al lowe, who had been working at sierra on-line for many years, was asked by ken williams to write a modern version of chuck benton's "softporn adventure" from 1981, the only pure text adventure that the company had ever released. "leisure suit larry in the land of the lounge lizards" was a great hit and won the software publishers association's best adventure game award of 1987. it can be deduced that the game first became famous as an early example of software piracy, as sierra sold many more hintbooks than actual copies of the game. a series of "leisure suit larry" games followed.