Shape Up or Slip Out! is the fifth game in Al Lowe's Leisure Suit Larry series. All the events from the previous games are forgotten. Larry is once again single, and again his goal is to capture the interest of various ladies. By sheer coincidence, Larry finds himself on a TV Game Show called "Stallions". He wins a weekend at the Spa Resort, La Costa Lotta. Naturally, there are some beautiful women in the spa who are just dreaming about such a wonderful, handsome man as Larry! Uh... or is it really so? It is your goal to find out! Using your wit, you should solve all the puzzles and satisfy the wishes of all the ladies!

This instalment focuses more on conversations with women and on puzzles than on the storyline. The entire game is spent at La Costa Lotta. There are plenty of traditional inventory-based puzzles to solve in the game. You can die, but are allowed to try again every time that happens, without the need to restore. This is also the first Larry with SVGA graphics, and voice-overs in CD version.

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Alternate Titles

"לארי בג'קוזי" -- Hebrew Spelling
"LSL6" -- Common abbreviated / informal title
"Leisure Suit Larry 6 - Reiss auf oder schieb' ab" -- German Title
"Leisure Suit Larry 6" -- Informal title
"Larry in the Jacuzzi" -- Israeli Title
"Larry 6: Z impetem w glab" -- Polish title
"Larry 6" -- Common informal title

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User Reviews

Larry loses the mission, but finds true adventure gaming	DOS	Unicorn B. Lynx (63297)
Al certainly loves his wines	DOS	Black Wolf (37232)
Larry is back! And this time he didn't forget to bring the fun and adventure with him!!	DOS	Zovni (9138)

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The Press Says

Just Games Retro	DOS	Sep 07, 2006	89 out of 100	89
Just Games Retro	Windows 3.x	Sep 07, 2006	89 out of 100	89
PC Games (Germany)	DOS	Jan, 1994	83 out of 100	83
MikroBitti	DOS	Jan, 1994	81 out of 100	81
Abandonia	DOS	Jun 06, 2004	4 out of 5	80
Adventure Classic Gaming	DOS	May 14, 2000	4 out of 5	80
High Score	DOS	Nov, 1994	4 out of 5	80
PC Player (Germany)	Windows 3.x	Aug, 1994	64 out of 100	64
High Score	DOS	Jan, 1994	2 out of 5	40
High Score	Macintosh	Oct, 1996	1 out of 5	20

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Trivia

Although the game didn't include EGA graphics support, it is possible to get the DOS floppy disk version of the game to work in EGA mode thanks to Sierra's flexible development system. If you copy the file EGA640.DRV from another of Sierra's point 'n' click adventure games into the directory where Larry 6 is installed, you can then run the install program and select EGA 640x200 16 color graphics (note that you need to use the driver from games which include EGA and MCGA/VGA support in the same package, this trick won't work with the drivers from games that were available in separate packages for 16 and 256 colors. Some games that will work are King's Quest VI and the remake of Police Quest 1). Of course, the 16 color graphics don't look quite as good as the 256 color graphics even though a slightly higher resolution is used, so there isn't much practical application for this trick; even when the game was first released, there weren't many people left who still had EGA cards in their machine which is probably why Sierra didn't bother including the driver with the game.

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This entry was contributed by MajorDad (482), Terok Nor (10607) and Black Wolf (37232)