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. 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, and Parroty Interactive was discontinued. Games developed Pyst (1996), a parody of the popular game Myst 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 Driven (cancelled), a sequel to Pyst and a parody of the Myst sequel Riven References Defunct video game companies of the United States Video game companies based in California Video game companies established in 1996 Video game companies disestablished in 1999 Defunct companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area