02/26/07 - Episode 18: Looking for Love in Several Wrong Places

Player One Podcast

Chris Johnston

Leisure, Video Games, Games

4.5 • 498 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2007

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

This week we present to you a very special episode of the Player One Podcast. Greg and Phil sit down with Al Lowe, creator of the Leisure Suit Larry series (not including the recent and craptacular Magna Cum Laude) and other classic Sierra On-Line graphic adventures. Listen as we pick Al's brain about everything from game design in the old days to the fall of Sierra to his opinions on the current state of games for adults.

Caution: There might be some bald jokes and at least one major error by our interviewers in there, too.

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This week's links:
Al Lowe's Humor Site!
Mobygames' Leisure Suit Larry series page
Sierra Gamers

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 18 of the Player One podcast for February 26, 2007.
0:21.1	I'm your host, Greg Stewart, and with me this week is our regular guest host, Phil Fiebald.
0:25.7	Hello.
0:26.8	That was a really disappointing intro, Phil.
0:29.3	Al, you know, I was trying to come up with something clever to say in the theme of today's show,
0:35.5	but I couldn't think of any, so you'll have to forgive me.
0:38.3	All right.
0:39.1	We have two people, yeah, tune in next week.
0:41.3	We have two people missing on the show this week.
0:43.8	Chris Johnston is currently away at the New York Comic-Con, where he's pretending to know
0:49.3	lots of stuff about anime, I guess.
0:51.9	Freaking nerd.
0:52.8	Yeah.
0:53.5	Dan Dormer has gone looking for love in several wrong places, so he won't be with us this week.
0:58.9	But we have a special setup.
1:01.4	Phil and I actually had a chance to sit down and pick the brain of one Al Lowe.
1:04.9	Yeah, we were really excited to get a chance to talk to Al.
1:09.0	He's one of the original employees at Sierra Online
1:12.4	back in the early days of computer gaming, and he really is a legendary game designer. I know
1:19.4	Greg and myself are huge fans of Leisure Suit Larry, which was Al's most famous creation
1:26.0	while he was there. Yeah, so he gave us a lot of his time.
1:30.1	Let's head right into the interview.
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