Based on Sam and Max: Freelance Police, comic book characters created by Steve Purcell, it follows the detective duo (Sam, a 6-feet anthropomorphic dog, and Max, a 4-feet psychotic rabbitty thing) across a kitsch, tourist trap pastiche of America (featuring the World's Largest Ball of String) in search of an escaped Bigfoot.
It introduced a slightly modified SCUMM interface - instead of the inventory and a panel with the control verbs appearing at the bottom of the screen, a right-click of the mouse cycles through a set of icons representing different control verbs, and the inventory is a separate screen. A similar interface was later used in The Curse of Monkey Island, the third Monkey Island game and the last to use a SCUMM engine.
Widely considered the funniest of the LucasArts adventure games (if not overall the best), it was written by Steve Purcell and designed by Purcell along with Sean Clark, Collette Michaud and Michael Stemmie. It was released simultaneously on floppy disk and CD-ROM; the CD version had a full voiceover soundtrack.
A sequel - Sam and Max: Freelance Police - is due to be released in 2004.
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