Al Lowe

Life

Al Lowe has been playing the saxophone 13 years. He was a music teacher at Clovis High School, before transferring to the school administration and " computer in love ," as he himself says. In 1982 he came to Sierra On-Line, where he worked on many successful computer games. He left the company in 1998.

His most famous series is Leisure Suit Larry, which caused in the 1980s for a scandal on the American computer game market, when traders refused to take Larry into the program. Today, Leisure Suit Larry is a piece of computer game history. From this period is also Al Lowe's best-known motto "Save early, save often" handed - an allusion to the difficulty of the Larry series, in which the player character could quickly die once.

Lowe was also involved in the development of several based on Walt - Disney-themed games. Especially Donald Duck's Playground was praised as a learning game by the press. Freddy also Pharkas, The Black Cauldron and Torin's Passage come from the pen of Al Lowe. In addition, he was a programmer for Police Quest and King's Quest. The title theme of Space Quest was also composed by Al Lowe.

Since 1994, Lowe lives with his family in Seattle. As an amateur, he played in local jazz bands and operates its humor website. For 2007, the computer game Sam Suede in Undercover Exposure was announced by iBase Entertainment, which is to be built under Lowe's leadership. December 2006 iBase Entertainment closing its doors, and thus the development of Sam Suede has been set. Al Lowe was then known to want to say goodbye forever from the games business. In October 2011, however, it was announced that Replay Games has acquired the rights to Leisure Suit Larry and this series of games with the help of Al Lowe will again bring to life. For this purpose, a Kickstarter campaign was launched to fund a remake of Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards on April 2, 2012.