Tim Schafer made this game after re-evaluating his character design philosophy to being 'wish fulfillments.' The previous games he worked on feature nebbish, clumsy heroes like Guybrush Threepwood and Bernard Bernouli, but Schafer argued that players were just as likely to want to play someone cool as a goofball, and thus invented a lead character whom gamers would find to be 'bigger than them and tougher than them, and who could ride this big huge motorcycle and lead this gang of bikers.'įull Throttle was the biggest adventure game hit to have ever come out of LEC at the time, and sold the most units with the exception of The Dig. (In the manual, Ben is referred to as 'Ben Whatsisname.') The excited manner in which he regaled tales about the bikers and communities that he witnessed gave off a folklore vibe and got Schafer interested in the subject matter.īen's last name is 'Throttle,' as indicated in concept art, but ultimately references to this could not be made in the actual game when it was learned that there was a character named 'Throttle' in the then current animated series 'Biker Mice from Mars,' which additionally had a 1994 Super Nintendo video game adaptation, and a potential legal fiasco wished to be avoided. Tim Schafer was inspired to make this game when hearing the stories told by an acquaintance who spent their summer vacation in Alaska.

More can be read about both of these sequels (which are sometimes considered a single, particularly problematic production) elsewhere on this site. This game got much further along, even to the point of a trailer and screenshots being released, but it too was cancelled in late 2003 (to a generally relieved response, as fans were not pleased with the direction the game seemed to be taking). After Payback was shelved, an even more action oriented incarnation called Full Throttle: Hell on Wheels was put into production with Sean Clark at the helm. It was intended to be an action/urldventure for consoles as well as PC and involved such names as Larry Ahern as the project leader and Bill Tiller as the lead artist. The first was Full Throttle: Payback, a game cancelled in its pre-productions stages and thus was never announced. Two sequels to this game were attempted, neither of which included Tim Schafer (who'd departed the company by then).

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