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Final Episode of <cite>Sam & Max</cite> Up On GameTap

All good things must come to an end, and the release of Bright Side of the Moon signals the end of the Sam & Max: Season 1 saga on GameTap. With Bright Side, everyone’s favorite crime-fighting dog and rabbit will finally confront the mind-numbing mastermind who’s been hypnotizing the world throughout the season’s six episodes. […]

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All good things must come to an end, and the release of Bright Side of the Moon signals the end of the Sam & Max: Season 1 saga on GameTap. With Bright Side, everyone's favorite crime-fighting dog and rabbit will finally confront the mind-numbing mastermind who's been hypnotizing the world throughout the season's six episodes.

GameTap's Ricardo Sanchez is thrilled with how well the Sam & Max experiment was received by the public:

Before we embarked on this experiment with Telltale, ‘episodic gaming’
was a concept that no one had ever put terms around. 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.

So what does this mean, if anything about the future of episodic gaming? Do you think that Sam & Max fared as well as they did because the gaming public appreciates the bite-sized gaming portions, or because it's Sam & Max?