Yes! Gametap puts its on-demand programming online for free!
The good news: Now I can watch Sam & Max Animated Series for free! 
The bad news: I have to watch Lara Croft get chased by a T-Rex between shows, only to be told that I could be paying $7 to get a game like that, making me feel like a total loser.
Gametap is doing this so that people can get a taste of what the real Gametap is like, however, I'll ask any non-gametappers this question. Do you want to pay $7 a month to get what's free, and then a bunch of other games? My answer is, no. Giving someone a full video like that, online, for free, is like saying, "You only have a few channels, but with the channels you do have, you can do anything!"
If I even wanted to use this, I'd be like, "I'll buy my own games, because half of those games on there I would never play. And then I still get free programming."
Well, that's my increasingly long, rambling rant about Gametap. Feel free to discuss this new marketing ploy.
The bad news: I have to watch Lara Croft get chased by a T-Rex between shows, only to be told that I could be paying $7 to get a game like that, making me feel like a total loser.
Gametap is doing this so that people can get a taste of what the real Gametap is like, however, I'll ask any non-gametappers this question. Do you want to pay $7 a month to get what's free, and then a bunch of other games? My answer is, no. Giving someone a full video like that, online, for free, is like saying, "You only have a few channels, but with the channels you do have, you can do anything!"
If I even wanted to use this, I'd be like, "I'll buy my own games, because half of those games on there I would never play. And then I still get free programming."
Well, that's my increasingly long, rambling rant about Gametap. Feel free to discuss this new marketing ploy.
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I'm a GT subscriber, but I feel sheepish about defending it in this forum while international players still resent us, but even if half of the games aren't worth playing, that's half of almost nine hundred, and the other half are worth playing :P
I see what your point is, about offering free content decreases the need to subscribe, but GameTap really is about the games, the video content is just a bonus anyway. Plus, I get to watch it without ads.
But yeah, this is getting a bit off topic. Let's see... on the new GameTap forum, people are already hoping for "More Sam & Max!" so I think Telltale's doing a good job
Guess I'll have to wait for the DVD...
Edit: Ummm I hope this doesen't affect the sales of the DVD.
I have Gametap and I've never played its arcade games. I got it so I could play Myst Online. I might have decided Myst Online wasn't enough to justify spending $10 a month if I hadn't discovered a series of games called Sam and Max.
If you mess around with it, it skips them
If he was based on any real life Sam & Max fan (unlikely), it was probably Dave LaMacchia, who ran what is still the longest-standing Sam and Max fan page for years and years. I think The Friend For Life is just a stereotypical nerd guy, though.