Humongous Entertainment

Humongous, Inc.

Logo used since Tommo's purchase of the brand; earlier versions of this logo were purple
Formerly	Humongous Entertainment, Inc. (1992-2005)
Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Video games
Founded	March 1992; 33 years ago (1992-03) in Woodinville, Washington, US
Founder	Ron Gilbert Shelley Day
Defunct	2013; 12 years ago (2013)
Fate	Chapter 11 bankruptcy, assets split off
Headquarters	Bothell, Washington , US
Parent	Atari, Inc. (1996–2005) Atari SA (2005-2013)
Website	humongous.com

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.^[1]

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, 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.