Telltale Games bankruptcy

[E.M.P.-ERROR]

So how (and when) did Lucasfilm re-acquire the rights to this game?
Did Telltale Games sold it to them or is Lucasfilm just allowed to sell this game because Telltale Games went bankrupt.
As far as I know Lucasfilm lost any rights to Sam & Max as soon as Telltale was founded. Wasn't this also the reason why they needed to cut Sam & Max from the Monkey Island 2 Special Edition?

[Pepe Silvia]

sam and max was cut from monkey 2?

[Tombot]

I think they still have the rights to this game, but thats about it.

[E.M.P.-ERROR]

Originally posted by Evil_ash1988:

sam and max was cut from monkey 2?

It was only an easter egg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/991338-monkey-island-2-special-edition-lechucks-revenge/55496676
https://www.schnittberichte.com/schnittbericht.php?ID=472381 (german site, but only the images matter ;) )

[EmmaKat]

Did Telltale ever have the rights to this? I know they had the rights to future games, but it's been sold on GOG for a while with Lucasarts listed as the publisher.
But the timing does seem odd.

[[Pvt] Đ₳₦₵ɆⱤ]

Lucas Arts sold the rights to CREATE future games but never sold the licence and copy right of the existent game "Sam 'n Max - Hit the Road". Since George Lucas sold Lucasfilms and all his other companies to Disney, they inhabit the legal rights of the Lucas Arts catalogue.

[shade00]

https://www.gog.com/game/sam_max_hit_the_road
this has been on gog for an loooooooooong time , just adding that info

[Sankis]

LucasArts does not own Sam and Max. Steve Purcell, the creator of the comic, does. Lucasarts developed this game in the early 90s and as a result likely owns the assets and publishing rights.

[Cyrus]

Originally posted by Toast_Burner:

Did Telltale ever have the rights to this? I know they had the rights to future games, but it's been sold on GOG for a while with Lucasarts listed as the publisher.
But the timing does seem odd.

The timing is likely the gog exclusivity running out, rather than anything else.

[Noxbi 🌈]

Originally posted by Sankis:

LucasArts does not own Sam and Max. Steve Purcell, the creator of the comic, does. Lucasarts developed this game in the early 90s and as a result likely owns the assets and publishing rights.

This.
Telltale NEVER owned the right to Sam & Max. They only licensed it from Steve Purcell.

[Ron]

Originally posted by E.M.P.-ERROR:

So how (and when) did Lucasfilm re-acquire the rights to this game?
Did Telltale Games sold it to them or is Lucasfilm just allowed to sell this game because Telltale Games went bankrupt.
As far as I know Lucasfilm lost any rights to Sam & Max as soon as Telltale was founded. Wasn't this also the reason why they needed to cut Sam & Max from the Monkey Island 2 Special Edition?

Telltale never held right to Sam & Max, infact they make games like Back to the Future, Game of thrones etc but do not own the rights. Sam & Max hit the road is an old adventure game fro mthe 90's that needs to be ''REMASTERED'' but Disney is like thick ♥♥♥♥♥ through a funnel as we say in Dutch (doesn't sound the same hehe) when it comes to making awesome plans for Remasters.

I wished they did not have all the rights to my favorite Lucas arts adventure games.
I'd like to see
Indiana Jones & the fate of Atlantis remastered
Sam & Max hit the road remastered
The Dig remstered
and most of all , the curse of monkey Island remasterd