Putt-Putt (series)

History

Games

Adventure games

1. Putt-Putt Joins the Parade
2. Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon
3. Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo
4. Putt Putt Travels Through Time
5. Putt-Putt Enters the Race
6. Putt-Putt Joins the Circus
7. Putt-Putt: Pep's Birthday Surprise

   Other games

Customization

Availability

• For Steam the games were released as single games, or bundled together in the "Putt-Putt Complete Pack" or came packaged with all Humongous Entertainment games in "Humongous Entertainment Complete Pack".
• Humongous Entertainment released a CD titled "Humongous Entertainment Triple Treat", which included Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo, Pajama Sam's Sock Works and Freddi Fish and the Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds.
• Humongous Entertainment released a CD titled "Humongous Entertainment Triple Treat 2", which included Putt Putt Travels Through Time, and Freddi Fish and Luther's Maze Madness.
• Humongous Entertainment released a "Putt-Putt Fun & Learning Kindergarten Edition" package with a Putt-Putt notebook and a CD that included Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo and Big Thinkers Kindergarten.
• Putt-Putt and Pep's Balloon-O-Rama was released for Windows and Macintosh on a compilation CD titled "Super Duper Arcade 1", along with Spy Fox in: Cheese Chase, Pajama Sam's Sock Works and Freddi Fish and Luther's Water Worries and.
• Putt-Putt and Pep's Dog on a Stick was released for Windows and Macintosh on a compilation CD titled "Super Duper Arcade 2", along with Spy Fox in: Hold the Mustard, Pajama Sam's Lost & Found and Freddi Fish and Luther's Maze Madness.

  Characters

Main characters

• Putt-Putt - A purple convertible car, full of fun and excitement, and happy to help those he meets.
• Pep - An abandoned puppy, whom Putt-Putt adopted in the first game of the series, and has been his pet and best friend ever since.

  Baby Animals (Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo)

• Baby Jambo the Elephant - An elephant calf who has the fear of mice. He later returns in "Putt-Putt Joins the Circus," traveling with B.J. Sweeney's circus with his mother, Mama Mombasa and spends his time outside the menagerie tent, painting pictures while Mama Mombassa uses the net for The Flying Porkowskis as a hammock until Putt-Putt wakes her up with a bag of peanuts.
• Masai the Giraffe - A giraffe calf who gets stuck at a drawbridge with a rock blocking the way until Putt-Putt helps push it and lowers the drawbridge.
• Kenya the Lion Cub - A little lion cub resembling Nala from The Lion King, voiced by Kathleen Young. She was stuck on a rock in the waterfall in Jungleland until Putt-Putt uses a rope to rescue her.
• Samantha "Sammy" Seal - A seal pup who does tricks and stunts who gets lost at the Grasslands when the dam closed until Putt-Putt uses a toolbox to open it.
• Little Skeeter the Snake - A young snake who is frozen in Arcticland until Putt-Putt gives him hot cocoa.
• Zanizbar the Hippo - A hippo calf who lives in Jungleland who gets lost in Arcticland until the player directs the penguins to arrange the iceberg path.

  Recurring characters

• Mr. Baldini - The Italian proprietor lorry of the Cartown Grocery Store. Putt-Putt frequently makes grocery deliveries for him in exchange for coins.
• Ms. Bundlebugget - The Cartown librarian trolley, who keeps interesting books, which Putt-Putt reads when he gets a chance.
• Mr. Firebird - The Cartown scientist whose inventions often backfire and become dangerous to others.
• Mrs. Goodbake - Cartown's jolly and gold-hearted cake baker van, who makes delicious confectioneries.
• Outback Al - The zookeeper and owner of the Cartown Zoo. He speaks with an Australian accent, like the late Steve Irwin and Crocodile Dundee.
• Rover - A friendly moon buggy who was deserted on the moon, until Putt-Putt gave him a ride back to Earth.
• Smokey - The Cartown Fire Engine Chief, who is a red fire truck that gives safety tips to those he meets. In "Putt-Putt: Pep's Birthday Surprise", he has a dalmatian puppy.
• Mrs. Widget - The cheerful toy shop bumper car, who often has a product on the house.

  ''Pep's Birthday Surprise''-only characters

• Caristas - Two caravans that make and serve hot cocoa. Chuck Wagon first appeared in "Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo," offering Putt-Putt cotton candy, hot cocoa and Cheese Squigglies.
• Hank - A police car, who makes a record of the world's biggest twine as a hobby. He returns in "Putt-Putt Joins the Circus" as the circus' security guard who lets go Putt-Putt backstage to meet the performers after getting his backstage pass signed by B.J. Sweeney.
• Mr. Kibble - The Cartown Pet Store Truck, who sells pet food and supplies.
• Marvin - An auto-mobile Magician who entertains people at parties who talks like Peter Lorre. He returns in "Putt-Putt Joins the Circus" as the magician in B.J. Sweeney's circus.
• Mildred - A three-wheeled mail truck, who has a knack at keeping secrets.
• Reginald Windbag, III - A mobile inflator also called 'Reggie', who comes from a long line of inflators.
• Sunshine - A happy, carefree van who sells odd sorts of items.
• Torvil - A farm tractor, who tends to the barnyard.

  ''Putt-Putt Joins the Circus''

• Roll-Along Cassidy - The circus train's locomotive who gives Putt-Putt a ride to the circus grounds after a goat eats his circus ticket.
• B.J. Sweeney - The owner and ringmaster of his circus. His name is a play on DB Sweeney and P.T. Barnum.
• Honko the Clown - A clown car who performs in B.J. Sweeney's circus. His name is a play on Harpo Marx because they communicate by honking.
• The Flying Porkowskis - A family of pigs who perform as the acrobats in B.J. Sweeney's circus. Mama Mombassa used their net as a hammock until Putt-Putt wakes her up with a bag of peanuts and gave it to them.
• Phillipe the Flea - A French flea whose flea circus is a red-and-white-striped umbrella for a tent. He and the other fleas traveled from Belobrodnik Bear to Pep until Putt-Putt got a new umbrella for a new tent for his flea circus.
• Reginald Cornelius Andronocles III - Also called "Reginald the Lion" for short. He speaks with a British accent and is assisted by two tigers named Terri and Marie in his wild cat act for the circus.
• Katie Cannonball - The circus' human cannonball. She speaks with a Southern accent.
• Eunice - A unicycle who practices on the tightrope.
• Bette Bandwagon - A calliope who is the circus accompaniment, conductor, and orchestra rolled into one. After Putt-Putt fixes her pipes and she blows out a Honk-ish translation book which Putt-Putt uses to talk to Honko the Clown, she'll sing a song for him.
• Belobrodnik Bear - A Russian dancing bear whom Phillipe and the other fleas traveled until Putt-Putt got them a new tent.
• Francine - A high-diving hippopotamus who accidentally gets her bathing suit switched with Reginald the Lion's cape.
• Sebastian the Juggling Seal - A seal Putt-Putt meets in the menagerie of B.J. Sweeney's circus who is having trouble with his juggling act at first because one of his juggling clubs gets mixed up with Honko the Clown's nose, but gets the act right when Putt-Putt brings him the fourth club after Marvin's card trick has no match.
• Circus animals - The other circus animals in the menagerie tent of B.J. Sweeney's circus, consisting of two monkeys, a horse, a rhinoceros, a cockatoo, and a camel who sing "We're the Animals in the Circus."
• Ivan the Semi-Strong Van - The replacement for Pectoro the Strong Van in B.J. Sweeney's circus who becomes strong after Putt-Putt finds the recipe for Pectoro's power shake.
• Bart - A peanut cart who gives Putt-Putt a bag of peanuts if he wins the Peanut Challenge.

  Books

Reception