(GT Interactive) sold Humongous to Infogrames Entertainment SA (the holding company) on the verge that Humongous would develop a game before March 2006 or they would be completely shuttered (by this point, the Backyard Sports series was developed by other developers). The Backyard Sports continued on with more yearly installments, becoming Atari's equivalent to the EA Sports and 2K brands. Humongous published the last two titles in the Junior Adventure series - Pajama Sam: Life Is Rough When You Lose Your Stuff, and Putt-Putt: Pep's Birthday Surprise. The only original title produced by this point was MoonBase Commander, released in 2002, and sold so poorly that Infogrames soon began to give up on the studio.Īfter their rebrand to Atari in 2003.
The founders soon left the studio after Infogrames constantly rejected their ideas for titles, and even tried to purchase back the studio which failed at the last minute due to the purchase being the day of the dot-com bubble bursting. Junior Adventure titles became more dominant after Infogrames saw the Backyard Sports franchise to be the the only reason Humongous made a profit at this point. publishing Humongous' games from then on. Cavedog went on to produce Total Annihilation: Kingdoms before being closed by GT Interactive in February 2000.Īround this time, GT Interactive was fully purchased by Infogrames, ending Humongous' independence by becoming solely a subsidiary with the newly-renamed Infogrames, Inc. By 1997, the company also began to create their only Licensed Games, based on Nickelodeon's Blue's Clues. Through to the late-90's, another addition to the Junior Adventure series: SPY Fox was created, alongside two new series: Big Thinkers! and Backyard Sports. Dispite the purchase, GT kept Humongous and Cavedog independent from their own operations, and within this time the company continued to grow.
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In July 1996, GT Interactive Software purchased Humongous Entertainment.
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