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Sam and Max Revival?
Though we've mentioned the possibility before, the rumour is again circulating that Sam and Max may ride again. Adventure Gamers has the story in the form of an interview with the owner of the studio supposedly angling for the franchise. From the article: Q: Rumor has it that Bad Brain is attempting to acquire the rights to Sam & Max: Freelance Police. What can you say about that? A: No comment (I signed an NDA). All I can say is: yes, we are talking to LucasArts about a game that might involve animals, but that's all folks!"
Because they think stapling the Star Wars license on an already established genre in a piss-poor game is innovative.
Actually, Sam & Max started as a series of comics. I saw Sam & Max comics in the LucasArts newsletter/magazine/whatever-it-was many years after the game was released.
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Not just that, but you could consider it a franchise given that Max cameo'd _everywhere_ in LucasArts games. There's a map in one of the dark forces game shaped like Sam's head, and in BallBlazer Champions' practice mode, the in cockpit view had Sam's head dangling from your rearview mirror like fuzzy dice.
Hell, even a mech in one of the battletech books (forget which) was drawn with a Max head decal on the side.
And that's only the Max heads I've seen firsthand. I'm sure he's elsewhere.
He was in a totem pole in the Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Adventure Game.
I'm totally psyched about the potential of another Sam N Max (again..) It's only a matter of time before graphic adventures become retro enough to be cool again. You can only play so many FPS, RTS and MMORPGS. In the meantime I'll go play a little Peasant's Quest
This might be interesting to people that enjoyed the original Maniac Mansion. I love Adventure games, and there is a new version of the original Maniac Mansion - might be more accessible to gamers who prefer updated graphics, and such.
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The link is http://people.freenet.de/lucasfangames/maniac/gam
Adventure isn't dead!
"There's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all."
- Bob Dylan
If there's some adventure fans that are psyched about the possibility of a Sam & Max release, there are some fun freeware adventure games out there that I've really enjoyed and feel others may too? Just trying to spread some of the good news in the genre:
The games '5 Days a Stranger' and '7 Days a Skeptic' are a lot of fun and are free for download, it's neat to see what game developers are up to in order to deal with the paucity of new adventure games. 5 Days a Stranger, http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/5days/ is the first in a series, followed by the Sci-Fi themed 7 Days a Skeptic http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/7days/. They're both by this designed named 'Ben Crenshaw', and looks like they have won a few awards - it's great that this designer of free software is getting recognized.
Hope this helps some people deal with the lack of adventure games, and let's hope that this Sam & Max game comes out!
"There's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all."
- Bob Dylan
And appeared twice in the original Monkey Island - once in a portrait on the wall of the kitchen in the Scumm Bar, then again as part of one of the idols in front of the Great Monkey Head.
Man, I really shouldn't remember all this, should I...?
The file that you download, mmd11setup.exe, is the install programme. I don't know if it runs on Mac OS X (not very familiar with it), but it won't run on your SCUMM-emulator. The programme is made using an freeware programme that lets you make adventure games.
"There's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all."
- Bob Dylan
and again in the costume shop.
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