Ever gotten bitten by the nostalgia bug and tried dropping an old classic in to your disc drive for a spin? After hearing that Sam & Max would be returning to the PC under the wing of new indie developer Telltalle Games, we wanted to play the 1993 classic, Sam & Max Hit the Road.
Upon cracking open our mint condition box we find... oh man, 3.5" floppy discs? DOS? Whoa, we didn't want to get that nostalgic. Sure, we could twiddle around on the 'net and find an emulator like ScummVM or DOSBox, but we just wanted to dust off Sam & Max, not our propeller caps.
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