Hey everyone!
I’m attaching the Sam & Max review from Greek magazine PC Games (a supplement of PC Master) from April 1994. It is written by Andreas Tsourinakis, a prominent figure in Greek adventure and RPG coverage at the time. He LOVED adventure games and tended to exaggerate both in writing and scores (he gave Escape from Monkey Island a 98%!!!). He was also notorious for spoiling major puzzles and plotlines in his reviews. In this one he includes a screenshot from the finale of the game.
Obviously most of you won’t be able to read it (although I hope the resolution is sufficient for a Google Lens or any LLM to translate) so I will summarize it here.
The text praises Steve Purcell, the humor, the graphics and animation (which he calls TV-quality) as well as the sound (so, pretty much everything). It’s a very favourable review that concludes that this is a rare game anyway you look at it. Alas, he also mentions that he cannot wait for the sequel…
The text in the score box says:
Perhaps the top adventure game of the year. The amazing humor surpasses even that of Monkey Island. Very good music and excellent graphics give you a cartoon the likes of which you haven’t even seen on TV.
Graphics: 94%
Action: 94%
Control: 82%
Humor: 98%
Sound: 94%
OVERALL: 90%
The categories used to be arbitrary so depending on the game you would have different aspects rated, hence the inclusion of “humor”. What “action” means for a p-n-c game… Your guess is as good as mine 🙂
Cheers
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