Cartoon Network Flash Games

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by willmeyers • 3 months ago

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darkmarmot3• 3 months ago

Doh, 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• 3 months ago

If you made the adventure one with the Power Puff Girls, Dexter, Cow & Chicken, etc then thank you.

marklar4233• 3 months ago

Something about a pool party? I remember that one

iberator• 2 months ago

or Johnny Quest

Klonoar4• 3 months ago

Did you by chance work on Cartoon Orbit?

darkmarmot3• 3 months ago

Alas 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 :)

oceansky2• 3 months ago

Thanks for all your work!

giancarlostoro• 3 months ago

Thank 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• 3 months ago

From someone who likely played your work in my younger years, thank you for it!

jjice• 3 months ago

Please tell which ones! I be lots of great memories of the late aughts and CN flash games

darkmarmot3• 3 months ago

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. They had a mini golf game with a 3d golf club I embedded that I spent more time playing than working on :)

rafabulsing3• 3 months ago

My 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• 3 months ago

The mirrors one was part of the PC game[1], I remember it vividly.

[1] https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Dexter%27s_Laboratory:_Sci...

SbEpUBz2• 3 months ago

The 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 :)

thinkly• 3 months ago

This Dexter's Lab laser game was the first flash game I had ever played, and one of my first actual experiences with the internet. I remember seeing cartoonnetwork.com on the TV, understanding that there are games I could play online, and trying to figure out what the funny phone noises meant with AOL. Someone helped me go online using dialup and I ended up on the website somehow (probably struggling really badly to type as a kid) and it took forever for the flash game to load. At first I had little understanding of what I was looking at, felt very hard to understand websites. I also remember the Samurai Jack one really vividly, even took a note down of the game cheatcode on the TV and hid the note in a drawer after we moved and didn't have a PC anymore, because my parents said I'd have to wait "until I was a 18" to ever have an internet connection again. I was so little, I certainly lost it or someone tossed it, but we got a computer so I did end up enjoying the game a lot! I also really liked the HiHi Puffy Ami Yumi flash games, like the vacation one.

What a shame CN took their classic game sites down, when hosting flash games isn't even all that resource-intensive. An archive by them would've been nice. I recall every couple of years, older games slowly got removed which made me sad, until eventually flash died completely.

My goodness, I've come so far now in life. I know what tools to use to decompile flash games and look at the assets and logic, it's crazy to look back on how much games inspired me to learn about programming because I wanted to make my own.

To anyone who worked on these, thank you SO MUCH for having built them; you've definitely had a positive influence on countless people who were mentally stimulated and learned about how to use computers more in an effort to play them.

hyperbolablabla• 3 months ago

I enjoyed the Dexter's one which was a point and click adventure where you had to solve puzzles.

weard_beard• 3 months ago

Same! I added leaderboards to a couple titles and did minor upgrades. Bible Fight, Brak headkicker, and the Inuyasha shell game specifically.

Dracophoenix• 3 months ago

Which ones? Who were you working with? How did you get published? Did you do any Toonami games?

Fargren• 3 months ago

Same, 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• 3 months ago

So 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)

s900mhz2• 3 months ago

This is awesome!

I hope they can restore the cartoon cartoon summer resort games.

Klonoar4• 3 months ago

https://mattbruv.github.io/ccsr/

Someone already did it awhile back.

s900mhz2• 3 months ago

Thank you!

oceansky2• 3 months ago

Where's Courage the Cowardly Dog: Creep TV and Summer Resort? Those were the best ones.

Klonoar4• 3 months ago

https://mattbruv.github.io/ccsr/

Someone already did it awhile back.

clarle• 3 months ago

So much nostalgia on Cartoon Cartoon Summer Resort. That was how I got into adventure games in the first place.

Shalomboy• 3 months ago

Creep TV was my favorite too!!!

Gosh, what a nostalgia trip.

hoten2• 3 months ago

The Halloween trick-or-treating maze-type game was my favorite from CN.

The summer resort games (iirc one big trade quest) were nice too.

gavinray2• 3 months ago

This one, Trick or Treat Beat?

https://old.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/yi02h2/who_remem...

hoten2• 3 months ago

That's the one, thanks!

wilfredk• 3 months ago

I am looking for the DBZ one from back in the day...

tofuturkey2600• 3 months ago

Flash games on CN, Miniclip, and Mofunzone kept young me very entertained. Love to see this.

roflchoppa2• 3 months ago

Miniclip had a roller-blade-ninja game that I've been trying to find for years. :(

testycool• 3 months ago

Was it called N or N++?

tombert3• 3 months ago

Rollerboy 2? https://www.retrogamesvault.com/rollerboy2/index.html

popcar2• 3 months ago

Mofunzone... Now that's a deep cut. I used to spend a lot of time playing the RPGs over there.

cateblanchett• 3 months ago

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.

ourmandave• 3 months ago

My 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• 3 months ago

Wow, awesome.

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)

sudokatsu• 3 months ago

TTBB was my first foray into fighting games, such good memories.

y-curious2• 3 months ago

That game was so much fun, thanks for the reminder

WillAdams• 3 months ago

I really wish someone would bring back _Bembo's Zoo_, ideally by translating it to scripted HTML5 or animated SVG....

helterskelter2• 3 months ago

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.

That was my entire computer class in 9th grade.

(that and harrassing teachers with netsend)

amarant• 3 months ago

Netsend! I almost wonder if we were classmates!

I have unfortunately forgotten the gorillaz game though

baigy• 3 months ago

No but, this reminds me of gorilla.bas (basic). If you remember THAT, that's something. My first ever game, written in basic :-)

noumenon1111• 3 months ago

QBasic Gorillas was poggers, but I'm more of a Nibbles guy myself

jamiek88• 2 months ago

YOU 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.

dole• 3 months ago

https://archive.org/details/gorillaz_final_drive

helterskelter2• 3 months ago

Omg thank you, this is giving me flashbacks.

weberer• 3 months ago

Yes, and it was based on their video for the song "19-2000"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXR-bCF5dbM

idontwantthis• 3 months ago

Yes that was one of those bizarrely high tech experiences back then.

y-curious2• 3 months ago

GET THE COOL SHOE SHINE!

arionmiles• 3 months ago

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.

rightbyte• 3 months 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• 3 months ago

If anyone remembers gToons from Cartoon Orbit there's also this: https://gtoons.app

willmeyers• 3 months ago

This is incredible. Thank you for sharing this. I played Orbit so much.

matltc• 3 months ago

I 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• 3 months ago

Who remembers postopia? Great games there as well circa 2002

alex11382• 3 months ago

Some 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

tombert3• 3 months ago

I 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• 3 months ago

Do 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.

bombcar• 3 months ago

Let's go back to a website!

https://homestarrunner.com/toons/backtoawebsite

dag11• 3 months ago

I feel the same thing.

I think part of it also is that, games with the same scope of flash games are still being made, but they're being made for phones which is where the customers. Flash games were the perfect mobile game before mobile games existed.

But the magic was that flash games were created on the same machines they were made on, so curious players (often kids!) had a natural funnel in to dabbling with the creation side, so whole communities of creatives formed naturally.

I don't know how we can solve this disconnect between creation and consumption :( Sure there's many apps that let you build content from phones (swift playgrounds, other game-making apps, and now a whole gold rush of agentic prompting app-building apps...) but a phone is inherently non-immersive so I don't know how a creator can ever get into a flow state of building content on a phone itself.

But also we possibly just miss being teens on computers.

axus• 3 months ago

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 :)

switchers• 3 months ago

Ruffle doing ruffle stuff, I'd be surprised if the original didn't work.

king_geedorah• 3 months ago

It's just nostalgia I'm sure but, damn if these didn't coincide with the peak era of the web as a user.

alentodorov• 3 months ago

i remember mailing webmaster@cartoonnetwork.co.uk asking them what “sourcery” have they used to allow for zoom-in on a website.

antdke• 3 months ago

As 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• 3 months ago

If you want some more Cartoon Network nostalgia, enjoy this VHS recording of Cartoon Cartoon Fridays:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwcQH5bF1LI

gavinray2• 3 months ago

There 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• 3 months ago

I loved that Dragonball Z game so much. Would love to play it again to see if it’s anything like I remember!

cootsnuck• 3 months ago

Yes! 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

Douger• 3 months ago

I installed flashpoint linked above and it does have the DBZ game working on my device!

notaustinpowers• 3 months ago

Praying for Teen Titans Battle Blitz to be listed here at some point. The version on the Internet Archive is broken unfortunately.

onlytue• 3 months ago

Wild to see this.

Anyone remember what happened to Steppenwolf and the other games? I do not remember the publisher, I think WB?

saos• 3 months ago

well this brings back memories! Thank you

Soulsbane• 3 months ago

Oh man that's nostalgia! I got interested in Anime because of DBZ airing on Cartoon Network.

Pikamander2• 3 months ago

While 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

(Sadly, it doesn't have any screenshots of the trading screen, which was the fun part)

Klonoar4• 2 months ago

Oh! Wasn’t this launcher as a response to Cartoon Orbit?

I legit had forgotten all about this.

Dwedit• 3 months ago

I guess the Adult Swim games like "Robot Unicorn Attack" don't count here?

kalabrium• 3 months ago

Adult 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• 3 months ago

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.

susrev2• 3 months ago

man.. these are like some of the first games I actually remember playing as a kid

susrev2• 3 months ago

and this one https://monkeyball-online.pages.dev/

xiaod• 3 months ago

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?

mattbruv2• 3 months ago

When GPT gets its threads mixed up

roflchoppa2• 3 months ago

There was also https://www.coffeebreakarcade.com/ !

they had a really good fighter jet game back in the day.

Moomoomoo3092• 3 months ago

If anyone wants to see more of these flash games, check out the Flashpoint archive.

https://flashpointarchive.org/

Wowfunhappy5• 3 months ago

Is it possible to just download individual SWF files?

benbristow4• 3 months ago

The 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.

nyoronic• 3 months ago

There is a web version of Flashpoint called 9o3o on https://ooooooooo.ooo/browse. If you click a game and then open your browser devtools and search for "data-game-zip", you will find the link to the game files in that attribute. Download and extract it and go to town.

Some games won't work if you try to play them outside of Flashpoint though: https://flashpointarchive.org/datahub/How_Flashpoint_Works

hbardigital• 3 months ago

Pretty awesome finding some games I worked on while I was in university!

Pizza City: https://flashpointproject.github.io/flashpoint-database/sear...

Cookie Party: https://flashpointproject.github.io/flashpoint-database/sear...

I learned a lot making these games while studying compsci. The platformer had a custom physics engine and I recall the pizza city open world was challenging to optimize for me at the time. Super fun to work on and appreciated the opportunity to work on these for PixelJam. These games were for comedy network and adult swim so in the same vein.

integricho• 3 months ago

Most of the teagames flash games are sadly lost, never found them archived even here, yet they were among the best for me, e.g. Top Dog II was so fun back in the day. Teagames was taken over I think and the old games are all lost.

Moomoomoo3092• 2 months ago

Check the Flashpoint archive, it's the biggest collection I've seen.

johnea• 3 months ago

I 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• 3 months ago

There’s on called “sonic boom: link and smash?”

tracerbulletx• 3 months ago

Where is my beloved Unicorn?

keeganpoppen• 3 months ago

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! :)

SuperHeavy256• 3 months ago

Amazing, 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• 3 months ago

Heh, 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

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.

epogrebnyak• 3 months ago

Really wish [Miguzi Splashback](https://www.gamezhero.com/games/miguzisplashback) was there too! The game used to be posted elewhere but not I cannot find a working version.

dusted2• 3 months ago

Oh 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!

jart2• 2 months ago

Do you have an adblocker? First thing this website did was try to get me to install a chrome extension.

dusted2• 2 months ago

of 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 :)

Throwthrowbob• 2 months ago

Neat, 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.

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