Question: Larry Ahern  is best known for being the co-project leader on an adventure game released in what year?

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Altered Destiny: Altered Destiny is a graphic adventure game released by Accolade in 1990 for MS-DOS and in 1991 for Amiga.  The game was designed by Michael Berlyn and it uses a text parser interface.  It is the second adventure game from Accolade and it uses the same engine as the first one, "Les Manley in: Search for the King".

The Curse of Monkey Island: The Curse of Monkey Island is an adventure game developed and published by LucasArts, and the third game in the "Monkey Island" series.  It was released in 1997 and followed the successful games "The Secret of Monkey Island" and "".  The game is the twelfth and last LucasArts game to use the SCUMM engine, which was extensively upgraded for its last outing before being replaced by the GrimE engine for the next game in the series, "Escape from Monkey Island".  "The Curse of Monkey Island" is the first "Monkey Island" game to include voice acting, and has a more cartoon-ish graphic style than the earlier games.

Mystery House: Mystery House is an adventure game released by On-Line Systems in 1980 .  It was designed, written and illustrated by Roberta Williams and programmed by Ken Williams for the Apple II.  "Mystery House" is the first graphical adventure game and the first game produced by On-Line Systems, the company which would evolve into Sierra On-Line.

Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded: Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded is a point-and-click adventure game released on June 27, 2013 by N-Fusion Interactive, Intermarum and Replay Games working with series creator Al Lowe and IP holder Codemasters.  The game is available for Microsoft Windows via Steam, OS X, Linux, Android and iOS.  It is an enhanced remake of the 1987 Sierra On-Line adventure game "Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards".  It is the second remake of this game, following the 1991 remake, which featured VGA graphics.

Apprentice (video game): Apprentice is a point-and-click adventure game released on PC by Herculean Effort Productions as freeware in 2003.  It was created using the open source development tool, Adventure Game Studio.

The Space Adventure (video game): The Space Adventure - Cobra: The Legendary Bandit (コブラII: 伝説の男 , Kobura II: Densetsu no Otoko ) , also known simply as The Space Adventure, is an adventure game released for the PC Engine CD in 1991 in Japan and for the Sega CD in 1995 in North America and Europe.  It is the sequel to a Japan only game titled "Cobra: Kokuryuuou no Densetsu" released for the PC Engine CD in 1989, both being based on the manga and anime series "Cobra" by Buichi Terasawa.  The game was developed and published by Hudson Soft and was one of the last games to be published for the Sega CD in both North America and Europe.  The format of the game is similar to "Snatcher" while the plot is based on one of Cobra's early adventures.

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (video game): An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (Japanese: アメリカ物語2/ファイベル西へ行く , Hepburn: Amerika Monogatari 2/Faiberu nishi e Iku ) is a Super NES video game released in 1994.  It is the second game released based on the , the other title being an adventure game for the PC, published by Capstone Software.

Rise of the Dragon: Rise of the Dragon is a graphic adventure game released in 1990 for DOS and Macintosh, and later remade for the Sega CD (1993) as well as the Amiga.  It was one of the few adventure game titles developed by Dynamix, a company that was better known as an action and flight simulator game developer.

Larry Ahern: Larry Ahern is an American computer game designer, writer, artist, and animator.  He is best known for being the co-project leader on "The Curse of Monkey Island", alongside Jonathan Ackley.

Jonathan Ackley: Jonathan Ackley is an American computer game designer, writer, and programmer.  He is best known for being the co-project leader on "The Curse of Monkey Island", alongside Larry Ahern.

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Answer: 1997