Editing Parroty Interactive

{{Short description|American video game developer}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Parroty Interactive
| logo = Parroty Interactive Logo.jpg
| type = [[Division (business)|Division]]
| industry = [[Video game industry|Video games]]
| fate = Defunct
| founded = {{Start date and age|1996}}
| founder = 
| defunct = {{End date|1999|04|05}}
| hq_location_city = [[Larkspur, California]]
| hq_location_country = [[United States|U.S.]]
| area_served = North America
| parent = {{Unbulleted list|Palladium Interactive, Inc. {{small|(1996–1998)}}|[[The Learning Company]] {{small|(1999)}}}}
}}
'''Parroty Interactive''' was an American [[video game developer]] based in [[Larkspur, California]], which acted as a [[Division (business)|division]] of [[Video game publisher|publisher]] Palladium Interactive, Inc.

Parroty Interactive created a number of notable [[parody]] [[video game]]s for [[personal computer]]s running [[Microsoft Windows]] or [[Classic Mac OS|Mac OS]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/parroty-readies-parody/ |title=Parroty readies parody |author=Harley Jebens |website=[[ZDNet]] |date=December 19, 1997 |access-date=July 24, 2017}}</ref> The company's name was intended as a [[play-on-words]] between "[[parody]]" and "[[parrot]]". Palladium Interactive was acquired by [[The Learning Company]] in April 1999,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9904/06/test.y2k.idg/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221212030454/http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9904/06/test.y2k.idg/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 12, 2022 |title=Test your systems for Y2K |work=CNN News |date=April 6, 1999 |accessdate=July 24, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |date=April 5, 1999 |title=YK2 Tools Scrub Desktop - Detect 2000 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qfzsFxIjwrkC&pg=PT36 |author=James M. Connolly |magazine=Computerworld |page=68 |accessdate=July 24, 2017}}</ref> and Parroty Interactive was discontinued.

== Games developed ==
* ''[[Pyst]]'' (1996), a parody of the popular game ''[[Myst]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Parroty+Interactive+Launches+PYST+Special+Edition%3B+New+Special...-a019903274 |title=Parroty Interactive Launches PYST Special Edition |author=Business Wire |date=October 21, 1997 |accessdate=July 24, 2017}}</ref>
* ''[[Star Warped]]'' (1997), a parody of ''[[Star Wars]]''
* ''[[The X-Fools]]'' (1997), a parody of ''[[The X-Files]]''
* ''[[Microshaft Winblows 98]]'' (1998), a parody of [[Microsoft Windows 98]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/parroty-readies-parody/ |title=Parroty Interactive Ships "Microshaft Winblows 98" |author=Business Wire |website=[[ZDNet]] |date=January 5, 1998 |access-date=July 24, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jan-19-fi-9802-story.html |title=Cyberculture Heard on the Beat |newspaper=LA Times |author=Karen Kaplan |date=January 19, 1998 |access-date=July 24, 2017}}</ref>
* ''Driven'' (cancelled), a sequel to ''Pyst'' and a parody of the ''Myst'' sequel ''[[Riven]]''

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[[Category:Defunct video game companies of the United States]]
[[Category:Video game companies based in California]]
[[Category:Video game companies established in 1996]]
[[Category:Video game companies disestablished in 1999]]
[[Category:Defunct companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area]]


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