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Re: Cartoon Network Flash Games

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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.

Re: Cartoon Network Flash Games

#102

If anyone wants to see more of these flash games, check out the Flashpoint archive. https://flashpointarchive.org/

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.

Re: Cartoon Network Flash Games

#103

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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 recor…

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…

Hah, that explains the out-of-left-field theme! I had no idea they were reskins of exiting games. Interesting how child me managed to unknowingly zero in into the games of a single developer.!

And thanks for the game names as wel, although, I must admit that after posting that comment, I did go looking for them, and... Well, let's just say I've found my MixMaster skills to be quite rusty after all this time :p

Re: Cartoon Network Flash Games

#104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 recor…

The mirrors one was part of the PC game[1], I remember it vividly. [1] https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Dexter%27s_Laboratory:_Sci...

Huh, 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.

Re: Cartoon Network Flash Games

#106
post #78

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

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…

Let's go back to a website!

https://homestarrunner.com/toons/backtoawebsite

Re: Cartoon Network Flash Games

#107

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!

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 recor…

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.

Re: Cartoon Network Flash Games

#108
post #5

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!

Did you by chance work on Cartoon Orbit?

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 :)

Re: Cartoon Network Flash Games

#109
post #40

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!

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

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 :)
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