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Excellent Series

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: September 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

If you have never played a Leisure Suit Larry game (Magna Cum Laude does NOT count), then you owe it to yourself to pick up this collection. It includes LSL 1,2,3,5,6 all for a good price. However, it does not include the CD version of LSL 6, so you'll have to enjoy the game without any voices. It's about time these were re-released. Check them out!

Leisure Suit Larry Compilation was Great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I absolutely loved the Leisure Suit Larry compilation cd for XP. Once installed, you don't need the cd in your cd-rom drive, and you can launch every game from your desktop launcher.

The compilation cd has VMD sound and Dos Box built right in so all the games played well on my XP. Having played, and loved, this series in the late 80's and early 90's, I was thrilled to re-live them again. Even the first few which are really outdated and pixelated, were fun. Amazingly, so many memories came flooding back as I played these games.

The major drawback, however, is that many of these games are password protected, and you have to have the manual for each game to find specific passwords, etc. The compilation does come with a .pdf of the manuals, but it is difficult to scroll through, hard to read, and a bit frustrating.

I ended up going to various walkthroughs to help with some of the password issues. That annoyance put aside, I found that the retro Leisure Suit Larry's still held up in the 21st Century. They are still fun and funny with much tongue-in-cheek humor; and, actually for mature players only.

If you played any of the old Sierra games as I did, I would recommend any and all of the compilations cds for XP. I bought Leisure Suit Larry, King's Quest, Space Quest and Police Quest and had a ball playing them all.

A great re-release.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

These games are some of the funnest games of time. Great stories and hillarious plots.

Don't listen to what people say about the quality, I think they did a great job, even if they are missing the original LSLITLOTLW its not really missed because the remake is much better.

They didn't release the 7th game or the Magna Cum Laude because they weren't very good.

Now you do have to print out the manual, but its worth it and if you like Adult pc games, or are an adventure gamer, you must get this great compilation of games for a great price of 20 bucks.

I wish I had 1000 chicks...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: May 02, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Larry is really different kind of guy (and game) you have ever expected to see. I had the pleasure of running into part one some 13 years ago and fell apart from laughing at the story and comments. Al Lowe deserves 6 stars for the storyboard and for the idea of bringing such sort of game to us. The whole pack comes together with an excellent book, in which hints for each game are described in a way of dialogue between Al and Larry. The book only is worth the money you'll pay for this pack.

This is no place to talk about hints for the game, because the only hint can be: don't rush, take your time and for god's sake, don't try to solve the game! Take your time, put your nose in every hole you find and enjoy. If you have right sense for humor, you'll drop dead laughing - six times.

Learning to live with girls..

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: July 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I, myself, own LSL3 and had a great time wrestling my way through.
The humor is sometimes absurd and the solutions for the many problems Larry faces aren't that different.
The product is offcourse made from a 'male-chauvinist-pig' point-of-view, but being one (male, not chauvinistic and certainly not a pig.), I couldn't care less.
It's a great piece of software, which Sierra should continue with a new game on today's PC's (hint, hint).

Nothing Like Larry

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Right up there with the best. (Be warned however, the newest larry really sucks)But this series was great as were almost all the old sierra games. How times have changed...

cheaper than ultimate pleasure pack

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: November 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

why buy LSL pleasure pack when you can buy this great game for half the price and purchase love for sail and casino very cheap

Larry the classic adult game from the 80's

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Well what can you say about LS Larry? IT is an adults only game, because of content. It is a blast to play for us 40 somethings and at this price it should be on every adult with a sick mind and dirty sense of humor's computer! The game after installation needs you to print out the rather lengthy "Books" that go with it, because you will need to access them each time in order to get into the game-remember this is not a kids game and the questions are designed to keep kids out, but any kid who is good in history could get the questions correct so as a final step, the manufactor put in this fail safe-which means adults need to keep it away from kids so that they can't also download it.

Now as to the game-poor loveable LS Larry is exactly as you remember him-a born loser with women, who with your help will over come his problem. The game is hysterical with its cheesy animations and gags. Nothing high tech here, just your basic 80's game reconfigured so it works with the newer versions of windows. It is a great game full of dumb laughs and sight gags. If you are looking for a no brainer game to play that causes laughter this is it.

It's the Original

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

These are the original games complete with the lowest possible resolution and frequent insults. I had forgotten how annoying it was to sign it by answering age sensitive questions and digging something out of the manual (which is now 57 pages you must print out). That annoyance remains. It's a great glimpse into the past and the jokes (insults) are as funny as ever.

A+ for games, C for effort

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 45 / 47
Date: September 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The Leisure Suit Larry games are some of the best games that came out in the late 80s and early 90s, so a collection that contains all of them is certainly welcome. However, this is not that collection.

As the box says, there are only 5 games in the collection: 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6. Take note: they inexplicably only included the Larry 1 remake here, not the original Leisure Suit Larry 1. That's fine if you just care about being able to play a version of Larry 1 but for a box that seems to want to emphasize its nostalgic value, to not include the original in all its blocky-graphics glory is inexcusable. The omission is even more glaring because they manual contains a section devoted to the original AGI version of the game.

The box also lacks Leisure Suit Larry 7, which unlike the more recent (and poor) Magna Cum Laude was one of Al Lowe's originals and should have been included, especially since an earlier Larry collection released by Sierra (before the soul was sucked out of the company) DID contain that game. I was especially annoyed that Larry 7 was not included, since it's the only Larry game I've never played. There was apparently also a version of Larry 6 with voice acting that didn't make it into this box. Again, inexcusable.

As another reviewer mentioned, they spared every expense on packaging - the disc comes in a white sleeve with no manual. Actually, it comes with a sheet of paper asking you to print the manual yourself, because you'll need it for the copy protection, which was annoyingly left enabled. They also left the age verification questions in there, which would have been fine if they weren't so period specific. There are ways around them (e.g., Ctrl+Alt+X in Larry 1) but as far as I can tell they weren't documented.

I do have a few positive things to say about the collection. It's nice to see an affordably-priced collection of these games available again, since the older collections are going for $100+ on Amazon. The games also come with a nice, easy installer and are set up to work without any extra effort on the part of the player. There's very little reason for a computer-savvy player who already owns the games to buy this collection, since it just uses DOSBox to make the games work, which is available online for free. But for anyone who is not so computer-savvy, the collection requires very little effort to get set up, which is nice considering that it tends to take some effort to make these games work on modern PCs.

All in all, the games in this collection are great, but the collection itself is a little disappointing, since it actually contains less than previous Larry collections did.

(If you are one of the [relatively few] who are not running Windows XP with an administrator account, see my technical footnote in the comments for this review).

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