We, the undersigned, strongly ask that you issue a temporary restraining order (TRO) against Lucasarts, preventing them from holding onto the rights to its graphic adventure games including, but not limited to, Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max Hit The Road, Sam and Max: Freelance Police, the Monkey Island series, Loom, Grim Fandango, Zack McKracken, Full Throttle, and The Dig. We also request that they hand over the rights to characters created for those games, the programming code for those games, and the tools used to develop those games, and award custody of the abovementioned games to the companies where Lucasarts' former employees currently work, which include Telltale Games, Hothead Games, Autumn Moon Entertainment, Totally Games, Double Fine Entertainment.

We feel that Lucasarts has done more harm than good by withholding the rights to those games. We also believe that Lucasarts has performed too many actions that are untrustworthy, and possibly illegal - including lying about the cartridge size of the Nintendo DS, claiming that there is not enough room on a cart (which holds as much as 128 meg) for its old graphic adventure games to fit; erasing data from the accounts of Star Wars Galaxies players, forcing them to start over; and changing the release date of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 from February 2005 to December 2004, rushing Obsidian, the developer of the game, and forcing them to release the game in an incomplete (and buggy) state.

We have had it with Lucasarts' refusal to treat its graphic adventure games, along with the people who worked their hearts out on those games and the people who play those games, with respect. These games are currently not being sold in the United States, nor are they being offered through online services like Steam or GameTap. There are companies that want to sell those games, but because Lucasarts owns the rights to those games, they can't. That is why we ask you to issue a restraining order on that company, because we are tired of Lucasarts' territorial nature and we want the rights to those games taken away from that company and placed in trustworthy hands.

And besides, we are tired of Lucasarts' refusal to allow the development of "Sam and Max: Freelance Police" to continue. People like Steve Purcell and Mike Stemmle worked too hard on that game, and it would be a shame for the data to that game to go to waste. However, if custody of that game was awarded to Telltale, the company that currently manufactures its Sam and Max episodic series of games, development of that game will hopefully restart, and that game will finally see release. We feel that that game has also been unfairly maligned in the wake of the episodic series' release, and we also feel that Bill Farmer and Nick Jameson (the voices of Sam and Max in that game) have been unfairly denied the credit they deserve, since, as of 2005, not a single Sam and Max product has been sold in the United States that contains the original voices.

We ask that action be taken quickly, because we simply will not put up with Lucasarts' callous refusal to cooperate with its fans anymore.