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[[Humongous Entertainment]] (now [[Humongous Inc]]) was a company for children's computer games, which is now owned by [[Atari]]. Their five biggest franchises were ''[[Putt-Putt]]'', ''[[Freddi Fish]]'', ''[[Pajama Sam]]'', ''[[Spy Fox]]'', and ''[[Backyard Sports]]'', although they had plenty of other small franchises such as ''[[Fatty Bear]]'', ''[[Buzzy the Knowledge Bug]]'', and ''[[Big Thinkers|Big Thinkers!]]'' Humongous was founded by Ron Gilbert of [[
Eventually, Humongous filed for bankruptcy, and sold all the rights to [[Atari]], who continued four of the series, but only went one game on three of those four and stopped. The other one, the ''[[Backyard Sports]]'' series, lasted for several more years, but it too seems to have ended. Three of the games were also ported to the [[Wii]] by Majesco, but used ScummVM (a virtual machine made to run old Scumm-based games) without giving any credit to the developers whatsoever, so it now seems all series have been left abandoned and rotted. The fanbase is still strong, however, and continue to remember the games from their childhood.
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* [[Conspicuously Light Patch]]: Would very often give away item locations.
* [[Creative Closing Credits]]: Humongous was quite fond of these. Usually they had objects flying up or going across the screen, and clicking on them gave you different reactions. Other things included [[Photo Montage|photo albums]], a room with many click points, screens that show many random events, and much more.
* [[Creator
* [[Credits Gag]]: Virtually all games since ''[[Putt-Putt]] Saves the Zoo'' feature at least one "joke credit" (the aforementioned game has "If you lived in Cartown, you'd be home now," and ''[[Pajama Sam]] 1'' has "No animals were injured or cheese eaten in the making of this game. ... Mmm, cheese.")
* [[Debug Room]]: Featured in all of the post-''[[Putt-Putt]] Saves the Zoo'' games.
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* [[Game Mod]]: By editing the games' config files, you may find additional scenes, which are either extra jokes and/or [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]].
** The five games that use the YAGA engine<ref>''[[Backyard Sports|Backyard Basketball 2004]]'', ''[[Backyard Sports|Backyard Football 2004]]'', ''[[Backyard Sports|Backyard Hockey]]'', ''[[Pajama Sam|Pajama Sam: Life Is Rough When You Lose Your Stuff]]'', and ''[[Putt-Putt|Putt-Putt: Pep's Birthday Surprise]]''</ref> are especially easy to mod, since the files can easily be extracted with 7-Zip..
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: Humongous is [[Pixar|not the last company]] that would create beloved entertainment about [[Cars|cars, spies]], [[Toy Story (franchise)||toys]], [[The Incredibles|superheros]], or [[Finding Nemo|fish]].
* [[Kleptomaniac Hero]]: Partially averted. Usually the characters will give an excuse for taking anything not nailed down by saying something like "This doesn't belong here, so I'd better find the place it should go." At the base of it, though, the heroes are still snatching anything that looks important.
* [[Mad Libs Dialogue]]: You could say it was abused in Humongous games. The ''[[Backyard Sports]]'' were especially bad at this.
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