Sam & Max Hit the Road: The Board Game

LucasArts used to include a magazine with their games called The Adventurer. Each issue contained a comic strip featuring Sam & Max facing situations that parodied whatever game LucasArts was working on at the time.

Issue #7 had a Sam & Max comic tackling Sam & Max’s own game, Sam & Max Hit the Road. Except rather than a standard comic, Steve Purcell made a board game out of the family road trip, complete with screaming kids and odd tourist locations. It was called Sam & Max Hit the Road: The Thrill Packed and Completely Unrelated Official Board Game.

I had the magazine for quite some time. I read the funny comments on the game’s spaces many times, but I never actually took the time to play the board game. Today I decided to change that for day one of my 43Things goal to try something new everyday.

Mom and I played the game together. We didn’t have dice so we used three pennies. Each time a penny landed on heads it would be one move, every penny that landed on heads would be two moves.

The game was over pretty quick, as mom hit the space for the short cut over the bridge across the Enchanted Valley of Burning Tires. She beat me pretty bad, but I’ll even the score when I play her again tomorrow.

It is gross outside

The temperature has been in the 90s Fahrenheit since Friday! I don’t like being a hermit, but it’s way too hot outside to do much of anything for too long. To top it all off, on Friday and Saturday we actually had a polluted air advisory! That shocked me, since I live in a town that is surrounded by trees and farms. That was the first I’ve seen that advisory in this area in my entire life. Hot and polluted? I think my body can stand staying indoors, thank you very much.

Created a postcard

I wanted to try Postcrossing for a while. You’re given an address from someone somewhere in the world. You then mail a postcard to that person with the Postcrossing ID you are given. They tell postcrossing you sent your postcard, then you are added to their system for someone to get your address. Then you are sent a postcard with a different Postcrossing ID from somewhere else in the world.

It sounds like a great idea, but I was having trouble finding postcards to buy. I was looking through my mom’s pictures, and I noticed that she bought some postcards from the post office with prepaid postage. She must have bought them a while ago though, since they are printed with a 24 cent stamp image. But, since we can add postage to the postcard, I thought that I would use these.

They have no images, just a stamp image on one side on the top-right corner showing the postage. One of the things that I have on my 43things list is to create a postcard, so I figured I would get two birds with one stone this way.

I was trying to think of what to put on the postcard, and I wanted to do something that would show Elmira in some way. I thought of the Eldridge Park Carousel, and set off to draw a carousel horse. I had never drawn a horse before, so I wasn’t sure how it would turn out, but I’m pretty happy with the result: