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 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!
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.
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 :)
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
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.
If you made the adventure one with the Power Puff Girls, Dexter, Cow & Chicken, etc then thank you.
Something about a pool party? I remember that one
I think you're talking about the summer resort games, which are also my favorite.
You can play here: 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.
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.
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.
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.
Is it possible to just download individual SWF files?
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.
I just want to download swf files without installing anything. Then I'll load them up in real Adobe Flash (Flash Projector).
If you want some more Cartoon Network nostalgia, enjoy this VHS recording of Cartoon Cartoon Fridays:
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)
TTBB was my first foray into fighting games, such good memories.
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.
> 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.
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)
Yes, and it was based on their video for the song "19-2000"
Omg thank you, this is giving me flashbacks.
No but, this reminds me of gorilla.bas (basic). If you remember THAT, that's something. My first ever game, written in basic :-)
QBasic Gorillas was poggers, but I'm more of a Nibbles guy myself
I 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.
Netsend! I almost wonder if we were classmates!
I have unfortunately forgotten the gorillaz game though
Yes that was one of those bizarrely high tech experiences back then.
If anyone remembers gToons from Cartoon Orbit there's also this: https://gtoons.app
This is incredible. Thank you for sharing this. I played Orbit so much.
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