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Final Nail Driven into Humongous Coffin 01 Jul, 2005 / Comments: 12

By jp-30


Ron Gilbert reports at Grumpy Gamer on the fate of the children's game company he founded after leaving LucasArts, Humongous Entertainment;
In preparation for shutting down Humongous Entertainment, Atari laid off all but a handful of people wrapping up a project. I'm sure it is an event that will go largely unnoticed in the gaming press, after all, it's just kid's games.

In some ways I consider Humongous to be my greatest achievement, and also my greatest failure.
Goodbye Putt-Putt, Pajama Sam, Freddi Fish & friends...

Source: Grumpy Gamer

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12 Comments

  • 8 of 12 on 05 Jul, 2005, 23:14…
    Shame. Freddi Fish and Putt-Putt are what I used to introduce my sisters to adventure games on the computer. They loved them, so clearly some good was done.
  • Jake on 02 Jul, 2005, 18:24…
    Best headline ever.
  • jp-30 on 02 Jul, 2005, 22:08…
    :-)
  • Biosyn on 02 Jul, 2005, 17:03…
    oh noes.... =(

    I used to play Freddy Fish alot when I was little. Humoungous' adventure games were always awesome. You can kind of say they brought me into more grown-up adventure games... RIP
  • Bobbin Threadbare on 03 Jul, 2005, 01:34…
    I still play Pajama Sam and I'm not little.
  • Biosyn on 03 Jul, 2005, 08:52…
    believe me, if I had the games now - I would play them too.
  • itchythesamurai on 02 Jul, 2005, 04:50…
    Maybe Ron will move on to bigger, better things?
  • Remi O on 02 Jul, 2005, 13:33…
    He moved on quite a while back actually.
  • itchythesamurai on 03 Jul, 2005, 18:41…
    Complacency is no advocate of quality!
  • Bobbin Threadbare on 02 Jul, 2005, 00:06…
    NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't believe they would kill such a nice thing. I have Pajama Sam. It's fun. I only found out about it's LucasArts relation a couple of months ago.
  • woxel1 on 02 Jul, 2005, 17:20…
    "I only found out about it's LucasArts relation a couple of months ago."

    So you can't *really* be too surprised about this turn of events, can you ;)

    In all seriousness however, I am very saddened by this loss...
  • Bobbin Threadbare on 03 Jul, 2005, 01:33…
    Hmm... your right.