Founded in 2001
Hulabee Entertainment was a game company founded in July 2001 by Shelley Day and Ron Gilbert, both previously the founders of Humongous Entertainment. The company struck a deal with Disney Interactive, who published their games through the Plaid Banana Entertainment imprint. The company stopped releasing new titles in 2004 and closed the next year, due to co-founder Shelley Day being convicted for fraud. In March 2002, Day requested loans, claiming she was selling part of Hulabee to Disney Interactive and showing a fake "letter of intent" for the sale. When she stopped paying, Day stated the sale was delayed due to Disney Interactive being sold to Vivendi Universal Games, again providing false documents to "prove" it. In 2003, a lawyer representing the bank contacted Disney Interactive in regards to their alleged sale to Vivendi Universal, and they both found out that Day had actually used the loans to buy a $3 million dream house in Mercer Island, Washington. This ultimately led to Day being imprisoned for 30 months on charges for bank fraud, and thus the folding of Hulabee in the process.
2002
