Humongous Entertainment

In Mello's room, you can find a reference to Freddy Fish on the Wall.

Ready Fish is a point-and-click series developed by Humongous Entertainment.

But when you click this fish, she makes a honk noise.

This is a reference to Humongous Entertainment's other popular franchise, Pup Pup.

It's a Frankensteined reference to two different things combined into one.

One of the main messages in Frankenstein is the irony that the monster, Adam, while looking like and being treated like a monster, it was actually Frankenstein who was the monster.

And during the pandemic, I had this like light bulb moment that Backyard Sports was gone and needed to come back.

And in that, it was not until after I had acquired the rights to the brand that I learned that Humongous Entertainment was an educational company.

The company that made Backyard in the 90s made it for the sole purpose of teaching kids like us, the rules of sports.

And like, it was so crazy to think that like everything that I had done in my life of like teaching and studying animation and all this stuff and thinking I was gonna be doing educational content led me to Backyard, which was- Full

Educational without me ever knowing it.

And most people never knew that in the first place.

Yeah, I remember Humongous Entertainment making educational games.

They had one with the fish?

And so the whole thing just kind of, the entire Quavedog thing imploded completely.

With the third owners and and then and then and then and then actually sadly Humongous entertainment itself because he is all humongous entertainment cave dog came out of humongous entertainment humongous entertainment We're making really successful kids adventure games at the time and they kept going for a time But eventually that you know that ended too sadly, but it was a really wonderful thing They had going really really wonderful and then the creative freedom and stuff that they enabled us to do we wanted to was incredible but fact of the whole thing imploded the way it did definitely left a very gaping black hole in my brain and That that led to me being really hungry to try to make a great triple-a game that reaches millions of people full stop I really I was all very typed on doing that and I guess we needed to do that So when the Harry Potter came or two he came around I just threw myself at the opportunity full gusto, right? I'm everything I could to make it a success for everybody involved.

Yeah, I

Did you ever play a game or notice a game after that that came out that kind of pulled from elements of Chamber of Secrets? I mean, you were kind of ahead of the game there.

Endocopia?

... a Humongous Entertainment game.

Oh, Endo- Endocopia?

Yeah.

Yeah.

All the, like-

Yeah, it's def- it's definitely the Humongous Entertainment stroke-

Yeah

those.

Humongous Entertainment.

Yeah.

Putt-Putt Travels Through Time.

The very first game I played was the first one, Putt-Putt Joins the Parade.

It was on a floppy disk and it was like such a short game, but...

I bought so many humongous entertainment games from catalogs.

Pajama Sam, Freddy Fish.

Yes.

Did any of you really grow up with humongous entertainment games?

Yes! Pup Pup.

Freddy Fish.

Sponsored by Cress.

You're like the little cartoon guy with the toothpaste dude from Humongous Entertainment back in the

day.

That's their mascot.

This is very kid-friendly.

It came out, uh, from Humongous Entertainment long time ago, 1997 to be exact.

And this game basically tried to recreate everybody's childhood, and did a pretty good job doing it, I think.

Mm-hmm.

This is what video games and baseball should be, which is a damn video game, and that's the focus.

And I like that a lot.

Yeah, this, this comes from Humongous Entertainment, and if you've ever played, uh, if you've ever played Maniac Mansion, uh, you may recognize the name Ron Gilbert.

Uh, and that's who is one of the co-founders of Humongous Entertainment, and you feel that here.