Imagine for a moment that three well-known missing people, Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindberg, and Dan "D.B." Cooper, have not only been located, but they are alive and well, sunning themselves on Easter Island, bathing in the fountain of youth… and they're talking babies. Now imagine that Abe Lincoln's head is there and has a crush on a talking Easter Island stone statue.
Still here?
Welcome back from vacation -- and to Sam & Max Moai Better Blues, the happy place of talking detective dogs, rabbity things, and the second episode of the second season. After the furry duo saved Christmas in the second season debut, it has returned home, but only to find a "mysterious cabal of triangles" chasing the friendly NPC Cybil around their normally safe neighborhood. What do flying triangles have to do with anything?
David Houghton:
Santa Claus. Father Christmas. Kris Kringle. St. Nick. He's the most benevolent man in the history of the entire existance of the world. The human embodiment of the generosity, joy and Olympic-standard eating that Chrstmas is all about. Truly, he is the best of all of us. So why on earth would you want to fight him? As non-instinctive actions go, it's right up there with sending kittens to war.
But video games make us do it more than you might expect. In fact there are plenty of games that take in, or even culminate in, a violent throwdown with the best person ever. Sometimes these games try to come up with a good reason for it. Sometimes, of course, the jolly bearded man you battle isn't the real Santa at all. And in one case it turns out that fighting Santa is possibly the best thing you'll ever do. You're intrigued, aren't you? So click onward and find out what we're on about.
Those of you who watch the credits on Sam & Max episodes will be familiar with the name of Joey Camen. The talented voice actor can be recognised in the games as the voice of Bosco and the Two-Teeth family, and has lent his voice to many different games and shows throughout the years.
Joey was kind enough to offer up his time to answer some questions in an exclusive interview for samandmax.co.uk
From Gamertell:
"Telltale Inc. today (February 11, 2010) confirmed during the Macworld 2010 expo that it will, indeed, be releasing games for Mac.
Even better, the releases begin today (February 11, 2010) with Tales of Monkey Island."
Games can also vote on the next Telltale series style game to be release in March for Mac.