In my opinion, S&M is the better game. It's maybe because I have played it about 7 or 8 times, while DOTT no more than 3. Anyway, I like S&M best, but DOTT is in no way worse. It's just taste.
Let's say it this way. I didn't see Sanitarium in the top 20 from the day before yesterday. However, imo, it's one of the best games ever. Not just adventure games, all kind of games!

So, it's a matter of taste, or a matter of putting up with games' flaws, or anything imaginable
:)

How wrong you are, because Amiga was the first platform I played DOTT on. Sux that you missed it.

Must have some selective memory there, FoA was the last LEC game for the Amiga.

EDIT: For more info look here - http://www.mobygames.com/game/versions/p,2/gameId,719/

I have the disks at home. I played DOTT on Amiga. I will get screenshots to prove it if I have to. Just beacuse MobyGames doesn't list it having an Amiga release, doesn't mean it didn't happen. I wouldn't trust MG as far as I could throw them.

Mobygames is wrong a heck of a lot.

Yeah, I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them. I just hope my memory is more reliable. :P

Well, I've been following the Amiga market since 1990/91 (I've been an Amiga-nut since then), and I've never read a review or even preview of DOTT on the Amiga. The game was NEVER released, there's no doubt in my mind. I probably know more about amiga games than I know about PS2 games, as I've tried close to 80-85% of the amiga games ever released.

And no, DOTT was not released on Amiga. You must be confusing it with a different game, like Maniac Mansion or something. And please Do provide us with screenshots, 'cause I'd very much want to be wrong... ;)

No, I wasn't confusing it with MM. What I may have been remembering was having played the demo, not the full game. From information gathered from the best Amiga message board on the net, a demo was released for DOTT on Amiga. So I'm not completely insane one could concur.

hmmm... you have this demo still? If not, you don't know of any possible clues which could lead me to this particular demo, like which magazine it was from and so.

Sam&Max is a difficult game to judge. It has difficult puzzles with very few clues - something quite rare in a Lucasarts adventure - and it has the most brutal and subtle sense of humor alternating during the game. You have the VERY GOOD JOKE of "at least there was no one in that bus", and then subtle parodies, like those clerks which look exactly the same wherever you are, that stupid attraction called "The biggest ball of wool" (or whatever the name, I played it in spanish, sorry), and above it all, that memorable, destructive, almost punkish ending. It's the most nihilistic adventure Lucasarts made, and curiously enough, it reminds me the kind of humor you found in "Mars Attacks", another neglected masterpiece.

Risingson

Twine. Biggest ball of twine. ;) :P

--Erwin

Well, I prefer S&M to DOTT, and consider it to be better in almoust every aspect, from humor to puzzles. And if talking about cliche situations, DOTT is far less original in its humor then S&M as most of it is turned around different cartoonish situations/animations, which are taken from different famouse cartoons. While in S&M it is usually based on the characters and the phrases they said, and american culture (which I'm not a part of, but nevertheless find many jokes very funny).

I agree, both DOTT and S&M have cliched humour. It's just Sam and Max is sort of a parody, while DOTT tries to be original on its own.

i think they are both classic but they are different so theres no point comparing em... i bet if sam and max freelance police was released..and successful we prob woulda got a day of the tentacle sequel 2 :frown:

A demo of sort might have been developed, but not released to the public. That's not to say that it didn't actually get leaked or anything, as happened a lot with the Amiga.

I clearly remember Amiga magazines going all :( when news about DOTT being cancelled broke though, and I'm 100% certain that it was not released for the Amiga.

Me too, it was definately never released and i'm pretty sure there was never a demo either.

The version I played was an unofficial port according to the good people at eab.abime.net. And it's not the SCUMMVM version either.

Here's the thread.

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?...678#post143678