Fraggle Rock was an award-winning and beloved children's tv show that ran from 1983 to 1987. Through misadventures, songs, and life lessons, the Fraggles taught a generation of children how to live, love, and laugh. After the show was cancelled, the Fraggles would branch out into the emerging world of video game design. Fraggle Studios was started in May of 1989 and would be an instant success with the release of their first game, Fraggle Fun Time Free-For-All Garden Pick n' Pull.





Most gamers over the age of twenty have fond memories of picking and pulling in the fun time garden, avoiding the Gorgs and saving Marjory the heap from certain doom. Almost universally hailed as the originator of picking and pulling in a garden style game, comparisons to Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros in terms of influence have been made throughout the years. However, the game was also infamous for the visible erection King Gorg had while chasing the Fraggles, an issue Fraggle studios famously declined to comment on.




While this game was a hallmark of innovation, graphics, gameplay, and music, Fraggle studios would never be able to match the success of their first venture. A variety of kart racers, rhythm-based turnip pulling games and the dating sim/bass fishing debacle Travelling Matt Trolls for Bass has left gamers wondering, are Fraggles fit to continue making games or are they relics of a by-gone era?



With Marjory the Heap's new fighting game, Marjory the Heap Beats Homeless People to Death With What Appears to be a Clitoris Made of Trash, coming out in Summer of 2010, only time will tell if gamers still care about the Fraggles.