November 1993: LucasArts releases Sam and Max: Hit The Road When it comes to 1990s point-and-click adventure games, you’d be hard pressed to find a funnier game than Sam and Max: Hit the Road. (Okay, so maybe your definition of “funny” is different from mine…) The anthropomorphic dog Sam and his hyperkinetic rabbity thing sidekick Max were crime-fighting comic…
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Today in Gaming History: 10/30/2013
October 1993: Mortal Kombat storms the arcade and has people up in arms Much like the movies Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom had made people question the appropriateness of general entertainment for the masses a decade earlier, Mortal Kombat was one of several games released in the early 1990s that paved…
Today in Gaming History: 10/4/2013
October 4, 1993: Panasonic 3DO released I don’t know about you, but whenever I hear this string of one number and two letters, I become just a little sad. The oft-maligned 3DO was released into what would become a very successful console market that would soon see the likes of the PlayStation and the Nintendo…