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Cartoon Network Flash Games
- darkmarmot 5mo agoDoh, I did some work on some CN games back in the day -- but don't see any of those here. Hopefully they keeping adding to it!
- pgporada 5mo agoIf you made the adventure one with the Power Puff Girls, Dexter, Cow & Chicken, etc then thank you.
- marklar423 5mo agoSomething about a pool party? I remember that one
- honeycrispy 5mo agoI think you're talking about the summer resort games, which are also my favorite. You can play here: https://mattbruv.github.io/ccsr/ https://mattbruv.github.io/ccsr/ I don't know if it's nostalgia or what, but I still have fun playing it. Which can't be said for a lot of games.
- marklar423 5mo agoYes!!! I spent many hours playing the summer resort games.
- mattbruv 5mo agoI made this port, thanks for sharing it! The reason this game doesn't appear in the original list is because it was made in Shockwave, not Flash. I'm curious if there is any kind of emulator for Shockwave being worked on like what Ruffle is for Flash.
- honeycrispy 5mo agoThank you for bringing back a piece of my childhood!
- polytely 5mo agoThank you for preserving this piece of internet history, I have fond memories of playing these as a kid. Awesome stuff
- marklar423 5mo ago+1 thanks for porting this
- blanched 5mo agoI came across this a few weeks ago, though I haven't tried it: https://github.com/igorlira/dirplayer-rs https://github.com/igorlira/dirplayer-rs
- mellowbobbo 5mo agoThank you so much for porting this! I honestly thought these were lost in time. Thank you for bringing back my childhood!
- ctxc 5mo agoWOW YES OMG do you remember what the wrestling kinda game with ed ed and eddy was?
- iberator 5mo agoor Johnny Quest
- Klonoar 5mo agoDid you by chance work on Cartoon Orbit?
- darkmarmot 5mo agoAlas no. I worked on their Power Play downloadable system to embed games in a local player and also did stuff like add Mojo Jojo and new levels to games like Power Puff Girls Fast and the Flurrious. Fun times :)
- oceansky 5mo agoThanks for all your work!
- giancarlostoro 5mo agoThank you for being a part of my childhood then! I probably played (like everyone else my age) most if not all CN games. It's a shame they didn't do any sort of effort to preserve them officially.
- gaudystead 5mo agoFrom someone who likely played your work in my younger years, thank you for it!
- jjice 5mo agoPlease tell which ones! I be lots of great memories of the late aughts and CN flash games
- darkmarmot 5mo agoI worked on their Power Play downloadable system to embed games in a local player and also did stuff like add Mojo Jojo and new levels to games like Power Puff Girls Fast and the Flurrious. They had a mini golf game with a 3d golf club I embedded that I spent more time playing than working on :)
- rafabulsing 5mo agoMy favorite three aren't in there. All Dexter's Lab themed, now that I think about it. One was puzzle game where you had to bounce a laser off of mirrors to pop balloons. The second was kind of a Chip's Challenge kind of deal I think, where you as Dexter were running away from an out of control robot, and had to collect some computer chips or something. And in the third game, Dexter was running, inexplicably, a record store? Dunno if it was a tie in for a specific episode I don't remember now, but it's quite a funny premise, and a fun game too. If you worked on any of these games, thank you! I spent so many hours back then on those, and many others. I still had dial up back then, and I couldn't stay online for long. Eventually I figured out that if I kept the website open, then disconnected (rather than closing then disconnecting, which was what my parents taught me), the games would still work. Which is obvious to me now, of course, but as a 6~7 year old, who had no idea of how any of this worked, I felt like an actual, proper hacker. I literally just had the thought, "wait, what if..." and was promptly rewarded. I've been chasing that high ever since :) From then on, my evening routine after school was connecting, picking the 3~4 games I wanted to play for that night, letting them load, disconnecting, and playing to my heart's content. If I hacked anything that fateful night, it was my parent's main excuse to get me off the computer!
- throwaway2046 5mo agoThe mirrors one was part of the PC game[1], I remember it vividly. [1] https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Dexter%27s_Laboratory:_Science_Ain%27t_Fair https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Dexter%27s_Laboratory:_Sci...
- rafabulsing 5mo agoHuh, had no idea it they had a pack like that! I definitely only ever played it on the browser. I doubt that pack released here in Brazil. Though that's an interesting point: some games were localized on the Brazilian CN website! Not all, but it's cool that at least some of them were.
- SbEpUBz2 5mo agoThe games you mention are Dexter's Laser Lab, Dexter's Labyrinth and Dexter MixMaster, by developers NetBabyWorld. Those games were originally their own game without the Cartoon Network branding. Labyrinth was based on Ninja Girl 1 and 2 and Dexter MixMaster was originally Tune Inn (that's why this one felt a bit off). Since they were Shockwave based games they're not playable on modern browsers but they're playable with the Flashpoint Archive project. Huge timewaster, be careful. Better look for the games on YouTube :)
- weard_beard 5mo agoSame! I added leaderboards to a couple titles and did minor upgrades. Bible Fight, Brak headkicker, and the Inuyasha shell game specifically.
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- Dracophoenix 5mo agoWhich ones? Who were you working with? How did you get published? Did you do any Toonami games?
- Fargren 5mo agoSame, none of the ones I worked on. But I did more work for Nickelodeon than CN, so I'm not really surprised. I only remember one CN one I did, but I might have worked on two or three that I'd know if I saw them again... There are very few from 2008-2012 which is when I was working on that.
- throw5399375930 5mo agoSo did I. Your username suggests we might be from the same country. If so, we must have worked for the same awful person of a boss! (I briefly thought that maybe you were that awful person, but he wouldn't be caught dead in HN; his whole thing was to exploit and abuse the people who did the actual work and forbid them from taking credit or even mentioning the work in a CV)
- s900mhz 5mo agoThis is awesome! I hope they can restore the cartoon cartoon summer resort games.
- oceansky 5mo agoWhere's Courage the Cowardly Dog: Creep TV and Summer Resort? Those were the best ones.
- Klonoar 5mo agohttps://mattbruv.github.io/ccsr/ https://mattbruv.github.io/ccsr/ Someone already did it awhile back.
- clarle 5mo agoSo much nostalgia on Cartoon Cartoon Summer Resort. That was how I got into adventure games in the first place.
- Shalomboy 5mo agoCreep TV was my favorite too!!! Gosh, what a nostalgia trip.
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- hoten 5mo agoThe Halloween trick-or-treating maze-type game was my favorite from CN. The summer resort games (iirc one big trade quest) were nice too.
- wilfredk 5mo agoI am looking for the DBZ one from back in the day...
- tofuturkey2600 5mo agoFlash games on CN, Miniclip, and Mofunzone kept young me very entertained. Love to see this.
- roflchoppa 5mo agoMiniclip had a roller-blade-ninja game that I've been trying to find for years. :(
- popcar2 5mo agoMofunzone... Now that's a deep cut. I used to spend a lot of time playing the RPGs over there.
- cateblanchett 5mo agoRIP 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.
- ourmandave 5mo agoMy daughter was addicted to Ben 10 and would play for hours. I'd forgotten a bunch of those shows, like Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.
- ikesau 5mo agoWow, awesome. There's also a few on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_flash_unsorted?tab=collection&query=Cartoon+Network 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)
- WillAdams 5mo agoI really wish someone would bring back _Bembo's Zoo_, ideally by translating it to scripted HTML5 or animated SVG....
- helterskelter 5mo agoDoes 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. That was my entire computer class in 9th grade. (that and harrassing teachers with netsend)
- idontwantthis 5mo agoYes that was one of those bizarrely high tech experiences back then.
- amarant 5mo agoNetsend! I almost wonder if we were classmates! I have unfortunately forgotten the gorillaz game though
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- baigy 5mo agoNo but, this reminds me of gorilla.bas (basic). If you remember THAT, that's something. My first ever game, written in basic :-)
- noumenon1111 5mo agoQBasic Gorillas was poggers, but I'm more of a Nibbles guy myself
- vunderba 5mo agoI remember being introduced to QBASIC as a kid, and at the time the use of extended ASCII characters for the graphics in Nibbles.bas was legit next-level to me.
- jamiek88 5mo agoYOU wrote gorilla.bas?! That’s so cool. Sneaking into the library computer at school to play and later edit and remix that game was a formative experience for me.
- arionmiles 5mo agoThanks 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.
- rightbyte 5mo ago> major platforms which I honestly feel is going to be damaging the youth in the long term. What about the short term? Even edgy angst flash movies like Sallad fingers on Newgrounds is pretty cutsie by modern big tech standards.
- saarons 5mo agoIf anyone remembers gToons from Cartoon Orbit there's also this: https://gtoons.app https://gtoons.app
- willmeyers 5mo agoThis is incredible. Thank you for sharing this. I played Orbit so much.
- matltc 5mo agoI played so much gtoons. I remember meeting berniefoo in a MSN group and being starstruck. Recommend joining the discord linked in gtoons.app; announcement coming soon.
- FlamingMoe 5mo agoWho remembers postopia? Great games there as well circa 2002
- alex1138 5mo agoSome of it was the death of Flash (though with Ruffle now there may be hope) but the web now just feels much less diverse. Or possibly I just miss being a teenager. Or some combination
- tombert 5mo agoI really feel like there are fewer websites now. When I was eighteen, I went to Something Awful, Newgrounds, ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, GameTrailers, Cinemassacre, YouTube, and SpoonyExperiment daily. Nowadays it's basically just YouTube for all that stuff (though I haven't watched Spoony for quite awhile). Newgrounds is still around, I probably should make more of an effort to go there, and I do have stairs in my house, but I definitely don't go on as many different sites as I used to. I certainly miss the days when everyone had their own web page.
- chadgpt2 5mo agoDo you have your own web page? Not just you, the parent commenter, but also you, the random HN reader. If not, why not? It's fine if it's a bit sparse. Most people don't have a whole lot to publish on the internet.
- tombert 5mo agoI actually do! tombert.com. Though it's more of a blog than anything else. I might add some GeoCities web 1.0 junk to it at some point.
- bombcar 5mo agoLet's go back to a website! https://homestarrunner.com/toons/backtoawebsite https://homestarrunner.com/toons/backtoawebsite
- spacebacon 5mo agoWhen I hear anything flash, home star runner comes to mind.
- axus 5mo agoTried 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 :)
- switchers 5mo agoRuffle doing ruffle stuff, I'd be surprised if the original didn't work.
- king_geedorah 5mo agoIt's just nostalgia I'm sure but, damn if these didn't coincide with the peak era of the web as a user.
- alentodorov 5mo agoi remember mailing webmaster@cartoonnetwork.co.uk asking them what “sourcery” have they used to allow for zoom-in on a website.
- antdke 5mo agoAs a kid, I could type their URL from muscle memory with my eyes closed - that’s how much I loved this site. Good times.
- regus 5mo agoIf you want some more Cartoon Network nostalgia, enjoy this VHS recording of Cartoon Cartoon Fridays: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwcQH5bF1LI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwcQH5bF1LI
- gavinray 5mo agoThere were a Dragon Ball Z turn-based game and a Powerpuff Girls basketball game that used to be on CN that I had a blast playing very young. Sadly, these two seem to be missing
- pgoggijr 5mo agoI loved that Dragonball Z game so much. Would love to play it again to see if it’s anything like I remember!
- cootsnuck 5mo agoYes! I was just about to comment the same thing. I sank so many hours into that Dragon Ball Z game. Was called Dragon Ball Z Tournament. And its background music was an instrumental version of Sisqo's Thong Song. Wild. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdaf8ehjuX4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdaf8ehjuX4
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- Douger 5mo agoI installed flashpoint linked above and it does have the DBZ game working on my device!
- notaustinpowers 5mo agoPraying for Teen Titans Battle Blitz to be listed here at some point. The version on the Internet Archive is broken unfortunately.
- onlytue 5mo agoWild to see this. Anyone remember what happened to Steppenwolf and the other games? I do not remember the publisher, I think WB?
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- saos 5mo agowell this brings back memories! Thank you
- Soulsbane 5mo agoOh man that's nostalgia! I got interested in Anime because of DBZ airing on Cartoon Network.
- Pikamander2 5mo agoWhile we're mildly on the topic, one of my favorite old Flash games was the Nick.com trading card game. 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 http://www.animeexpressway.com/rugrats/ecards.htm (Sadly, it doesn't have any screenshots of the trading screen, which was the fun part)
- Klonoar 5mo agoOh! Wasn’t this launcher as a response to Cartoon Orbit? I legit had forgotten all about this.
- Dwedit 5mo agoI guess the Adult Swim games like "Robot Unicorn Attack" don't count here?
- kalabrium 5mo agoAdult Swim Games was its own publisher and Robot Unicorn Attack was their breakout, but they kept shipping past Flash with stuff like Duck Game and Headlander. Worth its own exhibit, honestly.
- Night_Thastus 5mo agoI 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.
- susrev 5mo agoman.. these are like some of the first games I actually remember playing as a kid
- susrev 5mo agoand this one https://monkeyball-online.pages.dev/ https://monkeyball-online.pages.dev/
- xiaod 5mo agoInteresting 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?
- mattbruv 5mo agoWhen GPT gets its threads mixed up
- roflchoppa 5mo agoThere was also https://www.coffeebreakarcade.com/ https://www.coffeebreakarcade.com/ ! they had a really good fighter jet game back in the day.
- Moomoomoo309 5mo agoIf anyone wants to see more of these flash games, check out the Flashpoint archive. https://flashpointarchive.org/ https://flashpointarchive.org/
- Wowfunhappy 5mo agoIs it possible to just download individual SWF files?
- benbristow 5mo agoThe Infinity version lets you download as you go rather than download the whole 2TB+! archive. Can just grab them out of the cache once they've been downloaded, wherever they're stored.
- Wowfunhappy 5mo agoI just want to download swf files without installing anything. Then I'll load them up in real Adobe Flash (Flash Projector).
- benbristow 5mo agoFlashpoint runs without installing anything via the ZIP version. It's FOSS software so no issue there I hope?
- Wowfunhappy 5mo agoI don't meet the system requirements. This is an old OS hence why I have real Adobe Flash.
- benbristow 5mo agoUse a newer machine to grab the files then transfer them? You must have one somewhere, you're chatting on HN with a modern SSL certificate.
- johnea 5mo agoI wasn't Cartoon Network, but we played a lot of LEGO's MataNui flash game. It was my first experience with what became known as Ambient Games...
- maplant 5mo agoThere’s on called “sonic boom: link and smash?”
- tracerbulletx 5mo agoWhere is my beloved Unicorn?
- keeganpoppen 5mo agosome 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! :)
- SuperHeavy256 5mo agoAmazing, these games were my childhood. Some of them are actually really good. Hope to see the rest of the ben 10 games uploaded here.
- justinclift 5mo agoHeh, this is reminiscent of the Stan Lee flash based webisodes from before they disappeared overnight. Looks like there's a wikipedia page about them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Lee_Media_productions 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.stanleereturns.org/0701/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20050313000913/http://www.stanle... Right click -> "Enter fullscreen" works pretty well.
- epogrebnyak 5mo agoReally wish [Miguzi Splashback](https://www.gamezhero.com/games/miguzisplashback https://www.gamezhero.com/games/miguzisplashback) was there too! The game used to be posted elewhere but not I cannot find a working version.
- dusted 5mo agoOh wow.. No DLCs.. No seasons.. No paid content. Just content.. No advertisements outside of the whole game being what it is.. This is actually amazing to see.. These days, with these amazing machines, amazing frameworks, and all the possibilities, and we're now aiming not to provide experiences that are enjoyable on their own merit, but something else.. the "joy" part is a checkbox that's prioritized only to the lowest viable point, because the content is something else, it's advertisement or user-retention or user-capture or just plain old data-harvesting.. Sure, flash was a security nightmare, but the technology was amazing, on the same 100 pentium machine that struggeled with letting Coral zoom in on a part of a vector image, Flash would happily fill the screen with animation done using morphing vectors.. I remember that day, when news told that Apple wouldn't allow Flash.. I remember thinking, that was the beginning of the end. Yes, it was proprietary, and all of that, but it was really, really good for its time, and it's still good. So much culture.. So much zeitgeist. Locked into files of that era. Thank you so much for sharing!
- jart 5mo agoDo you have an adblocker? First thing this website did was try to get me to install a chrome extension.
- dusted 5mo agoof course I have an adblocker, have you tried going online anytime the past 20 years ??? also, I don't know how to install chrome extensions on firefox so that's probably not for me. My comment was not about that site itself, but about its content and that someone cared to share the link to it :)
- jart 5mo agoFirefox is the best. While Google tries to regulate the ad industry, Mozilla is working to safeguard our freedom to refuse.
- Throwthrowbob 5mo agoNeat, but Ruffle failed to load the first game I tried, with reasoning that there is possibly no file to load. And then I was blocked by Cloudflare, even though there were no Cloudflare scripts to enable (checking in an alternate browser). edit: It looks like uBlock origin sees the cloudflare scripts, but NoScript does not (and did not display 3 scripts) initially. I'll have to try again later.