Putt-Putt Enters the Race (1998, PC) - Longplay 🏁

Putt-Putt and his dog Pep must gather various items including fuel and a flag before they can enter the Cartown 500 race 🏎. There are plenty of old friends as well as some fun new characters to give Putt-Putt a helping hand.

Putt-Putt Enters the Race is the 5th game in the Putt-Putt series. It was produced by Humongous Entertainment for the Windows and Macintosh operating systems and released in 1998. The game was later released on GameTap in December 2006.

Starting off with this game, Nancy Cartwright, who is famous for voicing Bart on The Simpsons, voices Putt-Putt.

Plot
Putt-Putt and Pep receive a letter from Redline Rick inviting him to enter the Cartown 500, and he's been waiting for this type of event all year, so he's definitely going to accept it. But he needs some things before he enters, so he needs to drive around Cartown and look for them.

When all of the objectives are completed, Putt-Putt is allowed to enter the race. At the end of the race, Redline Rick announces Putt-Putt as the winner with the medal and trophy. However, Redline Rick rewards Putt-Putt a ribbon if Putt-Putt did not win first, second or third place in the race.

Gameplay
The player takes control of Putt-Putt with the goal of finding racing supplies. By clicking on various areas, the player can collect items, talk with other characters, and watch entertaining animations. Items are collected to help the player solve puzzles. The game contains many different areas to explore around Cartown like north, south, east or west side.
-- Sources: Mobygames, Fandom --

-- Game credits --
Interactive Design Mark Peyser, Richard Moe
Art Lead Mark Peyser
Programming Lead Richard Moe
Associate Producer Denise Heimel
Project Coordinator Aimee Paganini
Dialog Written by Laurie Rose Bauman
Programming Dave Timoney, Brian Pulliam, Day Evans, Ross McIntire, Nicholas Sutton, Paige C. Watson
Sound Effects Programming Geoff Kirk
Lead Animator Edward Pun
Animation James Bradrick, Kathy Anderson, Sandy Spangler, Tom Witte, Giancarlo Volpe, Erik Haldi, John Michaud, Jordan Rennick, Michael Baran
Character Design Kathy Anderson, James Bradrick, Jay Sopp, Edward Pun
Storyboard Artists Kathy Anderson, James Bradrick, Jay Sopp
Lead Computer Art and Animation Michael Paganini
Computer Art and Animation Andrew Brinkworth, Mark Lautenbach, Leah Verre, Becky Hard, Michael Jacob, Greg Griffith, Cory Baker, Craig Hardin
Digital Ink and Paint Nathan Hall, Debbie J. Ferguson, James McMillan, Dela Longfish, Armando Alvarez, Chris Proudfoot, Mark Banate, Valerie Kissling, Cat Richards, Dave Brown, Becky Hard
Music Composed by Thomas McGurk
Lead System Programmer Brad P. Taylor
System Programming Stephen W. Johnson, Steven Magladry
Production Lead D. J. Mattern
Production Assistants Chad Queen, Oanh Pham, Marcus Lee Howell, Tanya Erwin, Rachel Frost, Eric T. H. Olson
Featuring the voice of Nancy Cartwright (as Putt-Putt)
Additional Voice Talent Jim Bach, Ken Boynton, Scott Burns, George Catalano, Laura Kenny, Lyn McManus, David Silverman, Robert Zenk
Voice Talent Director Laurie Rose Bauman
Recording Engineers Gary Littell, Dan Cubert, Tom Mgrdichian
Putt-Putt Created by Shelley M. Day
Full credits at Mobygames

-- Video creator notes --
The Steam version of the game was played on Windows 11 using ScummVM. Recorded at 1280x960 and upscaled to 1.5x the resolution (1920x1440) to make sure no scaling filtering is applied and retain the pixel art look.

-- Timestamps --
0:00 Intros
1:11 Head over to Speedway
4:41 Cartown Speedway
9:10 Ms. Widget, Batteries
13:08 Cartown Color
13:41 Smokey
14:33 Mr. Baldini
16:05 Cartown Gas
17:33 Cartown Carwash
18:10 Chuck
19:36 Outback Al
20:59 Mr. Fenderbender
22:06 Library
28:39 Mrs. Airbag
31:55 Torvil Tractor, Flashlight
33:38 Vegetable Farm
39:30 Hook
40:32 Building Site
42:35 Nails Minigame
48:47 Safety Helmet
49:08 Pete Crane
50:33 Mr. Crankcase, Recycling
54:25 Tire patch kit
54:54 Rover, Milkshake
56:46 Betsy Bulldozer, Shovel
57:40 Digging the hubcaps
1:09:50 Gas can
1:10:43 Outback Al, Racing Flag
1:13:04 Baldini, Coins
1:14:16 Cartown Color, Coloring Red
1:17:22 Cut Tire Patch kit, Flag number
1:19:35 Chuck, Fix tire
1:21:38 Chuck, Racing Tires
1:25:21 Gasoline
1:26:43 Entering the race
1:27:37 The Race, 3rd place
1:30:44 The Race, 2nd place
1:36:24 End + Credits

-- Game info --
Developed and published by: Humongous Entertainment, Inc.
Released: 1998
Platforms: Android, iPad, iPhone, Linux, Macintosh, Windows
Genre: Adventure, Educational
Educational: Pre-school / toddler

This game on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/29...

-- Settings and application information --
Game played using ScummVM
Recorded using OBS
Edited using VEGAS Pro 18.0

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