Great old school point and click adventure game Sam & Max Hit the Road.
Purchase key via GameBillet (never heard of them before but IsThereAnyDeal has them listed so I trust that) and activate on Steam. Worked fine for me a few minutes ago.
Make sure you pay via a credit card that doesn't charge you foreign exchange rates because Paypal will process it in GBP.
Me too. Don't think I finished it, didn't have the attention span.
I finished it back in the day. Up until about 7 years ago I could count the number of games I had finished on one hand.
Yep! My uncle built my first computer and my aunty handed me a bunch of games to start off with
Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max, Indiana Jones.
Holy shizzzz! Exactly the same collection of games here! And Full Throttle!
haha after all that I had a choice between Full Throttle and The Dig.
Went for The Dig, no regrets.
Same!
Awesome game… i remember Day of the Tentacle and Full Throttle as well.. classics!
we'll never have games like this again
Theres been a resurgence of adventure games in the past few years. I haven't had the chance to try them all, but Deponia series was quite funny and had a bit of Monkey Island vibes
Another one on my radar was "Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love"
And Monkey Island, Indiana Jones, Loom & The Dig
Loved these games, still do!
With realistic system requirements -
OS: Windows XP or newer Processor: 1 GHz Memory: 256 MB RAM Graphics: 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 DirectX: Version 7.0 Storage: 250 MB available space Sound Card: 16-bit sound card Additional Notes: Mouse, Keyboard
Had me a Sound Blaster sound card and some Creative speakers too… those were the days…
I remember spending $450 for 2X CDRom just so I could play this cutting edge game. (Price might have included an 8 bit soundblaster but can't really remember now. )
@EightImmortals: oh man 2X for $450!!!… I remember that was fast when it came out… until we bought a 4x from the Computer Swap meet and that thing just flew.. and you could actually hear the drive itself go nuts and green light flash rapdily!
@Mingles: …and the 1x cane with a catridge the CD ROMs had to be placed into first…
And now they only exist in the history/archive section at scienceworks.. along with 5 1/4 floppies…
Both of which have semi-recently been remastered, FYI
Lysander must be salty that he didnt get to post this deal and beat you to the punch.
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This and day of the tentacle were amazing at the time :D
You weren't nothing if you didn't play DotT back in the day.
At least you can play the remastered version of DOTT. But of course nothing beats playing it back when there was no internet to help you with the creative yet wacky puzzles.
BBS?
@ajh: More like $1/minute hotline number listed in the manual. My friend called it and wrote down the fatalities, babalaties and friendships for every character in mortal kombat 3. His mum had to pay something like $30 on that call since there was a $5 or so connection fee too.
Didn't like it. Not that it's the only reason but I played sam and max and full throttle first which had actually good GUI. And frankly S&M was side splitting funny. Dott couldn't compete.
The games were often hard and intuitive, but that's just what gaming was like back then. In the 90s being stuck on the same bit for hours was considered fun.
@AustriaBargain: Yeah, I meant back then. Well.. The days of the CD release at least (lucasarts adventure pack with S&M, Dott, Indiana, can't remember what else)
@AustriaBargain: Remember the original adventure titles before they had mouse support and you had to type the right thing. Sometimes you would be typing to look at something but have the words just a little bit wrong and the game would pretend you can't interact with it, drove me mad.
Quest For Glory was so good though & you could bring your character across from one game to the next, sometimes you could bring across class/ability that you couldn't normally get in the sequel without an import.
@Agret: Space Quest, Kings Quest, Police Quests & Leisure Suit Larry… glory days of adventure gaming before point n clicks came out…
I remember that game. I also loved Broken Sword!
Back when it originally released it was the first game I heard human voiceover though a Soundblaster :D
Turn off voice. Text only. It loses so much humour when not read.
I've been playing these on my phone with the SCUMM emulator… just in case anyone hasn't heard of this method.
This! One of first apps i load on my ipad and then copy across all the nostalgic adventure games. Play them at least once a year..
Secret of Monkey Island…
Pretty sure this abandonware since Purcel owns the rights to the franchise. But I'd be lying if I said I didn't buy it full price on Steam eons ago for a nostalgia kick. Worth every cent!
Didn’t it get remastered recently?
Didn’t it get remastered recently?
Nah, there was Grim Fandango, Day of the Tentacle and Full Throttle which were remastered in the last couple of years, all from Doublefine games.
Sam and Max was under licence with Telltale for a while who made the episodic series on Steam, after that the rights to the original game still are owned by Purcel I believe… Disney owns a portion of the original Lucas Arts game library, of course non-inclusive of the ones bought/licenced by Tim Shaffer or Telltale.
"where can we put this bomb where it won't hurt people we know and love?"
"Out the window, there are only strangers there"
…
"I hope there was nobody on that bus"
"Nobody we know anyway"
Definitely a must play.
oh baby
I tried the Day of the Tenticle remaster, I found it unbearable! When you know what to do it takes forever to walk from one side of the screen to the other. When you don't know what to do you have the frustration of randomly clicking on stuff in a bunch of different rooms which take forever to go to. I had 0% fun =(
I enjoyed Sam and Max far more as a kid than DOTT but I reckon watching a YouTube play through sounds like more fun than actually playing it!
You know humanity has literally hit rock bottom when people are too lazy to play video games.
First game I ever bought.
Loved this game and Full Throttle was good too
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One of my first games :)