What the Heck Will Elroy Do Next? He’s Back!
What the Heck Will Elroy Do Next? He’s Back! How a 90s Fan Craving Sparked a 2026 Headbone Interactive Steam Gaming Revival Sometimes, the past doesn’t just knock on your door—it knocks, writes letters and sends code attempts all the way from Germany. Back in the 1990s, Headbone Interactive set out to do something delightfully different in gaming: create smart, rambunctious, hand-animated interactive adventures that felt less like traditional software and more like classic cartoon comedy. Reviews at the time captured the magic best— Wired called the company’s first title Elroy Goes Bugzerk “Sherman and Mr. Peabody gone interactive, or a ’90s multimedia Rocky and Bullwinkle,” while PC Gamer declared it had “more sparks than a meteor shower.” For years, fans who grew up alongside Elroy and his trusty hound dog, Blue, kept asking the same question: Where can we play Headbone games today? Dedicated retro-gamers and original fans tried time and again to port the old Headbone CD-ROMs t...