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| Big Thinkers | |
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| Genre(s) | Adventure, edutainment |
| Developer(s) | Humongous Entertainment |
| Publisher(s) | Humongous Entertainment |
| Platform(s) | Windows, Macintosh |
| First release | Big Thinkers! Kindergarten October 17, 1997 |
| Latest release | Big Thinkers! 1st Grade October 17, 1997 |
Big Thinkers is a short line educational game from Humongous Entertainment, which revolved around siblings Ben and Becky Brightly (voiced by Mike Shapiro and Karen Kay Cody respectively), two characters with the ability to shape-shift into any object they desire. The series contains two games: Big Thinkers! Kindergarten and Big Thinkers! 1st Grade. Both titles feature the same goal of collecting stars. The title was conceived and developed by Jonathan Maier.
There were plans to release a third game in the series, Big Thinkers! 2nd Grade, which would have been released in 1998.[1] It was initially developed in parallel with the other two games, but was abandoned when working on three games at once proved to be too ambitious and due to poor sales for the first two titles.[2][3]
- ^ "Humongous Entertainment Delivers the First Educational Series With Personality; Ben and Becky Brightly Star in the New Big Thinkers! Series. - Free Online Library". www.thefreelibrary.com. Archived from the original on 2016-09-17.
- ^ Hurd, Devin (May 7, 2014). "Humongous Entertainment Alumni Public Group". Facebook.
It was developed in parallel with Big Thinkers Kindergarten and Big Thinkers 1st Grade and eventually was abandoned when developing three titles with one team proved to be too ambitious.
- ^ Ryan, James (July 2, 1998). "PROFILE; On the Job With Putt-Putt, Freddi Fish and Pajama Sam". The New York Times.
One of [Shelley Day's] few management missteps was try to enter the arena of educational software for 5 and 6-year-olds with the company's Big Thinkers series, released in October 1997. The titles bombed, and Humongous has backed off for now.