Freddi Fish and The Case Of The Missing Kelp Seeds

Freddi Fish and the Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds is Humongous Entertainment's first Freddi Fish title, notable for being their first game made specifically for Windows. The game puts you in the shoes of Freddi Fish and her annoying little green sidekick Slippy Toad Luther as they look for Grandma Grouper's missing kelp treasure, which is apparently the only source of food in the entire ocean. Can you find the location of the kelp treasure before the mafia does?

Unused Subtitles
Like other Humongous Entertainment games, Freddi Fish has subtitles for all dialog. In the first print run in 1994 (the one with the Windows 3.1 styled pause menu), these were not unused and could be activated by pausing the game and checking the "Display text" box. However, on every release after, they are accessible only through entering TextOn=1 to the game's entry in the hegames.ini file, or through ScummVM.

Unused Music
Nearly identical to another track used in the game, except it features tiki-esque chanting throughout the entire piece. Possibly unused because there was no place it would fit, or maybe due to issues with islander stereotypes. This can actually be found on the album "Flabby Rode" as "Fat Chants 2".

An unused theme intended for the sunken ship, evidenced by the fact that it's not only in the exact style as the theme that actually is used, but also right next to it in the HE4 file. It's unknown as to why it was cut.

Intended for the king's castle, once again evidenced by being both in the same style as the piece that actually plays there and from being right next to it in the HE4 file. Reason for being cut is unknown.

Another unused king's castle piece, evidenced for the same reasons as above. Once again, reason for being cut is unknown.

A little excerpt of one of the other themes in the game, however this one has the lyrics "Freddi we need your help please, we need to find the missing kelp seeds, Freddi we need your help, we need to find the missing kelp" added to it. Probably cut for not having a place to be used in the game.

The sharks theme in its entirety. Usually, only the first 30 seconds of this theme are heard before it gets cut off, which leaves a good minute unheard.

Hidden Cutscene
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A disturbing insight into the mind of Freddi Fish can be viewed by adding EddieEatsLuther=1 to hegames.ini (see video at right for the result). It is likely an in-office joke, though it's interesting that they took the time to record lines for Luther and Freddi just for this cutscene.

Revisional Differences
The game has three known major versions: the initial version made in 1994, a reissue made in 1998, and a 2007 rerelease that changed the subtitle to Kelp Seed Mystery.

The 1994 version used the generic "Humongous Entertainment Presents..." logo without any sound. The 1998 reissue used their newer logo with the signature drum roll crash. The 2007 version reverted back to the Humongous Presents style with the orange logo and no sound.

The Junior Adventure logo was added to the 1998 versoin, using the light-blue variant that was typically used in the other Freddi Fish games. The 2007 version does not include this.

The copyright dates were updated accordingly. The 2007 version had its title screen adjusted to use the shortened title.

Starting from this game onward, cursors are included that are made to indicate the option to go somewhere off in the distance. In the 1994 version, these particular cursors are very long and thin as opposed to the short and thick ones every Humongous game made afterward would adopt. The 1998 version corrected this.

Additionally, all the item cursors were colorized in the 2007 version.

The 1994 version uses a Windows 3.1-styled pause menu. The 1998 and 2007 versions use a Windows 95-styled pause menu which added an options screen but got rid of the ability to toggle the subtitles.

Other Differences

 * The 1994 version had a bug that prevented the music from playing on the jellyfish tossing minigame unless you turned the music off and back on. The 1998 version corrected this.
 * The 2007 version made it possible to skip movement cut scenes that occur when going from screen to screen. This was not possible in the 1994 or 1998 versions.