Humongous Entertainment
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| Industry | Computer and video games |
| Founded | October 30, 1992 January 1, 2014 (Relaunch) |
| Headquarters |
City of Industry, California Bothell, Washington |
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Key people
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Ron Gilbert, Shelley Day, Brad Taylor, Bret Barrett, Tami Borowick, Dave Timoney, Dev Madan, Brad Carlton, Derek McCaughan, Augie Pagan, Kris Sontag, and eventually hundreds of hardworking employees |
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Putt-Putt Fatty Bear Freddi Fish Junior Field Trips Pajama Sam Spy Fox Big Thinkers Backyard Sports Moonbase Commander |
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| Parent | Tommo Inc. |
| Website | Humongous.com |
Humongous Entertainment Inc. is an American video game developer. The company is known for its line of educational games for children. The Freddi Fish, Pajama Sam and Spy Fox franchises combined together sold over 15 million copies and earned more than 400 awards of excellence. The company is currently owned by Tommo Inc.
Humongous Entertainment was formed in 1992 by Shelley Day and Ron Gilbert. The name Humongous Entertainment was suggested by Gilbert's ex-LucasArts colleague, Tim Schafer. It became known for point-and-click adventure games intended for young children, such as the Putt-Putt series, the Freddi Fish series, the Pajama Sam series and the Spy Fox series, all released in the "Junior Adventure" series. The company got the reputation as "The third largest children's educational-software company".
They'd planned to start another, more mature series called "Ultimate Adventure". The first planned installment was "Bobo and Fletcher Go Deep in the Congo", "the epic tale of a man and his ape".Ron Gilbert - Humongous Entertainment's co-founder and main game designer - helped with many of the game planning and creation stages; according to him, "Bobo and Fletcher" was an episodic "hybrid game" that "built upon all the experience he had from doing kids games", and he still plans to make it someday. The earliest games released only on DOS, then were later converted to Windows and Mac. These early titles were also available for the ill-fated 3DO Interactive Multiplayer video game console.Freddi Fish and the Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds was amongst the first Windows 95 products on the market, and was featured in Microsoft's launch of the OS.
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