Sam & Max investigate XBLA

With the work already complete on Sam & Max Season One and Two, Telltale Games is attempting to find out just how much mileage it can get from the adventure game series. Last year, the independent game maker ported its PC franchise to Nintendo's Wii, and now Telltale is setting its sights on Xbox...

With the work already complete on Sam & Max Season One and Two, Telltale Games is attempting to find out just how much mileage it can get from the adventure game series. Last year, the independent game maker ported its PC franchise to Nintendo's Wii, and now Telltale is setting its sights on Xbox Live Arcade.

On its official Web site today, Telltale announced that the first two seasons of its madcap adventure series will be added to Microsoft's digital delivery storefront. Unlike its previous iterations, though, Sam & Max will be slightly rebranded on XBLA, with the first season now bearing the moniker Sam & Max Save the World, while season two bears the tag line Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space.

Telltale did not reveal a release window or pricing information for the upcoming Sam & Max titles. For more information, check out GameSpot's review of Sam & Max Season Two for the PC.

27 Comments

  • hleflore

    Posted Mar 1, 2009 7:29 pm PT

    Sam and Max are good for America.

  • kozzy1234

    Posted Mar 1, 2009 1:25 am PT

    Awesome! Very nice addition to the marketplace! Sam and Max are good fun!

  • dkjjabs

    Posted Feb 28, 2009 4:25 am PT

    O the time i spent on that and not my home work (got to get it for old time's)

  • BloodMist

    Posted Feb 27, 2009 11:36 am PT

    If you haven't played these yet, definitely do, they're flat out hilarious games.

  • sluffmochildeater

    Posted Feb 27, 2009 11:36 am PT

    Sweet. I hope if I buy this they'll give Maniac Mansion/Day of the Tentacle and Monkey Island the same treatment.

  • jmallen99

    Posted Feb 27, 2009 6:06 am PT

    I think it's great that these games are being offered to more people who haven't had the experience yet. But when the heck is Season Three going to be announced!!

  • Gaara79

    Posted Feb 27, 2009 3:15 am PT

    I'd rather have them on disk. I hope they get a disk based release on 360 too. otherwise I might just get the wii version. I'll have to see how the pricing works out.

  • pilot_riaz

    Posted Feb 27, 2009 1:24 am PT

    Yes very good humour in these games

  • mini-mario

    Posted Feb 27, 2009 1:03 am PT

    Everyone who hasn't already played this on PC: buy it. The Sam & Max episodes belong to the funniest games I've played in a long while.

  • chikahiro94

    Posted Feb 26, 2009 11:16 pm PT

    Oooh! I would love to play season two... I played the original on Gametap and thought it was a lot of fun.

  • magicalclick

    Posted Feb 26, 2009 11:09 pm PT

    Sounds good. I am actually waiting it on XBLA since I am too lazy to install. Not only that, I am too lazy to make another account for downloading games. I prefer everything stays on my XBL account, easier for me to manage by lazy me. Besides, I am not an advanture game fan. I am skeptical about it, a XBLA trail play is a good start.

  • klcoman

    Posted Feb 26, 2009 10:38 pm PT

    Come on Lucas release some old point +click adventure games i.e. Monkey Islands, Maniac Mansions, Full Throttle, The Dig, Indiana Jones', grim Fandango. I mean seriously......COME ON! Also Quest for Glorys' would be sweet (Sierra I'm lookin' at you) especially Shadows of Darkness.....COME ON!

  • thunderground2

    Posted Feb 26, 2009 9:36 pm PT

    I just hope they control right and are a reasonable price, like 10-15$

  • lamprey263

    Posted Feb 26, 2009 8:51 pm PT

    @Timbydude - "Meh, I'll stick with PC. Point-and-click adventure games don't blend well with gamepads."

    well, they're point and click adventures, not RTSs, gamepads would do just fine

  • mjk_1

    Posted Feb 26, 2009 8:00 pm PT

    my brow is raised

  • Timbydude

    Posted Feb 26, 2009 7:59 pm PT

    Meh, I'll stick with PC. Point-and-click adventure games don't blend well with gamepads.

  • jasonharris48

    Posted Feb 26, 2009 7:13 pm PT

    Cool Sam and Max is sweet

  • expandingeye

    Posted Feb 26, 2009 7:12 pm PT

    Mush mouth they wont ever put them out on 360. Just buy (or dig out) them for your pc. Its alot easier, you can even get them to work in xp and vista if you know what to do.

  • PlasmaBeam44

    Posted Feb 26, 2009 6:38 pm PT

    I love these freaking games. I'll gladly play them again on XBLA to get some more achievement points.

  • jazzyrider posted Feb 26, 2009 6:17 pm PT (does not meet display criteria. sign in to show)

    jazzyrider

    Posted Feb 26, 2009 6:17 pm PT (hide)

    It would be nice to see this on PS3 too! Where's the love?

  • lamprey263

    Posted Feb 26, 2009 6:01 pm PT

    I'm with Mush Moth, I'd much rather see ports of the old school point-n-click adventure games that LucasArts was known for

  • jedioniram

    Posted Feb 26, 2009 5:58 pm PT

    I got Season 1 on Steam and loved it, but never got around to getting Season 2. If the price is right I might pick them both up.. because of the evilness that is achievement points.

  • JangoWuzHere

    Posted Feb 26, 2009 5:46 pm PT

    they are just wasting money porting this game to other systems. The Requirements on the PC are very low so theirs no need.

  • doomsoth

    Posted Feb 26, 2009 5:46 pm PT

    I hope the XBLA ports are better than the Wii Season One port.

  • Mush_Mouth

    Posted Feb 26, 2009 5:01 pm PT

    Anybody else sick of seeing the newer sam & max episodes and want to see the original lucasarts game? Or at least know if lucasarts ever has plans to release them? I'm sure the chances of lucasarts releasing that and all their other adventure games (Indy and The Fate of Atlantis, Day of The Tentacle, Full Throttle, etc) any time soon are really slim, but I keep hoping.

  • Franko_3

    Posted Feb 26, 2009 4:59 pm PT

    They should work on season 3 instead of all these *quick cash-in* ports. Like futility said, these games require a 1ghz comp and a onboard card, I am sure the average console player have this kind of computer at home...

  • Futil1ty

    Posted Feb 26, 2009 4:48 pm PT

    Sweet.
    Except...why not just get it on PC? Are the requirements that high?

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