Unreleased games Leisure Suit Larry 4: The Missing Floppies Leisure Suit Larry 4: The Missing Floppies is the name for a never-made fourth installment, often regarded as an in-joke. The name, used by official sources and fans, refers to rumors that the reason for the cancellation of the game was the losing of the game's original production
floppy disks, after which the developers refused to remake the game from scratch. Other sources claim that it was nothing but an internal office
prank. The franchise's installments were numbered as if this installment had been published; the actual fourth installment was
Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work. Al Lowe gave two official reasons for the cancellation of
Leisure Suit Larry 4. The first was that Sierra had begun work on a multiplayer installment for
The Sierra Network, but the project failed mostly due to technical reasons. The second was that the ending of
Larry 3 was definitive and somehow
metafictional, since it showed Larry and Patti coming to the Sierra studios to make games based on their adventures, as well as living happily in a mountain cabin in
Coarsegold. This completed a relatively cohesive trilogy, and was a dead-end for a new story arc. In 2012, Lowe discussed what happened to the fourth installment in a video made for a
Kickstarter project, in which he said that the idea for skipping
Larry 4 came as a flippant comment in the office, and became a "real marketing coup" when selling
Larry 5 because buyers would immediately ask what happened to the fourth. It became "one of software's big jokes". According to production notes given by Lowe, the following events must be assumed to have happened between
Larry 3 and
Larry 5 to connect the two games: Larry and Patti plan to marry; Patti leaves him at a Yosemite church to pursue her career, but Larry is gone when she returns; the villain of
Larry 5, Julius Biggs, somehow steals the game disks and Larry suffers amnesia. The absence of the floppy disks was introduced as a plot element in the sequel to explain how Larry, as a computer generated character, came to suffer from amnesia.
Larry 4 appears in several of the other games in the series, including being played in
Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude.
Leisure Suit Larry: Love For Sale Mobile takes place during the
Larry 4 development years, and a subplot for the best ending requires finding the lost disks. A folder named LSL4 could be found on the CD of
Leisure Suit Larry Collection in which Al Lowe left a note in a readme file referencing the game and concluding "who says sequels have to be done sequentially?".
MAD Magazine proposed what
Leisure Suit Larry 4 might have looked like in a 1990 issue spoofing video games. Their idea was "the after effect of Larry's screwing around with the time coming for Larry having to pay the piper." They proposed the idea of Larry in a maze game similar to
Berzerk, where he must steer clear of out-of-wedlock pregnancies he has caused, as well as private investigators, case workers and angry fathers wielding shotguns, making it extremely difficult for Larry to continue his infamous carefree attitude towards casual sex. On April 1, 2009, the
abandonware site
Abandonia released an alleged "leaked copy" for download. This turned out in fact to be an elaborate
April Fools' Day prank: the screenshots were fakes, the review was fictional, and the "game" archive actually contained 55 identical copies of scanned front casing of
Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust. The game is a part of the plot of
Space Quest 4: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers, another Sierra title. In the game, LSL4 is labeled as the cause of a supercomputer virus that crippled Roger's home planet Xenon. The fourth part is also considered as the remake of the first game, since it is included in the compilations together with the regular games and was released between the third and fifth part.
Leisure Suit Larry 8 Leisure Suit Larry 8, tentatively subtitled
Lust in Space (as well as
Explores Uranus in some references), was in full development in 1998 until funding was cut. Shortly afterwards, Sierra's adventure games department was disbanded, and
Al Lowe left
Sierra on February 22, 1999. Like the canned
Space Quest sequel,
Larry 8 was to feature
3D computer graphics, but no more than a few test renders now survive. The game
Leisure Suit Larry: Explores Uranus, as well as its teaser, was referenced in
Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail! triggered with an Easter egg, as well as a teaser after completing the game. In 2013, Al Lowe pointed out that this title is still being considered, with support from series co-writer Josh Mandel. Lowe stated that even though he would like to complete the
Reloaded series first,
Leisure Suit Larry 8 is "absolutely" still in the works. In addition to singleplayer game play, players could also wirelessly battle an opponent in four different turn-based mini-games. Concept art and design document of the game are in hands of Jody Hicks, one of the game's developers. An alpha prototype was spotted at the ObscureGamers forum in February 2021.
Leisure Suit Larry: Cocoa Butter In late 2005,
Target department stores (through online vendor
Amazon.com) began accepting pre-orders for a sequel to
Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude titled
Leisure Suit Larry: Cocoa Butter. This new game was being developed for the PC, PS2, Xbox and PSP systems, but has since been canceled. == Collections ==