About Sam & Max Hit the Road™ elcome, Crimestompers! Before we hit the road with Sam & Max™ in pursuit of hyperthyroid thugs and sinister Sasquatch-nappers, you need a few facts on the case from the files of the Freelance Police: It started simply enough with a call from the Commissioner. Soon Sam & Max were screaming down the highway (they have to scream since their siren broke) to the Kushman Bros. Carnival, where they learned that Bruno the Bigfoot and Trixie the Giraffe-Necked Girl had disappeared.
Playing the Game To start the game on your computer, please use the computer reference card included with the game. It contains all the instructions specific to your computer. As the story opens, Sam & Max are hanging out at their office when the phone rings . These non-interactive sequences are known as “cut-scenes” — short, animated sequences, like scenes from a movie — which can provide clues and information about the characters.
Don’t worry – we’ll never punish you for selecting the “wrong” or funny dialogue function. After all, you’re playing this game to have fun, aren’t you? Well, aren’t you?!?! Function Keys To save your progress in a game, enabling you to turn the computer off and start again later in the same place, use the save feature. Simply press the Save/Load Game function key (F1 or F5 on most computers – see your reference card for more information).
included a decorative assortment of entertaining mini-games. Here are some instructions and hints for these added diversions. Press “Q” to quit any mini-game. A Few Helpful Hints Pick up everything you can. Odds are, at some point all those strange things will serve some purpose. If you get stuck and can’t figure out how to proceed, try looking through all the items you’ve found and thinking about how each one might be used (perhaps with yet another item in your inventory).
THEY’RE LIKE SIPPING A SLUSHEE TOO FAST FOR HOURS ON END! lefthand grid on the bottom. Cars can be rotated 90˚ by clicking the right mouse button. Place the rest of your cars in the same manner. You also have trampolines to place. These are single squares that are “parked” in the same area as your cars, and, when placed, will bounce your opponent’s bombs back to their home territory.
CUSTOMER SUPPORT Before contacting customer support, please consult the technical help file. It contains the answers to some of our most frequently asked questions and may quickly and easily provide a solution to your difficulty. If after reviewing the technical help file you are still experiencing problems, please feel free to contact us through any of the online services listed.
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