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There’s no time limit and no hazards to speak of, besides some roadside spikes that can break Putt-Putt’s tires, requiring him to be towed to a gas station.

Monkey Island famously took the LucasArts adventure game and removed failstates by making its hero immortal. The game was directed by Gilbert himself. The story is primarily written by Laurie Rose Bauman, who would stay on to write the next five games in the series. He doesn’t have a pet though, and also needs a balloon and a carwash in order to be allowed in. Putt-Putt, a talking car child who lives in Cartown, wants to enter the Cartown Pet Parade. As far as those stories go, this one is pretty slight. If the title of this game sounds a bit like a picture book, that’s because Putt-Putt apparently began as stories Shelley Day would tell to her son. Putt-Putt Joins The Parade is a rudimentary point and click adventure, but it also shows some of Humongous Entertainment’s strengths: being able to take the framework of a SCUMM Adventure Game to create games palatable to a younger audience in tone and difficulty without condescending. Humongous Entertainment’s first game was Putt-Putt Joins The Parade, and it served as an introduction to their “junior adventure” imprint and adventure games in general for the company’s audience. Humongous Entertainment, founded by Gilbert and Shelley Day, would be focused on the same kind of SCUMM adventures that LucasArts had become famous for, but with a focus on younger audiences. After finishing Monkey Island’s sequel, however, Gilbert left LucasArts to form a new company. With 1990’s Monkey Island, Gilbert tightened it further, turning what began as an earnest pirate game into a silly romp that also reinvented the genre.

LucasArts’ Ron Gilbert helped pioneer the point-and-click adventure genre, and with it the LucasArts SCUMM engine, in 1987’s Maniac Mansion.