I Reviewed EVERY Pajama Sam Game (1996 - 2003): A Humongous Entertainment Retrospective

[@FunnyStarRunner]

Fun fact: By the time "Games to Play on Any Day" was released, King of the Hill had finished its 5th season, so you can hear that Sam now has a Bobby-style Southern twang in his voice.

[@Skeeballman64]

Even better.

[@NoshGilligan23]

The boy has become southern

[@spingleboygle]

lol

[@lydiajulianprower8356]

That boy ain't right.

[@HuntewIden]

1:55:55 the librarian is an onion ya goober, that’s why she’s always crying and sniffling

[@Ikine557]

You wanna talk about situational dialogue. The candles. The FREAKING candles. All three of those candles in the hallway after the revolving door have different dialogue trees depending on the order you click on them. You could probably spend an hour finding it all!

[@hallsririe7840]

the “chair”man of the “board” joke killed me as an adult. went over my head as a kid, what a gift these games are.

[@TapathyWR]

Funny story, they actually gave away Pajama Sam 3 in Cereal Boxes for a while. It's how I got mine as a kid.

[@kgpspyguy]

Cereal box gang rise up! I got Freddy fish

[@RoninCatholic]

Sam would be in his late 20s or early 30s nowadays. Can you imagine Sam tackling age appropriate adult aversions? _"Pajama Sam In: No Need To Get Bitter When Folks Say Crap On Twitter"_ _"Pajama Sam In: Try Not To Rage As You Work For Your Wage"_ _"Pajama Sam In: Don't Fret 'Bout Being Single, Get Out There And Mingle"_

[@jaggerguth4391]

Pajama Sam in Being Insane in the Membrane. Pajama Sam in Being Blue is Better than Being Gloom.

[@CoreyCrookz]

Don't Stay in Your Parents House when You're Afraid of College Don't Drink and Party and have Sex when You're Grades Matter Don't Download Child Porn and Other Squicky Stuff when You Don't Want to Get Arrested by The Police

[@RoninCatholic]

@@CoreyCrookz Almost a good subtitle, now find a way to make it rhyme!

[@CoreyCrookz]

I Can't find a way to make it rhyme

[@CoreyCrookz]

I feel like I could make these into games but I feel that I have to make a new character for it?

[@KeybladeMasterAndy]

I love that when Otto is lecturing about geysers, the words "Gratuitous Educational Content" flash on-screen. If it weren't framed in the game window, I'd assume that you added it.

[@alexanderklepp]

I always found that hilarious.

[@jaggerguth4391]

GRATUITOUS EDUCATIONAL CONTENT

[@Starpotion]

Knowing the history behind Humongous and realizing that this was a jab at other edutainment titles makes the joke so much more funny to me

[@pokemonmanic3595]

This really showed how amazing HE was and how much they knew that forced educational aspects bores kids

[@alangriffith1006]

As a child I was always confused how Otto could know so much about geysers but didn't know wood, the very material he's made of, floated on water

[@NorbertSD]

5:47 Pamela Adlon also voiced Spinelli on Disney's Recess too.

[@jaggerguth4391]

and Milo.

[@NorbertSD]

@@jaggerguth4391 Who's Milo?

[@jaggerguth4391]

@@NorbertSD Milo From Oblongs.

[@hiddenflare6169]

‘Kid enters closet only to fall inside and enter the land of darkness.’ Shadowstreak I didn’t know you were talking about Deltarune XD.

[@sapphirek5244]

Can I respectfully kiss your brain

[@toon4thought]

With the paths in No Need to Hide, I'm pretty sure the flashlight in the mines and the mask being under the couch are essentially 'unlocked' by beating the game (once for the former, twice for the latter). Yes, I've gone through the game enough times to figure this out. But that's probably why your paths never changed in your childhood playthroughs.

[@ShadowStreak]

That makes sense, I wonder if there's some sort of hint that this is true buried in the game's code. It's just weird that it feels like the odds are also not 50-50 even after that fact. On the other hand, the staggered unlock method is cool because then it really encourages going back to the game multiple times to experience something new across 3 playthroughs instead of getting it all in just 2!

[@reptile1687]

@@ShadowStreakthey never changed for me either, when i played the app years later i was surprised by the new path

[@geoffingoff]

​@@ShadowStreak I've definitely read that these paths are locked until the game is beaten enough times on a Wiki or something, but I cant seem to find it now.

[@elucidator1277]

That IRS robot scene in the first game had me laughing for a good 3 mins. I lost it at the cheese part. lmao

[@angel30382]

Oh. My god. Pajama Sam and the other Humongous games were my childhood. I can already tell this is going to be one of those videos I listen to multiple times over and over. Havarti! Provolone!

[@polytanksan5761]

Havarti

[@frostlord1246]

I beat ya! You're toast!

[@retroflashbackdude]

Fun fact: if Carrot is in your inventory in the lab, he’ll pop out of the cape with a funny comment after Sam tries a couple of the potions. The ones I’ve had this happen on were the weather one where he tells Sam that his protest speech was getting wet from the rain, and for costume one where he pops out and says “oh great” after Sam says “off with his head”.

[@HorrorLover98]

I forgot about that lol

[@alexanderklepp]

This was a great retrospective on Pajama Sam. I think another reason that he connects the most with young audiences is because kids have active imaginations as well so they can relate to that aspect as well. I love the imagination put into these games and I always loved going into the dancing furniture room to listen to that music as it's still so catchy. On the note of Freddi Fish's voice actress making a cameo in Pajama Sam 3, that reminded me as you pointed out that Jason Ellefson made a cameo in Freddi Fish 1. On a final note, I think it's interesting that you and Brutalmoose have opposite opinions on Pajama Sam 2 and 3. He likes 3 a little more than 2 and for you, it's vice versa.

[@mercenarygundam1487]

I never grew up with PJ Sam but I played it when I was older and I can see why people enjoyed it. I would have loved this along with Spy Fox. It's the art style and the charming characters that made me fell in LOVE with HE. 1:02:54 IT'S TIME TO DUEL!

[@vestonbruno2795]

I'm more into Pamela Adlon's other roles than Bobby Hill. This is one of them. This is the greatest review so far!

[@Reapermaskhybrid]

Yeah, Otto from Time Squad was pretty great with Pam's voice coming out of him.

[@vestonbruno2795]

@@Reapermaskhybrid I couldn't agree more.

[@JomasterTheSecond]

Pajama Sam 4 was the first point and click adventure I ever played back when I was like, 3 or 4 years old and I've held a massive soft spot for the series ever since. Can't help but love these games.

[@TippyTime]

Definitely a long shot, but would love to see a Pajama Sam revival someday! Or at least a cartoon TV show that is better than what was given in the 4th game.

[@TheTomSco]

1:19:04 I've always imagined Foster Boondoggle is the guy in the executive washroom who keeps telling Sam it's occupied

[@uknownada]

1:02:00 Wow, I had the EXACT same experience. I played the first game a ton as a kid, but then later my parents got me the third game, on the Playstation for some reason. The Playstation version is exactly the same but a few scenes aren't animated. Like when Sam dances with Miss Celery, in the PS1 version you never actually see the inside of the house. Just watch the silhouettes in the window. I think that made the scene funnier, honestly. Anyways, I could only play the second game as a demo over and over again. I was always curious about it. I didn't play it until WAAAY later when all the games finally released on Steam. I guess it wasn't the same experience at all. lol

[@saifuusuri]

I'll be honest, I played these games a lot as a kid, but once I figured out what to do, I used to do the bare minimum to beat them, so I never saw a lot of the optional stuff you touched on. All this time later and I'm learning new things. I really enjoy this video.

[@Metruzanca]

Such a good game francise. Such good memories. No clue how I got my hands on darkness, but I feel it has something to with the fact that my name is Sam. And then from there, all the games in the series.

[@EBTheOriginalMaster]

Just last weekend I watched a Stream archive of Brutalmoose playing the second game from this franchise. And now we finally get the Retrospective video from you. Sweet!

[@matthewgillis2617]

I've not seen such bravery!

[@brianblumenreich9026]

I enjoy the part of the game with the banter between the three talking candles once you get through the secret bookcase passageway!

[@packman2321]

A funny story on the You are what you eat demo: I had a disk of a few demos as a kid and never had any of the full games to my knowledge. As a result of not really understanding what demos were, I remember the game being this weirdly compelling horrifying thing to me, where no matter what I did Sam could never escape 'The End' and You are What you eat sort of became this weird threat. It must have stuck with me because I refound the games some 20 years later, from seeing a single frame of Pajama Sam. So yeah, that disjointed basic thing is somehow the most memorable horror story I have ever encountered.

[@EmeraldCoasttt]

Same, my copy of no need to hide had the demo of 3. REALLY didn't help that the final thing sam says in the demo is "uh oh, looks like this is the end!" I didn't understand that he meant the end of the demo as a kid, so that was just. Terrifying

[@brianlevine871]

Yay! I saw my comment in the opening! Now on to the "Pajama Sam" games themselves. I loved the environments of the first three games, with the mines and Darkness' literal treehouse in the first one being my most favorite. Unfortunately, while I always completed the first and third games, I don't think I ever got to finish the second one since I remember struggling in certain parts. The Y-Pipe getting stuck in that vending machine was always my biggest issue with it. Never knew about the fourth game until in recent years, so I have no comment on it. As for the arcade games, I think I remember playing the first two, but my memory is kind of fuzzy on them. You did a fantastic job on this video btw! I'm still sorry you had to deal with those computer issues, but I'm glad you found a way to revive this project and deliver it when you could. Also, happy almost Halloween!

[@ShadowStreak]

Thank you so much! I enjoyed reading your thoughts, and Happy Halloween to you as well!

[@claudinesullivan7699]

This was such an excellent retrospective on games that are so beloved to my heart. Even though Freddi Fish was my first game Pajama became my favourite and No Need To Hide my all time favourite game of the series as well. The editing is superb and your delivery is amazing. It's easy to tell the passion you have for Pajama Sam and Humongous Entertainment in general. Funny enough with how much I played and replayed these games (The original trio of course) I never knew about Carrot taking over as Chairman of the board because I never went to that room multiple times. Other rarely seen dialogues I've found regarding Carrot are if you have him in you inventory when you are in Darkness' lab if you do the one with a rain cloud Carrot complains he is writing out something and he doesn't want it to get wet and the disguise one where Sam is made into a king saying "Off with his head" Carrot pops out and makes a sarcastic comment along the lines of "Oh great, that's the last thing we need". Also through my own peaking around I found out you can have Carrot talk to the elitist trees and he says "LOFTY ELITIST BOURGEOIS PIGS! YOU'RE VEGETABLES, TOO, YA KNOW!" I'll have to get the game again to see this all play out lol. Edit: Also Carrot talking to the Snowflake Inspector and the lost and found with the I.D never knew either! Just shows how much work they put into those little scenarios.

[@genemelendez8157]

The IRS joke in the first game had me in stitches

[@wolffster25]

I’ve been enjoying this entire retrospective it’s such a nostalgia bomb for me. I’m going to have to revisit the games soon also Carrot is played by David Scully who also played both Sgt. Johnson (Halo) and Dimitri (Sly Cooper 2 & 3). It’s so cool that Pajama Sam tried to introduce some concepts involving economics a perfect example of Giffen’s Paradox might also involve expensive wines or a more nefarious example NFTs they are not very good products however it’s more of owning a status symbol than something useful thank you Pajama Sam you taught me something about economics!!

[@chase_h.01]

What ive noticed about HE games is if you put them in front of fully grown adults who never grew up with them, they both A) still hold up and are incredibly entertaining B) are actually a fair bit challenging to solve even for an adult

[@matthewgillis2617]

Even I, a full grown 26 year old, had issues trying to figure out the y pipe in the vending machine. I acted on a hunch and used the rainbow recipe... and only then did I get some money and I said out loud "Are ya kidding me?! It was that easy?!"

[@jake.klusewitz]

Fantastic! So much nostalgia, watching through all of these Humongous documentaries. Really well researched, edited and narrated! Pajama Sam was always my favorite from their collection. Funny, I totally forgot about Sock Works! Lot of good memories with that little puzzler. 🙂

[@SuperNova-mp5zp]

I know I'm a bit late to the party (so u might not see this) but thank you again for such an amazing vid!! This series has always been my fave so to see it covered and such detail and with so much passion is amazing!! I find it really interesting that I had a similar experience to you when it came to PJ 1 and randomization however for me it was with pajama sam 2's randomization. It took me years to get the VP paper clip-path (aka wing nuts secondary path) . I wouldn't have gotten it till I replayed the game for fun in high school. I still remember the shock I had when I saw a brand new room added to the office section of worldwide weather. It was almost like getting to play the game again new years later. It was so much fun and actually had me really stumped for a while I remember it fondly. as well the plumber joke goes even further funny enough. so they are plumbs working in the Sam's supposed "internal pipes" as it were, but also since they are plumbs they also all have a plumber's crack XD. Man these games have so much depth and detail lastly, I remember distinctly when I got PJ 4 (yes it is by far the worst in HE history ) that I read on the back of the box that the game advertised itself to and i quote "The adventure changes every time you play" Much how they marketed their old games. However, as we both know this is a lie and sucked so much as a kid. I already didn't like this game for many reasons heck it was so bad I distinctly remember it giving me a headache with how much it bothered me. But that right there is false advertising and I was so upset to go back and play it again and find nothing different! shame on Infograms and their marketing team! At anyrate 3 is my personal fave ( and i attribute it to my love of food and politics lmao) though 2 was my first and will always have a nostalgic place in my heart however 1 has my second fave atmosphere tied with 3 All great games IMO!! thanks again for such a great vid !! I cant wait to see the next when the time comes!

[@asaelpolanco8151]

Never knew you finally did a video of Pajama Sam, considering that when I was a kid, I played "No Need to Hide", "You are What You Eat from Your Head to Your Feet" (the music still gets me those nostalgic Toontown/Disney's Magic Artist feels) and "Life is Rough When You Lose Your Stuff". Something that you forgot to mention on the Pajama Sam 4 part; the only parts that are fully lip-synched is the first part of the opening sequence as well as the song. That's it. There's absolutely almost no lip-synching with every character. Also, Pajama Sam 1 is the first Humongous game to actually use and experiment with full lip-sync, although it can still be disconnected at points in the game.

[@karmew32]

FUN FACT: In Sam's living room in Pajama Sam 2, if you click on the lamp, one of the possibilities is that it'll make the sound effect from the Powerpuff Girls episode title card.

[@Pencilman246]

Pajama Sam 3 is the one I had as a kid, so I have the most nostalgia for it, but after playing them, all it's still my favorite. I just love the design of the island and the story with the food characters. I can't get into the first two as much, even if the actual puzzles aren't as good.

[@retroflashbackdude]

There is an HE Easter egg in Pajama Sam 2. If the 🪩 is on the ceiling in the master control room and you click on it it will play a small snippet of the Backyard Sports theme. Also, in the rare chance that you need to find the Snowflake Inspector with Sid and he’s hiding in the bathroom then Velo will be in the bottom floor of the warehouse.

[@RanterInShades]

Greetings! I'm a watcher of the Award Show Audit streams you do with PieGuyRulz and heard mention of you making some Humongous Entertainment retrospectives and I got excited because these games were my shit growing up. Pajama Sam in particular was my favorite, with 2 being my favorite of the original trilogy. A big thing I loved about these games was the exploration aspect. There was so much to see and do and things to uncover, and you brought up quite a bit that I had never even noticed before such as Carrot usurping the executive room in 2. I've also noticed that the older I get, the more I see how amazingly the humor in the games has aged. This video was so well made and I'm glad someone took the time to put something like this together. I also like the parts during the 1 portion where you crossfade during a screen to show how it looks in the opposite path. And yes, 4 can piss off with its boring singular path, cheap graphics, generic voice acting (plus that grating sponge voice), and annoying song. The only thing I like about that game at all is (most of) the background music, that's it.

[@andrepoitras779]

Our childhood was a sham. I grew up with these and it made me who I am in some subtle kind of way... I'd say PM me and I'd tell you all about it but honestly, I don't have the energy. Your video was entertaining and exactly what I needed right now. You ARE enchanting. The best I can say is this: Hope is where YOU are. not some foreign construct, not some ideal. I've said enough. also, you missed the part about the plums and how scissors and paper made an appearance but we don't hear much from kidney STONE(rock)... lol

[@cultofjenova5653]

One of the funniest scenes in the second game to me was trying to give the guy who likes apples and applecore. His reaction was too funny. I also distinctly remember one of the socks being unobtainable in the first game because it was in one of those mine cart travel screens and the mouse was unusable during it. But that could've been a glitch on the PowerMac I was using.

[@ballerinafromtheblock]

Remember playing these every day at school....back before I even ever took an AR reading test. Fond memories, I would like to revisit this someday.

[@MediaNutso]

The reason why Pajama Sam 4 came out as it did is a lot more complex than you would imagine. Here are the bullet points of what I know, - by this time, the Atari, Inc executives didn't want to make anymore of the Junior Adventure games, as producing them was far from cheap, plus they wanted to make big games that would, in turn, turn in huge profits. - the executives then allowed the team to make more of them on the condition that they kept production costs low, which they agreed to, resulting in much of the art and animation being outsourced to other companies, which would explain why the lip-synching isn't as good as in the past three games, and why they recasted Sam to Elisha Ferguson (that, and Pamela Adlon was probably very busy by then), - the team, once again, at the behest of the Atari, Inc executives, was using a new game engine (the Python, later dubbed the YAGA) that they were literally learning how to use as they were making the games. As you can imagine, this meant many elements that were present in the previous games were left out And you want to know what makes all of this worse? The crew really did care about wanting to make the game good, but with all of that, plus being put in a time crunch that left them distressed and little time to input more creativity, the game greatly suffered for it when it could've been so much better. It's rather sad that the team went through all of that. Here's a little bonus fact that you didn't mention, Shadow: Games to Play on Any Day was the first game to have the audio rendered in 22khz, whereas every game before it had it rendered in 11khz, which would explain why the audio for the games released in 2000 and 2001 sounded far more compressed and blown out.

[@mediafanatic.4730]

Man, I missed out on these games when I was young. Great Job 👍🏻 on the Video Shadow.

[@vongolajames]

I have been really looking forward to this! Your videos on this series (and in general) are extremely well made and deserve far more recognition! Thanks for the amazing content Shadow 😊😊😊

[@ShadowStreak]

Thank you!!! Glad you're enjoying them :D

[@AeonKnigh432]

I'm glad you covered more than the first game. I only ever played 2 as a kid, and nobody ever covers it. They only have nostalgia for the first game

[@DemonicRosebush]

Hearing those Dutch lines really brought back memories!

[@pokemonmanic3595]

“There’s no mail, beat it.”

[@frostlord1246]

"Ah alright there's a little mail but its all for Darkness. And it's all bills!"

[@pokemonmanic3595]

@@frostlord1246 “You don’t want what’s in here, trust me.”

[@frostlord1246]

@@pokemonmanic3595 "Oh alright here you go." *hands letter to Sam*

[@pokemonmanic3595]

@@frostlord1246 “Darkness may have already won a fabulous million dollar prize.”😒 *throws it back in* “Yeah right.”

[@mordaciousfilms]

NO NEED TO HIDE was so smart and creative and witty... so fun for me as a small kid back in the day. Only really played the first three, the first most often (very re-playable) and the second too, but beyond that I sorta grew out of the series I suppose. But the first is just iconic. I love the music and art style!

[@TheLadyLiddell]

Maybe the kitchen appliances singing is a reference to Beauty and the Beast? Since "Be Our Guest" is one of the biggest songs in the movie

[@ShadowStreak]

That's possible considering that film would've released just a few years before this game!

[@carterhurt1910]

Great job on these videos. I loved all the HE games as a kid, but No Need To Hide is definitely my favorite, possibly tied with Spy Fox in Dry Cereal.

[@PangloriousFam]

Found your channel yesterday when I searched for Freddi Fish in a nostalgia-addled haze. Greatly enjoyed your Humongous Entertainment video and am excited to be engaging with your vids in the future.

[@rastergrafx4210]

I think that "lawsuit" the Pumpkinhead Boy poem was referring to might have been the horror film franchise of the same name.

[@james_fisch]

I've been getting into Humongous games recently out of curiosity to see how well they played 20 years since I last played them, as well as try out the games I never grew up on. What I had no idea about was the following the games have held recently, so to add to the fun I've been watching your retrospectives after I've completed a franchise, like Freddi Fish and now Pajama Sam. I did not grow up on Pajama Sam, but I do remember the demos from the first two games. I'm not really sure why we never had those games, but we did have a small variety of Putt-Putt and Freddi Fish. Now that I'm almost 30 I played the Pajama Sam series for the first time this week, minus the arcade ones as I'm not as interested. Pajama Sam 1 is an absolute masterpiece and I'd argue it as my favorite HE game now. Feels like I missed out growing up! 2 and 3 were good. Then I played the fourth one. That game took me about 3 sittings to finish. It's absolutely atrocious. I remember you mentioning it as bad in another video, but I didn't think of how bad. JUST as soon as I got in, I watched it freak out in dealing with my 4k monitor and screwing up windows on the monitor next to it. Then I noticed there wasn't a ScummVM splash screen, nor the escape key working to skip cutscenes. Once I heard the sock singing, I just instinctively went "I hate this game already." It's the worst HE game I've played, and among the worst I've ever played. So, so much they got wrong with it.

[@kevinmccallister1992]

Pajama Sam 2 thunder and lightning aren’t so frightening is the best one because it has the best concept and settings it’s my second favorite humongous game after Spy Fox 2.

[@jaylenmorris3687]

This is such a niche video. I really appreciate how much effort you put in!

[@MoonieTheMenace]

The puzzle where you get the flashlight in the mines will forever be my favorite. It boggled my mind so much as a kid, and I remembered that I would keep asking my dad for help on the math wall ^^; I could get the gear just fine, but it was the MATH WALL THAT STUMPED ME HAHA

[@bovinearchduke8626]

This is so nostalgic for me. Also just wanted to add, thank you for your hard work. I dunno if I'd have been willing to do that much work AGAIN after program failure.

[@mathieuleader8601]

this should have been made into a show

[@Yoshinator]

I'm really glad to see you were able to finish this video, if it were me I would be too devastated to continue. Great job man, I can't wait to watch it all. EDIT: Just finished it. Fantastic work and man, I really slept on these games. I loved the first game as much as you did as a kid, but never played the rest (or even knew about them) until I was much, much older. The way the adult stuff is handled is super incredible it doesn't feel hamfisted like people do now a days, but fun and imaginative and makes you think about it when you are older, or makes you feel like "They're doing what in this!?". Incredible games, huge shame about the 4th game, more than Putt Putt in my eyes since Pajama Sam is far more clever than Putt Putt. Great work as always, can't wait for Spy Fox. I'm only familiar with Dry Cereal, so it'll be fun to see what I missed.

[@Doodles2345]

35:50. THANK YOU even today as an adult when I replay these games, I always get the flashlight and the mask on carrot and the shed. Granted the flash light changed sometimes, but the mask always on carrot. I had to use the debug menue to change it.

[@madyshae7890]

agree with shed and carrot being the more likely spawn locations with PJS1!!! I can only remember getting the cave in the mines once or twice ever!

[@redstreak9430]

41:36 maybe it’s a Beauty and the Beast reference considering the sentient appliances?

[@Landmasters]

Wow at the dancing furniture room, I thought that was just a throwaway gag. I always got the carrot spawn for the mask, every single time I played which was several dozen, but I did get the various lunchbox and flashlight spawns

[@kanvaros4451]

Yooo i remember these game sooo fondly ! Thunder and lighting aren’t so frighting ! And the trees ! These games got me into adventure games specifically point and clicks! When’s our Freddy fish retrospective!

[@ShadowStreak]

I've actually already made my Freddi Fish retrospective! You can find it in the video's cards/end slate!

[@kanvaros4451]

@@ShadowStreak just watched it loved these ! Do you have any plan to have a retrospective on Fox ?

[@BrianKachur]

The voice of the Mailbox and King is the same voice as the Halo announcer that says “DOUBLE KILL.”

[@MrMuppetLover]

SID is voiced by the same guy who voices Professor Quack in the Spy Fox games.

[@RainingMetal]

Pajama Sam 1 has a hidden debug mode in which you can determine your paths like the other games allow if you tinker with the game files. It's an easy means of getting the routes you couldn't get on a natural playthrough. In my experience the "easy" routes for each item (Flashlight in shed, Mask from Carrot, and Lunchbox in river) tend to have a noticeably higher rate of being chosen naturally over the "hard" routes. I often have to pull teeth to get the Flashlight in the mines (the route I consider canon given the end credits) to appear without using the debug mode to force it that way.

[@Inspiration_Date]

GRATUITOUS EDUCATIONAL CONTENT

[@jerseylife8701]

I was too scared to finish pajama Sam, but I loved Freddi fish and age of empires shortly after. Thank you for making this series and letting me live through the whole game!

[@HuigbertsGamed]

I owned the third game (You're what you eat) on dvd, which for some reason left out the multiple randomised paths, so every playthrough was the exact same.

[@ladypool1404]

The fourth game should have been about talking to girls. Maybe Sam met one in school, was shy and not sure who to talk to her. At night, he's suck in a world where Pyjama man is here; is shy about asking a girl to be his sidekick. It's a good message on friendship and can be fun to learn. Sounds more interresting than what we got. The title could be: Talking to a girl makes you swirl? I like it 😀

[@Anton15243]

That would also be the first time we would see Sam interact with other people outside of his fantasy worlds besides mom, so that could also give some interesting info about Pajama Sam's lore. Are there more blue-skinned boys, or is Sam the only one?

[@LegendofBen]

I once replayed Sockworks because i remembered as a kid one of "Sam's celebration" animations being the "king tut nununu" bit, and then one of the level menu screen animations being that he fell into the machine and got folded up into a sock shape. But I could never find the machine animation bit.....

[@superpalsofficial]

Found it!

[@LegendofBen]

@@superpalsofficial ok?

[@Zippo_Squeeze]

Jeez. I remember having the disc for "Spy fox, in dry cereal" (or maybe it was one of the putt putt games) and playing a demo for pajama sam through that. It's like a fever dream i'm not even sure if I'm remembering right, but when you had the disc, if would open like a sub window to play spy fox, but display some of their other games and you could play the demos that way. I could be totally wrong here, but I feel like that's what I remember. Either way, fantastic memories.

[@SomeLinedPaper]

Re: certain puzzles being weirdly rare in Sam 1, I can definitely vouch for that. When I was a kid, I got the shed and carrot puzzles 90% of the time. I believe the game was intended to "lock" the furniture and mines puzzles until the game had been completed at least once. Perhaps this feature was implemented incorrectly, making those puzzles pointlessly rare? I remember having a similar experience with Putt-Putt 4, where certain puzzles seemed to never trigger (like the history report in the old west) while others seemed to trigger nearly all the time (like the calculator in the old west). Not sure what's up with that.

[@P_araps]

i personally played the first pajama sam game on the switch, and interestingly the mines path for the flashlight was WAY more common for me than the shed

[@austincorreia53]

Just subbed and I'm so stoked to watch all these retrospectives!🤘🤘🤘

[@austinreed7343]

2:30 Contrast Nightmare Ned, which only embraced fear and took it to new heights.

[@Michael-bb5dd]

I played and beat Lost & Found, the last level (100) is Sam's neighborhood, where you ride a red wagon. Love the main theme of the game as well, would always just stay on the title screen for as long as possible just to listen to it. Also, I NEVER knew you could save or load in Pajama Sam 1! Mind blown!

[@skysamfreeman]

Lost & Found's main theme is an injection of pure nostalgia.

[@Michael-bb5dd]

@@skysamfreeman Got that right.

[@pockypurse]

The two best in-game references in "No Need to Hide" are: in the door room, you can open one door and come across The Beatles as their "Yellow Submarine" animated selves. The other is, during the Brain Tickler, they ask you "What's the best programming language?" (One of the answers is "Who cares", LOL) I have a feeling that was thrown in as a joke from the programming crew.

[@vincent1935]

Great video! I can’t wait to see the Spy Fox retrospective next. After that, are you planning to review each minor franchise and then save Backyard Sports for last? Since Backyard Sports is going to be a very long video.

[@ShadowStreak]

You're right on the money!

[@mdandrews]

Late but I love this video! I also agree with your idea that in the first game, it seems the odds are so much lower for the mask in the living room and the flashlight in the mine. I almost never get those variations.

[@PokeshadowYT]

Oh my god I've never heard the replacment voice for Pajama Sam before, and all I can hear is Rainbow Dash cosplaying as Sam

[@Quaila]

Noooo but the bean machine is so funny when you keep going past Bean 47 lol they start dropping like 5 at a time after like bean 100, I always died laughing at the chaos and the buzzer just wailing constantly, I could even count on it to cheer me up after a bad day at school XD

[@Scorpionspear77]

Out of all the Humongous games I played, I actually made the least progress with Sam. I only owned Thunder and Lightning Aren’t So Frightening, but never got further than getting either the Automated Snowflake Inspector or Y-Pipe. Meanwhile I beat the three Freddi Fish and two Putt-Putt games I played (I never owned Spy Fox as a kid) I even got more mileage out of the OG Backyard Sports games. I liked Sam, but for some reason I never got far with him. I don’t even remember why.

[@softpinkblush]

The Y pipe locker combination seems to be randomised as well, I just replayed it and the combo was actually my birthdate :O (08/22)

[@michelleliu8100]

I thought the game implied that Sam was dr.grime when all the things wanted his autograph, since it’s technically his room and he was the originator for the mess?

[@cofagrigusfan24]

i am pretty sure that the board room boards (Larch, Birch and Splinter) are the same characters from the "rare" flashlight route in PJS1 also there is now also a Switch release of several Humongous Adventure games

[@carlossoto1715]

I enjoyed Putt Putt and Freddi Fish. And when I introduced Pajama Sam to one of my cousins, she was enamored with this series, and the character. It’s also nice to know that compared to many of the other Humongous characters, Sam is voiced by a high profile actress: Pamela Adlon, with her recognizable voice of Bobby, Spinelli, and Otto among her many other roles. And of course Sam gaining a different voice during the Atari era was one of the signs of the studio’s downfall, but I guess him being voiced by EG Daily during the Junior Arcade titles was not bad.

[@dreamielynn1264]

I realized while watching this that i love games that take you to a mysterious and quirky world

[@Michael-bb5dd]

Pajama Sam 1 and 2 (along with Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo, and Spy Fox in Dry Cereal) are on the Switch!

[@evdomos]

I clicked this to see if you started the video with the Humongous sound, and you did. Fine work, carry on.

[@Klancer2]

Remember that Pajama Sam game where his friend joined a gang, earned his tat, and started shaking down local businesses for protection money? And the one where Sam tripped during mom's dinner party, and Pajama Sam had to escape Killer Mom's Wooden Spoon of face hurting doom! Or how about the one where Pajama Sam wanders away from his dad at the mall, and has to navigate his way out of a human trafficking ring?

[@jummylee8889]

is this fanfic

[@Klancer2]

@@jummylee8889 Just some really dark jokes.

[@FreedomTrooper89]

Talk about bringing me back to my Childhood. Good old Children's Point an click Games. I remember that out of Putt-Putt, Freddi Fish, and Pajama Sam, Pajama Sam was my favorite. Also the first Game was the best. The Nostalgia is real, thanks for the review and taking me back almost 29 years ago when I was in my early life!

[@dogemcmoon9644]

35:20 are you kidding me? I played this a million times, even as an adult but i never saw those options. Im gonna go play this until i get that gameplay 😸 woah

[@JeraWizard]

I relate to always hearing Pamela as Sam -- years and years later, I was watching an episode of star trek TNG and heard her voice. I knew before I looked up that it was her!

[@The1mbeany]

I got Pajama Sam 3 in a general mills cereal box

[@austinmozer4638]

Hey there DougDoug fans

[@Match25]

I didn't get into Humongous Entertainment until I was close to my teen so Spy Fox has always been my favorite

[@MiloTheMightyDude]

I laughed out loud watching that Wii port's opening. How could such shoddy work get released to stores?

[@ShadowStreak]

I ask myself the same question lol

[@fruitlion8]

1:46:20 I don't mind saying the heart hub would have scared young me, as I have cardiophobia. Even the word heart makes me anxious, seeing an actual heart like that would have been too much.

[@superpalsofficial]

Even your own heart of your body?

[@asrielnightcast6610]

I've only played the first and 4th games as a kid and I'm sad to hear you didn't enjoy life is rough when you lose your stuff because I had fond memories of it, but maybe my memories of the game are clouded with nostalgia

[@brightwolfz]

Other than Bobby Hill, the original Sam voice actress also voiced Spinelli in Recess

[@retroflashbackdude]

She currently voices Darryl on The Ghost and Molly McGee