1. Albert William Lowe was born on July 24,1946 and is an American video game designer who developed several adventure games, mostly for Sierra On-Line.
12 Facts About Al Lowe
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Al Lowe has worked as a casting director, voice director, writer, director, producer, background photographer, actor and executive producer.
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Al Lowe began his working life teaching public school music for 15 years.
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Al Lowe quit teaching and pursued a career in programming.
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Sierra Entertainment bought these games in 1983 and Al Lowe worked for them as a programmer and game designer for 16 years.
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Al Lowe is best known for his Leisure Suit Larry series of games.
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Computer Gaming World reported a rumor in July 1994 that Al Lowe was working on a new series, Capitol Punishment, with the first game being "Bill and Hillary's Whitewater Adventure".
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Al Lowe has since been recruited by Replay Games to work on high-definition remakes of six of the first seven Leisure Suit Larry games.
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On December 11,2013, it was announced that Al Lowe had left Replay Games and returned to retirement.
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In 2018, Al Lowe posted a listing at popular auction website eBay of an entire backup of his own works at Sierra because he noted that Sierra had no intention of ever backing up any source code.
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Al Lowe grew up in Chesterfield, Missouri, a suburb of St Louis.
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Al Lowe is an avid model railroader and a member of the board of directors of the 4th Division of the Pacific Northwest Region of the National Model Railroad Association.