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)

Directed by
Sean Clark
Michael Stemmle

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Steve Purcell		characters

Produced by
Sean Clark	....	producer
Michael Stemmle	....	producer

Original Music by
Clint Bajakian
Michael Land
Peter McConnell

Art Department
Larry Ahern	....	graphics
Peter Chan	....	graphics
Jesse Clark	....	graphics
Michael Levine	....	graphics
Paul Mica	....	graphics
Steve Purcell	....	graphics

Sound Department
Jonathan Ackley	....	sound
Michael Land	....	sound programmer
Peter McConnell	....	sound programmer
Tamlynn Niglio	....	sound (as Tamlynn Barra)
Aric Wilmunder	....	sound programmer

Visual Effects by
Ron K. Lussier	....	modeler

Animation Department
Anson Jew	....	animator: additional animation

Music Department
Michael Land	....	music programmer
Peter McConnell	....	music programmer
Aric Wilmunder	....	music programmer

Other crew
Jonathan Ackley	....	programmer
Sean Clark	....	programmer
Livia Knight	....	programmer
Michael Stemmle	....	programmer

Production Companies

• LucasArts Entertainment Company

Distributors

• LucasArts Entertainment Company (worldwide)

Also Known As:

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

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Company:

LucasArts Entertainment Company

Quotes:

Sam: [at the World's Biggest Ball of Twine] It's things like this that make me wish I were Canadian.
Curator: They've got one of these too, but half of it's French.

Movie Connections:

References Ghost Busters (1984)

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.