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Last episode of Sam and Max debuts today

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The last episode of the first season of Sam and Max is now available on Gametap.  Sam and Max: Bright Side of the Moon is now available on the service (along with the first five episodes) so you can finally figure out how the first season ends.  Congrats go to the folks at Telltale for actually living up to the episodic promise and actually delivering the titles on time.  Cyril has really enjoy the first five episodes and if you're a fan of adventure games you should check them out.

Sam & Max: Season 1 Finale Launches Today

Exclusively on GameTap

 

“Bright Side of the Moon” Brings the First Successful Series in

Episodic Gaming to a Dramatic Close

 

ATLANTA – April 26, 2007 – Today members of Turner Broadcasting’s broadband entertainment network GameTap get exclusive access to the highly-anticipated Sam & Max: Season 1 final episode “Bright Side of the Moon.”  This culminates six months and six episodes of hilarious crime-fighting adventure that have raised the bar on innovation in the videogame industry and truly defined episodic gaming.

 

“Before we embarked on this experiment with Telltale, ‘episodic gaming’ was a concept that no one had ever put terms around,” said Ricardo Sanchez, GameTap’s vice president of content.  “We structured Sam & Max: Season 1 in the TV model because it’s a form that people are already familiar with.  In the end, it has been a phenomenal success for us both.”

 

In this, the sixth and final episode of Season 1, Sam & Max embark on a lunar adventure to save the earth from a horrifying fate: an eternity of perpetual bliss.  From the first episode of the season, “Culture Shock,” which was named a Top 10 Videogame of 2006 by The New York Times, to “Reality 2.0,” the most recent episode, Sam & Max have fought a wave of bizarre hypnoses that infiltrated the media, the mafia, the United States government, and even the Internet. Now, Sam & Max must destroy the mastermind behind these mind-control schemes once and for all.

 

The complete Sam & Max series contains six episodes that each stand alone, but that have an overall story arch tying them together.   Today on GameTap, all six episodes are available in their entirety, along with on-demand extras like the 1997 Sam & Max hit cartoon series and all-new Sam & Max machinima shorts. 

 

Screenshots and teaser videos from the entire season are available for viewing at www.gametap.com/samandmax and Telltale also offers individual purchase of episodes 1-5 at www.telltale.com.

 

Sign up today at www.gametap.com and your first month of service is only 99 cents.

 

About Sam & Max

Steve Purcell published “Monkeys Violating the Heavenly Temple” as his first Sam & Max comic in 1987. Sam & Max solved assorted crimes and mysteries as Freelance Police in their sturdy 1960 Black and White De Soto Adventurer from their home base in New York City. After a series of follow-up comic books, Purcell worked with a team at LucasArts to create the critically acclaimed Sam & Max Hit the Road adventure game in 1993. The dog and rabbity-thing duo moved to television in an award-winning animated series in 1997, and are now appearing in an all-new webcomic series at www.telltalegames.com.

 

About GameTap

GameTap is the leader in digital game distribution and broadband entertainment. Launched by Turner Broadcasting in 2005, it now delivers more than 850 authentic versions of the greatest console, computer and arcade games on demand, including original and exclusive episodic properties. In addition to games for every age and interest, GameTap offers more than 600 original entertainment programs, popular video streams and thriving virtual communities to broadband-connected PCs. Continually updated with new games, programs and features, GameTap is a downloadable application that supports navigation and game play using keyboard and mouse, as well as most USB peripherals. 

 

About Turner

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS, Inc.), a Time Warner company, is a major producer of news and entertainment products around the world and the leading provider of programming for the basic cable industry