Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail!

Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail! is a video game, part of the Leisure Suit Larry series. It featured more fleshed-out, cartoon style graphics and full voice acting, Love for Sail! was the sixth installment in the LSL series (due to the fourth game, referred to as Leisure Suit Larry 4: The Missing Floppies, never being made.) It was the last Larry game created by Al Lowe. After many of the Larry games had gained a reputation for not actually featuring all that much raunchy content when analysed, this installment included some much more risque elements.

This was also the first Larry game to receive an ESRB rating upon its original release.

Plot
Love for Sail! was the first Larry game since the third to pick up immediately where its predecessor left off; typically, it features Larry getting dumped by the woman who represented the ultimate goal of Larry 6, Shamara.

The formula was much the same as the previous games: the "twist" was that Larry was a passenger on a cruise ship populated by parodies of famous people. Among the other cruise guests were "Drew Baringmore" (Drew Barrymore), "Dewmi Moore" (Demi Moore), "Victorian Principles" (Victoria Principal), "Jamie Lee Coitus" (Jamie Lee Curtis), "Nailmi" and "Wydoncha Jugg" (Naomi and Wynonna Judd) and "Annette Boning" (Annette Bening). Various other pop icons were parodied in the background, such as the Archie Comics gang playing nude volleyball, various incarnations of James Bond in the ship's casino (itself an homage to Peter Seller's famous Casino Royale parody), a Sierra staffer dressed as Sailor Moon, and porn icon Ron Jeremy walking around naked. Most of the male supporting cast (Peter the Purser, Johnson the bartender, Dick the guardrobe attendant, Wang the galley server, Bob Bitt the artist) are named after popular euphemisms for the male reproductive organ or are in some way related to it (Bob Bitt, for instance, is named after John Wayne Bobbitt; the character also shares the same first name and bears a passing resemblance to fellow artist Bob Ross).

The plot revolves around Larry's attempt at winning a weekly contest held on the ship by Captain Thygh, a gorgeous blonde. The contest involves a series of other games varying from legitimate sports competitions like bowling to naughtier things like a machine created to test one's sexual prowess. Each passenger is given a score card with a selection of the various competitions to compete in, and the passenger with the highest cumulative score at the end of the week wins. The prize is an additional free week on the cruise spent sharing the Captain's cabin (and, presumably, her bed.)

The player must come up with a variety of ways to cheat in each of Larry's assigned competitions so that he can get the highest score and win the contest. Among Larry's chosen competitions are a cooking contest, a "best dressed" contest, a game of horseshoes, bowling, the sexual prowess contest and others. At times Larry wins these contests not by cheating but only by an unexpected twist of fate triggered by his (often unintentional) actions. For instance, Larry's encounter with fashion designer Jamie Lee Coitus causes his Leisure Suit to become the height of fashion; as such he wins the best dressed competition.

Gameplay
Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail! utilizes a single-icon point-and-click interface. Left-clicking on an interactive object pops up a menu with verbs specific to that subject. The "Use" menu allows the player to use any item from their inventory on the object. “Other...” provides a text box where the player can type in their own verb or subject, which is needed to unlock several Easter eggs.

It was also the first Larry game to include a full-fledged minigame (not counting the casino games in the earlier installments, which were essential to the plot): collecting hidden red-and-white-striped dildos (Where's Dildo?, a pun on Where's Waldo?) is one of three goals required to unlock a dirtier ending and a bonus wallpaper.

If the player's desktop wallpaper is set to the WALLPAPR.BMP file included with the game, it will change to a high-quality pin-up desktop wallpaper of the last lady Larry "conquered" (the images are simply Windows BMP files stored in the Drivers subdirectory of the game under misleading Memory1.drv ... Memory8.drv names; they can be opened with any graphics program).

Unlike the previous Larry games, Larry cannot die or get stuck due to a bad decision.

A harder game mode can be accessed by putting a file named "GET_HARD" (without an extension) in the LSL7 directory. In this mode, most key conversation topics will disappear, so the player will have to type them in with the "Other..." menu.

Development
Players could also "appear" in the game by placing voice samples of selected dialogue and a digitized photo in a particular directory (the default was Al Lowe). Due to time constraints, the information to do so was not printed in the manual, but was published only some time later in an on-line announcement.

Love for Sail! also provided a more-literal-than-usual interpretation of Easter eggs: when certain obscure actions were performed, a small icon resembling an Easter egg flashed in a corner of the screen. This usually indicated that a "seduction" scene could now be played featuring nudity that was normally obscured.

Due to the lack of documentation, and the obscurity of the totally unguessable easter eggs, all these were possible only after following the hints released by the Sierra website, several months after the release of the game.

The game also shipped with a "CyberSniff 2000", a sheet of numbered scratch-and-sniff paper, corresponding to a number displayed on the screen at a certain location, so that the player could get a scent of what the area the player was in smelled like.

Credits

 * Lead Design: Al Lowe
 * Writing / Dialogue / Story: Al Lowe
 * Producer: Mark Seibert
 * Assistant Design: Don Munsil
 * Director Animations: Jason Zayas
 * Lead Programming: Steve Conrad
 * Programming: Mark Martino
 * Background Designer: Jason Piel
 * Director Backgrounds: Layne Gifford
 * Animation: Alberto Eufrasio, William O'Brian
 * Graphics: Robert Munsil, Bryan Wilkinson
 * Director QA: Jennifer Gibbs
 * SFX & Additional Music: Ben Houge, Al Lowe, Mark Seibert
 * DREAMS Engineer: David Henry
 * Background Photographs: Al Lowe
 * Boy-of-All-Work: Dale Christensen
 * Larry Theme Composed: Al Lowe
 * Larry Theme Arranged: Frank Zottoli
 * Original Composition: Frank Zottoli
 * Piano: Frank Zottoli
 * Woodwinds: Kim Hutchcroft
 * Bass: Tom Warrington
 * Drums: Claudio Slon
 * Guitar, Synthesizers, Percussion: Mark Seibert
 * Soprano Sax: Al Lowe
 * Trombone: Steve Conrad
 * Music RecordingvJeff Hall
 * Compability TestingvMichael D. Jones
 * Playtesters: Linda Lindley, Wesley Litt, Geoffrey Keighley, Tim Marley, Dan Milano, Steve Porter, Della Rogers, Mark Schey, Michael Shavelson, Charles S. Solen
 * Packaging and Documentation: Heather Lavin, Kerri W. Kane
 * Special Thanks to: Colette Bottinelli, Jerry Bowerman, Mike Brochu, Walter Forbes, Terese Gant, Scott Lynch, Bill Moore, Eric Twelker, Cindy Vanous, John Williams, Ken Williams, Roberta Williams
 * Animotion: Director Animation: David Hicock, Larry Royer
 * Animotion: Lead Animation: John Bloom, Bill Davis, David Hicock, Frank Krause, Marcus R. Gregory, Larry Royer
 * Animotion: Color Coordination: Jennifer Robin
 * Animotion: Colorists: Jennifer Darsney, Frank Krause, W. Aric Miller, Marcus R. Gregory, Jennifer Robin, Peter Wynn
 * Animotion: Animation	James M. Burns, Julie Cornfield, Jennifer Darsney, Aaron P. McDowell, Jose Mercado, W. Aric Miller, Jonathan C. Parker, Michael Pringleton, Jennifer Robin, Matthew S. Filer, B. J. Walker, Jeff Whitaker, Guillermo Zubiaga
 * LA WEST:Art Director: Ivan Tomicic
 * LA WEST: Coordination: Susan McGirr
 * LA WEST: Assistant Producer: Daniela Tomicic
 * LA WEST: Lead Animation: Ivica Horvat, Jurica Saravanja
 * LA WEST: Animation: Zeljko Bracic, Zvonimir Cuk, Kristian Dulic, Ivica Horvat, Jurica Saravanja, Damir Semenov
 * LA WEST: Color Coordination: Peggy Skrlec
 * LA WEST: Colorists: Ivana Baric, Darko Dukaric, Snjezana Lisica, Peggy Skrlec, Sasa Zec
 * Spanish translation: Randall Mage
 * Original Music Composition Record: Chick Corea's Mad Hatter Studios
 * Original Music Mix: Maximus Studios

English Voices

 * Leisure Suit Larry: Jan Rabson
 * Narrator: Neil Ross
 * Dewmi Moore: Sheryl Bernstein
 * Drew Baringmore: Mary Kay Bergman
 * Annette Boning: Tasia Valenza
 * Victorian Principles: Jennifer Darling
 * Jaime Lee Coitus: Mary Kay Bergman
 * Nailmi Jugg: Kathy Levin
 * Wydoncha Jugg: Mary Kay Bergman
 * Peggy: Mary Kay Bergman
 * Captain Thygh: Sheryl Bernstein
 * Shamara: Julie Amato
 * Peter: S. Scott Bullock
 * Johnson: Kevin Michael Richardson
 * Dick: S. Scott Bullock
 * Jacques: Michael Gough
 * Wang: S. Scott Bullock
 * Willy: Michael Gough
 * Mr. Boning: Neil Ross
 * Xqwzts: Michael Gough
 * Judge Graham: Kevin Michael Richardson
 * Judge Julia: Sheryl Bernstein
 * Judge Paul: Kevin Michael Richardson
 * Rod: Neil Ross
 * Female Ship's Announcer: Tasia Valenza
 * Male Ship's Announcer: Neil Ross

German Voices

 * Leisure Suit Larry: Berth Wesselmann
 * Narrator: Jürgen Andreas
 * Dewmi Moore: Petra Schwab
 * Mysterious Woman in Black: Cornelia Bitsch
 * Victorian Principles: Manuela Romberg
 * Jamie Lee Coitus: Sabine Niethammer
 * Nailmi Jugg: Manuela Romberg
 * Wydoncha Jugg: Sabine Niethammer
 * Peggy: Manuela Romberg
 * Captain Thygh: Petra Schwab
 * Shamara: Cornelia Bitsch
 * Peter: Peter Engel
 * Johnson: Jochen Bartels
 * Dick: Peter Engel
 * Jacques: Christoph Lüdke
 * Wang: Peter Engel
 * Willy: Christoph Lüdke
 * Mr. Ammbumsen: Peter Engel
 * Xqwzts: Christoph Lüdke
 * Judge Graham: Jochen Bartels
 * Judge Julia: Petra Schwab
 * Judge Paul: Jochen Bartels
 * Rod: Peter Engel
 * Female Ship Announcer: Cornelia Bitsch
 * Male Ship Announcer: Mathias Brüggemann

Patches

 * Leisure Suit Larry 7 (LSL7PAT): This patch corrects the 'flatulence Lockup' and miscellaneous general protection faults/illegal operations. It will also correct problems associated with exceeding 20 saved games. NOTE: It will invalidate existing saved games.
 * Leisure Suit Larry Collection DOSBox Update (LSLCollectionDBUpdate): This patch will allow the use of the greatly improved newer versions of DOSBox over the version 0.63 that shipped with the Collection. Also includes the NewRisingSun patches for lSL1VGA, LSL3 and LSL5. The patch also restores the missing install files to configure the games' settings. After running the update, you will find new shortcuts in the "Sierra\Leisure Suit Larry Collection" folder in the Start Menu. The launcher will no longer be needed. NOTE: If you do not have the latest DOSBox installed in "Program Files\DOSBox" for 32-bit Windows or "Program Files (x86)\DOSBox" for 64-bit Windows allow this updater to download and install the DOSBox for you.