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-'''Humongous Entertainment''' is a video game company founded by Ron Gilbert and Shelley Day.
+'''Humongous Entertainment''' is a video game company founded by Ron Gilbert and Shelley Day in 1992.
-The company built it's reputation by making excellent graphic adventures for children beginning in the early 1990s.  They soon expanded into the popular children's sport franchise ''Backyard Sports'', which is still continuing today.
+The company built its reputation by making excellent graphic adventures for children beginning in the early 1990s.  They soon expanded into the popular children's sport franchise ''Backyard Sports''.
-The company was purchased by [[GT Interactive]] in 1996, which was in turn sold to [[Infogrames]], whose US branch became [[Atari]] in 2003.  In 2005, Atari sold Humongous Entertainment back to the main Infogrames branch in France.  Infogrames renamed Humongous Entertainment to Humongous in 2006.  Atari filed for bankruptcy in January 2013, and Tommo purchased Humongous at the bankruptcy auction in July 2013.  Tommo renamed the company back to Humongous Entertainment.
 Other than the Backyard Sports series, their other famous game franchises include [[Putt-Putt series|Putt-Putt]], [[Freddi Fish series|Freddi Fish]], [[Pajama Sam series|Pajama Sam]], [[Let's Explore with Buzzy series|Let's Explore with Buzzy]], [[Big Thinkers series|Big Thinkers]], [[Fatty Bear series|Fatty Bear]] and [[SPY Fox series|SPY Fox]].
 Ron Gilbert brought the [[SCUMM]] scripting language with him when he left LucasArts to form Humongous Entertainment, and as such, most of the PC and Macintosh versions of Humongous Entertainment's games use an enhanced version of the SCUMM scripting language.
+The company was purchased by [[GT Interactive]] in 1996, which was in turn sold to [[Infogrames]], whose US branch became [[Atari]] in 2003.  In 2005, Atari sold Humongous Entertainment back to the main Infogrames branch in France.  Infogrames renamed Humongous Entertainment to Humongous in 2006.  Atari filed for bankruptcy in January 2013, and Tommo purchased Humongous at the bankruptcy auction in July 2013.  Tommo renamed the company back to Humongous Entertainment.
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