Another Good Game
Today its Sam & Max Hit the Road a 1993 graphic adventure game developed and published by LucasArts for MS-DOS (DOS). A 2002 re-release included compatibility with Microsoft Windows.
The game is based on the comic characters of Sam and Max, the “Freelance Police”, an anthropomorphic dog and “hyperkinetic rabbit thing”. The characters, created by Steve Purcell, originally debuted in a 1987 comic book series. Based on the 1989 Sam & Max comic On the Road, the duo take the case of a missing bigfoot from a nearby carnival, traveling to many Americana tourist sites to solve the mystery.
LucasArts began development of the game in 1992 with the intention to use new settings and characters after the success of the past Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island adventure titles. Series creator Steve Purcell, then a LucasArts employee, was one of the lead designers on the project. Sam & Max Hit the Road is the ninth game to use the SCUMM adventure game engine, and also integrated the iMUSE audio system developed by Michael Land and Peter McConnell. The game was one of the first to incorporate full voice talent for its characters; the two title characters were voiced by professional voice actors Bill Farmer and Nick Jameson.
The game received critical acclaim on release, and was praised for its humor, voice acting, graphics, music and gameplay. It is now regarded as a classic point-and-click adventure game and is often listed in publishers’ lists of top games of all time. Several attempts to produce sequels were cancelled, ultimately resulting in the franchise moving from LucasArts to Telltale Games. Since October 2014, after the acquisition of LucasArts by Disney, the game is being sold by GOG.com. In November 2018 it was re-released on Steam by Disney Interactive.
Watch the video I made below showing about the first 24 minutes of the game.
Video:
Sam & Max Hit the Road Gameplay.
Developer: LucasArts.
Publisher: LucasArts.
Platform: MS-DOS.
Release: November 1993 (WW).
Genre: Graphic Adventure.
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