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Sam and Max Hit the Road

97 points by doppp 7y ago

benbristow 7y ago
The Telltale games were so underrated. Shame we'll never see anymore due tot he demise of the studio.
- deleted 7y ago
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- giobox 7y ago
  This is long before Telltale's involvement in the Sam and Max franchise. This game predates Telltale's founding by about 11 years. While Telltale did some good work, I miss LucasArts much more!
  - benbristow 7y ago
    I am aware. It's just that Telltale introduced me to the franchise and made them easily approachable to younger audiences (I'm 22 now but was playing them with my dad around 2006/2007 on the 360!).
elliottkember 7y ago
Ah! I played this game all the way through (with help) when I was about 12. Absolutely hysterical even if some of the humour went over my head. Had the chance to replay it recently and it’s lost none of its charm. What will we see next on here - the Neverhood? Loom? Leisure Suit Larry?
- mwcampbell 7y ago
  Leisure Suit Larry and Loom have already been covered. He's working roughly in chronological order.
draw_down 7y ago
I reckon we’re due for the weekly post about a LucasArts game. ;)
AndrewBissell 7y ago
My early sense of humor was so shaped by these LucasArts adventure games, it's hard to imagine they were worried the game wouldn't make money, or that many reviewers didn't find it funny. I even put the CD sleeves to a bunch of their games in covers of the binders I used in junior high. As a young kid without the patience to grapple with adventure game puzzles (and no internet service), I had to resort quite a few times to calling the LucasArts 900 number for walkthrough tips. I've often wondered how much that boosted their games revenue! My first professional programming job was located in the Presidio campus where LucasArts had been headquartered. It had just closed its doors shortly before I started there, but the old LucasArts store stayed open for a few extra months to clear out some inventory. I grabbed a logo hat which I've since misplaced. Awhile back the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco had a whole featured exhibit of Purcell's work, and as a fan of the old game I had to make the pilgrimage. If you're an old Sam & Max fan looking to scratch the nostalgia itch, the old comics are pretty great and the "Route 66 in decay" esthetic is possibly even better suited to our times than it was the late 80s and early 90s.
- washadjeffmad 7y ago
  The most trouble I ever got in growing up was after a phone bill from calling 1-900-740-JEDI (with permission) and didn't put the phone all the way back on the rocker. It was supposed to time out after a minute or so of no interaction, but the bill showed the line was connected for over 60 at something like $0.75 a minute. The worst part (to me) was that it didn't help me find Frog Rock. I found out a decade later when I ripped the disc to play in SCUMMVM that there was a defect with the CD that my 1x reader at the time probably couldn't handle.
bennyp101 7y ago
I absolutely loved this game when it came out, then a few years ago I bought it again on GOG - just as good as when I was 8! I vaguely remember my dad taking me to go and buy a Soundblaster card so the sound worked properly! Day Of The Tentacle was another one, never owned it but played at friends houses
- michaelgrafl 7y ago
  I remember my dad buying me a 386DX 40MHz Escom tower when I was around twelve. This was kind of a low end machine at that time, the 486DX4 with 100MHz being the top of line. But it was a big upgrade from our 286 with 8 MHz which to use I had to ask permission, while my father was fine with me being the main user of the new machine. While the machine itself was the cheapest we could get at the Escom store because we were kind of broke (14000 ATS, around 1500 Euros in today's money), my dad granted me a Soundblaster 16 card, a double-speed CD-ROM drive and a couple of game collections on CD. One of those collections contained both DOTT and Sam & Max Hit The Road. Making special boot floppies for managing conventional, expanded and extended memory so I could get those games to work was probably my introduction to technical trouble-shooting. And when eventually I got to get Sam & Max going and heard the Mad Scientist in the intro actually talking I completely lost my shit, because I expected no more than closed captions and some wavetable midi tunes in the background. Loved that game so much for its artistic style and weird characters. Tunnel of Love, Big Foot, Giraffe Girl, the Country Singer douchebag ... what a colorful ensemble!
  - bennyp101 7y ago
    "heard the Mad Scientist in the intro actually talking I completely lost my shit" - HA! Exactly this! Ah yea, fiddling around with autoexec.bat and config.sys to make funky menus to show the games I had installed (I think, it was a while ago ... also something to do with mscdex .. but that might have been later)
    - dillonmckay 7y ago
      mscdex, I think was the ‘driver’ for the CD-ROM drive?
DonHopkins 7y ago
I had a "CAUTION: NAKED BUNNY WITH ATTITUDE" sticker on my Thinkpad.
davidivadavid 7y ago
One of my childhood favorites along with Full Throttle. What's today's equivalent of those games?
- devbat8712 7y ago
  Keep an eye out on gog.com, there's some cool point and click stuff on there. Teenagent isn't bad, and I think it's free on gog
- crtasm 7y ago
  I'm currently enjoying Thimbleweed Park, and while not the same genre Return of the Obra Dinn is fantastic.

97 points by doppp 7y ago

benbristow 7y ago

The Telltale games were so underrated. Shame we'll never see anymore due tot he demise of the studio.

deleted 7y ago
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giobox 7y ago
This is long before Telltale's involvement in the Sam and Max franchise. This game predates Telltale's founding by about 11 years. While Telltale did some good work, I miss LucasArts much more!
- benbristow 7y ago
  I am aware. It's just that Telltale introduced me to the franchise and made them easily approachable to younger audiences (I'm 22 now but was playing them with my dad around 2006/2007 on the 360!).

elliottkember 7y ago

Ah! I played this game all the way through (with help) when I was about 12. Absolutely hysterical even if some of the humour went over my head. Had the chance to replay it recently and it’s lost none of its charm. What will we see next on here - the Neverhood? Loom? Leisure Suit Larry?

mwcampbell 7y ago
Leisure Suit Larry and Loom have already been covered. He's working roughly in chronological order.

draw_down 7y ago

I reckon we’re due for the weekly post about a LucasArts game. ;)

AndrewBissell 7y ago

My early sense of humor was so shaped by these LucasArts adventure games, it's hard to imagine they were worried the game wouldn't make money, or that many reviewers didn't find it funny. I even put the CD sleeves to a bunch of their games in covers of the binders I used in junior high. As a young kid without the patience to grapple with adventure game puzzles (and no internet service), I had to resort quite a few times to calling the LucasArts 900 number for walkthrough tips. I've often wondered how much that boosted their games revenue! My first professional programming job was located in the Presidio campus where LucasArts had been headquartered. It had just closed its doors shortly before I started there, but the old LucasArts store stayed open for a few extra months to clear out some inventory. I grabbed a logo hat which I've since misplaced. Awhile back the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco had a whole featured exhibit of Purcell's work, and as a fan of the old game I had to make the pilgrimage. If you're an old Sam & Max fan looking to scratch the nostalgia itch, the old comics are pretty great and the "Route 66 in decay" esthetic is possibly even better suited to our times than it was the late 80s and early 90s.

washadjeffmad 7y ago
The most trouble I ever got in growing up was after a phone bill from calling 1-900-740-JEDI (with permission) and didn't put the phone all the way back on the rocker. It was supposed to time out after a minute or so of no interaction, but the bill showed the line was connected for over 60 at something like $0.75 a minute. The worst part (to me) was that it didn't help me find Frog Rock. I found out a decade later when I ripped the disc to play in SCUMMVM that there was a defect with the CD that my 1x reader at the time probably couldn't handle.

bennyp101 7y ago

I absolutely loved this game when it came out, then a few years ago I bought it again on GOG - just as good as when I was 8! I vaguely remember my dad taking me to go and buy a Soundblaster card so the sound worked properly! Day Of The Tentacle was another one, never owned it but played at friends houses

michaelgrafl 7y ago
I remember my dad buying me a 386DX 40MHz Escom tower when I was around twelve. This was kind of a low end machine at that time, the 486DX4 with 100MHz being the top of line. But it was a big upgrade from our 286 with 8 MHz which to use I had to ask permission, while my father was fine with me being the main user of the new machine. While the machine itself was the cheapest we could get at the Escom store because we were kind of broke (14000 ATS, around 1500 Euros in today's money), my dad granted me a Soundblaster 16 card, a double-speed CD-ROM drive and a couple of game collections on CD. One of those collections contained both DOTT and Sam & Max Hit The Road. Making special boot floppies for managing conventional, expanded and extended memory so I could get those games to work was probably my introduction to technical trouble-shooting. And when eventually I got to get Sam & Max going and heard the Mad Scientist in the intro actually talking I completely lost my shit, because I expected no more than closed captions and some wavetable midi tunes in the background. Loved that game so much for its artistic style and weird characters. Tunnel of Love, Big Foot, Giraffe Girl, the Country Singer douchebag ... what a colorful ensemble!
- bennyp101 7y ago
  "heard the Mad Scientist in the intro actually talking I completely lost my shit" - HA! Exactly this! Ah yea, fiddling around with autoexec.bat and config.sys to make funky menus to show the games I had installed (I think, it was a while ago ... also something to do with mscdex .. but that might have been later)
  - dillonmckay 7y ago
    mscdex, I think was the ‘driver’ for the CD-ROM drive?

DonHopkins 7y ago

I had a "CAUTION: NAKED BUNNY WITH ATTITUDE" sticker on my Thinkpad.

davidivadavid 7y ago

One of my childhood favorites along with Full Throttle. What's today's equivalent of those games?

devbat8712 7y ago
Keep an eye out on gog.com, there's some cool point and click stuff on there. Teenagent isn't bad, and I think it's free on gog
crtasm 7y ago
I'm currently enjoying Thimbleweed Park, and while not the same genre Return of the Obra Dinn is fantastic.