I Reviewed EVERY Freddi Fish Game (1994 - 2001): A Humongous Entertainment Retrospective

[@fandomtrash4664]

My favorite thing about Freddi Fish 4 is that, depending on where the 10 gallon hat spawns, the map itself changes. If Sheriff Shrimp is inside it, then that pink shark and the cave beyond it appears in the screen between the mailman and the hermit crab, with the road to the cabaret not appearing. But if its in the cabaret whale's mouth, then that area is instead the shipwreck, where Sheriff Shrimp is tied to a fan. It's a small detail, but still really cool nonetheless.

[@pokemonmanic3595]

Yeah now that I think about it: very few HE games actually change the map like that, at most the areas will remain the same just without the spawned items.

[@mayrahemmerechts5867]

@@pokemonmanic3595 Pajama Sam 2 has this too with an extra door being present or absent in the office hallway depending on the scenario that is playing

[@TheHeroOfTomorrow]

You know you've made it as a franchise when you get your own Tiger Electronics game.

[@EBTheOriginalMaster]

Your retrospective on the Humongous Entertainment games is how I discovered your channel. I soon subscribed afterwards upon watching your Putt Putt video.

[@SirNile]

That brutal unused cutscene.

[@ChipFanXO]

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[@memeelfman324]

@@ChipFanXO 1:56:15

[@ChipFanXO]

@@memeelfman324 Thank you I'm now very scared

[@wilmapug]

I literally gasped

[@CooperGal24]

Freddi Fish is the only game where the main characters doesn't have a change in voice actors. But I loved watching the Humongous Entertainment games play-throughs on KZbin, and I have and played Spy Fox 3 when I was a young teen! I mean, yes I'm an adult, but who cares! The game stole my heart! I LOVED edutainment games AND point and click games! It's both fun and very nostalgic! Maybe you should do the Sam & Max game series in your next review, including the original and remastered seasons for the PC and game consoles!

[@therealseanw.stewart2071]

I'm so excited to see this! Freddi Fish is very important to me as well. 3 was the first one I played, and I'm totally partial to that one, it's easily the most nostalgic. Some of my favorite things about these games aside from the soundtracks, the humor and Annette Toutanghi's pleasant voice are the memorable dynamic between Freddi and Luther, as well as the absolutely gorgeous underwater theming and extravagantly detailed background artwork. Seriously! These games were so beautiful. Plus, at a very young age my eyes had been graced by one of the most beautiful animated films ever made: The Little Mermaid before I played these, so these games reminded me a lot of that film. Good times all around, with memorable moments like collecting purple sea urchins, watching the weird little movies in the theater and being confused because my 5 year old self didn't get what was happening, and of course, rescuing Luther from the temple at the end of 3. Another highlight I HAVE to mention from 3: the little puzzle where you have to combine the clickpoints of the clam and the dogfish to eat the barricades blocking the tumble tubes. I was a dumb kid so the solution didn't occur to me until one of my parents pointed it out. Even still, that absolutely blew my mind! The fact that two clickpoint animations could work together like that. Amazing learning experience that could challenge a young mind without talking down to them. I don't think I'll ever really get over HE's games, they truly were works of art. Oh and love the shout-outs to Sesame Street and Blue's Clues. The greatest kid's shows ever made!

[@brendonbecker1735]

I actually really like the MS DOS art style and Freddi’s old design is actually pretty charming in my opinion

[@coopercane500]

The same way you hold Freddi Fish 1 in such high regard, so do I for 2. It was my first Humongous game, and the only Freddi Fish title I owned as a kid. The stakes might be lower than its predecessor, but I always likened the story to a Scooby-Doo mystery. The villain disguised as a supernatural creature, the team putting together an elaborate trap to catch them, the unmasking of the obvious culprit, and them remarking that they would’ve gotten away with it if it weren’t for those meddling kids. The theater and crab game were some of my favorite parts as well. In fact, the trap Freddi and Luther make fascinated me as a kid. For a while, I wanted to be an inventor when I grew up. I wanted to make all sorts of crazy contraptions. It was because of that game, the inventions in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Doc’s Time Machine in Back to the Future, and the board game Mouse Trap. While I do acknowledge the later games are better, though I feel 5 was a step backwards given the lack of multiple suspects and less pathways, Freddi Fish 2 will always have a special place in my heart just as 1 will for you.

[@AsgardianQueen]

I never thought I'd hear the phrase "Humor Impaired Fish ".

[@christinajoanne8177]

You have literally made me the happiest person on the planet. I’m so excited to watch this

[@Ikine557]

I love Eddie! Between his voice and his goofy face and animations, he was always my favorite character.

[@SuperNova-mp5zp]

Good sir, you've made my day! I haven't been feeling well today so to see this in my recommended put the biggest smile on my face!!!! I've loved these games since I was young and still am so fond of them even as an adult..Thank you for this amazing HE content and for all the work you put in I can't wait to watch. 💜 😊

[@ShadowStreak]

Glad I could help out! Always happy to know that my videos are making other people smile :D

[@MatthaisUnidostres]

@@ShadowStreak then how about we make you smile! Have a CGI Freddie Fish cartoon! kzbin.info/www/bejne/aX3TfXp9iJqrhaM

[@Peter-wy1rg]

Thanks for doing these, I really appreciate the amount of effort going in to cover some of my favorite childhood games

[@vestonbruno2795]

Can't wait till you do Pajama Sam.

[@ThatRandomEncounterGuy]

It wasn't until I was, like, 17 that I realized Freddie Fish was a girl. Yeah, no joke. In my defense, Freddie isn’t exactly a very feminine name (and it’s not one of the more common unisex names like Alex or Sam or Kris), there’s almost no moments when they ever apply any pronouns to Freddie, the design doesn’t give much away, and the voice could easily be passed off as a female VA doing the voice for a young boy like Veronica Taylor or Nancy Cartwright. So, you understand my confusion and surprise.

[@RoninCatholic]

Exactly the same situation here, only I was 20 when I found out.

[@mercenarygundam1487]

Your not the only one. My first reaction was: WAIT THAT'S A GIRL!?

[@Deadspooky-Gore]

I didn't know until I watched this video and I'm 27! Lol

[@x-rex7236]

I feel like im the only person who always knew that Freddie is a girl

[@kevinfromsales9445]

I always thought of Freddi as female but the name would confuse me and would just assume her to be male. I'm glad to know that i was right all along.

[@XJIcequeen]

1:02:00 I know there are 6 endings to Freddi Fish 3, but I actually consider Nadine's to be the canonical ending simply because there was a reason for the Golden Pipes to be scattered around the area. She also seemed like the least interesting suspect out of the 6 and seeing her ending and given what I consider the most realistic ending of the game, the most interesting outcome

[@AAAAAMMM]

The programmers of this children's game realizing they gave Shadow Streak a crippling fear of the ocean that continued acutely into his adulthood: 👁️👄👁️

[@yogibear8683]

I remember play Freddie Fish's series with Zuke all the way back when we're young tykes during summer time and had of us wanted to be the fish junior detectives as Zuke got to be Freddi while I had to be Luther. For me both 2nd and 3rd (mostly 3rd gane) was my favorite out of all of them before me and Zuje got separated from different schools and hadn't seen eachorher for a little while but did had 2 classes that looks almost exactly like them! To anyone else who didn't see his full retrospective; Putt Putt himself does make a alight brief cameos In the opening of the 1st game.

[@OliviaLinderAuthor]

28:20 oh nah, that sliding puzzle still drives me insane in my 20s

[@dimitribottjen2495]

I don't know why, but I found it really funny how Luther was offended by Freddi saying a 5-gallon hat would fit him perfectly, but was perfectly fine when someone else gave him it.

[@pockypurse]

Freddi Fish was the bomb. I feel like whoever worked on Monkey Island, and also worked on these was scratching an itch. Monkey Island games had a few underwater segments but the art and colors of those segments closely resembles Freddi Fish 1. And same with the steel drums and slide guitars, those were in MI3! EDIT: Also I'm totally gonna defend Freddi Fish 2 (as that was the one I owned as a kid) and say the schoolhouse setting was fantastic. Especially as a first-time player. It felt more like a fun little clubhouse or treehouse, very snuggly and comfy. It was the equivalent of a hero leaving their home to go on an adventure. And it worked because the schoolhouse was so warm and friendly and familiar, whereas all the other environments (while cool as hell, submarine room especially) were very dark and/or unfamiliar. EDIT2: At 45:36 they threw in a Guybrush Threepwood reference!

[@VynalDerp]

Strongly agree with your opinion on FF2, as a kid I absolutely loved messing around the schoolhouse. I was in school at the time and honestly, I can't really describe how much I enjoyed pretending I was a fish going to fish school with Freddi or being apart of Freddi's school. It did genuinely kinda remind me of a hero's hideout, often when there was a scary part of the game (like the submarine), I would retreat to the schoolhouse to feel calm & secure with the big and friendly teacher there as well as with all of the school friends. I also really, really like submarines and submarine history, while simultaniously being fairly scared of them IRL and you wouldn't catch me dead on one. Weird paradox, maybe FF2 is to blame?

[@jessec5091]

The handheld Freddi Fish game... I had no recollection of that thing's existence until the music played, and then I remembered that I absolutely had that.

[@gingearity]

I'm so glad you made this video, Freddi Fish holds a special place in my childhood as well, so I'm especially pleased a video as thorough and well-researched as this exists so that the memoirs of Freddi will not be lost!

[@pillargodplays160]

Man you took me back so much to how much I used to love these games. I never played 2 but I played 1 and 3 so much. I feel really lucky to have been able to play these, and they’ll randomly pop in my head and give me a warm fuzzy feeling nothing else really gives me. Can’t wait for Freddie fish and chill playlist on KZbin one day haha. Really dope video! I thought everyone forgot about these games!

[@delmiaisha6837]

In french she's called Marine Malice from the start so that leaves no doubt that she's a girl! I loved to play the first, and the thrid one with my sister. That horrible dog fish legit gave me nightmares when i was a kid XDD

[@KeybladeMasterAndy]

Never played a HE game in my life. Still loving this retrospective series. And now I might pick them up on Steam.

[@TheColeTruth]

LOL Freddy fish 2 was what I grew up with. That chum clip took me waaay back. Awesome work once again just amazing stuff here :)

[@XJIcequeen]

These games were mine and my sister's childhood! To this day, whenever my family sees sea urchins, we call them snaboopipops! That single scene from Freddi Fish 3 became a running gag in my family

[@acheronXcomplex]

“How did you (put that gigantic plank of wood in your fish pocket)? That’s my secret.

[@SeanSearcy]

Freddi fish is a good 100% chronological series with Luther like a friendly partner for solving mysteries likes to be the best of them all, like putt putt pajama Sam and spy Fox themselves

[@LeafRazorStorm]

1:11:55 Haven't played this game before, but I've played enough Pajama Sam to KNOW when Dave Grossman is writing. Just like him to lampshade the absurdity of a stiff puzzle from every possible angle.

[@Asaylum117]

Woud you believe me if I told you that I played the second game a lot as a kid? When I saw the thumbnail of the Freddi Fish I was like: This fills me with nostalgia. I used play Freddi Fish 2 The Case of the Haunted School House a lot on my old PC.

[@yoshi5I4]

Just sitting here enjoying learning about a beloved series from my childhood and random Magnus the Red, very much appreciated the Text-to-Speech version

[@Quaila]

Aww I think Haunted Schoolhouse was one of my favorite Humungous games lol I loved the Rube Goldberg construction and it was so rewarding when I finally got a copy transferred to my local library after months of getting obsessed with the demo X) Everyone in my 3rd grade class got a copy of the Missing Conch episode too for some reason! Someone’s parent brought in a bucketload of copies from work for whatever reason and we just played that for computer lab one day and took it home, it was awesommmee

[@LegendofBen]

I think I enjoyed Spy Fox and Pajama Sam more, but this series is still iconic in my childhood memories. I was heartbroken as a kid when we misplaced Freddi Fish 3.

[@LegendofBen]

Completely agree tho that #2 is very weak, except for the Spy Fox cameo movie.

[@JadeIsler]

I had a dream with memories from when I was 4-6 years old and remembered my favourite old PC games, including Freddi Fish. Woke up and went on YT for some nostalgia. This video was exceptional at reminding me of everything and hitting me with all the nice memories I'd forgotten. And then I recognized your channel name and realized I also vibed to your horse music mixes in 2016. +rep

[@mercenarygundam1487]

Freddi Fish and Buzzy are what influenced my childhood..... I miss them. So happy, I got them on Steam.

[@claudinesullivan7699]

Another great retrospective! I'm slowly going through them and thoroughly enjoying them. When I got my first computer when I was around 6 or 7 , which was a hand-me down from my much older cousin who gave me her old one because she bought it new one, the first computer games my parents bought me was Freddi Fish 3 and Freddi Fish's One-Stop-Fun shop. So I hold Freddi Fish 3 very dear to me and it's what opened my world to Humongous Entertainment! It was very much a bonding activity too because when I got stuck on puzzles like you I'd ask my dad for help and he'd be happily trying to figure out a solution for me. For the longest time I had so much trouble getting that final golden pipe from that clam and couldn't finish the game, but he helped me to give that tourist guy the foreign language phrasebook and use that device to hold it open. Can't wait to watch more!

[@jake.klusewitz]

Great video! I’m leaving a comment on all your Humongous Entertainment videos because I feel like way more people need to vicariously relive them! 🙂

[@starrydreamer4697]

Case of Coral cove park has always been my fave

[@Yoshinator]

I am sorry to hear about your fear of the ocean, I did find the idea of being afraid of the characters in this game kinda funny. But when you played the Eel cutscene it took me back to when I was a kid and I forgot I was totally afraid of him too. That song that accompanies him is incredibly off-putting and while visually it's not really that scary that song really sells it for me.

[@ShadowStreak]

Yep, that backing track instilled a whole extra level of fear in me when I was young haha

[@josephthomas7462]

I agree with this comment 100% and had the same experience

[@meathead6155]

Freddi Fish 1: Pirate of the Carribean. Freddi Fish 2: Ghostbuster meet Home Alone. Freddi Fish 3: Hawaii O Five meet Unusual Suspects. Freddi Fish 4: Wild Wild West. Freddi Fish 5: Leviathan.

[@RoninCatholic]

Betty and Sparky's dynamic in Atomic Betty always reminded me of Freddi and Luther. Sparky and Luther was especially a connection that always stood out to me.

[@jaggerguth4391]

Which One is I.Q. Maximus?

[@Mezcon2]

Oh my gosh!! I must be close to the same age as you, because this was also my first click adventure game ever as a kid, and I feel so much nostalgia for it. What I really admired about the game was the rich colorful background art mixed with the music. Sometimes I would pause playing the game just to enjoy the atmosphere. I think the only other game I ever did that on was Spyro the Dragon. Btw, learning Freddie was actually a girl blows my mind, as up until now, I always thought Freddie was a boy. : /

[@ShadowStreak]

Ah yes, Spyro is another great series with an atmospheric soundtrack, I love those games too! And that's awesome that we share the same first game haha, really is a great one to be someone's first. As each passing year goes by my nostalgia for playing it as a kid only continues to grow haha--hard to believe I made this video 2.5 years ago already.

[@Mezcon2]

Yeah @@ShadowStreak I just wish there were more games like this for kids today.

[@ShadowStreak]

@Mezcon2 100% agreed, point and click games are super underrated and there could be far more done to innovate the concept!

[@Astral161]

Shadow Streak: A story with stakes that doesn't talk down to the player is what a child needs. Also Shadow Streak: Ocean game with stakes scarred me for life creating a deep seated fear of the ocean 🙃

[@TheLadyLiddell]

My computer games as a kid were composed almost entirely of Barbie games, so I feel like I missed out not playing any of these. It's really cool to see retrospectives like this because of that.

[@matthewgillis2617]

I feel so sorry for you. Games made for girls specifically are notoriously bad

[@TheLadyLiddell]

@@matthewgillis2617 you kidding? I LOVED all of them, and sometimes wish I could still go back and play them. The Barbie games were a notch above the other typical "girls" games I've encountered.

[@cerisejaxel9636]

Oooh did you play Barbie movie maker? That’s the only Barbie game I had, but my sisters and I had a lot of fun making movies!

[@MenchiGuevarra]

I grew up playing Humongous Entertainment games. And this one was my favorite series, aside of the Blues Clues ones.

[@SomeLinedPaper]

Holy heck I NEVER knew about the nickelodeon in Freddi Fish 4. That just blew my mind.

[@amyloriley]

My favorite fact about Freddi Fish comes from a video interview from "Stemmen van Toen" with the Dutch-language voice actors from Freddi Fish. There were two voice actors for the entire Dutch-language cast of Freddi Fish 1, because the producer wanted to cheapen out for voice acting; and they were the only ones available at the time who could do lots of voices. -- From the interview, it is not clear to me if the producer that made the choice here was Humongous itself, or Transposia; the latter who released a lot of translated point-and-click children's games in Belgium and the Netherlands in its time. Both voice actors came from Belgium, and were asked to speak with a more Netherlands Dutch timbre as it would be released for both The Netherlands as Belgium. Kinda like asking a New Jersey actor to speak more like a Midwest accent. One of the sharks, the English Spongehead, was voiced after a Belgian socialist politician, Bert Anciaux, who according to the voice actor you had to fully open your eyes to talk in his timbre, and then had to slow down your voice a lot. The other shark was voiced after Bert and Earnie, very nasal. Mr. Starfish, who taught mathematics in Freddi Fish, was also voiced after a politician, Louis Tobback. A popular politician and long-time mayor of university town Leuven. Fitting for a mathemetics teacher! -- Also some lines were revised from the translation script as the literal translation given was not something Louis Tobback would say. But all in all, most of the script is unchanged from English. Both Dutch-language voice actors do not know whether Freddi Fish is a boy or a girl.

[@kevinfromsales9445]

I played the Dutch version back then and I didn't know any of those facts!

[@MrCOLBSTAH]

It is so interesting seeing everyone's favorite and least favorite. I started with Freddi fish two. Then the hog wrestlers.. And then I grew out of the games and quickly started playing things like spore.

[@MadiBendy]

I never got to play the kelp seeds adventure. I started my obsession with Freddie Fish playing the haunted school game… such an incredible series

[@matthewgillis2617]

I only got the first three games, no spinoffs. My mom said it was getting too expensive, so the very last Humongous game I played until I got the collection on PS4 was either Putt Putt Joins the Circus or a collection of the various side games, which included Spy Fox's ketchup adventure, Dog on a Stick, Pajama Sam's lost and found, and Freddi Fish's Maze Madness, the latter of which I never finished.

[@pistnbroke74]

I played the first game as very small child I never knew there was more Freddi games but I never thought or knew freddi was a female fish

[@pokemonmanic3595]

Freddi Fish was my first exposure to Humongous Entertainment and by far it’s the one I have the most nostalgia for. -Weirdly I think Freddi Fish 1 is too dark-I mean the settings are just a little bit underlit compared to the other games. It’s also the game that used to scare me the most as a kid: the junkyard dog, the “this place is scary”, Eddie the eel and the caves being dark all freaked out 5 year old me. I think it’s also one of the only games where you can collect items even if they don’t have a specific usage for that playthrough (like you can always get the glowing shell even if you don’t need to use it). Also I used to think the SquidFather’s name was “SquidBother” cause of the way Spongehead said it. -Freddi Fish 2 I have the most nostalgia for because it was my first one, I loved the pulley songs Barnacle Bob sang, the little bit where Luther has to get Casey’s glasses, the fun click animation in the coat room where fish ate the jackets, and who could forget the WORM DOODLES commercial? I also love in the tide pools the crab and starfish animations, and if you clicked on them together they’d dance with each other. -Freddi 3 I never owned as a kid, or if I did I must’ve broken the CD because I never got to the end of it until much later. But I love the tropical music, the setting, the awesome musing room and the Terrific Tumble tubes. It was also the first game to utilize the click animations for a puzzle: needing to use a clam to cut the leash off a dogfish to proceed! Also it took me such a long time to figure out how to get the flashlight-how was I supposed to know to use the mirror on the bully? -Freddi 4 is the best one: fun setting, lots of variety in the world and puzzles and just so many memorable characters. I didn’t know as a kid that you could catch the soda as it slid across the table and my kid self was so impressed when I figured it out and Luther caught it and they could finally have their drink! I also learned what Lemongrass and Cayenne are, spices I use to this day! -Freddi 5 was also great despite having the stink of Infrogrames on it, the side scrolling nature was pretty fun and I loved exploring the park and the town. The ending part with Marty’s house was also cool for my young self to figure out although that is a pretty complicated lock system xD So yeah, Freddi is one of my favorite games of my youth and I love HE for giving me such a great childhood.

[@james_fisch]

late to respond, but Freddi Fish 2 was my introduction to HE and the Freddi Fish franchise too. Until this week, I hadn't played the game in over 20 years, and figured I had forgotten about everything from it. As soon as I replayed it, everything came rushing back to where my head was at 3 or 4 years old from the music to the voice lines. To this day, I'd argue it's my favorite of the franchise based on the nostalgia factor. Freddi Fish 1 is probably what planted the morbid side of my curiosity due to its dark setting being apart from other games, and I think at the same time watching Brave Little Toaster a lot at that age added to it. I didn't really think of that until this week either for the former. I'm sorta amazed they kept lines in there like "all the fish will die." I liked 3 and 4 a lot as a kid, 5 was my least favorite but it was still good and I was excited for whenever the next game would come. I had no idea that experience I had picking the game up at Walmart would be the only time I'd get to have that as I think I was 6 or 7, thinking Freddi Fish 6 would be coming out anytime after that point. It's a shame HE went under not long after.

[@AJXN94]

I thought I was crazy for thinking you could swim through the whale bones!

[@brunette3cookie]

1:05:30 That music alone unlocked such a deep memory of having this thing, wow

[@michaelmcjunkin1372]

Freddi Fish 4 was my introduction to Freddi Fish in my childhood. I would've like Freddi Fish 3 more

[@StandardLoop]

I only ever played 1, 4 and 5 as a kid. Most memories from 4 especially that minigame 😂

[@blistlelo1700]

Everyone has two grandmothers: one from the father's side and one from the mother's side. Luther and Freddi could still be cousins if they share one grandmother while each of their other grandmothers are unrelated.

[@skysamfreeman]

While Freddi Fish 1 isn't my favorite of the series, the background art is amazing. The volcano being my favorite. I also love the darker vibe. The sunken ship section scared me as a kid lol. Funny recalling the stories of having your dad help you in these games. Whenever I got stuck, I would consult my parents to see if they knew what to do. I remember them sometimes getting so invested in trying to figure it out that they'd get more frustrated than I was. It's funny how people thought Freddi was a girl. I always knew Freddi was a girl... but I thought Putt-Putt was a girl lol. Freddi Fish 3 is my favorite of the series. The path variety, music and characters are my favorite of the series. Freddi Fish 4 is a close 2nd for me. The music being the standout. I like Freddi Fish 5 but it just feels lacking. Kind of... cheaper? But not as cheap as the Atari games. The demos were my first introduction to Freddi Fish. Freddi Fish 2 and Freddi Fish 3 demos were on Pajama Sam 2 so I played those a lot. Freddi Fish 2 being my favorite of the 2 demos because, like you said, Freddi Fish 3's demo is laughable. Really digging these retrospectives!

[@citroenboter]

Regarding the 2nd game, it'd usually crash at a certain point for me because I had a cracked copy. And because of that it always had this intrigue to me.

[@gtastuntman3486]

The only freddi fish game I played was the case of the creature of coral cove. this one was my favorite one

[@MichaelATri]

Happy you made this video! This game was part of my childhood and one of the first games I ever played on PC. Hope to see more old school pc game videos from you =)

[@dexterdextrow7248]

Interestingly, I never had a problem with female characters when I was young. It was first when I started to get a bit older and was consistently berated and condemned for the inherent sexism and misogyny that apparently all males possess, that I started to develop a distaste for female characters. Not so much due to a dislike of the character in of themselves, but more so thanks to the perceived connection they appeared to have to the people or groups that castigated and denounced me for things I've never actually done or thought.

[@RoninCatholic]

That was exactly my experience too. That and great exasperation that every time a game would give any mechanical differentiation to male and female characters, it always favored the female characters over the males and people would _still_ scream to the high heavens about how it was somehow misogynist...

[@Cyberguy64]

Honestly, the whole "Nobody liked girls in games" thing feels like gaslighting. With characters like Samus Aran, Freddie Fish, Lara Croft, Dixie Kong, Coco Bandicoot, Amy Rose, Roll, Inspector Fox, Princess Peach, Tron Bonne, Chun Li, many MANY Final Fantasy and Fire Emblem characters, etc, there were a whole host of popular female characters back in the day.

[@RoninCatholic]

@@Cyberguy64 It's more or less advertising experts gaslighting themselves into alienating their audience. Same reason toys made for girls even of characters who aren't colored/wearing pink will often be changed to pink for the toy aisle.

[@kaiser8659]

@@Cyberguy64 Exactly how I feel as someone who was a little girl growing up in the 2000s. When I first heard as a teenager about the whole video games are sexist nonsense I had no idea what those people were on.

[@Phatnaru0002]

Same experience here. In fact, while I was watching this video even, I thought it was cool that Freddi was a girl. But the second I heard that it was an intentional ideological decision to influence kids, it completely soured me to the idea. As long as it makes sense, kids won't care what gender the character is. They are not as hung up on it as adults are. And no, the girls did not light up and the boys shut down because Freddi was a girl and they liked or disliked it. The girls lit up and the boys shut down, because you framed Freddi as a boy and then subverted their expectations. If you framed Freddi as a girl from the beginning they would have had no reaction. If you framed a character as a girl, and then reveal they are a boy, you'll see the opposite reaction among small children. My sisters never felt dissapointed about playing as Link in Zelda. Likewise, I didn't feel down about picking girl characters. In fact, I often specifically picked girl characters when I had a choice, because I liked girls and wanted to see more of them and learn more about them.

[@brianblumenreich9026]

Can't believe there is a hidden scene where Eddie the Eel eats Luther!!! 😱

[@wanderer.1993]

Freddi fish 2 is my favorite one! It was my first humongous game, my uncle traveled to USA and bought it to me as a gift. Unfortunately, after a few months, the cd rom got corrupted and i couldn't play it anymore (i am from Brasil and back in 90's my parents didn't have money to order a new one or something). So i get obssesed by the memories of this game. Only maaany years later i was finally able to play it again! Back in 2001 a friend of mine gave me freddi fish 1 and freddi fish 4 - i used to love then but still miss freddi fish 2. But, seen from now, freddi fish 2 experience probably was way more poor comparing to another freddi fish titles. But, as it was present in my early childhood ( kindergarden times) i still love it much more then any other title :)

[@TippyTime]

Even though I played the first two games the most as a kid, I did enjoy the later Freddi Fish games more because of the puzzles. Freddi Fish 3 is my favorite due to the tropical theming and how the culprit isn't the same character each time.

[@BlazeTheMovieFan]

Great video. I must say I like how you changed the focus on your channel by talking about education games I have never even heard of.

[@mediafanatic.4730]

I loved Freddi Fish when I was young. Great Job on the retrospective on this 10/10

[@ShadowStreak]

Thanks Media Fanatic!

[@VynalDerp]

I happen to have played Freddi Fish as a kid and I also have Thalassophobia. However, I happen to live in a coastal state, so while I've always been afraid of water deeper than I can walk in, I've also felt safe on a boat or even just a jetski. It's a weird paradox of feeling safe until suddenly I touch water, time for anxiety. Definitely never been scared of it flying over it though, but now I'm curious how many other people have the same experience of developing Thalassophobia after playing Freddi Fish as a kid. Edit: EXCUSE ME, BLUE IS A GIRL? WHAT?

[@xnoxmrskillz6786]

Ah I miss playing Freddie fish

[@ReTrOtAkU]

Time to be a pointdexter and point out that there are whales that have more traditional teeth instead of bristles (which are called baleen btw), like Sperm whales and Orcas, and are appropriately called toothed whales. Granted, none of them have close together cylindrical molar like teeth the way the whale in this game or similarly Monstro, the whale from Disney's Pinocchio, instead looking more like a bunch of spaced out long conic canine like ones, but still, not all whales filter small fishes and krill from the water to feed.

[@kcsalyer19]

Awesome work on this video,Shadow Streak! Looking forward to the next one.

[@kelsey1467]

personally i wonder if the conch shell having six endings takes the fun out of solving the mystery we don't figure it out on our own the game just decides it for you

[@kelsey1467]

i would have liked a freddi fish 6 too but considering after this the games went downhill maybe it was a good that it didn't happen

[@meathead6155]

10:52 That part reminds me of BEFORE the movie of Finding Nemo.

[@Isaac-vq9gw]

Such a cute game series

[@drawingfandome]

Clicked as fast as I saw. This is my favorite sega of yours

[@AyoitsGhosty]

Its really funny how you regard 2 as the worst one but its my favorite game because it was the only one i had access to as a kid, i haven't really played any of the other ones. I really loved the theater and the drawing in the classroom. I feel like i may have liked the other ones if i played them too. Edit: Upon watching further, i did have Freddi 5, the scenes look familiar but im not sure if i ever finished it for whatever reason

[@OLskewL]

If someone on Facebook didn't mention this I would not have remembered it - what a throw back...Primary school on the school computers lol

[@williamsholidayinflatablec]

I remember in the first game when I was little, the squid father and the sharks used to scare the crap out of me

[@alexthunder9926]

Freddi Fish is out on the switch= Gonna take a look at that?

[@Pepperknight341]

1:17:02 Me and my brother would mash the cursor on the glass. This would cause Luthor to save the drink.

[@freddy902]

Freddi fish and the missing kelp seeds is one of the very first computer games I played.

[@AAAlpherior]

All these Humonguos videos you've made are just fantastic, watched almost all of them now. Wish I could find something similar for things like the old Tonka PC games, or Reader Rabbit games... I've tried, and there's literally nothing on KZbin that's like, a deep-dive retrospective or history of them.

[@ShadowStreak]

I used to LOVE Tonka Construction as a kid so that's another retrospective I've definitely considered doing. I might make that video some day!

[@eggburrito]

Dude, I'm so obsessed with Freddie Fish, I watch a playthrough of FF3 or Maze Madness for ol times sake or just pull up the soundtracks and reminisce. I even bought my sisters Freddie Fish shirts for their birthday last year 😁

[@TheLowBrassDude]

Some of my first memories of computer gaming were me and my sister playing through Freddi Fish 1 and 2 on our parents' Windows 95 PC.

[@brianlevine871]

Never played the smaller games, but I loved playing the first four main ones. The third might've been my favorite of the set based on the colorful environment of the location, crazy contraptions like the pipes and piano, and the final stage in the Aztec or Mayan-esque temple. I never played the fifth game since I outgrew most of the Humongous games by the time it was released, although I remember my little brother playing it. I'll admit the MS-DOS prototype of the first game looks intriguing, but I'm still glad we got the version of Freddi Fish that we did. And seriously, what was up with that secret scene of the eel eating poor Luther?

[@jerseylife8701]

I’m so glad this video exists.

[@EmmaGodLovesTruth95]

This was my first game too! Though I only had the first second and third games. My little sister and I would play it over and over and over. XD ..i also thought freddi was a boy! When i found out she was a girl it made me inexplicably happy and actually mote confidant somehow.. lol. Omg also my sister and i loved chumlet too, and the worm doodle commercial we laughed so much to those. Good times 🥰 also.. omg u dont know how happy it makes me to finally know theres two more games in the series i was never able play as a child!! 😱😱 Even tho im nearing 30 im def going to be playing those haha

[@ShadowStreak]

That's awesome! Yeah definitely give the 4th and 5th game a shot, I've been in the mood to play through them all again lately! Can never go wrong with a good dose of nostalgia for old Humongous games haha!

[@petemohawk9048]

These game don’t look that old I wish they weren’t, glad you got to play them as a kid when the came out.

[@jordyundieground3270]

Freddi fish 2 really scales things back.... FISH scales

[@cultofjenova5653]

Maybe it's a nostalgia thing but I loved 2, personally. It was actually the first HE game I had ever, EVER played.

[@tomjackson6077]

Marty and Dad Fish are in Freddy 5 are both played by Rick May. You should know him as The Soldier (Team Fortress 2) and Andross/Peppy Hare (Star Fox 64)

[@Trevor_NewJerusalem]

Huh. 2 was my favorite.

[@Scorpob]

Fun fact about Freddi Fish is that Freddi's VA also voices Penelope in the Sly Cooper games.

[@Cyberbrickmaster1986]

I looked at the coming soon section of the Switch eShop and it sounds like Humongous Entertainment games are actually coming to the system with the likes of Putt-Putt and Freddi Fish.

[@phantom-pr6op]

I got into arguments with people over Freddi being a girl 😂 I don't remember the scene even though I played 2 but I knew from the voice. Then people were like "Really? Freddy? That's a girl's name?" And I didn't know what to say. 😂 Loved Powerpuff Girls and Freddi Fish though so I get that stigma.

[@honeyham6788]

I cant believe you uploaded this video a day after i just finished your other 2 HE videos

[@vincent1935]

If this were an alternate timeline where Humongous Entertainment was still its own company and still around and still making games (and making them well!), what would you have liked a Freddi Fish 6 to be like?

[@richieosborn2639]

38:42 what a way to promote a series!