Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places): Difference between revisions

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* [[The Maze]]: Actually ''subverted''. About halfway through, Larry has to cross a long, narrow, winding path above a tall cliff to reach the airport. In a game where practically everything else will kill you, it's literally impossible to fall off in this scene; instead, Larry narrowly avoids falling off, and you actually ''gain'' points. You lose the extra points once you finish crossing though.
* [[Molotov Cocktail]]: You have to create one by combining a bottle of hair product with an air sickness bag as the "wick".
* [[Morally -Ambiguous Doctorate]]: Dr. Nonookee is such a character, of the James Bond spy flick [[Evil Overlord]] variety, completely [[Played for Laughs]].
* [[Ominous Fog]]: The dense fog on Nontoonyt Island that appears and dissipates rather rapidly is a smokescreen for Dr. Nonookee's evil schemes.
* [[Piranha Problem]]: Failing a specific timing puzzle results in Larry falling into waist-deep water. He notes that there's a weird tingling sensation, then climbs out of the river to find that piranhas have stripped everything below his waist to the bone. Notably, the game ends not because he dies, but because he lost his manhood and can't go on.
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* [[Squashed Flat]]: Happens to Larry after Mama jumps on him. This results in a game over.
* [[Tagline]]: "If you look up the word "nerd" in the dictionary, you're liable to find Leisure Suit Larry's picture as a definition."
* [[Unwinnable byBy Mistake]]: A programmer fixed one error, but accidentally caused another one by defining "bag" as a verb. That means that, in the last puzzle, you can't say "Put bag in bottle", which causes Larry to throw the bottle into the volcano without lighting it on fire, making the game unwinnable. You have to specify the bag. "The bag", "brown bag" and "airsick bag" are all acceptable, just "bag" is not.
* [[You Can't Get Ye Flask]]: One of the most infamous cases in the series of an obvious action not being possible for no discernible reason is found here. The player is supposed to make a bomb out of a hair lotion bottle and use an airsick bag as the wick. However, typing "bag" does not work: it has to be referred to as an ''"airsick bag"''. This was caused by a bug that was not caught in testing, as the bug was discovered only a very short time before the development deadline. A programmer had changed the word "bag" from a noun to a verb to fix an unrelated bug, and testing was done by inputting as complete a sentence as possible in the [[Text Parser]] used. By using the definite article ''the'' in front of ''bag'', it was identified as a noun by the parser... something most people didn't bother with normally.
* [[Zillion-Dollar Bill]]: You get a million dollar bill. Fortunately, there's a store in town that sells $100,000 (plus tax) speedos, and is able to give change in 100s.