Playing Leisure Suit Larry on an IBM PCjr

Trying to get certain games to run on a PCjr can be a job and a half. Even worse when you haven't played the game in years and don't know the specifics of the PC jr memory configuration.

This shows the (aggravating) process of loading LSL: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards from its original floppies on an IBM PCjr MS-DOS computer.

This was a 4:3 aspect ratio video, I have no idea why YouTube is forcing a zoomed widescreen output.

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[NewYearAustralia2009]

You shoud have practiced first before putting us through all this !

[phreakindee]

@NewYearAustralia2009 That would be forgoing the entire point! The purpose of this video was to show a nostalgic look at what you'd have to go through back in the day with a PCjr

[MrMinecrafterEXTreme]

@phreakindee but what about in all the pictures in ur review on this. Well, I have no serial mice. 1 USB mouse and 2 PS/2 mice. Would they work?

[phreakindee]

@MrMinecrafterEXTreme Yes, that's the PCjr Booster sidecar. It came with a bus mouse.

[MrMinecrafterEXTreme]

btw, where do u get a PCjr mouse?

[phreakindee]

@MrMinecrafterEXTreme You'd likely have to use an addon sidecar to plug in a third-party serial or parallel mouse. Mice weren't really used in PCs at this time.

[lemonrind]

I used to play this when I was a kid. Now I'm a sex offender.

[phreakindee]

@npk6898 Being that this is Larry we're talking about, I assume you mean "beaten" as in beaten the game, not... something else ;) Yes, I have, not too long ago actually. It's fantastic.

[Saiyuki2o4]

@phreakindee um...you beat your self?

[Dakkiller1]

@joi1900 If that was the case, then the Commodore 64, Atari 400 and 800, Sinclair Spectrum, Apple 2, VIC-20, Amiga 1000,Amiga 500, and Atari ST wouldn't be real machines eitherXD

In fact, that would make no sense. The PCJr is in fact a real Computer because it takes different OS's and you got a keyboard and you can do productivity on it. Not to mention you can add a Hard Drive to most machines or a set of 2 to 3 floppy disc drives and a tape drive for measure.

Real Computer=YES!!

[AugustosMaximus]

Larry 386

[joi1900]

IBM PCjr really isn't a computer because it can't even hold it's own operating system when you turn it off. It has no hard drive. You have to load dos into memory every time. It was a POS machine. IBM PC XT was the one but it cost a lot more than the jr.

[MrBarrelson]

now if every game was this hard to load today , there wouldn't be any computer age