Thank you Larry for my A in English Class!

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The first Sierra game I played was Leisure Suit Larry 1. My dad had just bought an IBM PS2 Model 30 computer with a MCGA graphics card. Man I’d never been more excited in my (young) life! After a few days my dad showed me how to work the computer and wanted me to learn how to type. Typing sucks was my first reaction… Then he bought 2 games: Leisure Suit Larry for himself and Space Quest for me.
Slowly I learned how to work to keyboard and how to type. I got more and more interested in computers and computer games. One day I saw my dad playing Black Jack on the computer (Larry making money in the casino). Damn that looks cool! So when my dad was at work I booted up LSL. Hmmm weird questions! My english wasn’t that good so I didn’t understand most questions I was only 7 or so and my native language is dutch. So I wrote down every question, tried every answer and looked up the words I didn’t understand. After a few days I finally got in! Now where to find the casino?!?
So you can guess I played the game till death and finally understood why my dad didn’t want me to play the game… It took me awhile to find out how to uhmm “copulate” 😉 So I bought some more Sierra Adventure games, learned how to type and learned some very disturbing english words ;). I also stunned my english teacher with my vocabulary. He still doesn’t know I learned english from playing Sierra games…
So Larry (and Ken), a big thanks!!!
Greetz,
Bobby

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Sierra taught me how to type, and since I was the only fella with a SoundBlaster, I had games and Windows 3.1 making all kinds of “real” sounds instead of the standard bloop and beeps.

A friend of mine can play all Sierra and Square Enix game tunes by ear, and has written many techno pieces based on the Sierra games in the late ’90s before being killed in Iraq.

He was working on something during the war (it’s a war: they shoot at us, we shoot at them) which I was mailed. Also, being from Germany as a child, he, too, learned English from video games, mostly Sierra games in the late 80s and early 90s and Square Enix games in the mid and late 90s.

Most of my other friends just played Larry for the sexual content, and kept killing Graham in the remake of King’s Quest 1. I recently gave that game to my fiancee’s brothers and sisters, and they keep killing Graham, thinking it’s funny. They also torute Pac-Man in Pac-Man 2, and get into arguements with the computer in Larry 3.

I know that almost everybody has some Sierra games if they owned a PC in the late 80s/early 90s.

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That sparks my memory of when I first played LSL1,

My father who owned a business would occasionally bring me into work on a saturday morning.

They had an old Commodore XT with CGA and the good old PC Speaker

I had seen someone play the game on the computer and it looked fun, however i had no idea about DOS, I only knew how to use the old powermenu =)

I had to learn the basics of DOS so i could navigate the HDD to get to LSL and execute it, so in a sense, LSL compelled me to start learning in computers by learning DOS.

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Thanks to LSL, I learned how to spell leisure on a 3rd grade spelling test. I don’t know why I remember that though.

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thanks to LSL, I was able to insult almost anybody and just stump them. Monkey Island 1 helped, too, but Larry was way more wittier.

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