Humongous Entertainment
American video game developer (1992-2006) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Humongous Entertainment, Inc. was an American video game developer based in Bothell, Washington. Founded in 1992, the company is best known for developing multiple edutainment franchises, most prominently Putt-Putt, Freddi Fish, Pajama Sam and Spy Fox, which, combined, sold over 15 million copies and earned more than 400 awards of excellence.[1]
Company type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Video games |
Founded | March 1992; 32 years ago (1992-03) in Woodinville, Washington, US |
Founder | |
Defunct | August 22, 2005; 18 years ago (2005-08-22) |
Fate | Closed, assets sold |
Headquarters | , US |
Parent | Atari (1996–2005) |
Website | humongous |
Humongous Entertainment was acquired by GT Interactive (later renamed Infogrames, Inc., then Atari, Inc.) in July 1996. By October 2000, sales of Humongous games had surpassed 16 million copies.[2] GT sold the Humongous business to its parent company, Infogrames (later renamed Atari SA), in August 2005 and laid off the studio's employees. Infogrames held the assets under a new subsidiary, Humongous, Inc., until its bankruptcy in 2013, in which the assets were sold to Tommo. Tommo re-released some of its games on digital distribution channels using the Humongous name.