Earlier this week on our YouTube channel, I posted the first video in my Let’s Play of Sam & Max Hit the Road. In short, this is a point-and-click game released by LucasArts in 1993. It contains the titular characters of Sam, an anthropomorphic dog, and Max, a “hyperkinetic rabbity thing,” both freelance police/detectives/good at poking around in other people’s business. Both were also comic book characters before they became video game characters. And both posses their own unique personalities and skillsets, with Sam being the proverbial upstanding citizen and straightman to Max’s twisted tendencies and dark sense of humor. In other words, it’s a game that’s right up my alley.
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