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Al Lowe (born July 24, 1946) is an American video game designer, programmer, and musician who worked on several adventure games, mostly for [[Creator/{{Sierra}} Sierra On-Line]]. He is best known for creating the ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry'' series.

Originally a high school music teacher, Lowe decided to teach himself computer programming and, with the help of his wife and a few friends, founded Sunnyside Soft; his first game, ''Dragon's Keep'', was released for the Platform/AppleII computer. The game, along with later games ''Troll's Tale'' and ''Bop-A-Bet'', caught the attention of Sierra co-founders Ken and Roberta Williams, who saw the games at a convention. Seeing how similar they were to their own ''Hi-Res Adventures'' series, they hired him on the spot. With Sierra, he started out with Creator/{{Disney}} games like ''VideoGame/TheBlackCauldron'' and ''Donald Duck's Playground''. In keeping with his musical background, he also composed music for games like ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIIRomancingTheThrone'' and ''Mickey's Space Adventure''.

After helping program ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIIIToHeirIsHuman'', Lowe was tasked with developing a graphical remake of Sierra's only text adventure, ''Softporn Adventure'', made by fellow employee Chuck Benton. Lowe famously remarked that the game was so outdated, it "might as well be wearing a leisure suit". It was that remark that gave Lowe the idea to rework the FeaturelessProtagonist of ''Softporn'' into the DiscoDan computer programmer himself, Larry Laffer.

In between ''Larry'' games, Lowe worked on other games, including ''VideoGame/PoliceQuest1InPursuitOfTheDeathAngel'', ''VideoGame/FreddyPharkasFrontierPharmacist'', and ''VideoGame/TorinsPassage''.

In 1999, Lowe butted heads with Sierra's then-current owners, CUC Software, after they attempted to get him to design a game without signing a contract first, which resulted him him leaving the company. He has since gone on to make [[http://www.allowe.com/index.htm his own personal site]], which provides walkthroughs for his games and manuals to bypass copy protection, and a daily joke mailing list, called [=CyberJoke=] 3000.

In the early 2010s, he joined Replay Games, a studio headed by former Sierra employees, to work on remaking ''Leisure Suit Larry'' games in HD. However, this was short-lived; after remaking the first ''Larry'' game, he chose not to renew his contract with Replay and went back into retirement.

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!!Games Al Lowe has worked on:

* ''Dragon's Keep'' (1982)
* ''Bop-A-Bet'' (1982)
* ''Troll's Tale'' (1982)
* ''High-Res Adventure #6: Film/TheDarkCrystal'' (1983)
* ''Gefling Adventure'' (1984)
* ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh in the Hundred Acre Wood'' (1984)
* ''Mickey's Space Adventure'' (1984)
* ''Donald Duck's Playground'' (1984)
* ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIIRomancingTheThrone'' (1985)
* ''VideoGame/TheBlackCauldron'' (1986)
* ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIIIToHeirIsHuman'' (1986)
* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry1InTheLandOfTheLoungeLizards'' (1987)
** VGA remake (1991)
** ''Reloaded'' (2013)
* ''VideoGame/PoliceQuest1InPursuitOfTheDeathAngel'' (1987)
* ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIVThePerilsOfRosella'' (1988)
* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry2LookingForLoveInSeveralWrongPlaces'' (1988)
* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry3PassionatePattiInPursuitOfThePulsatingPectorals'' (1989)
* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry5PassionatePattiDoesALittleUndercoverWork'' (1991)
* ''The Laffer Utilities'' (1992)
* ''VideoGame/FreddyPharkasFrontierPharmacist'' (1993)
* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry6ShapeUpOrSlipOut'' (1993)
* ''VideoGame/TorinsPassage'' (1995)
* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry7LoveForSail'' (1996)
* ''Leisure Suit Larry's Casino'' (1998)
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