Putt-Putt Joins the Parade
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Windows / Macintosh Cover art
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| Developer(s) | Humongous Entertainment |
| Publisher(s) | Humongous Entertainment |
| Director(s) | Ron Gilbert |
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| Writer(s) | Laurie Rose Bauman, Annie Fox |
| Composer(s) | Tom McMail |
| Engine | SCUMM |
| Platform(s) | MS-DOS, 3DO, Macintosh, Windows, Linux, Steam |
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| Genre(s) | Adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 50% (PC - 1 review) |
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| Publication | Score |
| Adventure Gamers |    |
| IGN | 8.2/10 (PC) |
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| Publication | Award |
| Choosing Children’s Software | 1999 Best Picks for the Holidays Award |
| Anders CD-ROM Guide | 1997 Medallion Award |
| Sesame Street Parents | 1997 Reviewer’s Choice Award |
| CES | 1994 Innovations Showcase Award Winner |
| CNET | Top 100 CD-ROMs Award Buy It! Award |
| MacUser | Five Mouse Award Best New Children’s Program |
| Kidsoft | Member’s Choice - Early Learning |
| PC Entertainment | Best PC Educational Game |
| Compute! | Best Educational Program |
| CD-ROM World | The CD-ROM 100 Best |
| Family Fun Magazine | Software of the Year |
| Parents' Choice | Parent's Choice Award |
| Home PC | Top 100 Products |
| Family PC | Family Tested-Recommended |
Putt-Putt Joins the Parade is a 1992 video game and the first of seven adventure games in the Putt-Putt series of games developed and published by Humongous Entertainment. Upon release, the game sold over 300,000 copies.
Putt-Putt wants to join in a special parade event. First however he needs a car wash, a pet and a balloon, so Putt-Putt drives around, rescues and adopts a lost puppy he names Pep and earns money by mowing lawns to get what he needs to enter the parade.
The game makes use of a simplified adventure system where a single click on a certain spot allows the player to pick up items, go to another location, talk to characters and find trivial but fun stuff in the screen. Items are placed in Putt-Putt's glove box which can be used to solve puzzles. Also Putt-Putt's horn and accelerator can be used for certain situations.
After the game's creation, Humongous Entertainment had intended to get Electronic Arts to distribute the product, invoking a lawsuit from Lucasarts over the ownership of the SCUMM game engine and disruption from press release.
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