Recordkeeping: Sam and Max Hit The Road COMPLETE

[xyzzysqrl]

There was a time I could recite this game from memory and while that time is past (I actually found some dialogue while playing that I hadn't seen before, yay!) I still love it up and down the block. This was one of the cornerstones of a young sqrl's personality, and ... y'know, while it hasn't aged so well ("laugh at the freak" humor doesn't, nor do some of the casual one-off lines, and the game's largely an all-guy sausagefest) it still FEELS funny deep in my heart.

It's really, really late-nineties take-nothing-seriously comedy though. I'm gonna outgrow that entirely someday, aren't I?

So I'm AWARE of the flaws in it, and I love it anyway. I badly needed some mental comfort food, so I loaded this up again.

Plus it "counts" as new because I haven't played it since I started recordkeeping.

So do all the other Lucasgames.

Expect to see THOSE float by at some point now that I've gotten MT-32 emulation working. Fancy-ass MIDI!

Comments

[silveradept]

Highway surfing was definitely one of those ways to contemplate what to do next in the game. Although we never could get past level 10.

[swordianmaster]

Pounded in the MIDI by my own fancy.

Wait.

[penguinmayhem]

Taken By Surprise By A Nineties Video Game Franchise.

[dang_bunni]

I keep this installed on my DS just so I can play Car Bomb whenever I like.

Also with a save just before the end, because trees.

[tuftears]

That was a classic game! Did you play the early Telltale Sam & Max episodic adventures? Before they turned to a purveyor of QTE sequences and "cinematic" narrative.

[xyzzysqrl]

Y'know, I'm positive I played the first season, I'm fuzzy on the second, and I have zero memory of the third except for a vivid memory of the ending.

I may go through those again sometime.

[swordianmaster]

It'd be nice to watch them again, maybe carve a place for them in my memories that isn't marred by associations to unpleasant people.

[tuftears]

Yay, more Sam & Max nostalgia ahead then. ^.^

[davidn]

I got this from my uncle - like all the LucasArts games, it was fantastic :) By fumbling my way through it, I was able to get up to Conroy Bumpus's mansion, which I think is about halfway through even though it feels like it's very near the end. I never worked out that I had to use the grabbers on the books in the bedroom, and that stuck me until years later when the Internet was invented and I could look up a guide!