#Sexism in Games
05-May-90 23:10:16
Sb: #32985-#Sexism in Games
Fm: Steve Bennett/SYSOP 76702,1071
To: C. Davey Utter 70055,522
Hmmn… (I'm about to defend Leisure Suit Larry… Oh well, so much for
credibility…) Me, I bought both the original LSL and LSL III, and
enjoyed both of them immensely. Were they sexist? Definately. On
purpose. But that wasn't the point of the games. They made fun of sex,
and sexism, and male-female relationships in general. And did a wonderful
job of it, IMHO.
I've shelled out quite a bit of money for innumerable games, and most of
them weren't worth it. But LSL (and even moreso, LSL III) was more than
worth it, IMHO. (Oh, and who says you can't play them more than once? It
took me about 30 hours of playing to finish LSL III, after which I ran
through the whole thing again just for the fun of it, which took about 5
hours…) (I've spent far less time, total, with most games which are
*designed* to be played over and over again…)
–>Steve Bennett