Parroty Interactive

{{Short description|American video game developer}}

{{Infobox company

| name = Parroty Interactive

| logo = Parroty Interactive Logo.jpg

| type = Division

| 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 = 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 of publisher Palladium Interactive, Inc.

Parroty Interactive created a number of notable parody video games for personal computers running Microsoft Windows or Mac OS.{{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}} 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,{{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}}{{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}} and Parroty Interactive was discontinued.