Humongous Entertainment
Logo used since Tommo's purchase of the brand; earlier versions of this logo were purple | |
| Formerly | Humongous Entertainment, Inc. (1992-2005) |
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| Company type | Subsidiary |
| Industry | Video games |
| Founded | March 1992 in Woodinville, Washington, US |
| Founder | |
| Defunct | 2013 |
| Fate | Chapter 11 bankruptcy, assets split off |
| Headquarters | , US |
| Parent | Atari, Inc. (1996–2005) Atari SA (2005-2013) |
| Website | humongous |
Humongous, Inc. (formerly Humongous Entertainment, Inc.) was an American video game developer based in Bothell, Washington. Founded in 1992, the company developed multiple edutainment franchises, most prominently Putt-Putt, Freddi Fish, Pajama Sam, Spy Fox, and Backyard Sports, which, combined, sold over 15 million copies and earned more than 400 awards of excellence.
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. GT, which had by that point became Atari, Inc. sold the Humongous business to its parent company, Infogrames (later renamed Atari SA), in August 2005 and reduced the company solely as a management firm for their assets until its bankruptcy in 2013, in which the assets were sold to Tommo, who re-released some of its games on digital distribution channels using the Humongous name.