Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo

Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo is a 1995 video game and the third of seven adventure games in the Putt-Putt series of games developed and published by Humongous Entertainment. The animation style also changed with this game to hand-drawn animation, in contrast to the pixel art graphics of the previous two games, following the studio's jump from DOS to Windows with Freddi Fish and the Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds the previous year. The game was reissued on April 19, 1999. In November 2011, the game became the first Humongous Entertainment game to be rereleased for iOS and Google Play.[6] Developed by Nimbus Games Inc., the iOS version of this game released by Atari was discontinued. A Nintendo Switch version was released on February 10, 2022,[4] followed by the PlayStation 4 version on the PlayStation Store in November the same year.[7]

Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo
Windows / Macintosh Cover art
Developer(s)Humongous Entertainment[lower-alpha 1]
Publisher(s)Humongous Entertainment[lower-alpha 2]
Producer(s)Ron Gilbert
Designer(s)
Artist(s)Todd Lubsen[1]
Writer(s)
  • Laurie Bauman Arnold
  • Annie Fox
Composer(s)George Alistair Sanger
EngineSCUMM
Platform(s)Android, Macintosh, Windows, DVD player, Linux, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4
ReleaseReleased:
  • August 10, 1995 (Win)[2]
  • 1996 (Mac)
  • 2005 (DVD player)
  • November 15, 2011, August 13, 2015 (iOS)
  • 2012 (Android)
  • 2014 (Linux)
  • July 3, 2014 (Steam)[3]
  • February 10, 2022 (Switch)[4]
  • November 3, 2022 (Playstation 4)[5]
Genre(s)Adventure
Mode(s)Single-player

Plot

Putt-Putt is excited because today is the grand opening of the Cartown Zoo and he and Pep visit Mr. Baldini at his grocery store to remind him of the exciting news. Mr. Baldini asks Putt-Putt to deliver Zoo Chow to Outback Al, the new zookeeper, to which Putt-Putt agrees. Putt-Putt finds that the zoo gate is locked, so he calls Outback Al, via a speaker, to tell him that he is bringing the zoo chow. Al opens the gate for Putt-Putt and the latter enters to find out that six baby animals are missing from the Cartown Zoo: Baby Jambo, the Elephant, Masai, the Giraffe, Kenya, the Lion cub, Zanzibar, the Hippopotamus, Sammy Seal and Little Skeeter, the Boa constrictor. Putt-Putt volunteers to find the animals and Outback Al agrees and sets out to fix up the zoo.

Eventually, Putt-Putt saves Jambo from being attacked by a mouse by using Cheese Squigglies, Sammy from a closed river dam by using a toolbox, Masai from an open drawbridge (and a rock that won't budge), Kenya from a waterfall by using a rope, Little Skeeter from the cold climate in Arcticland by giving him hot cocoa, and Zanzibar from a block of ice in the middle of a freezing river. After finding and rescuing all six baby animals, Putt-Putt notifies Outback Al of his success, to which Outback Al excitedly thanks him for. At the opening ceremony, Outback Al gives Putt-Putt a Junior Zookeeper award for his help and gives him the honors of cutting the ribbon. The zoo is then open to everyone as they all explore the new zoo, ending the game.

Gameplay

The game mechanics are almost the same as its predecessors including the glove box inventory, horn, radio and accelerator. Putt-Putt can acquire a camera so the player can take pictures of the animals and print them out.

Reception

The combined sales of Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo, Putt-Putt Joins the Parade and Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon surpassed one million units by June 1997.[10] During the year 2001 alone, Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo sold 100,972 retail units in North America, according to PC Data.[11]

References
  1. Lubsen, Todd. "Todd Lubsen" (PDF). p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
  2. "Putt-Putt® Saves the Zoo Shatters Interactive Animation Standard for CD-ROM; Humongous Entertainment Redefines Interactive Story Telling" (Press release). Humongous Entertainment. August 9, 1995. Archived from the original on December 17, 1999.
  3. "Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo on Steam". Steam. Archived from the original on November 9, 2022. Retrieved June 18, 2023.
  4. Humongous [@HumongousEnt] (February 3, 2022). "Get your adventure on with four of the best games you've ever played, arriving for #NintendoSwitch on February 10th" (Tweet). Retrieved March 16, 2022 – via Twitter.
  5. "Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo". store.playstation.com.
  6. "Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo (Games)". App Shopper. 2012-01-28. Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
  7. "Playstation4". HE. Archived from the original on 2023-01-17. Retrieved 2023-01-13.
  8. "Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo for PC - GameRankings". GameRankings. Archived from the original on March 2, 2016. Retrieved February 19, 2016.
  9. "Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo Review". IGN. Archived from the original on March 2, 2016. Retrieved February 19, 2016.
  10. People Staff (June 2, 1997). "The Little Car that Could". People. Archived from the original on May 19, 2018.
  11. Sluganski, Randy (March 2002). "State of Adventure Gaming - March 2002 - 2001 Sales Table". Just Adventure. Archived from the original on June 19, 2002. Retrieved May 13, 2020.
  1. Ported to IOS and Android by Nimbus Games.
  2. The 2005 Europe-exclusive DVD player release was published by Take-Two Interactive.
    The 2011/2012 IOS/Android release was published by Atari, while the 2015 IOS release was published by Tommo.
    The Steam release was co-published by Tommo and Night Dive Studios.
    The Nintendo Switch version was published by UFO Interactive Games.
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