Putt-Putt Joins the Parade

Putt-Putt Joins the Parade is the first in a long line of games produced by Humongous Entertainment that would come to dominate the '90s edutainment market. Join the titular purple convertible as he runs mundane errands and struggles through crappy lawnmowing minigames so he can earn enough money to enter the Cartown Pet Parade! Probably most notable for being produced by Ron Gilbert, creator of the Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island series, allowing this and most other Humongous releases to run on the powerful SPUTM/SCUMM engine used in many classic LucasArts adventure games.

Also, the story writer would go on to be imprisoned for defrauding the Asia Europe Americas Bank of Seattle of $1.5 million, which unfortunately is not the last of the disturbing things to emerge from Humongous Entertainment.

Unused Graphics


A generic placeholder for the save/load screen when no preview image is available for a room.

Unused Music
The tracks and their names are from the 3DO version, but equivalent data exists in all versions.

Debugging Messages
He can't talk to you. The SCUMM DIETY. Displayed when the engine can't initiate a conversation for some reason, such as the requested character not being in the current room. It can be triggered by force-running script 10 (scr 10 run in ScummVM's debugger).

Box O' Blocks
oX72rqkXWaQ In the original floppy disk version, one of the toys in the Toy Store is a "Box O' Blocks", internally called "lego-box", that cycles through a few animations when clicked. In most CD releases, it's replaced with a joke-telling minigame, probably to take advantage of the additional capacity afforded by the medium. All the original graphics remain in these versions, and the object itself is actually still in place, but it's made invisible and unclickable by the engine. Interestingly, this seems to have been a fairly late change, since the associated animations are stored separately from everything else at the very end of the game's data.

The Box O' Blocks is still used in some international versions, probably to avoid having to localize the joke box's many English-specific jokes and puns.

The box can be made to show up in any version by force-running script 201 while in the Toy Store.