Fatty Bear

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Fatty Bear is a fictional teddy bear from game developer Humongous. Fatty Bear starred in a children's adventure game, as well as appearing an activity game alongside the another character named Putt-Putt. Like other Humongous games, his starring game is intended to teach problem solving. Fatty Bear wears red overalls and comes to life when everyone else is asleep. His owner is named Kayla.

Characters

Fatty Bear - The main character of the game, Fatty Bear is under the control of the player, who must guide Fatty Bear around Kayla's house performing tasks in order to ultimately prepare Kayla's birthday cake.

Kayla - She is Fatty Bear's owner. She spends most of the game asleep.

Kayla's Parents - They play an extremely minor role in the game. Only Kayla's father is actually seen during the game when he says goodnight to Kayla. Gretchen - Gretchen is a rag doll that gives Fatty Bear tasks, such as blowing up balloons and finding missing letters. She wears a blue dress and a white hat.

Matilda Rabbit - A stuffed rabbit in a pink dress who flies by using her ears like a helicopter. She helps Fatty Bear with tasks such as baking a cake.

Software titles

Though other characters from Humongous (such as Putt-Putt and Freddi Fish) continued to release on a fairly regular timescale, and new characters were introduced (e.g., Spy Fox), the Fatty Bear series was not continued after the first adventure.

Fatty Bear's Birthday Surprise (PC, 3DO, (Macintosh) (1993) (Win95/98/Me/XP) (2001) (remade)The scenario behind this game is that Kayla's birthday is coming up, the next day. They have not prepared for it, so Fatty Bear wakes up and, with the help of his friends, organizes a birthday surprise party. Unfortunately, it is not as easy as Fatty Bear thought- he had planned on only making a birthday cake, but in the kitchen was a mysterious wrapped package. If you click on it Fatty Bear opens it, but if you try to do the right thing and not click on it he opens it anyway and releases a small brown puppy who promptly runs away, tearing the ribbon on her box. Fatty Bear brings the ruined ribbon with him for no apparent reason until you find a better ribbon for the box. There is a bone in the refrigerator that you can use to lure the puppy where you want, but if you get the puppy in the box and don't have the ribbon, she will run away again. The puppy preforms little acts of mischief such as stealing the chocolate chips for the birthday cake, running of with letters for the "Happy Birthday" sign, digging in the garden and getting all dirty, and popping balloons you blow up to decorate the room. Oddly enough, doors in Kayla's house automatically open for the puppy as well as Fatty Bear and several other objects dance around or do other things. Perhaps the highlight of the game is making and decorating the birthday cake for Kayla.

Putt-Putt & Fatty Bear's Activity Pack (1994)

These games are supported by ScummVM and can be played on additional platforms to those for which they were released.

Fatty Bear

Characters

Software titles

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