In November 1997, Humongous Entertainment signed a five-year worldwide deal with Nickelodeon to develop games based on the Nick Jr. On July 11, 1996, Humongous Entertainment was purchased by GT Interactive for US$76 million. Acquisitions, decline, dissolution (1996–2006) This was followed by two expansion packs in 1998, as well as a variation called Total Annihilation: Kingdoms plus an expansion pack in 1999. In 1995, Gilbert and Day established a company division, Cavedog Entertainment, in Seattle, set to develop games of alternative genres, and released Total Annihilation, a real-time strategy (RTS) game, in 1997. The company became the third largest children's educational-software company. Despite all four series being developed and released in parallel, characters from one series do not cross over with ones in another (except for Putt-Putt and Fatty Bear's Activity Pack, where Putt-Putt and Fatty Bear combined their Fun Packs) and instead appear as cameos or Easter eggs in any of the three other series. It became known for creating four point-and-click adventure game series intended for young children, branded collectively as 'Junior Adventures', with the four series being the Putt-Putt series, the Freddi Fish series, the Pajama Sam series and the Spy Fox series. The name Humongous Entertainment was suggested by Gilbert's ex- LucasArts colleague, Tim Schafer. Humongous Entertainment was formed by Shelley Day and Ron Gilbert in 1992, then based in Woodinville, Washington. and Atari Interactive, Tommo acquired the Humongous brand and all of its assets, and went on to re-release some of its games into digital distribution channels in conjunction with Night Dive Studios. As part of the bankruptcy agreement of the Atari SA subsidiary Atari, Inc., Humongous, Inc. Infogrames transitioned the label to a new company, Humongous, Inc., which continued publishing games under the Humongous label until 2013, when it faced bankruptcy. GT sold Humongous to its parent company, Infogrames (later renamed Atari SA), in August 2005, as a result of which the company was shut down a few months after. By October 2000, sales of Humongous games had surpassed 16 million copies. Humongous Entertainment was acquired by GT Interactive (later renamed Infogrames, Inc., then Atari, Inc.) in July 1996. 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.

was an American video game developer based in Bothell, Washington.

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