Sam & Max Hit the Road

One of the greatest Point and Click games of all time.

As someone with no prior exposure to Steve Purcell's comic books works like the titular Sam & Max, this was quite a hair-scratcher of a pile of puzzles. Enjoyable, entertaining, but also often left me stumped for not realizing a scene had more exits or panning to the edge. Gorgeus artwork also occasionally hid key items.

I had this on CDROM as a kid, it was enjoyable and often confusing in the way that old point+click adventure games were (and sometimes still are). This GOG version runs perfectly on Win11. I chose to edit the samnmax.ini file to disable fullscreen mode. The inclusion of the original manual AND the hint book as PDFs is a great touch, as there's some lovely silly stuff in them. F5 opens the ScummVM menu to save/load/quit.

This was funny back when I played it in my young teens, and its still funny now as a middle-aged adult. Slapstick humor? Check. Unnecessary violence? Check. Nonsensical puzzle solutions? Check. All of the ingredients for a properly zany LucasArts game.

Look it sufffers from every point and click in exitence where you click every inch of the screen and mash things together in order to figure out what works HOWEVER no soft locking and pretty smooth sailing. Recommend a guide if stuck cause again you might have a solution overlooked in a group of pixels and there are no rewards bfor banging your head against a brick wall hours at a time.