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Leisure Suit Larry Kickstarter ends with $673k
by Alice O'Connor, May 03, 2012 6:00am PDTKickstarter is being instrumental in bringing back games playing on nostalgia, from Tim Schafer adventure games and cyberpunk to post-apocalyptic RPGs and, ah, wank jokes. The campaign to fan-fund Leisure Suit Larry HD, a remake of Al Lowe's sleazy adventure game wrapped up yesterday at $673,602, having passed its goal of $500,000 last week.
$655,182 was raised directly through Kickstarter, with the rest coming from Paypal. While the Kickstarter's now closed, Paypal donations are still open so that total's ticking slowly upwards.
However, LSL fell short of its second funding goal. Replay Games was gunning for $750,000, hoping to add new speech, puzzles, cutscenes locations, minigames, "girls" and more if it hit that mark. Still they got close, so one imagines Larry's adventure may be fleshed out a little.
Leisure Suit Larry HD is coming to PC, Mac, and Android and iOS devices. The remake was actually announced back in October 2011, to be funded the regular way, but when that fell through they turned to fans.
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Kickstarter is being instrumental bringing back games playing on nostalgia, from adventure games and cyberpunk to post-apocalyptic RPGs and, ah, wank jokes. The campaign to fan-fund Leisure Suit Larry HD wrapped up yesterday at $673,602.
Kickstarter is being instrumental bringing back games playing on nostalgia, from adventure games and cyberpunk to post-apocalyptic RPGs and, ah, wank jokes. The campaign to fan-fund Leisure Suit Larry HD wrapped up yesterday at $673,602. : Shacknews
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