"The best of these was Sam and Max Hit the Road."

I really have to disagree with you there. The best Point and Click ever made has to be the Monkey Island series. The Sam and Max games are great but The wit and wisdom of MI beats it hands down.

I'm selling these fine leather jackets btw......

If anyone want to try out Sam & max before buying, Telltale have made one of the best episodes from Series one, Abe Lincon Must Die!, free to download.

Head along to
http://www.telltalegames.com/store/samandmax
and you add it to your cart for nothing.

It's worth downloading just just for the Song and Dance routine...

I bought Season One 3 weeks ago and finished it last week. It was hilarious, and well worth the paltry 30$. I didn't think the puzzles were too bad, I only had to look up answers online for 3 puzzles, which isn't bad for 6 total episodes. I loved the humor and really loved the music (the moon theme was my fave). Much of the humor is in subtle cultural references (what do you mean 'we', white rabbit?), and it's really necessary to do everything more than once just to not miss out on some of the tidbits. And I'm definitely voting for Max for president in '08!

If you have Valve's Steam client installed, you can select and download the free Sam and Max episode Matchstick told you about through Steam. It is Episode 4 on the list.

For those who haven't played the first set of episodes, you can get episode four (Abe Lincoln Must Die) off Steam or from Telltale's website directly.

Also, to the commenter in the last article, they have no plans to port Sam & Max to consoles. All their 360 manpower is reserved for pumping out CSI games. :/