I remember being a little kid and at some point, I got this three-pack of LucasArts DOS games for my IBM Aptiva.  Indiana Jones And The Fate Of Atlantis, Sam & Max Hit The Road and Day Of The Tentacle.

I never played the Indiana Jones game much, but Sam & Max Hit The Road and Day Of The Tentacle dominated about an hour or two of my times after school for a little while.  They were fun, made you think, and at the time, anyways, there were no walkthroughs easily found.  So a young me had to figure things out and piece it all together.  Sometimes when I was stuck I would leave the game for a week and go back to it with fresh eyes.

But anyways, it just ocurred to me today how much those games shaped me as a youngster.  The dark and twisted art, the sick humor and the weird mysteries that demand for you to think.  Also the Sam & Max game made me want to search for more stuff featuring them, which led me to find the WONDERFUL comics by Steve Purcell and my life was made when I later discovered that a cartoon on Fox Kids was going to be made.  Damn…What a great couple of games.

Anyways, here’s the intro to Day Of The Tentacle.  Just cuz.