Sam and Max Hit the Road (1993) (VG)

User Rating:

9.0/10   

Directors:

Sean Clark
Michael Stemmle

Writer:

Steve Purcell (characters)

Genre:

Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Mystery

Plot:

Two screwball detectives are hired to track a couple of human oddities that went missing from a local Tourist Trap.

Plot Keywords:

Midget | Character Name In Title

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Bill Farmer	...	Sam / Psychic / Flambe / Vanuatoo (voice)
Nick Jameson	...	Max / World of Fish fisherman / Various (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Marsha Clark	...	Trixie the Giraffe-Necked Girl / Evelyn Morrison
Denny Delk	...	Shep Kushman / Burl Kushman / Lee Harvey
Irwin Keyes	...	Bruno (voice)
Tony Pope	...	(voice)
Beth Wernick	...	(voice)

Also Known As:

Sam & Max (International: English title) (short title)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Company:

LucasArts Entertainment Company

Quotes:

[after looking through the mounted binoculars at the top of the World's Largest Ball of Twine]
Sam: I'm sure this thing is somehow useful, but I'll be damned if I know how.

Movie Connections:

References The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

You can't go wrong with this duo.

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.