| rdfs:comment | - Humongous Entertainment is a video game series
- Humongous Entertainment (now Humongous Inc) was a company for children's computer games, which is now owned by Atari. Their five biggest franchises were Putt-Putt, Freddi Fish, Pajama Sam, Spy Fox, and Backyard Sports, although they had plenty of other small franchises such as Fatty Bear, Buzzy the Knowledge Bug, and Big Thinkers! Humongous was founded by Ron Gilbert of Lucas Arts fame and Shelley Day, beginning with Putt-Putt Joins the Parade. They became one of the most successful companies for children’s games, especially when their big hit, the Backyard Sports, came out, and actually became the only reason Humongous made a profit. They also made MoonBase Commander and many Blue's Clues' Licensed Games, and their sub-division Cavedog Entertainment made a few non-children's computer game
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| abstract | - Humongous Entertainment is a video game series
- Humongous Entertainment (now Humongous Inc) was a company for children's computer games, which is now owned by Atari. Their five biggest franchises were Putt-Putt, Freddi Fish, Pajama Sam, Spy Fox, and Backyard Sports, although they had plenty of other small franchises such as Fatty Bear, Buzzy the Knowledge Bug, and Big Thinkers! Humongous was founded by Ron Gilbert of Lucas Arts fame and Shelley Day, beginning with Putt-Putt Joins the Parade. They became one of the most successful companies for children’s games, especially when their big hit, the Backyard Sports, came out, and actually became the only reason Humongous made a profit. They also made MoonBase Commander and many Blue's Clues' Licensed Games, and their sub-division Cavedog Entertainment made a few non-children's computer games including Total Annihilation and its follow-up Total Annihilation Kingdoms. Eventually, Humongous filed for bankruptcy, and sold all the rights to Atari, who continued four of the series, but only went one game on three of those four and stopped. The other one, the Backyard Sports series, lasted for several more years, but it too seems to have ended. Three of the games were also ported to the Wii by Majesco, but used ScummVM (a virtual machine made to run old Scumm-based games) without giving any credit to the developers whatsoever, so it now seems all series have been left abandoned and rotted. The fanbase is still strong, however, and continue to remember the games from their childhood. Notably, most of their Adventure Games change the locations of the respective Plot Coupons each playthough. All demo download links are listed on their pages, since finding them is a bit of a Guide Dang It.
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