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January 14th, 2016 
Carl Williams 
It is no great secret in the realm of retrogaming that there are more than a few “homage” titles. Some are done with the permission of the owners of the intellectual property, such as Halo 2600, and others are more “under the radar” releases. Most UTR releases are quite good and damn near lawsuit perfect renditions of the original but on a new platform. We call these “Bandit Gaming” releases, a carryover name from a site we operated years ago (Video Game Cowboys if anyone is wondering). Now, CollectorVision have started showing work in progress shots of their homage to Leisure Suit Larry, the Al Lowe classic adventure, called Leisure Suit Toby (for legal reasons the name is changed slightly). Interestingly, Leisure Suit Toby is coming to the ColecoVision console of all platforms.
Since this is a homage title the team at CollectorVision are working closely with the source material. Take that to read, they are recreating as much of the original adventure on the Coleco console as possible. This includes the “babes” that Toby will be interacting with throughout his adventure.
So far most of the screens are converted over to ColecoVision resolution and color depth and work has begun on creating the women. Character sprites are not in place yet so there are only backgrounds available at this time.
Jean-Francois Dupuis, owner of CollectorVision Games, has stated on AtariAge that he has been working on and off again with Leisure Suit Toby since 2010. Release is expected next Fall/Winter. No word if he means 2016 or 2017.
KHAN Games have done a Nintendo Entertainment System version of Leisure Suit Larry but it was a completely new game. Larry and the Long Look for a Luscious Lover was the title of KHAN Games’ version. CollectorVision are going for a direct port of the original title.
Check out the daily development on AtariAge’s forums.
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