Sam & Max Hit the Road

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Released Nov 1, 1993

By: LucasArts, Activision, Activision Asia-Pacific, Activision Deutchland, Activision Italia, Activision UK, Disney Interactive Studios, Softgold Computerspiele GmbH

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Sam & Max Hit the Road is a graphic adventure video game released by LucasArts during the company's adventure games era. The game was originally released for MS-DOS in 1993 and for Mac OS in 1995. A 2002 re-release included compatibility with Windows. The game is based on the comic characters of Sam and Max, the "Freelance Police", an anthropomorphic dog and "hyperkinetic rabbity thing". The characters, created by Steve Purcell, originally debuted in a 1987 comic book series. Based on the 1989 Sam & Max comic On the Road, the duo take the case of a missing bigfoot from a nearby carnival, traveling to many Americana tourist sites to solve the mystery.

Genres: Adventure Point-and-click Puzzle
Platforms: DOS Linux Mac PC (Microsoft Windows)
Themes: Comedy Science fiction
Franchises: Sam & Max
Game modes: Single player
Perspectives: Side view
Engines: SCUMM
Keywords: anthropomorphism bats bird breaking the fourth wall british accent cat chef clone crime dark humor dialogue trees digital distribution dimension travel dinosaurs dog dynamic soundtrack episodic fake game over screen flashback game reference gog preservation program guitar playing helicopter hidden room item combination mind control minigames movie reference mummy non-player character one-handed gameplay overweight character pizza playstation network playstation trophies protagonist's name in the title psychic abilities rabbit rat recurring character robots running gag save point scatological humor scumm scummvm compatible severed limbs shape-shifting single-player only steam play talking animals teleportation tentacles to be continued ufo villain voice acting whac-a-mole world map
Languages: English · Subtitles, Interface, Audio French · Interface, Audio, Subtitles German · Audio, Subtitles, Interface Italian · Interface, Audio, Subtitles Spanish (Spain) · Interface, Subtitles
Age ratings: ESRB T PEGI 12 USK 12

Complete release history (10)

DOS · November 1993
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DOS · Q4 1993
Brazil · Quarter · Full release · IGDB
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Mac · 1995
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PC (Microsoft Windows) · Nov 7, 2004
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PC (Microsoft Windows) · Jan 31, 2007
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PC (Microsoft Windows) · Mar 30, 2007
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Linux · Oct 28, 2014
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Mac · Oct 28, 2014
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PC (Microsoft Windows) · Oct 28, 2014
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