Full Throttle is a graphical adventure game, originally developed in-house and released in May 1995 by LucasArts. It is the tenth game to use the SCUMM adventure game engine.
The game introduced a new system of interface: Holding the left mouse button over a recognisable item should bring up a graphic menu rendered as a flaming skull (made to look like a tatoo a biker might have), with icons featuring Fist (use or hit), Eyes (examine), Tongue (Speak, taste, use mouth) and Foot (Kick). As the button was pressed, the user had to point at one of those icons and then release the button to select it. In effect it was a type of pie menu. Inventory (a gigantic cranium with a wide open mouth containing the items) was invoked by right clicking anywhere on the screen. This interface was reused only in Curse of Monkey Island.
It also provided a portion where the player had to drive across a deserted road and occasionally fight with enemy bikers. The fight is done with fists and kicks and later chains, planks etc. These 'weapons' are effective only with certain combinations that the player must discover alone. This part is done with INSANE. The use for Full Throttle caused some problems since INSANE was intended to be photorealistic, contrasting to the intended general cartoony feeling. The rendered environment had to be scaled down to match to the rest of the game world.
Full Throttle employed plenty of skilled voice acting professionals, such as Roy Conrad, Kath Soucie, Maurice LaMarche, Tress MacNeille, Hamilton Camp, Steven Jay Blum and Mark Hamill. Full Throttle was the first computer game to employ mostly SAG-registered professional voice actors instead of relying entirely on in-house talent, and also featured a few pieces of licensed music. The Gone Jackals provided some of these pieces.
