If I had any clue where my favorites were, I’d still be playing them ( provided they were cross-platform – frankly, I don’t think they’d work on my Mac.) And while I loved playing with the likes of Dmitri Petrovich, Pete Wheeler, and Lisa Crocket ( and to this day am confused by the fact that Jocinda Smith was always touted as, but never really was, a good player – kind of the Christian Laettner of the Backyard Sports games) – not to mention with Sunny Day and her rotating team of punnily-named color commentators on the call – bringing Major Leaguers as kids into Backyard Baseball really made it a great game in my mind. I freakin’ loved the Backyard Sports games as a kid – hell, I still love them. It may not have been the best game story-wise, but for its time, it was quite enjoyable. The animation was 16-bit, and it was the first Putt-Putt game to feature a MIDI soundtrack not only does it harken back to my childhood, it harkens back to a long-lost age in gaming. Moon was the second game in the Putt-Putt franchise, and it featured our eponymous automobile hero and his ( her? its?) pet dog Pep…well…going to the Moon. However, I played a relative crapload of Putt-Putt ( along with Buzzy the Knowledge Bug as part of the Junior Field Trips series, though that didn’t make the cut for this Top 5). I definitely played demos of both of them that came on other Humongous Entertainment discs, just not an actual complete game in that franchise.
#Humongous games backyard sports full#
Let’s just get this out of the way right now: I never played a full game of Pajama Sam or Freddi Fish. They were relatively highbrow – they certainly didn’t talk down to children, yet maintained a sense of fun – and they had a very distinctive animation style that spread throughout their main franchises.
#Humongous games backyard sports Pc#
I played a pretty good amount of PC games as a kid – not large ones like World of Warcraft ( ’cause high-speed internet didn’t happen yet), but ones that ran on CD-ROM, like Carmen Sandiego ( spoken for earlier) the PC adaptations of Jeopardy! (2nd Edition !) and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and crappy versions of Madden.īut most of my time in the PC children’s game world was spent playing games from Humongous Entertainment ( which I think still exists – the rights are currently under the purview of Atari (really Hasbro, which in turn has the rights to Atari ), if that means anything – but have turned their attention more to console gaming), which produces some pretty fun games for kids.