Yup, It's A Pup

Yup, It's A Pup was the first game Crogus Interactive publicly released that was not apart of the Scrimmy Bingus Franchise. The game was released on July 13, 2009 for the Wii, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. It was a critical failure, causing Crogus to recall the game on January 4, 2010 after the holiday season.
== Origin and History ==
Crogus Interactive first announced the project at E3 2004, stating that the project had been in development for 3 years. Despite this, they also later revealed that the development process was not taken as seriously and it had been planned and developed in the developers spare time. It wasn't until a week after E3 that Crogus officially devoted a team of developers to the project, when they would also hire a professional marketing company to advertise the game extensively over the next 5 years up until release. This advertisement included over 400 trailers, 6,739 different poster designs, and 52,349 different articles on the Crogus Interactive blogsite. Crogus cited their reason for extensive advertisement as "wanting to make the public aware of the game so that it wouldn't be overshadowed by the Scrimmy Bingus franchise". 
Crogus would spend the following 5 years attempting to perfect the details of the game and making it as cohesive as they possibly could. This would later prove to be to their detriment, though at the time, they perceived it to be a good idea. Furthermore, they designed completely new assets for the game and created an entirely different world setting, which is one of the reasons why development took so long.
== Release ==
Crogus heavily hyped up the release of the game in the week that came before. Despite this, initial reactions were heavily mixed. Some people praised Crogus for their new world design and hard work on making entirely new assets apart from the Scrimmy Bingus franchise, but others disliked the departure from what made Crogus famous in the first place. Crogus considered the reaction to be bearable at first, but as the year continued reviews started to get poorer and poorer.
== Recall ==
Crogus hoped that the game would find an increase in sales during the 2009 holiday season, but it was beat out by most other developers and the game barely sold over 1,000 copies. Crogus announced on Christmas Day that they would be officially recalling Yup, It's A Pup, and on January 4 of the following year, they pulled it from the market. 
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