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One interesting fact: Leisure Suit Larry is pretty much directly based on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softporn_Adventure text adventure game. If you try it, you'll find the plot and the surroundings very familiar.

Personally I discovered this while reading http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Computer-Revolution-Anniversar... which I recommend to anyone.

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Wow... according to Wikipedia, the women on the box were all employees of On-Line Systems, the precursor to Sierra. One of them is a bookkeeper! I'd be curious as to how the convinced them to pose naked on the box.

Well, it says one is Roberta Williams, who co-owned the company. And the hot tub.

Talk about setting an example to your employees...

The Digital Antiquarian wrote some interesting blog posts on On-Line Systems and Softporn back in February (with screenshots!). This blog is a great read for info on this and other early adventure games and their creators.

http://www.filfre.net/2012/02/

The 80s were awesome.

it was 1981: things were blurry, people were still hangover from the 70s ..

Steven Levy's book Hackers from the early 80s has a large section on On-Line Systems including the story of that photo. On-Line was a party, that's for sure.

I wonder if a game company could afford the lawyers to pull off something like that today.

It was California. In the tail end of the swinging 70s. (Yeah, 1981, but decades aren't that sharply delineated.)

I love that the waiter is fully dressed in the hot tub, posing as though there is nothing unusual about that.

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