I played this and all the HE games so much during my childhood and even into my teens. I can trace my love of tattoos back to the "wanna see my tattoo?" guy in this game, who I would click on over and over until my dad came over and turned the computer speakers off lmao
Once upon a time long ago, when I was a wee lass, I had served myself a nice bowl of raisin brans... little did I know there was no milk left to be found anywhere in the fridge, so lil' me decided to try pouring orange juice instead... I did NOT finish that cereal bowl.
You need to chase him and jump up the ramp. I loved his "Milk the world again" line, freakin amazing delivery. These games had the best voice acting in the 90s!
I hope one day you will make review of the sequel "Spy Fox 2. Some assembly required", cause it was my first Humongous game and probably the best one in the Spy Fox series.
I STILL remember that in the dutch version, Blue's ship was called "Zuipschuit". "Schuit" meaning Boat or Ship while a "Zuipschuit" is someone who tends to drink too much.
Actually, this series is a really cool one. I played all of three games as a kid, not once, not twice... you know, like, A LOT. I also played Pajama Sam and Freddie Fish but Spy Fox was my favourite. It had left such an impact that over ten years after I suddenly remembered about it, bought the series on the Steam and replayed it. And HELLA ENJOYED IT JESUS.
LOVE the Sydney Greenstreet pig from "Casablanca" & "The Maltese Falcon" (aka: Signor Ferari from QfG 2 & 5). XD This game reminds me of classic Warner Bros. cartoons, introducing children to characters and ideas that they wouldn't fully grasp until they were adults! Also, ain't no shame in enjoying children's entertainment: "Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." --C.S. Lewis, "On Three Ways of Writing for Children" (1952)--
@Awakeandalive1 Nice job recognizing the "dignified" card-playing pig is an homage to Sidney Greenstreet. Good thing I scrolled down thru the comments before I posted. You beat me to it. :)
I absolutely love the Humongous Entertainment games, and the spy fox games were definitely some of my favorites as a kid. I always appreciated how smart and well written the jokes and dialogue were for a kids game.
I remember playing Spy Fox when it first came out way back when, after buying it from a store called Noodle-kidootals. I actually didn't realize that there was an additional ending until I finished playing it for the tenth time or so. To this day, I still have all the original Humongous Entertainment games on disk, lying around somewhere and Spy Fox 1 is, to me at least, the best in the series.
I was seriously pondering the question of whether or not giving a paint-job to the anthropomorphic car makes me unconformable, when that villain goat saved the day by announcing his cruel intentions towards The Best Cheese Ever. Now I have to try a goat milk cheddar, so I know if those plans of his are really as delusional as they sound!
There were three games that I played over and over as a child. This, Escape from Monkey Island and Spyro 2: Gateway to Glimmer. I loved those three games to a point where my mum probably worried about me.
I played through this game a few times as a kid. There was so much stuff changed in each replay of the game, entirely new characters and animations would show up, it was pretty overwhelming but a lot of it was similar to. Would have been better to make a game that was 3x longer instead imo.
My three takeaways from this video: 1) I am stealing the phrase "Reel it in, your weird is showing." 2) Wow, didn't know it was possible to lose an HE game...clearly I haven't played many of them, lol. 3) "Save early, save often." I think you've played more LSL games than you claim, Roses. And that rabbit totally reminds me of Filbert from Rocko's Modern Life.
I loved Spy Fox in Dry Cereal! And I was clearly in my late 30s/early 40s when I originally played the game. I also enjoyed Operation Ozone, though I didn't think it was quite so good. I'm also pretty sure that the rabbit is a Woody Allen-type character. Now I find out that I missed "Some Assembly Required". I'll definitely have to get a copy of that one.
Actually you can defeat him, you just have to choose the right path when your chasing the blimp. One of them send you off a ramp, getting inside the blimp where you take William down and he goes to prison.
You were right about chicken knuckles not being popular Mediterranean cuisine; they're not, and yes, they actually exist in real life. They're Chinese and they're pieces of fried chicken cartilage.
Wait, I actually know this game. I wasn't even born when it came out but I played it at the age of like, 5 or something and failed miserably. It was fun though. Spent literal hours looking at those fancy tats!
So many sibling memories contained in this game. Just found it this summer for a dollar. Used to play them on a mac, 8mb ram, 80mb hard drive. We played pajama sam too. Haven't been able to play it again yet so this is going to be so weird to see your video! I have that weird anxious feeling. Also it used to run so slow, so it's exciting to see it running normal in your video
As a kid who grew up in farm country I can tell you that town’s name is pronounced “Acid-dolph-a-lus.” It’s just another of a million milk or milk product references in the game.
I realize this video is fairly old and may have already been stated before, but I see people claiming HE games aren't very educational. I would argue that they at the very least teach kids about thinking logically and solving problems with the tools at hand, plus games like Putt-Putt, Freddi Fish and Pajama Sam teach good manners and social skills for interacting with others who are different. Plenty of adults these days could learn a thing or two from playing HE games.
Spy fox is my fave of all the Humongous games, I played them when I was the age for them and then a few years back I bought the package with all of them on steam and played them all again. I think my fave is either Putt Putt Saves the Zoo or Dry cereal. I loved that things would change in the Spy fox games, it means that i could play them over and over.
In Germany this was a sold as a part of cereal boxes. At least this is how I got my hands on it. This was my fist real adventure game and vor years I thought it was just a weird fever dream, something I had imagined. I'm very happy to say I was wrong.
I played every single HE game religiously growing up. I’m not ashamed to admit I still have every single path for the spy fox games memorized. But that Go Fish game...the one you’re forced to play to get the Lucky Charm... *gets ptsd flashbacks* That pig can go turn himself into BACON.
The gambling pig appears to be a take on Sydney Greenstreet's character from Casablanca, in which he wears a white suit and a fez. His voice pattern is very distinctive.
I played it in my childhood and at first I really didn't get the path with the captain, because I couldn't figure out the map puzzle. So I skipped every instance of the game the captain showed up and played only the other two paths until I finally figured it out. I played the shit out of this game and I bet I'd know most ways to solve the puzzles today easily when it comes to it.
Nobody needs cow milk for cereals you can use goat milk without a problem :-D But i recommend Orange Juice, it sounds weird but it's great an really interesting taste. Just try it ^^
I only know of Humongous Entertainment because I played a shit ton of games in the Backyard sports series. Even that glitchy mess Backyard Skateboarding.
The only cereal I prefer dry is Captain Crunch (the peanut butter one), and I will eat the SHIT outta of that without a drop of milk in sight XD And I'm all about doing things I'm too old to do ^^; I was watching Spongebob well into high school, and I still prefer YA novels to most adult ones these days.
1. The bunny at the end reminds you of The Comic Book guy from The Simpsons. 2. This video was genuinely funny 3. I have never heard of or seen this game in my life, and I'm going to check it out.
Hey Roses, big fan! Love your work. I have a recommendation for a game that is both creepy AND edutainment! Jumpstart 5th grade. It's not quite as creepy as it was to me when I was 4, but it is pretty damn creepy. It's horror themed and has a very interesting art style. I kinda forget the plot, but a witch teacher like, changes all the kids into animals or creatures or something and you have to go and get all the keys to her house to stop her. You explore the island and there's even a part where one of the maps from the other Jumpstart games is all broken down and creepy. It's really neat.
Well, I dunno if it's what you had in mind, but that rabbit reminds me of the balloon animal vendor in Grim Fandango. Also, you oughta be ashamed of those goat puns. The fact that I chortled at them is beside the point. ;)
+toongrowner1 nice, i can't remember which game i had it with but i know i couldnt go certain places and i didnt play go fish etc it was very limited. I did play putt putt travels through time but perhaps i didnt try to play it off that game.
