Al Lowe (born July 24, 1946) is an American video game designer,
programmer, and musician who developed several adventure games, mostly
for Sierra On-Line. He is best known for creating the Leisure Suit
Larry series. He has also worked as a casting director, voice
director, writer, director, producer, background photographer, actor
and executive producer.Lowe began his career teaching public school
music for 15 years. After that time, he decided to teach himself
programming and in 1982 he created three games for the Apple II:
Dragon's Keep, Bop-A-Bet, and Troll's Tale. He was on Name That Tune
in the 1984â€"85 season and was a semifinalist in one of that season's
Tournaments of Champions.Sierra Entertainment bought these games in
1983 and Lowe worked for them as a programmer and game designer for 16
years. His first projects included Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre
Wood, Donald Duck's Playground, and The Black Cauldron, all based on
Disney properties. Later, he was lead programmer on King's Quest III
and Police Quest I and also created the music for other Sierra games.
Lowe is best known for his Leisure Suit Larry series of games. After
Larry's success, Lowe also designed other games such as Torin's
Passage and Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist (with Josh Mandel).
Throughout his career, Lowe was known for his distinctive bald head,
full beard, and considerable beer belly, and liked to call himself
"the world's oldest game designer". Next Generation listed Lowe in
their "75 Most Important People in the Games Industry of 1995",
chiefly for the Leisure Suit Larry series. Al Lowe Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter