PAJAMA SAM: NO NEED TO HIDE WHEN IT’S DARK OUTSIDE

I’m not afraid of the dark. I’m not! But I am afraid of what PC gaming would look like without Pajama Sam. A whole generation of PC gamers grew up after the heyday of adventure games, but were too young and oblivious to notice the rapid descent of a genre. All kids knew was the computer desk, a treasure trove littered with old CDs, many of which had a game from Humongous Entertainment tucked away somewhere. And it was scratched to hell probably, sending CD-drives into whirring, heaving fits—working nevertheless. Playable cartoons. That’s what we thought of them, and Pajama Sam’s big adventure in a surreal nighttime world hidden in his closet might’ve been the best of the bunch.

In , you take on the role of Pajama Sam himself, finally confronting the darkness hiding away in his closet. As a kid, he’s scared of the stuff, but it’s not as easy as stowing away the concept of darkness into a lunchbox like Sam hopes. Once