Sam and Max Hit the Road

I got this game as a part of the first LucasArts Entertainment pack and I had absolutely no idea what it was. But when I got home and fired it up I fell in love. The game, as a whole, is filled with witty and incredibly sarcastic dialog and about a bajillion movie and game related in-jokes.

From the streamlined interface to the entertaining puzzles to such great minigames as Car Bomb and the Max's Wax Coloring Kit this game is a blast to play. If you haven't played it yet, I highly recommend you do. 10/10 on My Personal Scale.

Pretty old game but there are not much games with this kind of humer. The graphics are cool, not the graphics we are used to these day's. This is truely an golden oldy. The story is about two animal detectives, a dog and a rabbit who has to solve a crime. They travel trough america to find a lost circus freak en his beloved who works also i the circus. I think i like this game cause lucas arts makes such specific humoristic games that i love. Like in the humor in great movies only then in the games.

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Sam & Max is one of my favorite adventure games. Even though it's now quite old, and I was a young teen when I first played it, I still find the dry, sarcastic humor funny. It's perfectly in synch with my own sense of humor.

There are a few slow parts to Sam & Max, and parts of the game where the puzzles may be too aggravating to work out without resorting to a walkthrough. Don't think of it as cheating -- the real charm to this game is in its humor and silly storyline. For that reason I also recommend reading the comics the game was based on. I can't say I particularly enjoyed the short-lived TV show on FOX, but any diehard fan will watch it no matter what I say.

Although this game won't run on newer computers as-is, it's possible to play this game on Windows, Linux, Mac, PocketPC and even Dreamcast with an application called ScummVM. I highly recommend playing this game if you get the chance.

I love these point-and-click adventure animated games. LucasArts really deliver with this delightful comedic adventure game. This is the story of two private detectives, an unlikely pair - a dog and a rabbit- Sam and Max. There's a lot of heart in this adventure game and also a lot of laughs to be had. The writing is great and the puzzles that are pretty fun. The characters are quite endearing and the story moves at a steady pace. The animation was pretty great for its time and the game plays out like a feature-length film. The voice acting is pretty superb. It's no surprise they made this into a series.

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.