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Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo
Windows and Mac cover art showing Putt-Putt and Pep along with several of the Cartown Zoo's animals
DeveloperHumongous Entertainment[a]
PublisherHumongous Entertainment[b]
ProducerRon Gilbert
Designers
ArtistTodd Lubsen
Writers
  • Laurie Bauman Arnold
  • Annie Fox
ComposerGeorge Alistair Sanger
SeriesPutt-Putt
EngineSCUMM
PlatformsAndroid, Macintosh, Windows, DVD player, Linux, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4
Release
August 10, 1995
  • Windows
    August 10, 1995[1]
    Macintosh
    October 18, 1995[2]
    DVD player
    2005
    iOS
    November 15, 2011
    Android
    2012
    Linux
    July 3, 2014[3]
    Switch
    February 10, 2022[4]
    PlayStation 4
    November 3, 2022[5]
GenreAdventure
ModeSingle-player

Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo is a 1995 children's point-and-click adventure developed and published by Humongous Entertainment. In the game, Putt-Putt must rescue six baby animals which have gone missing from the new Cartown Zoo.

The game is the third entry in the Putt-Putt series, being preceded by Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon in 1993 and followed by Putt-Putt Travels Through Time in 1997. It is the first game in the series to utilize hand-drawn animation for its graphics.[6]

The game was released on August 10, 1995 for Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh. It has since been re-released on Steam and ported to Linux, iOS, Android, Nintendo Switch,[4] and PlayStation 4.[7]

Plot

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Putt-Putt is excited for the grand opening of the Cartown Zoo. He visits Mr. Baldini's grocery store, who tasks him with delivering zoo chow to zookeeper Outback Al. Upon arriving at the zoo, Putt-Putt learns that six baby animals have gone missing: Baby Jambo the African bush elephant calf; Masai the reticulated giraffe calf; Kenya the lion cub; Zanzibar the hippopotamus calf; Sammy the Antarctic fur seal; and Little Skeeter the boa constrictor. Putt-Putt volunteers to search for the animals, which Outback Al agrees to as he starts repairs on the zoo.

After finding and rescuing all six baby animals, Putt-Putt notifies Outback Al of his success, and the Outback Al excitedly thanks him. At the zoo's opening ceremony, Outback Al gives Putt-Putt a Junior Zookeeper award for his help and allows him the honor of cutting the ribbon. The zoo is then opened to everyone as they all enter to explore, ending the game.

Gameplay

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The game mechanics are almost the same as its predecessors including the glove box inventory, horn, radio and accelerator, though one addition is an ignition key shown on the bottom left side of Putt-Putt's dashboard, which allows the player to quit the game. A few mini games are also playable. Unlike other games, Putt-Putt can acquire a camera so the player can take pictures of the animals and other characters and print them out.[8]

Reception

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The combined sales of Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo, Putt-Putt Joins the Parade and Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon surpassed one million units by June 1997.[9] During the year 2001 alone, Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo sold 100,972 retail units in North America, according to PC Data.[10]

Notes

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  1. ↑ Ported to iOS and Android by Nimbus Games.
  2. ↑ The 2005 Europe-exclusive DVD player release was published by Take-Two Interactive. The 2011/2012 iOS/Android release was published by Atari, while the 2015 iOS release was published by Tommo. The Steam release was co-published by Tommo and Night Dive Studios. The Nintendo Switch version was published by UFO Interactive Games.

References

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  1. ↑ "Putt-Putt® Saves the Zoo Shatters Interactive Animation Standard for CD-ROM; Humongous Entertainment Redefines Interactive Story Telling" (Press release). Humongous Entertainment. August 9, 1995. Archived from the original on December 17, 1999.
  2. ↑ "Macintosh CD-ROMs". Archived from the original on 1998-02-10. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
  3. ↑ "Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo on Steam". Steam. Archived from the original on November 9, 2022. Retrieved June 18, 2023.
  4. 1 2 Humongous [@HumongousEnt] (February 3, 2022). "Get your adventure on with four of the best games you've ever played, arriving for #NintendoSwitch on February 10th" (Tweet). Retrieved March 16, 2022 – via Twitter.
  5. ↑ "Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo". store.playstation.com.
  6. ↑ Koester, Matthew (2019-03-28). "Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo". Hardcore Gaming 101. Retrieved 2026-07-19.
  7. ↑ "Playstation4". HE. Archived from the original on 2023-01-17. Retrieved 2023-01-13.
  8. ↑ "Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo". Archived from the original on 1998-02-10. Retrieved 2024-04-10.
  9. ↑ People Staff (June 2, 1997). "The Little Car that Could". People. Archived from the original on May 19, 2018.
  10. ↑ Sluganski, Randy (March 2002). "State of Adventure Gaming - March 2002 - 2001 Sales Table". Just Adventure. Archived from the original on June 19, 2002. Retrieved May 13, 2020.
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