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86 points by willmeyers 2 hours ago | 39 comments

regus 2 minutes ago

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

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

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!

jjice 3 minutes ago

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

pgporada 2 hours ago

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

giancarlostoro 2 hours 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 42 minutes ago

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

Klonoar 2 hours ago

Did you by chance work on Cartoon Orbit?

oceansky 2 hours ago

Thanks for all your work!

arionmiles 25 minutes 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.

antdke 6 minutes 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.

saarons 17 minutes ago

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

willmeyers 15 minutes ago

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

axus 13 minutes 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 2 minutes ago

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

ikesau 43 minutes 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)

tofuturkey2600 51 minutes ago

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

helterskelter 33 minutes 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)

dole 25 minutes ago

https://archive.org/details/gorillaz_final_drive

helterskelter 23 minutes ago

Omg thank you, this is giving me flashbacks.

amarant 30 minutes ago

Netsend! I almost wonder if we were classmates!

I have unfortunately forgotten the gorillaz game though

baigy 30 minutes 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 28 minutes ago

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

vunderba 23 minutes ago

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.

idontwantthis 19 minutes ago

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

king_geedorah 11 minutes 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.

cateblanchett 49 minutes 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.

alentodorov 8 minutes ago

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

oceansky 2 hours ago

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

Klonoar 2 hours ago

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

Someone already did it awhile back.

Shalomboy 2 hours ago

Creep TV was my favorite too!!!

Gosh, what a nostalgia trip.

FlamingMoe 16 minutes ago

Who remembers postopia? Great games there as well circa 2002

WillAdams 38 minutes ago

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

ourmandave 44 minutes 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.

hoten 58 minutes 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.

alex1138 13 minutes 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

wilfredk 56 minutes ago

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

s900mhz 2 hours ago

This is awesome!

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

Klonoar 2 hours ago

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

Someone already did it awhile back.

s900mhz 27 minutes ago

Thank you!