To soften the blow, Telltale released a Sam & Max Season One DVD at the end of the episodic run, complete with bonus features. Bonus FeaturesWhen these episodes first came out, people were very concerned about buying downloadable games without backup copies. (Difficulty fixing bugs in the old game engine is a main reason we remastered Sam & Max Save the World in the first place!) We’re making them available for historical preservation purposes only. Want to know what playing these games was like in 2006/2007? Now you can!ĭue to insurmountable technical hurdles, these versions will not be updated and we can’t provide tech support. That’s why we’ve released all six of the old-school Season One episodes as free DLC. Season One), but we didn’t want the originals to be lost to time. We’re in the process of remastering all three seasons, starting with Sam & Max Save the World (a.k.a.
In 2018, when Telltale went through liquidation, four of the studio’s original employees formed Skunkape Games and acquired the rights to Telltale’s Sam & Max games. (They later came to Steam in June 2007.) Graphics and audio were highly compressed to keep download sizes low, and the games were designed to work on low-end computers to appeal to a mainstream audience. Initially the episodes were only available for streaming on GameTap (a “Netflix for games” type service owned by Turner Broadcasting) and for purchase from Telltale’s website. The young studio put the concept of episodic gaming to the test with Sam & Max Season One, six episodes that released approximately once a month between October 2006 and April 2007.īack then, digital distribution was in its infancy.
Sam and max series#
When the Sam & Max game rights reverted to series creator Steve Purcell in 2005, he licensed the characters to Telltale.
Sam and max tv#
Several people who worked on that game left LucasArts to form Telltale Games with the revolutionary idea of releasing games episodically, like a TV show. In 2004, a sequel to the LucasArts adventure game Sam & Max Hit the Road was cancelled mid-development. Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space is a remastered version of Telltale’s second season of episodic Sam & Max games, lovingly updated by a small team of the original developers.
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