Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail! (1996) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail!

Love for Sail! 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…

26 November 1996

What Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail! is

Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail! is an adventure game developed by Sierra On-Line and released in 1996. It was published by Codemasters. It is available on DOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Sierra's Creative Interpreter.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The plot revolves around Larry's attempt at winning a weekly contest held on the ship by Captain Thygh, a gorgeous blonde. The contest involves a series of other games varying from legitimate sports competitions like bowling to naughtier things like a machine created to test one's sexual prowess. Each passenger is given a score card with a selection of the various competitions to compete in, and the passenger with the highest cumulative score at the end of the week wins. The prize is an additional free week on the cruise spent sharing the Captain's cabin (and, presumably, her bed.) The player must come up with a variety of ways to cheat in each of Larry's assigned competitions so that he…

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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are comedy and erotic. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 1.8 GHz Processor, 512 MB RAM and 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail! launched on 26 November 1996, within three weeks of Mario Kart 64, Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!, PaRappa the Rapper and Mega Man 8.

Released around the same time: Mario Kart 64, Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!, PaRappa the Rapper, Mega Man 8.

Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail! — frequently asked questions

When did Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail! come out?

Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail! was released on 26 November 1996 for DOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail!?

At minimum, Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail! needs 1.8 GHz Processor, 512 MB RAM, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 graphics, 600 MB available space of storage.

How many GB is Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail!?

The PC version needs about 0.6 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("600 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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