Sam & Max Hit the Road
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…
Sam & Max Hit the Road is an adventure developed by LucasArts, released 1 November 1993 on DOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Sam & Max Hit the Road is
Sam & Max Hit the Road is an adventure game developed by LucasArts and released in 1993. It was published by Activision. It is available on DOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on SCUMM.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Sam and Max, the Freelance Police, are two comic book characters created by Steve Purcell, who act as private detectives and vigilantes. Sam & Max Hit the Road follows the pair on a case that takes them from their office in New York City across the United States. The game starts in a similar way to many of the comic stories, with Sam and Max receiving a telephone call from an unseen and unheard Commissioner, who tells them to go to a nearby carnival.[7] At the carnival, they are told by the owners that their star attraction, a frozen bigfoot called Bruno, has been set free and fled taking their second attraction, Trixie the Giraffe-Necked Girl.[8] Sam and Max set off to find Bruno and…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are comedy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Sam & Max series
Sam & Max Hit the Road is the first of 12 entries we hold in the Sam & Max series. The next entry was Sam & Max: Save the World in 2007. Its critic score of 83 is 5 points above the series average of 79. The highest-rated entry is Poker Night at the Inventory at 96.
How it was received
Sam & Max Hit the Road holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 78% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1993 averaged 64, so it scored 19 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 84, across 160 votes.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1 GHz, 256 MB RAM and 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Sam & Max Hit the Road yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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