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Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside

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Pajama Sam:
No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside
Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside cover
Developers
Humongous Entertainment
Publishers
Night Dive Studios
Engines
Original SCUMM
Re-release ScummVM
Release dates
Windows October 4, 1996
Mac OS (Classic) October 28, 1999
macOS (OS X) September 10, 2002
Linux April 17, 2014
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Relaxed
Perspectives Flip screen
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure, Educational
Art styles Cartoon
Themes Contemporary
Series Pajama Sam
Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside guide on StrategyWiki
Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside on MobyGames
Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside on Wikipedia
Pajama Sam
Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside 1996
Pajama Sam's Sock Works 1997
Pajama Sam 2: Thunder and Lightning Aren't So Frightening 1998
Pajama Sam's Lost & Found 1998
Pajama Sam 3: You Are What You Eat from Your Head to Your Feet 2000
Pajama Sam's One-Stop Fun Shop 2000
Pajama Sam: Games to Play on Any Day 2001
Pajama Sam 4: Life Is Rough When You Lose Your Stuff! 2003

Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside is a singleplayer flip screen adventure and educational game in the Pajama Sam series.

Key points

Can be run under ScummVM.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Demos are available from ScummVM.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Linux <path-to-game>/ScummVM_Linux/scummvm-pajamasam1.ini
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Saves\[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game>/Saves/
Linux <path-to-game>/Saves/

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud
ScummVM 2.1+ supports cloud saves on third-party cloud storage services. See the ScummVM documentation for details.

Essential improvements

Saving the game

To save the game, press S at any time while playing. To load a saved game, press L.

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Game is centered in the middle of the screens, mostly unplayable.
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Toggle with Alt+ Enter
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, SFX, and Speech volume sliders.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Dutch
Retail and Steam only.
French
Retail and Steam only.
German
Retail and Steam only; download for GOG.com release.

Other information

API

ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
64-bit requires 64-bit build of ScummVM.
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 512 MB
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.7
Processor (CPU) 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 512 MB
Linux
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Processor (CPU) 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 512 MB


Notes

  1. When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References