Players are given seven real-time hours (eight in the 1991 remake) to complete the game, at which point a despairing Larry commits suicide, resulting in game over.

The city consists of five areas: Lefty’s Bar, a hotel-casino, a 24-hour wedding chapel, a disco, and a convenience store.

The game begins outside a bar in Lost Wages.

Players control Larry’s movements with the directional keys and by inputting commands into a text parser.

Despite a lack of advertising, the game was a sleeper hit and a commercial and critical success.

Land of the Lounge Lizards establishes several elements which recur in the later Leisure Suit Larry games.

The game’s story follows its player character of a middle-aged male virgin named Larry Laffer as he desperately tries to “get lucky” in the fictional American city of Lost Wages.

Use text commands for interactions with the environment! Al Lowe’s famously risque humor and bodacious babes that are waiting to “work out” with you! Play as one of gaming’s longest lasting legends: Leisure Suit Larry! Right click on the game in the steam library -> properties -> betas and choose the VGA version.)

(The VGA Version of the game is available through steam. Includes Leisure Suit Larry 1 - In the Land of the Lounge Lizards and its VGA Version Progress is achieved by collecting various items and figuring out which of those may be essential for conquering the hearts of the several female characters appearing in the game. A text parser is used to input commands for interaction with a graphical environment. Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards is the first game in Al Lowe's Leisure Suit Larry series, largely inspired by the text adventure Softporn Adventure, though with a greatly enhanced script containing more humorous descriptions and dialogue. Clad in a white polyester leisure suit, Larry finds himself outside of Lefty's Bar, determined to finally lose his virginity - or commit suicide if he is unable to achieve that goal before dawn. He used to be in the software business, but decided to leave everything behind as he moved to the city of Lost Wages in pursuit of sexual fulfillment. Larry Laffer is a short, tacky, balding, forty-year-old man who has been living with his mother until recently.

Larry and the lounge lizards