With Sierra now pursuing deals with the likes of Jim Henson and Disney, those days seemed like ancient history, the cover art a dispatch from another life.īy late 1986, with Sierra now known chiefly for Roberta’s family-friendly King’s Quest adventures, those wild early days seemed more ancient than ever. Small wonder that Softporn was quietly dropped from the catalog that year. And then there was that cover art, with Roberta Williams, who by 1983 had become the wholesome centerpiece of much of Sierra’s public relations, posed topless in a jacuzzi with two other women and a mustached waiter straight out of Porn Chic Central Casting. And not only was it an all-text adventure, but it wasn’t even a very sophisticated all-text adventure at that it was a painfully slow BASIC-driven experience with a two-word parser. Right from the beginning its text-only presentation - it was the only text-only game of any sort ever published by Sierra - placed it decidedly at odds with the rest of the company’s catalog. Still, while Softporn turned into a huge early hit for Sierra and helped to garner for the company some of its first national attention via an article in Time magazine, its shelf life was relatively short. It became on that day the only adventure game, ever, that he sat down and solved all by himself, just like any ordinary fan. Ken Williams had always loved Softporn, right from the day he first discovered it and spent three or four hours obsessively playing it.
Larry’s dream girl, who also features on the Leisure Suit Larry box cover, pays homage to Softporn‘s famous cover art.
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