Sam & Max Hit the Road

So, on RockPaperShotgun's recommendation i picked up an indie adventure game today, called "Time gentlemen, Please!"
I'm very positively surprised! For a game thrown together in AGS by a couple mates and a few of their friends, it's like some lost relic from the adventure golden age. If only a bit more depraved. The game has a "racism" slider in its options screen, which is both the most awesome thing i have ever seen as well as a good indicator of the sense of humor the game rides on.

I really recommend people who enjoyed LucasArts adventures, especially Sam&Max, pick this up. There's no voice acting, the graphics are apparently all done in MS Paint, but the writing really makes it worthwhile.

Between this, the Sam&Max episode on XBLA and the new Monkey Island episode; dare i say adventures are becoming somewhat of a legitimate genre again?

Seriously, what's it gonna take?

With games like Bionic Commando and Street Fighter 2 getting awesome revivals, what force on earth has to be mustered in order to have the same thing done with the Lucasarts back catalogue?

Day Of The Tentacle?

Sam & Max Hit The Road?

Full Throttle?

Indiana Jones & The Fate Of Atlantis?

Hey LucasArts, you are iron-clad guaranteed to make a TON of cash if you do this. I myself will give you a stupid amount of my hard-earned coin for this simple request! Do you understand? GUARANTEED REVENUE EARNED!

Get to it!

Trivia makes you this happy

Trivia

Those young scamps behind the scenes at Giant Bomb recently snuck out a brand new trivia feature that is curently in beta. You can rack up points on a leaderboard by answering gaming questions and make a fool out of yourself as you get them all wrong - maybe that's just me. Of course, all the questions are user-submitted, and I've mainly been spending my time submitting for a vast variety of games, ranging from Super Mario to Darby the Dragon. The neat thing is that you can see all your past answers, how many people have taken the same questions as you and the percentage of correct answers. This also works on your own user-submitted questions, telling you how many times people have answered your questions, and the hardest one you've set (at the moment mine is 'In 'Monsters Inc. Scare Island', how many zones were there?'). It's an easy question though, I'm not sure why people are finding it hard...
What do you all think of the trivia? I think it's amazing, so props to everyone who helped create it.

You crack me up, little buddy

Sam & Max

Come on, if you haven't figured out that I'm a fan of Sam & Max yet, I don't know where you've been. Possibly one of the greatest franchise ever, Sam & Max started out as a comic book in 1987, before moving into the gaming world with Hit the Road in 1993. Developed by LucasArts when they were good and before they entered the STAR-WARS-MILKING era, Hit the Road was a graphical point-and-click adventure that took the hearts of many due to it's unique humour, characters and plot. After a 2004 cancellation of a sequel, the license was picked up by Telltale Games in late 2005 and they have ever since been developing episodic games, with two seasons of Sam & Max to date (consisting of six and five episodes respectively). There's your history lesson for today. Still not convinced about the wonders of Sam & Max? You can download Abe Lincoln Must Die, one of the great season one episodes, for free at Telltale's site right here. Let me know if anyone plays it. What are your favourite franchises? Do you have an unhealthy addiction to them?

Later homeboys.