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#samandmax20th In the fall of 2006, while the Sam & Max fandom was getting excited for Season One, the greater gaming community was focused on the upcoming launch of Nintendo’s new console, the Wii. (Share this thread for a chance to win a game key, and read on for a super easy contest!)

One day in September, a bunch of people randomly emailed Telltale's info@ address requesting that we bring Sam & Max to the Wii. A little googling led us to an interview CEO Dan Connors had given at PAX the week before, where he said Telltale was open to making Wii games.

The quote had been picked up by the fan site GoNintendo, in an article encouraging people to email us and request a Wii version of Sam & Max Season One. We posted a blog in response that essentially said, “We’d love to, now go ask Nintendo to send us a dev kit.”

And they did! The blog post went viral and enough people bugged Nintendo about Sam & Max that the president of NOA, Reggie Fils-Aimé, found out about it. 😲 A day after the blog post went up, Dan got a call from someone at Nintendo (not Reggie) asking us to call off the community.