By the way, appreciate this video, because I had to Google pictures of Spy Fox to make that thumbnail. You know I wasn't going to say it in the video, but I think there might be another reason why Spy Fox is as beloved as it is. Turns out furries get quite attached to their favorite childhood franchises.
>Turns our furries get quite attached to their childhood franchises Figures. I’m not a furry *_and_* I know there’s definitely some people who became furries because of Pecola. Very unfortunately, mind you, but my points still stand. 1:02:20 Correction: 2005, not 2006.
Funny enough, growing up my mom would often say, "Sly Fox" or, "Spy Cooper." I will say though, as someone who grew up with these games when they were relatively new, Spy Fox and Freddi Fish felt like the one's that aged the best. Freddi has an atmosphere I still love and Spy Fox just felt cooler than the rest. I eventually became a preschool teacher and it was heartwarming how these games lasted far beyond where they were supposed to. I remember Putt especially being common.
N. Gin and the Pajama Sam boat are both riffing on Peter Lorre, an early hollywood actor most famous for his role in Casablanca, and someone that voice actors have always enjoyed doing impressions of, especially during the theatrical looney tunes days, and his voice basically became a stock cartoon voice over the decades. Actually a *lot* of the more basic, stock cartoon voices out there began life as a specific impression of some golden age hollywood actor or another.
32:48 This is because both characters are based off of characters of Peter Lorre. He was a famous actor who got exaggerated into caricature versions in many early looney toons cartoons. The resulting character concept has far outlived the original actors style in the public zietgiest and most newer generations likely recognize the hyperbole version for being a meme over the real guy.
These games were everything to my childhood! Still play them here and there to this day. But I absolutely have a huge love for Spy Fox and how it introduced me into the spy espionage genre
Here's the thing about the "grown up humongous entertainment games" thing. I imagine these concepts CAN work if they kept the same vibes as the original games. I think a slightly more mature pajama Sam where he deals with more pre-teen/teen issues by kinda regressing back to comforts of his youth, yet told through that same cartoony lens CAN work.
You missed that in Fatty Bear, you get a cameo of Putt-Putt on the moon if you look through Kayla’s telescope. Also, Freddi Fish as a PI would be fun, if you could keep the sense of humor. Don’t make it dark, just keep it bright and friendly.
Man, this unlocked a Core Memory in me. I loved playing these games (along with other edutainment games like Jumpstart and Cluefinders) as a kid while my mom was working. A shame what happened to Humongous Entertainment but at least their games are still available.
These were definitely my childhood. :) Great little documentary! (Tho that "At the rate things are going, the world will end next week" crack does feel a little too real right now... 😂)
Shoutout to the fish feeding minigame in Freddy fish and the missing kelp seeds. I went back to it several years ago at this point and found that it restarts after you beat what it deems the final level. Never got anywhere near that far as a kid.
Used to play Putt Putt goes to the Zoo or whatever it’s called all the time. One of the earliest games I played that got me into gaming today. Thanks you Putt Putt and Humongous.
I wasn't around for these games because I was a bit too young, but damn. This is just saddening. From what I've seen of these games they are extremely charming
it is sad when a company that actually tries gets shut down.... but it was also a case of the Point and Click Adventure game also going out of style, shortly after FPS games would have started to become the "main" style of games, and I don't see an FPS with their style working
But the stories write themselves! "Putt-Putt Goes to Vietnam" "Fatty Bear in: Repressing Protests" "Freddi Fish and the Great Fent Wave" "Pajama Sam: It's Okay To Face Your Inner Demons"
I remember getting Pajama Sam 3 in a cereal box back in the day, and was blown away when my brother started playing and the game seemed different compared to my playthrough. My sister had Blue's Treasure Hunt, which, let's be honest, had a kickass Breakout clone.
I remember playing part of the 2nd Pajama Sam game on my elementary school's computer, and getting a free disc for Freddi Fish in a box of cereal. Good times.
6:16 Putt Putt and Fatty Bear's Activity Pack was my first ever PC game. It's my only experience with any Humongous games, but I can see that I would have probably enjoyed these games as a kid. It's also a coincidence how these child entertainment games followed a similar journey as Driver: You Are the Wheelman. From GT Interactive, to Infogrames and then Atari. Not surprised they also killed this francise as much as Driver went down the toilet.
Humongous Entertainment didn’t like Fatty Bear, to the point that they put an Easter egg in the code of Putt Putt Goes To The Zoo of “The Fatty Bear Memorial”.
Fatty Bear’s Birthday Surprise strangely reminds me of another point-and-click adventure game, Bear With Me, which has a similar premise but a much darker story, themes, and art direction
Love the Sharkando reference. I watched the first one. Then jumped to the last one, but stopped 30 seconds in. It was so off the rails and had so much built up more than I had to go back and watch them in order. Crazy series.
@TBP It's a rabbit hole. The lore include an ancient Lovecraftian like god, a cult fighting against that god, a chosen one / nexus being, time travel, and the complete deduction of Earth. Look into at your own risk.
Yoooooo Tactical Bacon you made lad you 😂 I have been trying to find and remember these old school pc games of my childhood thank you for making this video the nostalgia is real on this one Bois!!
The best part of these games is that there are so many different story beats that can happen due to how the game is structured that the game is infinitely replaceable
Despite me never really getting into games like Spy Fox or Putt Putt, I am kinda nostalgic for Point and Click adventure games mainly because of the amount of Flash games I played
50:21 Mega Cat Studios were the ones who made Five Night at Freddy’s: Into the Pit from last year! The game has an interactive adventure style that’s more in the vein of Clock Tower 1 and 2. Though if they were to create a Humongous-like game with a similar horror twist, I think that’d be pretty sick! 😁
Grew up playing these games (alongside my PlayStation 1/2 and Game Boy/Colour/Advance) and still love them to this day. The people who currently own Humongous Entertainment and all the IP (I believe it's a Hong Kong based company?) re-released, so far, EVERY Freddi Fish & Pajama Sam, Spy Fox 1 & Putt-Putt Saves The Zoo & Travels Through Time on PS4 and Switch... All I NEED is Spy Fox 2/3 and I'll be happy, but it's been over a year since they last ported any of the games 😥
It is so interesting to hear people talk about the Humongous Entertainment games and their personal experiences with them because when I was a kid we didn't have any of them. Instead, we had the Jumpstart games. I vaguely remember us having the Kindergarten one, but I know we also had the Third Grade one. That one appealed more to me even when I wasn't in the Third Grade yet because of the setting and the main character which was a robot. I never see anyone talk about these games in the way that people talk about Putt Putt or Pajama Sam.
you just unlocked a memory for me! I distinctly remember the ABCs main menu! I also had Preschool, Kindergarten, and 1st Grade. And I had this Franklin the Turtle game. I forgot Franklin the Turtle existed
26:42 I've noticed that happens with a few older games rereleased on newer Hardware. Mega Man Legends on PS3/Vita had this in spades in quite a few scenes, and to a lesser extent Banjo Tooie's 360 HD remaster had messed up timing in the intro cutscenes. Might be a case of those cutscenes being made specifically made for the original hardware in mind. Space Quest IV and Neversoft's SpiderMan have game breaking issues on more modern PCs due to similar reasons.
With the reference to The Godfather, I assume a lot of kids played these games with a parent. I always played The Missing Conch Shell with my dad as a kid.
Humongous should have made animated series. If they had, there would probably be several movies in theaters by now. Freddie Fish would have had the most potential, and Spy Fox had the second most potential. They would have made great shows better than anything Nickelodeon could possibly make.
The way I knew of H.E's existence was that I did get a CD Rom of Freddi Fish 4 as a Christmas present back in 2001. That was a pretty fun game. I did consider getting one of the Spy Fox and Pyjama Sam game's since they were advertised in the CD Rom's inner case but just never got round to it. Still, It is intriguing to see the rise and fall of H.E.
Fun fact: Stephan Weyte voiced acted a handful of characters in the Pajama Sam games. The same guy who played Captain Claw and *Blood’s* Caleb. 47:30 Is she into cats? Probably. 48:33 I’m glad she’s (consistently) muscular like most bears should be. 57:40 How do you not have a DISC drive?!?!
I was lucky. My dad got into computers super early, so we were pretty early adapters. Still have some of the old games I played back then running on a dos emulator.
it was really good especially the first one I played a lot. I really enjoyed that with all the small background items that they would react to each other if played well.
So here's a fun little fact about the first Freddi Fish game: There's a hidden scene where Freddi feeds Luthor to an eel, but to get that requires some file tinkering. Makes you wonder If there are more scenes like that hidden In the other games, I know Beavis and Butthead In Virtural Stupidity has some of those but they require you to click on a specific set of pixels. As for what you said at 1:07:15 , there's potential In that Idea as a dark parody of the genre as It's own thing but It would be quite a balacing act.
That's like Discworld 1 and 2, there are very specific pixels that end up playing specific scenes with profanities; they were found partially because playing *all* of the audio for a game can elicit some *interesting* results but also because in code there were flags and references leftover that allowed people to discover these oddities by back-tracing where it was supposed to occur. I would not be surprised if there is more.
Look I'm going to say this in the most respectful way possible, don't call me that. If I still wanted to be called tgx, I wouldn't have killed the channel 4.5 years ago.
As you mentioned, the games are very much a product of their time and a direct faithful sequel in this day and age probably wouldn't sell well. However, I don't know of anything with the same spirit being made nowadays. There's very few true kid games being made, with even games commonly derided as being childish (Nintendo for example) having more of an all-ages broad appeal rather that something made specifically for elementary school students or younger. It's a shame, and an unfortunately common trend with entertainment and media in general excluding the youth more and more
32:26 -My Hypothesis is that all the Junior Adventure games of not all the Humongous ones, are part of Kayla's imagination. She is the little girl from Fatty Bear. Her parents car resembles PuttPutt and the puppy she gets for her birthday looks a bit like a female pep. Thus PuttPutt and Pep are made up of characters based on these aspects of her life. Fatty Bear himslelf getting things ready for her birthday are just her dream during the night or fantasy explanation on how it happened. Sam looks like a child a kid would draw, because it is. He is her imaginary friend who goes on adventures in their imagination, just like she is doing by making him and the others up. Freddi and Luthor are likely her pet fish or classroom pets. Spyfox is a cartoon character or general IP she is interested in and makes up her own stories for. Her design is the most realistic of the artistic style and you will notice the level also fits the kind of fantasy/age she would be making them up. Characters based on real world stuff are more real or fitting the style they would be while more original ones like Sam are much more primitive. The only other Humongous property as close to her level is the Backyard Sports series which seems to be based off her actual neighborhood. Since there are still some light fantasy elements including the mechanics/tech and child versions of Star athletes as well as slightly more cartooney appearence, my thoughts are that these are still hyperbolic reimagining of what really happened. Sam isn't real but but he is still supposed to be a normal kid. He's one from a child's perspective so it will be more exaggerated but not anywhere near the level of Spyfox on what he can do.
I really enjoyed Humongous Games. I bought most of them when they came out on Steam. I played Spy Fox and Pajama Sam and Freddi Fish. I don't know why but Freddi Fish didn't keep my attention as well as the others did. I also played Putt Putt. I had no clue there were so many Putt Putt games.
I loved all of the Humongous Entertainment games, like I think Putt-Putt, Freddi Fish, and Pajama Sam are all well kids, but given that Spy Fox has a job as a spy, I guess he is the only adult protagonist. Anyways I love both the point and click adventure and the junior arcade games, I think they were all pretty good and etc.
geez the Yahtzee burn! It is ironic that someone with such strong opinions about how a game should be made seems to only be able to create terrible to mid games
I always wish I could have played more of these games growing up. I've really only played the first Freddi Fish, and Pajama Sam game. I think my brother did have a Spy Fox game, but as I kid I guess I felt like he was a boring character. At least compared to Pajama Sam.
the game where really fun as a kid. We had the Freddie Fish and the sea kelp and just the fact that there are multiple variations to play the game kept me coming back. and to be real it still looks fun as a adult to see. I do have to say the games would make less sense for a kid now.
To this day I've yet to beat Freddi Fish 5(I think I either lost it or it's in storage somewhere). I also haven't played the first two at all. Pajama Sam however, all the original 3 are engrained into my head with the amount of times I played them. As far as the sports games. Baseball is my favorite with Football a very close 2nd(Achmed is my MVP) 3:13 Funny enough. My mom said she'd try Pajama Sam while I was at school at there were puzzles that even stumped her
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By the way, appreciate this video, because I had to Google pictures of Spy Fox to make that thumbnail. You know I wasn't going to say it in the video, but I think there might be another reason why Spy Fox is as beloved as it is.
Turns out furries get quite attached to their favorite childhood franchises.
You unfortunate soul... Safe Search is always recommended when searching on google images.
i remember playing Putt Putt in school.
You have my condolences my friend.
>Turns our furries get quite attached to their childhood franchises
Figures.
I’m not a furry *_and_* I know there’s definitely some people who became furries because of Pecola. Very unfortunately, mind you, but my points still stand.
1:02:20 Correction: 2005, not 2006.
Guilty as charged.
Hot take: Backyard Football holds up better than half of the most recent Madden games
That's not a hot take, that's just fact
Not a hot take. You’re absolutely right
I only played backyard baseball.
I loved that game. Even as an adult I would still have fun playing it.
That's not even a hot take. Modern sports games are just so unbelievably bad.
Funny enough, growing up my mom would often say, "Sly Fox" or, "Spy Cooper."
I will say though, as someone who grew up with these games when they were relatively new, Spy Fox and Freddi Fish felt like the one's that aged the best. Freddi has an atmosphere I still love and Spy Fox just felt cooler than the rest.
I eventually became a preschool teacher and it was heartwarming how these games lasted far beyond where they were supposed to. I remember Putt especially being common.
N. Gin and the Pajama Sam boat are both riffing on Peter Lorre, an early hollywood actor most famous for his role in Casablanca, and someone that voice actors have always enjoyed doing impressions of, especially during the theatrical looney tunes days, and his voice basically became a stock cartoon voice over the decades. Actually a *lot* of the more basic, stock cartoon voices out there began life as a specific impression of some golden age hollywood actor or another.
He's also a background fish in more recent spongebob episodes. I always enjoy nods to him
32:48 This is because both characters are based off of characters of Peter Lorre. He was a famous actor who got exaggerated into caricature versions in many early looney toons cartoons. The resulting character concept has far outlived the original actors style in the public zietgiest and most newer generations likely recognize the hyperbole version for being a meme over the real guy.
32:35
These games were everything to my childhood! Still play them here and there to this day. But I absolutely have a huge love for Spy Fox and how it introduced me into the spy espionage genre
Here's the thing about the "grown up humongous entertainment games" thing. I imagine these concepts CAN work if they kept the same vibes as the original games. I think a slightly more mature pajama Sam where he deals with more pre-teen/teen issues by kinda regressing back to comforts of his youth, yet told through that same cartoony lens CAN work.
Could be well done. Could also come across really creepy.
You missed that in Fatty Bear, you get a cameo of Putt-Putt on the moon if you look through Kayla’s telescope.
Also, Freddi Fish as a PI would be fun, if you could keep the sense of humor. Don’t make it dark, just keep it bright and friendly.
The Bender audio came out of nowhere and had me dying.
Surprise Yahtzee cameo with his Quake footage.
His Let's Drown Out series has a special place in my heart.
Man, this unlocked a Core Memory in me. I loved playing these games (along with other edutainment games like Jumpstart and Cluefinders) as a kid while my mom was working. A shame what happened to Humongous Entertainment but at least their games are still available.
An interesting fact about Humongous Entertainment is that it was the parent Company of Cavedog Entertainment the Developers of Total Annihilation.
My 2 favourite ones where Freddi Fish and the Stolen Conch and Pyjama Sam: You Are What You Eat From Your Head to Your Feet
I'm really tired, I initially read that as "stolen couch"
These were definitely my childhood. :) Great little documentary! (Tho that "At the rate things are going, the world will end next week" crack does feel a little too real right now... 😂)
Which is funny, because that wasn't intentional. The video just happened to fall on this day.
Shoutout to the fish feeding minigame in Freddy fish and the missing kelp seeds. I went back to it several years ago at this point and found that it restarts after you beat what it deems the final level. Never got anywhere near that far as a kid.
I tried it later on and still found it tough.
This channel is awesome, ive been watching since the beginning and you continuously scratch the sony/niche game itch I have. Great work.
These games in my opinion were my childhood growing up and really fun and very enjoyable growing up.
Used to play Putt Putt goes to the Zoo or whatever it’s called all the time. One of the earliest games I played that got me into gaming today. Thanks you Putt Putt and Humongous.
Thank you for this set of classics my man!
Really appreciate these videos man, thanks!
I'm disappointed you forgot to mention how travels through Time has the most variety of puzzles due to every item being selectable for a time period.
I wasn't around for these games because I was a bit too young, but damn. This is just saddening. From what I've seen of these games they are extremely charming
it is sad when a company that actually tries gets shut down.... but it was also a case of the Point and Click Adventure game also going out of style, shortly after FPS games would have started to become the "main" style of games, and I don't see an FPS with their style working
But the stories write themselves!
"Putt-Putt Goes to Vietnam"
"Fatty Bear in: Repressing Protests"
"Freddi Fish and the Great Fent Wave"
"Pajama Sam: It's Okay To Face Your Inner Demons"
@@RoseLexThornefatty Bear being the comedian from watchmen is darkly hilarious
I've only ever played Backyard Baseball, but it was one of ny favorite games we had for our family PC. So much personality
I remember getting Pajama Sam 3 in a cereal box back in the day, and was blown away when my brother started playing and the game seemed different compared to my playthrough. My sister had Blue's Treasure Hunt, which, let's be honest, had a kickass Breakout clone.
Could you possibly do a video on Infogrames. I want help remembering my childhood
I remember playing part of the 2nd Pajama Sam game on my elementary school's computer, and getting a free disc for Freddi Fish in a box of cereal. Good times.
6:16
Putt Putt and Fatty Bear's Activity Pack was my first ever PC game. It's my only experience with any Humongous games, but I can see that I would have probably enjoyed these games as a kid.
It's also a coincidence how these child entertainment games followed a similar journey as Driver: You Are the Wheelman.
From GT Interactive, to Infogrames and then Atari. Not surprised they also killed this francise as much as Driver went down the toilet.
Man, Putt-Putt Inc was a childhood classic of mine
Humongous Entertainment didn’t like Fatty Bear, to the point that they put an Easter egg in the code of Putt Putt Goes To The Zoo of “The Fatty Bear Memorial”.
I mean what else could you even do with fatty bear
A second birthday, duh
Fatty Bear’s Birthday Surprise strangely reminds me of another point-and-click adventure game, Bear With Me, which has a similar premise but a much darker story, themes, and art direction
Love the Sharkando reference. I watched the first one. Then jumped to the last one, but stopped 30 seconds in. It was so off the rails and had so much built up more than I had to go back and watch them in order. Crazy series.
If I referenced it, it wasn't intentional. I've never seen those movies
@TBP
It's a rabbit hole. The lore include an ancient Lovecraftian like god, a cult fighting against that god, a chosen one / nexus being, time travel, and the complete deduction of Earth. Look into at your own risk.
Yoooooo Tactical Bacon you made lad you 😂 I have been trying to find and remember these old school pc games of my childhood thank you for making this video the nostalgia is real on this one Bois!!
The best part of these games is that there are so many different story beats that can happen due to how the game is structured that the game is infinitely replaceable
Despite me never really getting into games like Spy Fox or Putt Putt, I am kinda nostalgic for Point and Click adventure games mainly because of the amount of Flash games I played
I was a little old for these when they came out, but i remember my baby cousin being a huge fan of Freddi Fish.
50:21 Mega Cat Studios were the ones who made Five Night at Freddy’s: Into the Pit from last year! The game has an interactive adventure style that’s more in the vein of Clock Tower 1 and 2. Though if they were to create a Humongous-like game with a similar horror twist, I think that’d be pretty sick! 😁
Putt putt travels through time was the only putt putt game I played, and don't worry, I noticed the same about those dinosaurs.
a lot of my core memories are ties to these games. especially spy fox, pajama sam, freddie fish, and backyard sports
I only found out recently that Carrot is voiced by fucking David Scully, the voice of Sergeant Johnson in Halo!
I think members of Sucker Punch played Spy Fox. I see the influence with Muggshot.
Grew up playing these games (alongside my PlayStation 1/2 and Game Boy/Colour/Advance) and still love them to this day.
The people who currently own Humongous Entertainment and all the IP (I believe it's a Hong Kong based company?) re-released, so far, EVERY Freddi Fish & Pajama Sam, Spy Fox 1 & Putt-Putt Saves The Zoo & Travels Through Time on PS4 and Switch... All I NEED is Spy Fox 2/3 and I'll be happy, but it's been over a year since they last ported any of the games 😥
Prussian Blue from Spy Fox had me tweaking out.
I have bought all the Freddi Fish games on steam. It is truly unfortunate to hear about this
Putt Putt may have saved the zoo but he couldn't save his company
I loved those games growing up as a kid.
It is so interesting to hear people talk about the Humongous Entertainment games and their personal experiences with them because when I was a kid we didn't have any of them. Instead, we had the Jumpstart games. I vaguely remember us having the Kindergarten one, but I know we also had the Third Grade one. That one appealed more to me even when I wasn't in the Third Grade yet because of the setting and the main character which was a robot. I never see anyone talk about these games in the way that people talk about Putt Putt or Pajama Sam.
you just unlocked a memory for me! I distinctly remember the ABCs main menu! I also had Preschool, Kindergarten, and 1st Grade. And I had this Franklin the Turtle game. I forgot Franklin the Turtle existed
Funny that sound like my childhood, as I only had those two games growing up.
amazing video - I remember getting Pajama Sam from a "First Choice" haircut as a kid.
26:42 I've noticed that happens with a few older games rereleased on newer Hardware. Mega Man Legends on PS3/Vita had this in spades in quite a few scenes, and to a lesser extent Banjo Tooie's 360 HD remaster had messed up timing in the intro cutscenes. Might be a case of those cutscenes being made specifically made for the original hardware in mind. Space Quest IV and Neversoft's SpiderMan have game breaking issues on more modern PCs due to similar reasons.
Loved Freddy and Sam growing up didn’t play their other titles
Ngl you talking about humongous entertainment was not on my 2025 bingo card and yet I am very pleasantly surprised
Posted 14 hours ago is nuts. I was just researching the history of this company and looking thru those exact same wiki pages
Havnt even seen it yet but this topic is AWSOME
I remember playing Putt-Putt as a toddler. Specifically Putt-Putt Joins the Parade. I was never clever enough to figure out the thumbtack puzzle.
6:24 Calvin and Hobbes reference noted and appreciated.
Ah, Infogrames. They were everywhere during the PS1 era. o.o
With the reference to The Godfather, I assume a lot of kids played these games with a parent. I always played The Missing Conch Shell with my dad as a kid.
I JUST WANTED TO GO INTO SPACE!!!!
Humongous should have made animated series. If they had, there would probably be several movies in theaters by now. Freddie Fish would have had the most potential, and Spy Fox had the second most potential. They would have made great shows better than anything Nickelodeon could possibly make.
Man, I loved playing Put Put! PP travels through time was my childhood game
Oh Hell yea I remember Freddy Fish. Just the Throwback I needed
The way I knew of H.E's existence was that I did get a CD Rom of Freddi Fish 4 as a Christmas present back in 2001. That was a pretty fun game.
I did consider getting one of the Spy Fox and Pyjama Sam game's since they were advertised in the CD Rom's inner case but just never got round to it.
Still, It is intriguing to see the rise and fall of H.E.
Fun fact: Stephan Weyte voiced acted a handful of characters in the Pajama Sam games.
The same guy who played Captain Claw and *Blood’s* Caleb.
47:30 Is she into cats? Probably.
48:33 I’m glad she’s (consistently) muscular like most bears should be.
57:40 How do you not have a DISC drive?!?!
my favorite was the putt-putt game where you could mow the grass. that should have been the hint that i was on the autism spectrum lmfao
I was lucky. My dad got into computers super early, so we were pretty early adapters. Still have some of the old games I played back then running on a dos emulator.
Omg bro. I grew up on these.
Freddi fish was my shit back in the day
it was really good especially the first one I played a lot.
I really enjoyed that with all the small background items that they would react to each other if played well.
Man Humongous Entertainment, now that is my child hood.
I grew up playing these games
I remember playing Freddi Fish 3 and Spy Fox in Dry Cereal as a kid. Spy Fox was my favourite; I always found his quips funny.
So here's a fun little fact about the first Freddi Fish game: There's a hidden scene where Freddi feeds Luthor to an eel, but to get that requires some file tinkering. Makes you wonder If there are more scenes like that hidden In the other games, I know Beavis and Butthead In Virtural Stupidity has some of those but they require you to click on a specific set of pixels.
As for what you said at 1:07:15 , there's potential In that Idea as a dark parody of the genre as It's own thing but It would be quite a balacing act.
That's like Discworld 1 and 2, there are very specific pixels that end up playing specific scenes with profanities; they were found partially because playing *all* of the audio for a game can elicit some *interesting* results but also because in code there were flags and references leftover that allowed people to discover these oddities by back-tracing where it was supposed to occur.
I would not be surprised if there is more.
But why would you wanna put me in a lunch box?
nice to see youre still kicking TGX. Hope all is going well
Look I'm going to say this in the most respectful way possible, don't call me that. If I still wanted to be called tgx, I wouldn't have killed the channel 4.5 years ago.
That Chzo Mythos shoutout was way unexpected
54:00?don’t know what it says about me I thought you were gonna say “the day the deal was planned to be completed was September 11th, 2001”
As you mentioned, the games are very much a product of their time and a direct faithful sequel in this day and age probably wouldn't sell well. However, I don't know of anything with the same spirit being made nowadays. There's very few true kid games being made, with even games commonly derided as being childish (Nintendo for example) having more of an all-ages broad appeal rather that something made specifically for elementary school students or younger. It's a shame, and an unfortunately common trend with entertainment and media in general excluding the youth more and more
32:26 -My Hypothesis is that all the Junior Adventure games of not all the Humongous ones, are part of Kayla's imagination. She is the little girl from Fatty Bear. Her parents car resembles PuttPutt and the puppy she gets for her birthday looks a bit like a female pep. Thus PuttPutt and Pep are made up of characters based on these aspects of her life. Fatty Bear himslelf getting things ready for her birthday are just her dream during the night or fantasy explanation on how it happened. Sam looks like a child a kid would draw, because it is. He is her imaginary friend who goes on adventures in their imagination, just like she is doing by making him and the others up. Freddi and Luthor are likely her pet fish or classroom pets. Spyfox is a cartoon character or general IP she is interested in and makes up her own stories for. Her design is the most realistic of the artistic style and you will notice the level also fits the kind of fantasy/age she would be making them up. Characters based on real world stuff are more real or fitting the style they would be while more original ones like Sam are much more primitive. The only other Humongous property as close to her level is the Backyard Sports series which seems to be based off her actual neighborhood. Since there are still some light fantasy elements including the mechanics/tech and child versions of Star athletes as well as slightly more cartooney appearence, my thoughts are that these are still hyperbolic reimagining of what really happened. Sam isn't real but but he is still supposed to be a normal kid. He's one from a child's perspective so it will be more exaggerated but not anywhere near the level of Spyfox on what he can do.
how are the humongous entertainment games on switch and ps4?
30:33 Hey you missed a sock!
I really enjoyed Humongous Games.
I bought most of them when they came out on Steam.
I played Spy Fox and Pajama Sam and Freddi Fish. I don't know why but Freddi Fish didn't keep my attention as well as the others did. I also played Putt Putt. I had no clue there were so many Putt Putt games.
6:06 this was my childhood!
It is somehow so cathartic to listen to you whining about children's games lol. Love your vids my guy.
Is that Norman Lear with Shelly Day?
the backyard sports games are peak.. so much better than like the real sports games lmao
1:02:55 the one infrogames game i have but love to death is Beetle Buggin, it made me just love the VW Beetle
Never noticed but there is a good amount of kid oriented stuff that references more adult media.
I loved all of the Humongous Entertainment games, like I think Putt-Putt, Freddi Fish, and Pajama Sam are all well kids, but given that Spy Fox has a job as a spy, I guess he is the only adult protagonist. Anyways I love both the point and click adventure and the junior arcade games, I think they were all pretty good and etc.
19:50 -The tip off is supposed to be the spelling. Freddi.
Putt putt goes to rehab for his crippling gas addiction
Freddi Fish and Putt-Putt were my childhood
geez the Yahtzee burn! It is ironic that someone with such strong opinions about how a game should be made seems to only be able to create terrible to mid games
In fairness, he made the game in 2004.
48:43 My man is out here making sitcom pitches? Now I need to know. I want to know about that character he mentioned
They were my whole childhood
I always wish I could have played more of these games growing up. I've really only played the first Freddi Fish, and Pajama Sam game. I think my brother did have a Spy Fox game, but as I kid I guess I felt like he was a boring character. At least compared to Pajama Sam.
I never heard of this company before today.
the game where really fun as a kid. We had the Freddie Fish and the sea kelp and just the fact that there are multiple variations to play the game kept me coming back.
and to be real it still looks fun as a adult to see. I do have to say the games would make less sense for a kid now.
6:36 I see Fatty Bear and Putt Putt isn't one to shy away from hot takes, I respect that
I remember playing Pajama Sam on my iMac G3. I never played any of those other games tho
To this day I've yet to beat Freddi Fish 5(I think I either lost it or it's in storage somewhere). I also haven't played the first two at all. Pajama Sam however, all the original 3 are engrained into my head with the amount of times I played them. As far as the sports games. Baseball is my favorite with Football a very close 2nd(Achmed is my MVP)
3:13 Funny enough. My mom said she'd try Pajama Sam while I was at school at there were puzzles that even stumped her
21:19 -Also the corpse of Putput cameoing in the junkyard!
11:48 Whoa!