Full Throttle

Full Throttle is a computer adventure game developed and published by LucasArts. It was designed by Tim Schafer, who would later go on to design Grim Fandango, Psychonauts and Brütal Legend. The game features…

87 19 May 1995

Adventure Point-and-click Puzzle Comedy Science fiction

Full Throttle is an adventure developed by LucasArts, released 19 May 1995 on DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

Verified 10 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Full Throttle is

Full Throttle is an adventure game developed by LucasArts and released in 1995. It was published by Brasoft Produtos de Informática. It is available on DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on SCUMM.

The premise, in the publisher's words

One minute you're on the road, riding. Not a care in the world. Then some guy in a suit comes along, says he's got a deal for you and your gang. But when you come to, you've got a lump on your head, the law on your back, and a feeling in your gut that the road you're on is about to get lot rougher... BEAT-UP. BUSTED. MAD. Ben's been double-crossed before. But this time they messed with his gang, they trashed his bike, and they're about to come back for more. CHAIN SAWS. TYRE IRONS. SEMI TRUCKS. Everything's coming after Ben at once. Trouble's riding his back so tight it makes the leather squeak. He's got to out-fight it, out-smart it, and out-run it if he wants to survive. SUITS. COPS…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are comedy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Full Throttle holds a critic score of 87 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1995 averaged 66, so it scored 21 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 85, across 192 votes.

What it launched against

Full Throttle launched on 19 May 1995, within three weeks of The Ultimate Doom, Worms, Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams and Jumping Flash!. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.

Released around the same time: The Ultimate Doom, Worms, Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams, Jumping Flash!.

Cheats and codes

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