{"id":1623,"date":"2012-05-04T16:08:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T23:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/?p=1623"},"modified":"2012-05-04T16:09:03","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T23:09:03","slug":"i-decided-not-to-support-leisure-suit-larry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/?p=1623","title":{"rendered":"I decided not to support Leisure Suit Larry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1624\" title=\"Leisure Suit Larry Kickstarter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/larry.photo-full-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/larry.photo-full-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/larry.photo-full.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I&#8217;m actually pretty excited for the <a title=\"Leisure Suit Larry on Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leisure_Suit_Larry_in_the_Land_of_the_Lounge_Lizards\" target=\"_blank\">Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards<\/a> re-make that will now be made as a result of their <a title=\"Leisure Suit Larry Kickstarter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/leisuresuitlarry\/make-leisure-suit-larry-come-again\" target=\"_blank\">successful Kickstarter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The only LSL game I ever played was <a title=\"LSL: MCL on Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leisure_Suit_Larry:_Magna_Cum_Laude\" target=\"_blank\">Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude<\/a>. \u00a0It&#8217;s nothing like the original and it was made without Al Lowe&#8217;s\u00a0involvement, so it doesn&#8217;t really count.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed Magna Cum Laude to a certain extent. \u00a0There was some fun to be had, but nothing groundbreaking. \u00a0It ended up continually crashing at a certain point and I was never able to finish it. \u00a0No big loss.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As a big adventure game fan, you would think I would be all over something like this. \u00a0I almost made a pledge, but once it hit the $500 000 target I figured I would just wait for the finished game to show up on Steam and get it on sale.<\/p>\n<p>If the minimum pledge had been set at $10 instead of $15 (perhaps a more appropriate amount for a re-make vs. a new game) I probably would have done it either way.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s OK, it just means I have more money to pledge to <a title=\"Project Fedora Kickstarter\" href=\"http:\/\/bigfinishgames.com\/games\/project-fedora\" target=\"_blank\">the most important Kickstarter ever!!!!!!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ComputerAbuser<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m actually pretty excited for the Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards re-make that will now be made as a result of their successful Kickstarter. The only LSL game I ever played was Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude. \u00a0It&#8217;s nothing like the original and it was made without Al Lowe&#8217;s\u00a0involvement, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[138,204,137,146,102,13],"class_list":["post-1623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","tag-big-finish-games","tag-games","tag-kickstarter","tag-leisure-suit-larry","tag-tex-murphy","tag-video-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11UM6-qb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1623"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1629,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions\/1629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}