Spy Fox

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Not to be confused with Sky Fox.
Spy Fox
Spy Fox
Genre(s)Adventure, Edutainment
Developer(s)Humongous Entertainment
Publisher(s)Humongous Entertainment
Atari
GT Interactive Software
Infogrames
Creator(s)Bret Barrett
Brad Carlton
Platform(s)Windows, Macintosh, iOS, Linux, Android
First releaseSpy Fox in "Dry Cereal"
October 17, 1997
Latest releaseSpy Fox 3: "Operation Ozone"
March 30, 2001

Spy Fox is a software gaming series from Humongous Entertainment starring a fictional anthropomorphic fox of the same name, intended for children 8 and up.[1] There are also running gags in the games such as Professor Quack eating a certain blueprint which shows how a gadget works (see below) and Monkey Penny's karate belt, which appears on the packaging boxes but is not shown in actual gameplay (although the belt appears in the bonus ending from Operation Ozone and is sometimes shown in animations that play during credits). Many of the game's names and plot elements are spoofs of the James Bond and Get Smart series. Many random puns are thrown in throughout the games to create a whimsical and humorous environment.

Summary

Spy Fox (voiced by Bob Zenk in Dry Cereal and Cheese Chase and Mike Madeoy in the other three games) works for a spy agency called SPY Corps. His cohorts include Monkey Penny (his secretarial assistant), Professor Quack (creator of the SPY Corps gadgets), the SPY Corps Chief, and the four-armed, four-sleeved 'tracking bug', Walter Wireless.

There are three adventure games in the series:

Two arcade games also exist starring Spy Fox:

The Spy Fox games each contain several different game paths randomly determined when the player starts a new game. Each path has its own challenges, which some players find more challenging than others. The main protagonist of the games, Spy Fox, uses a variety of gadgets to complete his missions. The game allows for second chances on puzzles and tasks, and it is impossible to fail the overall mission.[1] Each game has a bonus ending wherein the player can catch the villain. The bonus ending is accessible only if the player clicks an option at the right moment.

When running with ScummVM, these games can be played on different operating systems, including Windows, Mac and Linux. Nearly a decade after its initial release, the first installment of the Spy Fox trilogy was ported to the Nintendo Wii in 2008, but its availability was significantly limited by legal problems concerning the port's development.[2]

In 2014, the Spy Fox series was released on Steam, along with the entirety of the Humongous Entertainment game library.[3]

Back in the early 2000s, Humongous published a number of promo materials for the games. These materials include stories featuring new villains that have never appeared in the game series, including Dr. Morrie Arty, Dr. Fu Manch Hugh, and Baron Von Bluefield.[4]

Availability

Characters

Main

  • Spy Fox (voiced by Bob Zenk from 1997-1998 and Mike Madeoy from 1999-2001) - Spy Fox is suave, sophisticated, ever-cool and on top of things, even when the going gets a little tough. He relies on his wits and various spy gadgets, supplied to him by Quack, found at the Mobile Command Center.
  • Monkey Penny (voiced by Gina Nagy from 1997-1999 and Anita Montgomery in 2001) - Spy Fox's simian partner who is stationed at the Spy Corps Mobile Command Center. She sometimes contacts Spy Fox via his Spy Watch. She can also be called using the Spy Watch (although she gets irritated if Spy Fox uses the watch while he's inside the Mobile Command Center). Her name is a parody of Miss Moneypenny from the James Bond franchise.
  • Professor Quack (voiced by Ken Boynton) - A duck at the Mobile Command Center working on spy gadgets. He'll explain to Spy Fox how each gadget works when the player clicks on them in the Spy Gadget vending machine. He has a habit of eating the gadget's blueprints after explaining the gadget's functions to the player. Quack is a parody of Q from the James Bond franchise.

Recurring

  • Walter Wireless (voiced by Scott Burns) - A flea who serves as a tracking bug, being able to eavesdrop on various conversations. His name is a reference to Walter Cronkite.
  • Chief (voiced by Ken Boynton) - The chief of Spy Corps who meets Spy Fox after he arrives at Spy Corps., and again when he presents Spy Fox with an award for landing villains in Spy Jail.
  • Bea Bear (voiced by Kathy Levin) - A muscular female bear, who gets a different job every time she makes an appearance. She is almost always helping Spy Fox during his missions.

Dry Cereal

  • Howard Hugh Heifer Udderly III (voiced by Scott Burns) - The cow president and CEO of Amalgamated Moo Juice Incorporated has been cownapped and left dangling under a pool of piranhas until Spy Fox saves him by freezing the pool. Mr. Udderly is the only one who knows the extent of William the Kid's deranged plan. His name is a combination of Howard Hughes, Hugh Hefner, and the word "heifer".
  • William the Kid (voiced by John Patrick Lowrie) - The villain of the first game, he is the CEO of the Nectar of the Goats (N.O.G.) Corporation, and plans on ridding the world of cow's milk and replacing it with goat's milk using his Milky Weapon of Destruction. His name pays homage to notorious outlaw Billy the Kid.
  • Russian Blue (voiced by Shelley Reynolds) - William the Kid's right hand woman. Her life's passion is the tango, and she can't resist one. She owns and operates the swank ocean liner, the SS Deadweight. She later appears as the main villain in Spy Fox in Cheese Chase.
  • Gilbert - A rabbit who owns a trinket emporium.
  • Sal - A chameleon who guards a monitor showing where the S.S. Deadweight went once.
  • Artimice J. BigPig (voiced by John Patrick Lowrie) - A large pig who always sits in the cantina and likes to play Go Fish for trinkets.
  • Johnny (voiced by Mike Shapiro) - A gecko who plays the tango at the Greek Cantina.
  • Captain Drydock (voiced by David Scully) - A raccoon who owns the S.S. Winaprize.
  • Mata Hairy - A giraffe who intercepts N.O.G. items and gives them to Spy Fox to help him on his mission.
  • Hong Kong Doodle - A huge, muscular rooster who guards William the Kid's secret passageway to the cow stables and knows "Cock-a-Doodle-Fu" and battles Spy Fox.
  • Bull Clinton - The President who awards Spy Fox with the Big Daddy Congressional Cookie of Justice. He is based on then-president, Bill Clinton.

Some Assembly Required

  • Napoleon LeRoach (voiced by David Scully) - Villain of the second game and leader of the Society of Meaningless Evil, Larceny, Lying and Yelling (S.M.E.L.L.Y.). LeRoach’s evil plot is to use his Giant Evil Dogbot to take over the world. His agenda stems from the fact that he has been laughed at and scorned for his size (and the fact that he was not tall enough to ride a certain ride at the fair). He is a parody of Napoleon Bonaparte.
  • Giant Evil Dogbot - Created by the S.M.E.L.L.Y. Toy Division and maximized to a ratio of 1,000 to 1. This villainous weapon posed as a centerpiece at the World’s Fair. The Chateau LeRoach restaurant is located in its collar.
  • Cooper - The wax museum guard.
  • Madame Ladybug - The owner of Plant World, who orders a rose, but gets a mutant Venus Flytrap by LeRoach.
  • Doll and Lee - Twin sheep who clone things. They are based on Dolly, a sheep who was cloned in real life.
  • The Caped Cod - An underappreciated stunt fish.
  • Elmo - The Caped Cod's biggest fan.
  • Lenny - A worm who gives Spy Fox a code for the Venus Flytrap lock.

Operation Ozone

  • Poodles Galore (voiced by Anita Montgomery) - The Queen of Cosmetics and the third game's villain. Poodles is not satisfied with being the cosmetics queen of the whole town, she wants to control the entire sunscreen market using her aerosol spraying hairspray space station to deplete the ozone layer in order to sell her new product SPF: 2001. Her name is a parody of Bond girl Pussy Galore.
  • Plato Pushpin (voiced by Ken Boynton) - The scientist that Galore has forced to build the hairspray satellite of destruction using illegal chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). He is the only one with the knowledge to stop the hairspray satellite with his invention, the Congeal Pill. Galore caught him in the act of trying to finish the Congeal Pill and took him hostage, turning him into a bowling pin with the intention to bowl him to death, only to have Spy Fox save him.

Hold the Mustard

  • King Konglomerate: The main villain of the game; he is a mustard conglomerate and business owner who does not wish to compete with ketchup, but instead seeks to destroy it. To do so, he unleashes a huge army's worth of robots to destroy all the world's tomatoes.

References

  1. ^ a b Keeley, Joe (October 9, 2009). "Review for Spy Fox in 'Dry Cereal'". Adventure Gamers. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
  2. ^ Cobbett, Richard (December 22, 2017). "How ScummVM is keeping adventure games alive, one old game at a time". PC Gamer. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
  3. ^ "Steam Search". store.steampowered.com. Retrieved 2019-12-21.
  4. ^ "Spy Fox: Super Top Secret Agents Only Area". humongous.com. Archived from the original on 2002-02-04. Retrieved 2021-01-07.
  5. ^ "Spy Fox on Steam". Steam. Retrieved December 19, 2016.
  6. ^ "Spy Fox Complete Pack on Steam". store.steampower ed.com. Retrieved December 19, 2016.
  7. ^ "Humongous Entertainment Complete Pack on Steam". store.steampowered.com. Retrieved December 19, 2016.
  8. ^ "Super Duper Arcade 1". Retrieved December 19, 2016.
  9. ^ "Super Duper Arcade 2". Retrieved December 19, 2016.
  10. ^ "RF Generation:Humongous Entertainment Triple Treat 3". Retrieved December 19, 2016.
  11. ^ "Humongous Entertainment Triple Treat". CDAccess.com. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  12. ^ Leo W. (2019-05-22). "Fun & Skills Pack 1st & 2nd Grade 3.0". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2022-08-07.

External links

Android release: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tommo.nggpesf1&hl=de

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