Cartoon Network Flash Games
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darkmarmot
4 hours ago
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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!
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rafabulsing
19 minutes ago
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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 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!

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pgporada
4 hours ago
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If you made the adventure one with the Power Puff Girls, Dexter, Cow & Chicken, etc then thank you.
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marklar423
1 hour ago
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Something about a pool party? I remember that one
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honeycrispy
58 minutes ago
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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.

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mattbruv
48 minutes ago
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I made this port, thanks for sharing it! The reason this game doesn't appear in the original list is because it was made in Shockwave, not Flash. I'm curious if there is any kind of emulator for Shockwave being worked on like what Ruffle is for Flash.
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honeycrispy
44 minutes ago
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Thank you for bringing back a piece of my childhood!
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giancarlostoro
3 hours ago
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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.
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Klonoar
4 hours ago
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Did you by chance work on Cartoon Orbit?
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jjice
2 hours ago
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Please tell which ones! I be lots of great memories of the late aughts and CN flash games
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gaudystead
3 hours ago
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From someone who likely played your work in my younger years, thank you for it!
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oceansky
4 hours ago
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Thanks for all your work!
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Moomoomoo309
31 minutes ago
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If anyone wants to see more of these flash games, check out the Flashpoint archive.

https://flashpointarchive.org/

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cateblanchett
3 hours ago
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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.

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

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

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helterskelter
3 hours ago
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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)

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dole
3 hours ago
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helterskelter
3 hours ago
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Omg thank you, this is giving me flashbacks.
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baigy
3 hours ago
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No but, this reminds me of gorilla.bas (basic). If you remember THAT, that's something. My first ever game, written in basic :-)
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noumenon1111
3 hours ago
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QBasic Gorillas was poggers, but I'm more of a Nibbles guy myself
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vunderba
3 hours ago
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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.
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amarant
3 hours ago
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Netsend! I almost wonder if we were classmates!

I have unfortunately forgotten the gorillaz game though

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idontwantthis
3 hours ago
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Yes that was one of those bizarrely high tech experiences back then.
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saarons
3 hours ago
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If anyone remembers gToons from Cartoon Orbit there's also this: https://gtoons.app
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willmeyers
3 hours ago
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This is incredible. Thank you for sharing this. I played Orbit so much.
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gavinray
2 hours ago
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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

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cootsnuck
1 hour ago
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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

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pgoggijr
2 hours ago
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I loved that Dragonball Z game so much. Would love to play it again to see if it’s anything like I remember!
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arionmiles
3 hours ago
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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.

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rightbyte
40 minutes ago
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> 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.

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ikesau
3 hours ago
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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)

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Pikamander2
1 hour ago
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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)

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roflchoppa
42 minutes ago
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There was also https://www.coffeebreakarcade.com/ !

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

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tofuturkey2600
3 hours ago
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Flash games on CN, Miniclip, and Mofunzone kept young me very entertained. Love to see this.
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roflchoppa
43 minutes ago
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Miniclip had a roller-blade-ninja game that I've been trying to find for years. :(
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hoten
3 hours ago
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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.

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gavinray
2 hours ago
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hoten
2 hours ago
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That's the one, thanks!
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Night_Thastus
1 hour ago
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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.
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oceansky
4 hours ago
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Where's Courage the Cowardly Dog: Creep TV and Summer Resort? Those were the best ones.
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Klonoar
4 hours ago
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https://mattbruv.github.io/ccsr/

Someone already did it awhile back.

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clarle
2 hours ago
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So much nostalgia on Cartoon Cartoon Summer Resort. That was how I got into adventure games in the first place.
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Shalomboy
4 hours ago
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Creep TV was my favorite too!!!

Gosh, what a nostalgia trip.

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Dwedit
1 hour ago
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I guess the Adult Swim games like "Robot Unicorn Attack" don't count here?
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Soulsbane
1 hour ago
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Oh man that's nostalgia! I got interested in Anime because of DBZ airing on Cartoon Network.
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axus
2 hours ago
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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 :)
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switchers
2 hours ago
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Ruffle doing ruffle stuff, I'd be surprised if the original didn't work.
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onlytue
2 hours ago
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Wild to see this.

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

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notaustinpowers
2 hours ago
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Praying for Teen Titans Battle Blitz to be listed here at some point. The version on the Internet Archive is broken unfortunately.
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susrev
1 hour ago
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man.. these are like some of the first games I actually remember playing as a kid
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susrev
1 hour ago
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king_geedorah
2 hours ago
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It's just nostalgia I'm sure but, damn if these didn't coincide with the peak era of the web as a user.
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antdke
2 hours ago
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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.

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ourmandave
3 hours ago
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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.

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wilfredk
3 hours ago
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I am looking for the DBZ one from back in the day...
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WillAdams
3 hours ago
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I really wish someone would bring back _Bembo's Zoo_, ideally by translating it to scripted HTML5 or animated SVG....
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FlamingMoe
3 hours ago
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Who remembers postopia? Great games there as well circa 2002
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alentodorov
2 hours ago
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i remember mailing webmaster@cartoonnetwork.co.uk asking them what “sourcery” have they used to allow for zoom-in on a website.
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s900mhz
4 hours ago
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This is awesome!

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

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Klonoar
4 hours ago
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https://mattbruv.github.io/ccsr/

Someone already did it awhile back.

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s900mhz
3 hours ago
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Thank you!
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saos
2 hours ago
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well this brings back memories! Thank you
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alex1138
3 hours ago
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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

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xiaod
54 minutes ago
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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?
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mattbruv
44 minutes ago
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When GPT gets its threads mixed up
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