Humongous Entertainment
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Humongous Entertainment was a video game company from 1992 to 2005 that designed adventure games, many of which are made to be educational, for children. It is well known for the Putt-Putt series, along with such franchises as Pajama Sam and Freddi Fish. The titles just mentioned were intended for children 3-8, as identified by the packaging. The games mentioned here were point-and-click adventure games.
Later in its career, Humongous Entertainment began to produce games for the 5-10 crowd, with titles such as Spy Fox and Backyard Baseball, the latter which was arguably their most popular game, and produced sequels such as Backyard Soccer and Backyard Hockey. The series eventually grew to be known as the Backyard Sports series, and its eventual hook became the addition of professional athletes as children to be playable in the games. Unlike its other titles, the Backyard Sports series became available for most sixth generation systems (GCN, PS2, Xbox, and GBA).
Also Humongous Entertainment released several games featuring Big Thinkers and Blue's Clues characters.
In July 1996, Humongous Entertainment was bought by GT Interactive for 76$US million, producing a couple of additional titles to its existing franchises, although these titles did not have the notable increases in effort, such as the multiple endings or differentiating clues to obtaining what one desired. GT Interactive was first renamed to Infogrames, Inc. after Infogrames Entertainment SA bought them in November 1999 and was later renamed again to Atari, Inc.
Finally, Atari laid off most people from its subsidiary Humongous Entertainment and closed it shortly afterwards in mid 2005.
External links
- [Complete list of Humongous Entertainment titles] on ScummVM Wiki.
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