Proto:Sam & Max Hit the Road

This page details one or more prototype versions of Sam & Max Hit the Road.

This page covers a early prerelease demo of Sam & Max Hit the Road that is available on Archive.org.

Graphical Differences

The LucasArts screen

Demo	Final

Title Screen

Demo	Final

Inventory/hud icons

lots of the icons used in Sam's Inventory have early version of them.

Demo	Final	Description
		The Cone O' Tragedy.
		Carbomb. The early version uses the same icon as the Pecan Flavored candies do in both the demo and the final game.
		"I gotta go to the bathroom." The toilet is drawn from a side angle in the demo. While the final is from a 45 degree angle facing up at it
		The Pillow from Conroy's room.
		The Dress up book game
		The wires from the Rotating Diner
		The Tornado Totem
		The Dino Totem
		The Hair totem
		The John Murr Totem
		The authentic dinosaur tooth.
		This is the item you get after bending the ice pick to a bottle opener. Since this demo has no graphics for the snow globe, potentially you were supposed to use this bottle to store the mysterious vortex.

Background differences

Demo	Final	Description
		Sam & Max's Office. Max's rare 60s poster has different text. The demo background uses hash shading for the dark shadows in the foreground and on the ceiling.
		At the carnival in the demo, Trixie's trailer is just 2 solid colors. The final game adds more detailing to it. Also the entire left side of the image was redone adding the big sign, trash can, fence and redoing the bushes and ground.
		The Scoreboard in the "wholesome" Wak-A-Rat game is way simpler in the Demo. The final game tells you how many rats you need to hit to win.

Demo	Final	Description
		The Rat biting the power box is a bright yellow, while in the final it blends in the background by being blue. The buttons also have a little bit of yellow on them.

Unused Graphics/animations

An exclamation mark. Maybe an early version of the one used for dialog. In the final game, it is replaced by the graphics for the snow globe.

unknown plus looking shape

Golden Guy animations

There is 1 unused graphics and 2 unused animations of the LucasArts Golden Guy. Some of these might have been intended to be used on the LucasArt Screen at the beginning of the game

Spinning Golden Guy

Sam & Max Morphing into Golden Guy

Even though the before of Sam & Max is used for the LucasArts screen, that is stored as a background while this animation is stored as a costume.

Warped? Golden Guy

Early Conroy Bumpus Animation

An early version of Conroy using the electric stun stick. This animation is never played as the Savage Jungle Inn is not implemented in this demo. The animation itself is pretty similar to the final, although the stun stick looks extremely basic and he doesn't grit his teeth when using it.

Early	Final

Unused Menu

There is an unused version of the menu that you can enter by using the debug features of ScummVM, and sending yourself to room 78.

Unused	Used in the Demo and Final

There are options to change the Screen Saver, and color mode. Which in the final game are controlled through keys on the keyboard. You also have two different backgrounds that you can choose from on this screen. #3 and #4 will just set the picture to the same as #1. Most buttons don't work, or cause ScummVM to crash.

The ScreenSaver Menu

The Main Menu With BG 2