2000 video game
Pajama Sam 3: You Are What You Eat from Your Head to Your Feet is an adventure game developed and published by Humongous Entertainment for Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, PlayStation, and Linux operating systems. This was the last adventure game to feature Pamela Segall Adlon as the voice of Sam. In the final game of the series, Adlon is replaced by Elisha Ferguson.[3]
Plot
The game starts with Sam ruining his appetite by eating cookies in an attempt to have enough boxtops to win a new Pajama Man action figure. As Sam becomes nauseous from eating so many cookies, he feels rumbling coming from his last box. When he peers into the box, all the cookies inside of it burst out and escape to Sam's pantry. After finding and putting on his cape, Sam follows the cookies there. In the pantry, the cookies carry Sam and drop him down a hole, which takes him to an island populated by anthropomorphic foods called Moptop.
On Moptop, Sam participates in a political party called S.S.A.M. (Snacks and Sweets Aggressive Majority), which plans to take over the island. When Sam tries to leave the party, he inadvertently offends the sweets by refusing to miss his dinnertime aloud and gets arrested. In his prison cell, Sam meets his cellmate, a piece of broccoli named Florette, who is a delegate in a peace conference at a building called the Food Pyramid; she was arrested by the sweets in order to prevent the conference from taking place. After sneaking their jail cell's key, Sam and Florette escape and head over to the Food Pyramid.
At the Pyramid, a carrot (that Sam met in the first game), reveals to Sam that he is leading the conference to prevent a general officer named Beetfoot from declaring war against the sweets, but four out of six delegates still aren't present: Chuck Cheddar (of the Dairy food group), Bean 47 (of the Protein food group), Granny Smythe (of the Fruits food group) and Pierre Le Pain (of the Grains food group); other than Florette, the only delegate to make it was a lollipop named Luke Wigglebig, who is not part of the Sweet Troops. Sam agrees to find the four missing delegates and send them right to the conference.
After Sam rescues all of the delegates, he checks up on them at the conference. There, he finds that an argument has ensued over which food group is the best. Overwhelmed by all the fighting, Sam intervenes and gives a speech on how "no food is an island" and that they can work together to create new and better foods. The delegates agree and General Beetfoot declares eternal peace on Moptop. While the delegates celebrate the agreement they've reached, Sam realizes that he's missed dinner.
Gameplay
Originally released as a Junior Adventure for children ages 3–8, the aim of this game is to get the 4 missing delegates for the meeting to declare happiness between the 6 food groups, with the intent of teaching children about healthy eating. Each of the four missing delegates can be in either of two unique predicaments, which are randomly chosen on a new playthrough, and as in the previous game of the series, players can also choose which scenarios to play with at the options screen. Unlike the previous game, though, the puzzles are not chosen through several combinations of scenarios, therefore the player is more free to pick whichever puzzles they want.
Like the previous adventure games, this game contains an optional side objective; in this game, the player can collect 20 box tops in order to get a new Pajama Man action figure for Sam.
Reception
Pajama Sam 3 received positive reviews from critics. Bonnie Huie of Macworld praised the game's dialogue and animation work, and noted that the game is more entertaining than it is educational.[11] Charles Herold of The New York Times praised Sam's optimistic outlook, the humor, and the replayability, and declared that the game was enjoyable by both children and adults.[12]
