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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!

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!

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.

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

https://flashpointarchive.org/

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.

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

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

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)

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

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)

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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! :)

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 :)

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

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.

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

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

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

Wild to see this.

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

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

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

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

This is awesome!

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

Who remembers postopia? Great games there as well circa 2002

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

well this brings back memories! Thank you

Where is my beloved Unicorn?

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

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.

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...

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?