Hit The Road re-release(uk, australia, new zealand)
http://www.mixnmojo.com reported it.. woo hoo Sam & max for 9.95 in Australia now.. http://www.gameswarehouse.com.au/longpage.asp?gameid=13995
you can order from that web site as well. Anyone who missed it the first time can now grab it.
you can order from that web site as well. Anyone who missed it the first time can now grab it.
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Not in America, there's not.
This is an Activision initiative in the territories they have LucasArts distribution rights for (as far as I can tell).
I'm surprised there's no DOTT or IJ & the Fate of Atlantis in the lineup. There was an S&M/DOTT double pack in the UK editions (though I personally prefer them on separate discs). The Cover art's so much nicer when it's not cropped like that.
I kinda understand why they've only got talkie games though. Still, I'm sure at that price point a MI 1 & 2 double pack & a Loom would sell enough to make it worthwhile.
I really liked when LEC sold the Monkey Island 1-3 pack, with the white label jewel case CMI that also included the Monkey Madness compilation of the first two games. Good times. Oh well.
I wish I'd bought this MI 4-game Collector's Edition Pack (front) | (back) when it was around a few years back. Didn't realise it was an Australasian only (?) release and rare as hen's teeth.
Yeah, I got at least two people into Monkey Island with that. It was only $15 too.
And just the mention of the game Loom makes me feel a bit queasy. I disliked that game immensely.
Urg that packaging design!
Man, shipping to the US from there is $28 USD (I emailed them)...
"ALO LEUCASARTS, CANN U UPGRADING MAI LOOMZ? PLZKTHX"
(Don't mind me, I found that hilarious for some reason, chalk it up to lack of sleep :P)
In fact I probably have already done this, but as I've only played the first scene - and that was over a year ago - simply forgotten.
I only need Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Zack McKracken...both of which will be impossible to find.
I also have these -
And I have the other Lucasarts adventure games as well, including the CD version of Loom with the audio drama on CD.. pretty cool too that audio drama.
You can see many of my other Lucasarts adventure games in the "old adventure games" thread in the lounge
However, I have the white box (as above in the bottom left picture) and a whole load of other Lucasarts games. I gave my Sam and Max away to a friend and never got it back, though.
Cheers mate! Will hunt that A.S.A.P!
(Well, I already have S&M, but it, er, is a caseless, boxless CD talkie copy a mate was disinterested in asking for back, and I didn't see him often. No chase, no contact, no foul, right? Besides, it sure as hell seems like I loved it more.)
I'm going to pass on the word to others though - despite the fact that you don't need to buy it, since it's not a prequel per se, but without Hit The Road, only DEVOTED Purcell comics fans would be ping-ponging around the room about Telltale's game, that's IF it existed without H.T.R.
Still, are Lucasarts (or whichever company) being fair about saying "by the way, Telltale has future tales because we're not into that market anymore"?
Or are they just not doing anything like that and acting like the moneygrubbers the Lucas name has slowly trickled down to?
(No offense ex-L.A people - that's directed at the Suits that effectively made Adventure Gaming an endangered species after the 90s, and then gave us hope, then axed "Freelance Police" when it was nearly done. I have a feeling Hell is pretty full of Lawyers, but I'm betting if you asked some of the guys in suits down there, before their demise, they'll have been Games Company, Movie and TV Suits.)
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, it to see if [Insert Store Selling "Sam And Max Hit The Road" Here] will:
- Know about Sam and Max and/or the new games, if not, TELL them so word spreads intrastore, then on to the customers buying Hit The Road!
- Casually tell anyone checking Hit The Road out about the new games.
("Around the same price, but just released!")
- Buy Season 1's CD for store sale (provided Telltale Games will/can sort out a deal)
(From what I know about TTG mechanics, this isn't likely, but worth a brainstorm.)
Even if only part of that is successful, it helps TTG and Purcell sell more TTG games (piggybacking on the older games like Lucas is trying to do with the new - only fair) and continue the games!