Sam and Max Season 1 Coming To Retail
- Scribbled on March 15th, 2007 by Devin Grimes
- Filed in Adventure, PC, Release Date(s)
Telltale Games is one of the few developers out there living up to the promises of episodic content. Valve tried it with Half-Life, and here we are, nearly a year later without the next installment.
But Telltale managed to do the impossible and brought the hilarious point and click adventure genre back to life with their first season of Sam and Max.
The series has been a pretty big hit with fans, but only to the select few downloadable and GameTap subscribers out there. Now Sam and Max will be able to broaden their audience, as we learned today that the six “episode” set (Season 1) will be set to hit retail as a collection this August for $34.95 worldwide (and in five different languages).
Read on for the full press release…
Sam & Max, the legendary dog and rabbit crime-fighting stars that have been reintroduced to the gaming public with Telltale’s downloadable episodic series Sam & Max: Season 1, are finally returning to retail stores worldwide beginning in August 2007.
Sam & Max aren’t your average crime-fighting duo. Sam is a six-foot tall canine shamus with a love of justice. Max is hyperkinetic rabbity-thing with a taste for violence. Together, Sam & Max are the Freelance Police, ridding the streets of bottom-feeding sludge one dastardly miscreant at a time.
JoWood Productions and Telltale Announce Partnership to Bring Sam & Max: Season 1 to Retail
Over the last two decades, Sam & Max have appeared in a number of formats, including independent comics created by Steve Purcell, an interactive PC adventure game, a Saturday morning cartoon, a webcomic strip, and now innovative episodic games developed by Telltale. The Adventure Company’s Sam & Max: Season 1 release marks this series’ first foray into retail stores, giving customers worldwide an opportunity to see why the game’s bizarre humor, crazy characters, vivid 3D graphics, and good, old-fashioned point & click gameplay make Sam & Max: Season 1 the funniest PC game in years.
“We are excited about working with Telltale. Sam & Max is a strong franchise and fans across Europe, and the world over, are highly anticipating Sam & Max: Season 1,” said Albert Seidl, CEO of JoWooD Productions Software AG. “The worldwide retail release will allow us to bring Sam & Max to a wider audience since the game will be available in the five main languages.”
Sam & Max: Season 1 will be released for Windows® with a targeted global release date of August 2007.
March 16th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Hot. I’ll pick up the entire “season” for $35.
March 20th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
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