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Producer(s) Jeff McCrory Engine YAGA Initial release date 19 August 2003 Developer Humongous Entertainment Platforms Microsoft Windows, iOS | 6/10 Steam Composer(s) Nathan Rosenberg Genre(s) Adventure Series Pajama Sam Writer James Parry | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Designer(s) Rhonda Conley
Eric Gross Artist(s) John Michaud (animator) Publishers Humongous Entertainment, Atari, Night Dive Studios Similar Pajama Sam games, Humongous Entertainment games, Adventure games | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pajama Sam: Life Is Tough When You Lose Your Stuff! is a computer game for children.
Contents
Sam's Pajama Man comic book is lost in a strange world, where he meets a dirty sock who needs to get to his other sock, who is clean. He goes on a journey to find a way to clean the dirty sock and to find clothes (a shirt, shoes, and the socks) to get to Grubby Corners Mall, where his comic has found its way to. In this game, Pajama Sam's voice is provided by Elisha Ferguson rather than Pamela Adlon. This is the only Pajama Sam game without a demo, possibly because the game was only released after Atari's takeover along with Putt-Putt: Pep's Birthday Surprise.
Plot
Sam watches Pajama Man on TV. Suddenly he sees a breaking news story that Pajama Man is coming live, in person, at the mall for autographs. Excited, Sam asks his mom if he can go. After she agrees, Sam goes to get his first edition Pajama Man comic book for the autograph. The comic book is suddenly pulled into the big pile of junk and Sam must get it back. As "Pajama Sam," he's ready to retrieve his comic book, and enters into the land of junk.
Sam sets off on a series of adventures, in search of his lost comic book — looking for lost socks in Agitator Lake, rounding up dust bunnies at the Dust Bunny Corral, exploring the Spilled Soda Swamp, until he finally enters the Grubby Corners Mall where Dr. Grime is keeping Sam's comic book.
Soundtrack
The score was composed and produced by Nathan Rosenberg (The Doghouse NYC Studios). Much time and funds were invested in the music composition to accompany the gameplay. Latin was the desired genre for the game with over 45 minutes of soundtrack and optimum quality using real instruments. The solution to retain quality, time and budget was hiring drummer John Bollinger who used a number of syncing techniques to get the music just right. After two days of composing several soundtracks, saxophonist Tom Glusac was hired to add finishing touches to the soundtrack. Thus all the audio for the game was delivered just in time and under the budget.
Reception
Pajama Sam: Life Is Rough When You Lose Your Stuff! currently has a 90% rating on GameRankings based on one Windows review. IGN currently holds a community score of 8.9/10 based on eight ratings. On the digital gaming distribution platform Steam the user ratings are currently shown as Mostly Negative based on 39+ reviews. On Amazon.com, buyer ratings list 2.5/5 stars.
Pajama Sam: Life Is Rough When You Lose Your Stuff! is generally perceived as a basic and fun children's educational game by those new to the Humongous Entertainment, as well as kindergarten and early elementary school teachers. This is the case for the majority of the other Humongous Entertainment educational games. Fans of Humongous Entertainment before its acquisition by Atari/Infogrames generally have mixed or negative opinions, criticizing lower effort in the game, as well as a new adventure style, art style and voice actor. Most of these critics put full blame on Atari/Infogrames. Generally, the game still became a hot buy for educational leaders and fans alike.
The game has also received the Silver Honor award from Parents' Choice Award.