Sierra timeline

The original timeline mostly set in Sierra World and including the Sierra On-Line produced games. Also includes Box Office Bust which started as a Sierra produces game but took over by Codemasters (a sequel to MCL).

Timeline

 * 1603
 * Pilgrims and Native Americans of Walnut Log joined forces to hunt the Jackalopes to extinction. Pizza is shared between both parties.


 * 1726
 * Pioneers defeat Pilgrims and Native Americans of Walnut Log using their rifles. They take over all the pizza.


 * 1776
 * Ben Franklin invents the laser gun in Walnut Log, turning the tide of the Revolutionary War.


 * 1783
 * William Sturgeon is born.

Skdntt clocks company is established.
 * 1789
 * 1792
 * U.S. Mint was created by Congress on April 2.


 * 1804
 * Devil's Night Camp is established near the Isle of Sauna.


 * 1805
 * Bank of Poonstone is established. This is likely close to the date that Poonstone was founded.


 * 1810
 * US seized ships trading with France.
 * Britain captures aprox. 4000 naturalized US sailors and conscripts them.


 * 1812
 * Britain armed Indians who raided the western border of the United States.
 * The War of 1812 begins.
 * Neiman-Marcus catalogue 1812 edition is published.


 * 1823
 * Abrahamson is believed to have been born then.
 * William Sturgeon devises the first electro magnet.


 * 1828
 * Filcher and Mountebank Attorneys at Law is established.


 * 1841
 * Dwight L. Laffer is born.


 * 1842
 * Abraham Lincoln precides over the first wet tee-shirt contest in Walnut Log.


 * 1844
 * Theodore Shenanigans Bakersfield opens the first sports bar in Walnut Log. He takes all the credit for wet tee-shirt contests.


 * 1854
 * Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854 is passed.

The Mornin' Glory newspaper is established in Poonstone.
 * 1860
 * 1865
 * The Lincolnbot in Walnut Log prevents the North from losing the Civil War.


 * 1869
 * Mining rush begins in Poonstone in 1869 at the All Mine (the ones who rushed to mine the canyon are known as the 69ers).


 * 1870
 * April 1st issue of Mornin' Glory newspaper in Poonstone is published.


 * 1872
 * Shriner society is founded in New York City by Freemasons.


 * 1874
 * Lucy Maud Montgomery is born.


 * 1881
 * Dick N Mouth dies in Poonstone and is buried at Booty Hill.


 * 1888
 * Freddy Pharkas, Sam Andreas and Zircon Jim Laffer live in Coarsegold.


 * 1890
 * Punchcard used for census, it could handle up to 80 characters or columns of data, a number which remains to this day as the width of most computer video display devices.
 * Anton Herman Gerard Fokker is born in Java.


 * 1893
 * Melvin's Discount Mortuary is founded by Morton and Myron Melvin.


 * 1898
 * The world's first commercial radio service is installed by Guglielmo Marconi on Rathlin Island off the coast of Ireland.


 * 1904
 * Walnut Log Community College is originally opened as TB sanitorium.


 * 1906
 * Pepper Dog Saloon is burned down during the Great Tramp Boardwalk Fire.


 * 1912
 * The 1912 Teddy Roosevelt Mark III bears are produced.
 * Jack and Lilly board the Bytanic. The Bytanic is destroyed by an iceberg and sinks.


 * 1915
 * Fokker mounts gun on airplane and synchronites the rate of fire, so that it won't shoot propeller off.


 * 1920
 * Full body swimsuits are all the rage.
 * Dwight L. Laffer dies.


 * 1922
 * Ahmeed Deefta is born.
 * Fokker moves to the united states.
 * The first Shriner hospital for children opens.


 * 1926
 * (MCL info goes here)
 * Bagenbaggage wins second place of the Kentucky Derby.


 * 1927
 * Ass-Clown Bryno established


 * 1928
 * Sandman Simms is born.


 * 1931
 * November 2nd. Leroy Fatsuckler presents entertainment by permission of Judge Pelty.


 * 1936
 * Lovage's grandpa had a chance to get into the commemorative plate business but turned it down.


 * 1941
 * Corey (later professor) is born.


 * 1942
 * Lucy Maud Montgomery dies.
 * Polyethyline is invented.


 * 1947
 * July 24: Larry Laffer is born.


 * 1950
 * Plastic garbage bag is invented by Harry Wozlik.


 * 1954
 * Roller towel on the PMS Bouncy misses its service in October.
 * Carl McAlister becomes the janitor at Walnut Log Laundromat.
 * Simon Koseman begins teaching trampoline jumping in the Eastern Bloc.
 * Merv Mercott starts working at Merv Musical Records.


 * 1962
 * Merle Haggard begins searching for a Civil War era treasure chest.


 * 1964
 * Melvin Melvin (later known as Paul Paul) is born to Melba and Marvin Melvin of Gary, Indiana.


 * 1965
 * c. Larry plays games in the arcade.


 * 1967
 * Rumor has it that surgeons attempted to remove uncessfully Abrahamsons head from his ass.


 * 1968
 * Beatrice (later Robensenito) is born.


 * 1969
 * Steve Abrahamson becomes an educator.
 * The last rich person passed into the wild area in the Manyanga Islands (it won't be until another 21 years that another will enter).
 * Merv Wallski graduates as star pupil of class of 69.
 * Stock market changes.


 * 1970
 * The 1970 edition of Volkswagon beetle is on the market.


 * 1971
 * Larry's leisure suit was designed this year.


 * 1972
 * The Retardovision video game system was the twelve best selling console that year.
 * Sweet Lou was hanging out with Grand Funk.
 * Thomas Engleton was droped from the national vice-presidential ticket.


 * 1973
 * Uptown-Downtown Pawn Shop, Delicatessen, and Night Fever Polyester Plaza receives a white polyester suit and hangs it up.
 * The '73 Pacer is sold and produced.
 * Pink Floyd releases the album Darkside of the Moon.
 * Spiro Agnew resigns and Gerald Ford becomes vice president.


 * 1974
 * The '74 Bug is sold and produced.
 * Nelson Rockelfeller becomes vice president.


 * 1975
 * Larry frames up Miss November, 1975 (which he kept next to his velvet Elvis in later years).


 * 1976
 * PornProdCorp receives a Titty award on March 10


 * 1979
 * Ahmeed Deefda dies.
 * "Fritz" is vice-president of the US.


 * 1980
 * The first version of Pornodore 64 is released.
 * Clyde the oranguntang (friend of Clint Eastwood) dies.
 * Americans supported the Iranian hostages by tying yellow ribbons to trees.


 * 1981
 * François Mitterrand becomes president of France.


 * 1982
 * A giant squid (or octopus) attacks Walnut Log.
 * Cap'n Slappy lost both of his hands in a squid attack.
 * Larry Lovage is born


 * 1983
 * Pornodore 69, Version 1.113 is released.
 * The Roadhouse Rage movie is no longer popular.
 * Beatrice becomes an honorary demented one in the Dr. Demento Fan Club.


 * 1984
 * June issue of Assgasm is published.
 * Tanzania has estimated population of 21,202,000.
 * 1984 Pontiac Firebird is produced.


 * 1985
 * Larry Laffer is tossed out of his house by his mom.
 * Jane Fonda's Workout is the bestselling videocassette for week ending in 9/21.


 * 1986
 * Girls including Passionate Patti, Fawn, Faith, Barbara Bimbo, Tawni, Cherri Tart & Suzi Cheatem (and a couple of others) become members of the Eta Omicron Zeta sorority at Walnut Log Community College.
 * The last time Sweet Lou broke a dollar for children to play an arcade game.
 * Biff Stroker's film Big as a Knife is released.


 * 1987
 * The girls graduate and leave the Eta Omicron Zeta sorority at Walnut Log Community College. Faith, Fawn, and a girl who would go on to be a Hooker move to Lost Wages.
 * Larry Laffer (40) travels to Lost Wages to lose his virginity and find true love. He meets Eve.
 * The 1989 future Larry travels back to Sierra Studios around this time (c. 1987). Larry helps finishes developing a game Al Lowe has been working on based on Larry's travels to Lost Wages.
 * Larry Lovage is about age five.
 * King's Quest IV programming staff begin on the game.


 * 1988
 * Some months later, after the one night stand and after Larry followed Eve back to Los Angeles; she quickly sent him away sicking Brutus on him in the process (she barely remembered him, and thinks he is a stalker). Larry travels about chased by KGB, spends almost two weeks (ten days) at sea on a life raft, ends up at a resort island, after several more adventures he arrives at Nontoonyt Island and stops the plans of the evil scientist Dr. Nonookee. Saving the girls of the island in the process. He meets Kalalau and marries her with Chief Kenewauwau's blessings.
 * Larry builds walls around their new mansion to keep undesirables out.
 * Soon after Nontoonyt Island was developed into a prosperous vacation destination. The Sand Crab Room at the Nontoonyt Casino had its gala premiere.
 * Around this same time a year has passed for time traveling future Larry (from the time they entered the studios in 1987), Larry helps finish working on LSL2.
 * King's quest IV programming staff finish game.
 * Barbara Jo Bimbo claims she was a semifinalist for Majestic Miss Mendacino pageant (this apparently sarcasm as she appears to be too young, but may be a reference to her mother).
 * François Mitterrand current Presidential term ends, and he is re-elected as president of France.
 * J. Danforth Quayle is elected Vice-President of the US.


 * 1989
 * A few years (about two or three years at the most) had passed since Larry married Kalalau. Larry is kicked out of his house by Kalalau, and begins searching for love again. Patti also goes on her own search. They are captured by cannibals. Through the use of a magic marker, Patti draws an interdimensional magic door that throws both of them though time and space (to c. 1987 period) into Sierra Studios in California.
 * He becomes trapped in the Hoyle I game with other Sierra characters and employees (including Graham, Sonny Bonds, and Rosella). At the time he was still dating "Patty", but was dating others such as Suzanne.
 * c. Al Lowe vacations on board the Daventry, Roberta and Ken W's ship.
 * The Larry from the future helps finish LSL3.
 * Larry begins working on LSL4.


 * 1990
 * Hello, Annie's Greasy South Pacific Chorus Line! is on Broadway.
 * Larry is up for review at Sierra On-Line and close to losing his job. He is sent to the Last Chance Seminary to improve his productivity, or be fired by the Williams. He accidently switched luggage with Al Lowe, catches the wrong flight ending up in the Manyanga Islands, he meets Jenna who thinks he is on vacation there (and enrolled in a contest), loses copies of the prototype of LSL4 (but later recovers them), carefully avoids encounters with the Williams, Cannibals and ultimately; accidently sleeps with Al Lowe. Larry inadvertantely blackmails the elder programmer to keep his job if its kept quiet, and finds love with Jenna Ann-J at Sierra for a time.
 * In the late summer, LSL4 is almost complete, just before they can be released to the public Larry disappears from his home (along with the Floppies). He develops amnesia of most of his time working at Sierra.


 * 1991
 * Around this same time Al designs a remake game based on Larry's first adventure. Larry had been forced back into the game world to 'relive' his first adventure over again; this time encountering an alternate Lost Wages (in the month of October). Ken Williams shows up and mentions he would sell LSL4 if the disks were found. The AGI and SCI worlds will ultimately merge into one.
 * On his return from the alternate world, Larry doesn't get any of the royalties for the remake.
 * Larry leaves Sierra and works at PornProdCorp.
 * Harold King's "Kiss Me, My Fair Fiddler on the West Side of the Best Little Cabaret in Oklahoma!" Sold out through April, 2003.
 * Al Lowe makes a game based on Larry Laffer's (age 40; or so Larry claims) new career at PornProdCorp after quiting Sierra On-Line after the loss of LSL4.
 * Beatrice pledges to be Chlamydia free at Benson Hurst's venereal clinic August, 4th.


 * 1992
 * Larry Laffer returns to Sierra Online and releases The Laffer Utilities for Sierra but overall turned out to be a failure for him. He also opens the Leisure Suit Larry's Casino at this time (and the game based on it).


 * 1993
 * April issue of Top Heavy is published.
 * Shameface & Sons established.
 * Larry is back in Sierra World and spends some time at La Costa Lotta (designed as LSL6). Larry and Al Lowe are interviewed together not long after (The Birth of Larry), Larry is not to happy with how Al Lowe has made life in his game universe so dangerous for him.


 * 1994
 * b'Andre the Giant dies.


 * 1995
 * Al Lowe was on the PMS Bouncy in November.
 * Beatrice Robensenito marries Dave Robensenito.


 * 1996
 * Teabaggin Double Annual is published.
 * Tilly Crushanks wins 1st place at MasterCraft fishing championship, large mouth division.
 * Shamara gets tired of Larry, and she tries to kill him. He escapes and decides to go on a cruise. He wins a competition and gets together with Captain Thigh. Rumors suggest he was abducted by aliens soon after.
 * Beatrice wins first place in Johnny B. Burger eating contest May 23.


 * 1997
 * c. Larry Lovage begins going to Walnut Log Community College.


 * 1998
 * Larry Laffer returns to his Casino. But it saw minimal success, and he ultimately goes broke.


 * 1999
 * A carton of Man's Milk is produced (later will be shipped to Laffer Studios).


 * 2001
 * February 5; Tilly has a perfect game at Buzzy Ten Pen Alley in Rockaway, NJ.
 * Suzi begins trying to convince Kurt to remove Lonely Girl from the jukebox at the Power Station VIP room.
 * Larry Lovage is banned from the Walnut Log laundromat.

Tilly is runner up in Miss Nude Universe pageant.
 * 2002

Larry Lovage takes Human Sexuality with Beatrice Robensenito for the first time.
 * 2003
 * Harold King's "Kiss Me, My Fair Fiddler on the West Side of the Best Little Cabaret in Oklahoma!" Sold out since 1991 until April, 2003.
 * Sweet Lou gives head to the patch wearing man of the band Kansas.
 * The 2003-2004 members of DIO join the fraternity.


 * 2004
 * Larry Lovage follows after his uncle, and looks for love Walnut Log Community College. He is about age 22. His uncle is about age 55.
 * The 2003-2004 fraternity members are shown on the picture board in the frat house.


 * 2006
 * Larry Laffer is involved watching over girls during a beach volleyball tournament.
 * There are problems on the set of the naval porno Lesbotania.


 * 2007
 * Treasure-bags are in fashion.
 * February 14: Hugh Jones films a movie at "Laftr Studios'.
 * Love For Sail Mobile is released, a game telling one of Larry's adventures during the LSL4 period.


 * 2008
 * Hotshot! Fire Curry Guide 2008 issue is published
 * Larry begins working at his Uncle Larry Laffer's porn studio Laffer Studios. Lovage is about age 26. Larry Laffer is about age 60.
 * June 30:
 * August 14: Damone LaCoque caught by the paparazzi Jeurnaliste loving his sheep Flossie. It is published in Igo that same day.


 * 2009
 * Box Office Bust is released.


 * 2013
 * The Sierra timeline gets Reloaded. Larry is divided into two personalities. Old Larry (about age 64) from 2013 returns to an alternate or parallel 1987 Lost Wages universe and decides to find true love. The other Larry jumps into the body of his younger self in the same alternate world. Reloaded Timeline begins; Both Larrys seem to remember elements of both worlds (though for Old Larry things have already happened in the past, and young Larry things will happen again but differently), they run into each other.

Grandfather paradox
The first three games essentially create a kind of grandfather or bootstrap paradox in which Larry a character from within a game (who is self aware that he is within a game), escapes the game travels back in time, and basically becomes his own creator by the third game. He helps design the AGI LSL1, and even had the power to define the name of bar of first game his adventures began in as Lefty's from a suggestion from Patti. He had almost settled on calling it Louie's or Lois'. Thus he literally was able to create himself, and his own past, ultimately leading up to his escape from the game.

It is essentially a question of who came first Larry or the games, like chicken or the egg question.

LSL1 AGI calls this game universe that Larry exists within the Sierra World. Sierra Studios exists as much within the world as it appears to exist outside of the game. Where they overlap is not easy to figure out.

Even stranger Larry 1 original and Larry SCI remake may both have 'happened' to Larry. Larry's nature as being a character who has escaped the game world, but apparently later returned to it, means that he may have slipped into LSL1 VGA game as well, thus explaining all the fourth wall breaking self-referential knowledge of events of LSL3-5, etc (including the Missing Floppies). Even Magna Cum Laude suggests this in that Larry talks about his encounters with EGA/AGI girls, but also encounters VGA-only characters such as Nigel. In Hoyle 1 one of the games that Larry is pulled into, a few of the programmer characters also pulled into the game, or helped program the game also joke about how Larry doesn't even realize that Al Lowe is essentially his father, and helped create him.

Larry can also be found outside of his game world interacting with Al Lowe in interviews in The Official Guide to Leisure Suit Larry (one interview takes place after LSL6 and inbetween LSL7), and Interaction Magazine among other places.

A few jokes in Larry Reloaded also plays on the idea of Larry being back (returned) to a game world, although it no longer directly exists in the realm of the Sierra World. Instead it appears to still exist in a game world of its own (riddled with Kickstarter jokes and pledge 'victims'). Ken appears in the game mostly detached (but Larry acknowlegdes he is someone he once knew a long time ago). The Sierra studio is replaced with Frankenstein's lab, in what may be in Castle Daventry based on markings of his machinery. Al Lowe appears at the end in the penthouse sauna thanking for the help "Reload"ing larry, there is even a reference to Larry: The Missing Floppies (again suggesting that Larry is self-aware that he has been in in a game universe before). It's not clear however how the new "ingame universe" chronology fits with other previous games chronology. A calander suggests that its June 1987 (like the original LSL1 was set in), narration concerning the dildo suggests that its before year 2000. But other references seem to roughly place it mid-90's to early 2000's. Strangely Larry encounters an elderly Larry trying to get laid as well.

Other Dates

 * Skunk Beer in LSL9BOB has a 'est. date but it is difficult to make out. Possibly 1939.
 * Roman Numerals MXXXCCLL.
 * A trophy cup in Larry's motor home appears to say 2000. It is hard to make out what he won it for.