Sam & Max Hit the Road is a graphic adventure game released by LucasArts during the heyday of adventure games. The game was originally released for MS-DOS in 1993 and for Mac OS in 1995. A 2002 re-release also offered compatibility with Windows. The game is based on the comic book characters Sam and Max, the "Freelance Police," an anthropomorphic dog and a "hyperkinetic rabbity thing." The characters, created by Steve Purcell, made their debut in a 1987 comic book series. Based on the 1989 Sam & Max comic On the Road, the duo takes on the case of a missing Bigfoot from a nearby carnival and travels to various tourist attractions across America to solve the mystery.
