Freddi Fish


Freddi Fish is a series of children's point and click adventure games from Humongous Entertainment. The series began in 1994. Freddi Fish is a yellow fish who takes on detective investigations throughout the series. Her best friend, a green fish named Luther, goes with her on all her adventures. The voice of Freddi Fish was performed by Annette Toutonghi and the voice of Luther was performed by Mike McAuliffe at Bad Animals Studio in Seattle, Washington. The series sold more than 2.5 million copies and won over 75 awards of excellence.

Gameplay

Freddi and Luther move from one screen to another by clicking where the cursor turns into a chunky arrow. When the cursor is just a small cursor outline then there is nothing clickable, but when the small cursor outline fills in, something happens when clicking the mouse. Like all Humongous Entertainment games, clicking on an object in the environment prompts an animation which is irrelevant to the plot of the game, and crossover cameos of the three other Humongous Entertainment Junior Adventure series. However, when a character or certain objects are clicked, something will happen like the person talking or Freddi Fish picking up the object. Collected objects appear on the bottom of the screen in their own individual bubbles. Freddi Fish puts objects away by sweeping them behind her back, often resulting in hilarious scenes when putting away large objects. Overall, Freddi Fish Junior Adventures are mainly about helping solve others' problems which are tied into a constantly progressing story line.
In all the Freddi Fish games except the second game, the game has some area to solve one last challenge, which is only accessible when accomplishing the "initial" objective—the objective given near the start of the game. Once this area is reached, the player is locked in there and from the third game onwards, any leftover things is taken away.
The third and fourth games end with a mystery to find out who was the thief. In the third game, they give one or two clues that point to the personality of one person; in the fourth game, a clue in the Hogfishes' room points to an object the person had been using.

Games

Adventure games

Availability

This series takes place under the sea and features many anthropomorphic sea life, with the adult fish characters being highly anthropomorphized in that they float with their heads raised and tails pointing downward, atypical of real fish, and even wear human clothing.

Main characters

Various Children's books about Freddi Fish have been published by Lyrick Publishing, including story books, colouring books and activity books.
TitleDateWriterPublisherIllustrator
Freddi Fish: Color and Activity Book2000Guy DavisLyrick PublishingArt Mawhinney
Freddi Fish the Big Froople MatchJuly 2000Dave GrossmanLyrick PublishingR. Alvord
Freddi Fish: The Missing Letters MysteryAugust 2000Dave Grossman, N. S. GreenfieldLyrick PublishingJay B. Johnson
Freddie Fish a Whale of a Tale!January 2001Scott NickelLyrick PublishingJay B. Johnson
Freddi Fish What's Different?January 2001Nancy ParentLyrick PublishingCary Rillo
Freddi Fish and the Pirate's TreasureJuly 15, 2001Guy DavisLyrick PublishingBecky Winslow