Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail!

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Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail!

Developer(s)	Sierra Entertainment
Publisher(s)	Sierra Entertainment
Release date(s)	1996
Genre(s)	Adventure game
Mode(s)	Single player
Rating(s)	ELSPA:15+ ESRB: M
Platform(s)	MS-DOS, MS Windows

Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail! is a computer 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 completed. 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.

1 Plot
2 Additional information
3 Trivia
4 External links

[edit] Plot

Larry 7 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, 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).

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): by collecting hidden red-and-white-striped dildos (Where's Dildo?, a pun on Where's Waldo?), the player could unlock high quality pin-up desktop wallpapers of the ladies in the game (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).

[edit] Additional information

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 were not printed in the manual, but were 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.

[edit] Trivia

Love for Sail! was originally announced under the title "Yank Hers Away!" (a pun on "Anchors Aweigh"), and early magazine previews as well as advertisements bore that title. Series creator Al Lowe's website has a list of several dozen other alternate titles, but it's unlikely most of them were ever seriously considered.
The song played at the Poopdeck, where the Juggs are located, is Freddy Pharkas' ballad.
There are four "dapper" men playing craps, all in tuxedo, and all order a martini, "shaken, not stirred." When approached, a theme similar to the James Bond theme plays.
Bob Bitt, an artist, is busy working on a sculpture in the sculpture garden. His afro clearly makes fun of Bob Ross.
Drew's book "The Erotic Adventures of Hercules" was going to be adapted into a movie starring Troy McClure, as stated by the narrator. This is taken from the 1993 The Simpsons episode Selma's Choice.
The classic-like fanfare in the soundtrack of the cook contest screen is the Fanfare-Rondeau by Jean-Joseph Mouret, which is also heard in the television sequence of the remake of Larry 1