Sam & Max Hit the Road 1993

Is it still worth playing?

LucasArts' 1993 point and click graphic adventure for MS-DOS, based on Steve Purcell's comic characters, the Freelance Police Sam and Max. A carnival's bigfoot escapes with a performer, and the pair follow the trail across American tourist sites in their 1960 DeSoto, with a map that grows. The screen is mostly visual, with five verbs left: Walk, Look, Talk, Get and Operate. Conversation is icon based with non sequiturs, inventory items are used on objects or combined, and Max can be used on objects too. Several minigames are required, such as Whack a Rat, and others are optional. You cannot die or reach a dead end. Puzzles that ask you to collect items and combine them with scattered objects, in a tourist trap setting that cannot dead end, still let you explore at your own pace today.