Sam and Max Hit the Road

They deliver once again. You forget you're playing a video game and just enjoy the comedic ride Sam and max brings - original beats the remakes

Wow, what a game! Great puzzles. Some of the funniest moments in video game history reside here - like the "Edu-tainment" interlude. Great music too; my favorite is the "world's largest ball of twine" song. On a great general midi card this sound WONDERFUL.

The only problem is that it's a pain to get this game to run anymore; it really works best on a DOS-only platform. But you can probably get it to work with some effort, and it's worth it believe me.

I have a question: WHERE IS THE SEQUEL!?! Could there be a more beloved universally liked adventure game?

Detective buddies Sam and Max investigate missing freaks and embark on a nationwide scavenger hunt of tourist traps. Sam the dog is the more perceptive, investigative one, while bunny Max zealously employs muscle wherever possible.

The graphics may not be impressive today, but they were faithfully ported from the comics and made itself at home in the video game medium. The interface is pretty standard for the LucasArts games of the time, and pretty flat by today's standard. The game-play is seasoned at points with mini-games of Sam and/or Max's mad antics in pursuit of The Truth.

But because of the sheer wit, character and zaniness of the dialog, everything is worth clicking, and even the most fruitless actions are rewarding. The banter between the detectives are all quotable, no words are wasted at all. This is a very fun, funny, and memorable game. Get all your friends to play it and you can make character references that will always make you laugh.

Any game in which a moleman, a vulgar telekinetic Arab handyman, a country music star, a bigfoot, a giraffe-necked girl, a no-nonsense detective dog, and his sadistic rabbit of a partner intermingle with hilarious dialogue, you have a winner. As with all LucasArts games, the veiled Star Wars references are there, and characters from other games even make cameos as highway rest area personnel. Still, the thing that makes this game what it is is the side-splitting dialogue. Since its almost 8 years old, you can buy a copy on CD-ROM for less than 10 bucks, or find it in LucasArts' first Archive Collection, in which you'll find other classics like "Day of the Tentacle" and the Monkey Island series, for less than 25.

Great adventure game for its time! Full of witty jokes by Max the rabbit, and full of baffling puzzles. This game took me long enough to complete, but I recommend it STRONGLY! 9.5/10!