RIP to TV networks and other media entities having free online computer games. Clone-a-doodle-doo and code of the samarai were my games.
ESPN also used to have great flash games. they had one where you'd skate on the roofs of houses and one where you had a BMX game that I think had a racing version and a freestyle version.
Thanks for whoever preserved these! The CartoonNetwork website was one of my most fondest memories from my childhood.
These days the official website redirects to their YouTube channel which I feel is very sad. There used to be places for kids on the internet, now everything is heading towards major platforms which I honestly feel is going to be damaging the youth in the long term.
Does anyone remember that Gorillaz flash game? You basically just had a dune buggy and drove around in a 3D world over some randomly scattered obstacles and terrain.
some of these were actually pretty fun... i can't remember any of the names, but there were a few that were like pretty big adventure games that took like a couple hours to get through that i remember enjoying as a kid. and the best part? you could download the game and then run it offline so that you don't hog the family home phone line! :)
I played the CN flash games so much as a kid. Between that and Armor Games, Nitrome, Crazy Monkey Games, etc - I was spoiled for content. It does make me sad to see so much of it lost to time - though I also understand flash was bad and really did have to die.
Tried the Courage the Cowardly Dog game, after a nicely animated plane-landing, the game logic was broken and no enemies appeared. Never played the original, perhaps it had the same problem :)
Interesting approach. The key question for adoption is usually about the migration path — how painful is it for existing teams to switch, and what does the intermediate state look like?
Cartoon Network Flash Games
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ESPN also used to have great flash games. they had one where you'd skate on the roofs of houses and one where you had a BMX game that I think had a racing version and a freestyle version.
https://flashpointarchive.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwcQH5bF1LI
These days the official website redirects to their YouTube channel which I feel is very sad. There used to be places for kids on the internet, now everything is heading towards major platforms which I honestly feel is going to be damaging the youth in the long term.
There's also a few on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_flash_unsorted?t...
(In case the OP also made you think of Teen Titans Battle Blitz for the first time in 20 years)
That was my entire computer class in 9th grade.
(that and harrassing teachers with netsend)
Sadly, these two seem to be missing
The summer resort games (iirc one big trade quest) were nice too.
Looks like there's a wikipedia page about them:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Lee_Media_productions
Oh wow, archive.org took a snapshot of my old website that put them online after the Stan Lee people went broke. :)
https://web.archive.org/web/20050313000913/http://www.stanle...
Right click -> "Enter fullscreen" works pretty well.
It wasn't really a game in the TCG sense, but more of a collecting/bartering game similar to the Grand Exchange in Runescape.
There isn't much surviving media of it since people rarely recorded game footage back then, but someone made a website of it with some screenshots:
http://www.animeexpressway.com/rugrats/ecards.htm
(Sadly, it doesn't have any screenshots of the trading screen, which was the fun part)
Good times.
they had a really good fighter jet game back in the day.
I'd forgotten a bunch of those shows, like Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.
Anyone remember what happened to Steppenwolf and the other games? I do not remember the publisher, I think WB?
I hope they can restore the cartoon cartoon summer resort games.
Or possibly I just miss being a teenager. Or some combination
It was my first experience with what became known as Ambient Games...