Leisure Suit Larry 4
From Space Quest Omnipedia
A computer game of mythical porportions, Leisure Suit Larry 4 was said to have been designed and written by Sierra Online. Unfortunately, the floppies upon which the one and only copy of the game was stored, were lost. Unbeknownst to the employees of Sierra Online, the disks were apparently stolen by an agent of Sludge Vohaul, who subsequently used them to store his consciousness upon his demise in Space Quest 2.
Later, the floppies were found floating in space by scientists in the Xenon Super Computer Project. When the game was installed on the computer, Vohaul's consciousness was unleashed on the planet, and the events leading up to Space Quest 12 began.
The sad story of these events leading up to the fall of Xenon were relayed to Roger Wilco during his adventures in Space Quest 4 by a hologram of Professor Lloyd, one of the members of the original Xenon Super Computer team.
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While the Leisure Suit Larry Series was indeed created by Sierra Online, there never was a Leisure Suit Larry 4. According to Al Lowe (the Larry series creator), Leisure Suit Larry 4 had originally been intended as an early online game. It was cancelled when another Sierra Online project ("The Sierra Network") turned into a money pit. When Lowe began work on the next single player Larry game, he decided to call it Leisure Suite Larry 5, skipping 4 altogether. From then on, "Leisure Suit Larry 4: The Missing Floppies" became a Sierra in-joke.
Al Lowe's site has more information.
