I learned English by playing LSL and Police Quest. A fairly common scenario in Post-Soviet countries during the 1990s.

I used to be a journalist, and (back when Google was still a superb, heavy-duty search engine) managed to actually find Al Lowe's phone number from the interwebs. So, incredibly, I got to interview him for a gaming-related issue of the (mainstream) newspaper I worked for in my country. He recalled a former Soviet computer consultant confessing in the 1990s, "Every hard drive I've seen had a 'LARRY' folder available". Obviously, all these were pirate copies. Same here -- everybody in my Post-Soviet country had this game. I think I "got" it from a friend, putting it on my first-ever 3 1/2 inch diskette.

Al Lowe's games shaped my grasp of English grammar, but also general sense of language, dialogue writing and -- in particular -- sense of humor! The Sierra games (not only Larry, but, IIRC, Police Quest also) had wonderful, multi-layered humor and IMO meticulous emphasis on conveying "spoken" language, "the way people actually speak". The irony and soft humor towards overly-consumerist society (in the US) was something I only understood years later (e.g. I think in Larry 1, there was a Las Vegas style "instant-wedding chapel" with a blinking advertisement "Over 1 Billion Served" or something).

I really think I owe Al Lowe a fair bit culturally and language-wise, even though, uh, he never received a nickel from me. Thank you, Al Lowe!