Please tell me if you know of an interview that isn't
listed here. I know I've done many more than this,
I just don't remember with whom!
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Peter Claussen interviewed me for the web site G Wie Gorilla (which I hope is German for Nintendo Wii console gamer!) in March 2007. It's available in both English and German. |
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Ben Hardwidge, News & Features Editor
of Custom PC web site, interviewed me in March 2007. You can read it here. |
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Greg Sewart hosts the Player One Podcast about games for gamers. We had a wonderful, hour-long chat on Episode 18 in February 2007. |
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Al appeared on the world's #1 podcast (at the time), This Week in Tech with Leo LaPorte, TWIT.com, May 14, 2006. |
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Philip Jong of Adventure Classic Gaming did an extensive interview with me in March 2006. |
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Al appeared on G4 TV's Attack of the Show in August 2005 at the height of the GTA "hot coffee" mod controversy. |
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Gamasutra, the game developer's favorite site, ran a Catch-Up article with me in July 2005. |
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Amped IGO featured my interview in In the Hot Seat, September 2005. |
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Travis Fahs's November, 2005 interview at Got-Next.com was fun to do. |
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If you've seen Beantown Production's History of Video Games on G4, you'll enjoy reading this story on the "making of" that documentary. |
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Tom's Hardware site, now TwitchGuru.com, did an excellent interview with me in September, 2005. |
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The National Post ran this interview in September, 2004, just before the release of Leisure Suit Larry Magna Cum Laude. |
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Emily Morganti's feature article on AdventureGamers.com, Finding the Way Home is subtitled "A Sierra Junkie’s Journey Back to the Good Old Days." I think you'll enjoy it. |
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Lars
Jensen interviewed me for a Swedish
site called "Kong." He titled the
article, "Al Lowe, about Larry, Lefty
and Life." You can find the English language
translation here,
or the Swedish language interview here. |
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In early
2004, I was interviewed for Video
Game Invasion: The History Of A Global Obsession,
which aired on the Game Show Network in March,
2004. Jane Jensen and I discussed some of
the original Sierra games. AGIgames.com
was kind enough to let me use their nearly
4-minute excerpt
from the show. More information about
the show can be found on the Game
Show Network. |
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Tristan Ducluzeau
writes for Gaming, a French gaming magazine.
While they don't post their stories on their
web site, Tristan did share his English
translation of the magazine story with
me. Who says the French are different? |
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The Inventory ran
a long interview
by Dimitris Manos with me in its December,
2003 issue. Here's a PDF file of the entire
issue, so you'll need Adobe's Acrobat Reader
(a free download) to view it. |
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Jason's interview
on VideoGameNostalgia.com
has more than just interesting insights into
how to produce sounds on an Apple II. |
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Mathew Tschirgi's
interview
on eBoredom delves into game development. |
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Ugarte's Dimension
of Fantasy site, SierraPlanet, has my
latest interview.
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Any interview that
begins, "Back when Lara Croft was still wearing
a training bra..." has to be good. And Daniel
Zelter's interview
for the Jagged
Team site is! |
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JustAdventure.com
is the web site for you if you love adventure
games! Bob
Freese's interview with me dates from
2002.
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  VIDEO!
On April 18, 2002, I was interviewed
by Leo LaPorte on TechTV's The Screen
Savers! show. I think it was my
best interview ever. See it and read more about
it here.
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Way back in 1993, Sierra's annual
promotional videotape featured an interview
with me about the (then brand new) Leisure
Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out! Al
Lowe video 2.3 MB
If you have a fast connection, here's a clearer version. Al Lowe video 18.1MB
Here's the soundtrack only. Al
Lowe audio in Real Audio format. 330
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VIDEO!
If you've never seen the interview
I did for German television shortly after
the release of LSL1: Leisure Suit Larry
in the Land of the Lounge Lizards,
it's not only funny, but has a great scene
at the end where they put me in a hot
tub with a pair of hot babes! This video
was included in the Leisure Suit Larry
collections. Al
on German TV video 29MB
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I was honored to receive the 2001 Moofie
Lifetime Achievement
Award.
Check out my longest-ever interview.
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GameSpot's Marc Saltzman recently interviewed
game designers and other industry notables
for our opinions of "abandonware." Read
my comments here.
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Absolute Games, the most
popular game site in Russia and ex-USSR,
interviewed me in February 2001. Here's
an English
translation.
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Romario interviewed me for
Mindfunction.com. See
it here.
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Moby
Games' Christian Schmidt interviewed
me in January, 2001
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Mike
Khromoff's interview from May 9, 2000.
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GT-Adventure
took down my interview from November,
1999, but I saved a copy here on my site.
Just be careful what links you click;
many are dead.
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Alexander Angeltveit's interview
on his Al Lowe Fan Site.
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Computer
Games Online ran an industry commentary
by "ScandAlice" on the closing of Sierra's
Oakhurst office and the end of Leisure
Suit Larry. It's a fun read.
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Tom King's "Planet Larry"
web site had two interviews which I've
moved to here
and here.
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When Love for Sail! was released,
a young and impressionable Geoff Keighley
interviewed me for one of the first online
game sites, GameSlice.
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Here's an interview that appeared
in Verbosity
magazine
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A slightly strange yet interesting
interview from Animation
magazine.
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Russ Cecola interviewed me
for the now-defunct Escapade
magazine back when Torin's Passage
was first released. Russ is a great writer
and you'll enjoy reading his story, even
if it is from another century!
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The
Mushroom! is no longer, but here's
a copy of my interview with them from
way back in 2001.
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Here are some interviews that you probably wouldn't
find if you're just out browsing the Web. I know I
didn't!
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Spanish web site La Aventura es la Aventura interviewed me in 2004. Read the Spanish version here, or the English version here. |
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Germany's Rebell.at game site has a recent
interview with me by Thomas Schaffer.
Read the English
version here or the German
version here.
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Daniel Zelter interviewed me for JaggedTeam, a web site that's no longer around. But you can still read the interview here. |
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Slavei Karadjov recently interviewed
me for a Bulgarian Linux site. Read the
English
translation of his interview.
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Omri Shapira interviewed me
for an Israeli site called "Oldies Forever."
The site features review, pictures, cheats
and walkthroughs for old games, plus interviews
with designers and stories about gaming.
If you read Hebrew, click here.
If not, read the English version here.
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GameStar, a German games magazine,
interviewed me back in 1999. Here's an
English
translation.
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Berliner Morgenpost runs a column called Bits 'n' Bytes. Here's my interview
in the original German or an English
translation.
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Jan Graber created this Games page in German in October 2004. Markus Gebauer kindly translated it into English. |
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Hans Frank wrote this interview in German for Adventure-Treff. Read it here in English. |
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I appeared on the Aventura y Cía site in 2004. That site is now gone, but here's an English translation of the interview. |
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Final Boss's interview is in Spanish only. Want to translate it for me? Please contact me. |
