No? Let’s take a look. In this series, Ultimate Gaming Paradise is going to bring you some of the stories of games, from headline-making triple-A titles to some indie masterpieces. Not just stories of how they were developed, but stories from the people that played them and the way they affected the gaming world.

Leisure suit larry and the land of the lounge lizards