You crack me up- I would TOTALLY buy that book. :)

It could look really nice if we took a lot of close-ups of the games running on the original computer monitors they were meant to be played on, from slightly askew angles etc.

(or at least provide the all-important ironic distance.)

These are somehow worse than I remember!

i love that little black book part of the game, though i never played it :((( I also want to play that jap rape game of little girls too.

HAHA

When I was in Tokyo there was a huge 80ft billboard for a game called something like WITCH TOUCHER DS where you have to use the DS stylus to poke and prod 8 year old girls to work out which ones are witches!

It's called: Doki Doki Majo Shinpan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doki_Doki_Majo_Shinpan!

'Thump-Thump Witch Judgement'

Awesome, thanks

The little black book part was the copy protection scheme for "Leisure Suit Larry II: Larry Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places)". When the game started up it presented you with a photo that you had to look up in the physical instruction booklet (aka little black book) provided with the game. Each page of the manual had a face and a phone number that you had to match with the picture. You could only play if you typed in the correct number for that face. This was in the days before scanners were common (as evidenced by the art above!), so you had to know someone who had bought the game and copy their black book to pirate the game. I know because I had a pirated game and it was hard to match some of the photos!

Heh-heh. My cousin's best friend's father was the creator of that game. True story.

true story: the creator of this game once said to me that he wished he was still making games, so he could hire me

Eight bits and no nips. Damn.

My Uncle Bil did the art for the first few games, and I'm pretty sure that included the women. So while I don't have a coffee table book of these kinds of things, I did grow up in a house with similar paintings on various walls.

No fuckin' way, that's amazing!

Can you take pictures?? I'd love to see these

In the games I believe he's referred to as something like Bil 'Missing L' Skirvin

Hey, how's it going? Did you find any pictures of your uncle Bil's paintings?

Edited at 2009-12-11 04:27 pm (UTC)

I haven't found anything convenient. However, Uncle Bil is now on Facebook; search for William Reynolds Green, he may have some of his pictures on there.

Here is a batch of his current work.

Whoa!


The Leisure Suits Larry games, I guess is quite beautiful game..I played it when I was 16 years old.. It was good adventure...Anyway, thanks for reminding me that game...Keep it up.

I dunno about 'beautiful', though I like the sprite art of the very first EGA game.

Logically speaking, the next game in the series should have been called 'Paternity Suit Larry'