Licensed Games Appreciation Thread - Why yes, a Scooby-Doo game is better than a Resident Evil game

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I feel like there's a big aspect of licensed game that is not talked about here, or moreso, not known at all. Browser games. Nearly every film since 2000-2015 had Flash & Unity games. You can still play these for free on Flashpoint by Blue Maxima.

Some of my childhood classics, that were basically AAA games for me.

The company behind the games below, Jereon De Cloe (deadname Sticky Studios) were basically the best in licensed browser games. I won't mention all of their games, bur I recommend checking their portfolio & searching it on Flashpoint, some are really fun to play (especially 2 of their The Hobbit games, Nickelodeon, & Kids WB section), & few are basically lost to time (Final Destination 5, Gangster Squad, TDKR: Tumbler Designer, etc.), even their mobile games like The Man from U.N.C.L.E - Mission Berlin are good.

Flash games during the 2000s were definitive kino. These games, as well as other licensed flash games from Nick, CN, Disney, Scholastic, WB, etc. were stuff I remembered playing from the early-to-mid 2000s as a kid

 

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Flash games during the 2000s were definitive kino. These games, as well as other licensed flash games from Nick, CN, Disney, Scholastic, WB, etc. were stuff I remembered playing from the early-to-mid 2000s as a kid

Yep, I remember the DBZ ones, especially the turn-based strategy/fighting game thing they had. I make it sound more complicated and cool than it actually was, but it even had multiplayer, which was neat. I liked it.

 

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Flash games during the 2000s were definitive kino. These games, as well as other licensed flash games from Nick, CN, Disney, Scholastic, WB, etc. were stuff I remembered playing from the early-to-mid 2000s as a kid

Nick & WB had some of the best stuff during 3D era. My personal favorites being:

Nick Racers Revolution 3D. This game had 22 million plays, it's the dev's pride & honor, & I get why.

Streets of Gotham. This game is the reason I know the character Wildcat exists.

Proto Bat-Bot - Battle for Gotham City. Bat-Bot is something that appears in a single episode (as far as I can remember) of Batman: The Brave & the Bold, which was made just so they could sell the toy. The game let's you customise (surprisingly a lot for a browser game) & play with Bat-Bot.

That said, CN also had some great stuff like Fusion Fall, or games from Generator Rex, Ben 10, Batman Beyond, etc. were some of the best shit to be play as a kid who was a fan (or even if you weren't a Cartoon Network fan as a kid, these games had their own merit of fun to stand on). They still are even now to an extent. I never played any Scholastic ones, tho I do remember some Disney games tho, mainly The Sorcerer Apprentice: Incredible Car Chase game, Zack & Cody ones.

The one Disney game I remember the most is the World of Cars MMO, where I tried to be F2P despite Yidsney's Jewish tactics, & the only way to earn was to collect the Cars world equivalent of drugs & peyote flowers to give to the Hippie VW Van (I think?). I played that shit to the end where they made most of the game free during the end-week of the game.

 

[el bandito loco]

my first browser games were this thing called Disney's Blast in the late 90s. I'd have to ask my mom but I believe it might have been a subscription, it was the first thing I remember logging into with an account, and it was at her office I had my own little room with a tiny kid desk and a little computer and the monitor had my login on a sticky note on it. It was like preschool educational games and then just some generic little kids games with the Mickey characters. I only remember a dunk tank game with Donald Duck and Pooh Bear coloring pages games on it.

Then I was really into this website called "postopia" in 2001/2 that was little flash games about breakfast cereals made by post lol It was games about Oreo O's , Flintstones Pebbles, and Golden Crisp and shit. Cartoon Network also had tons of Looney Tunes and Scooby Doo games I liked.

We had tons of pretty cool licensed PC games when I was little too. My dad and brother had a shit load. Ace Ventura and Beavis & Butthead point and click games like Sam & Max (also a great licensed game) those are worth checking out I went back to them recently. The Star Wars Jedi Knight series ruled, so did the Tie Fighter games. We had a flightstick joystick thing for them. Alien vs Predator Gold kicked ass. I had a few kids "Activity Center" games and I particularly liked the Superman TAS one, one of the activities was to write a newspaper article and you could print it and I wasted a shitload of paper and ink printing issues of the daily planet describing my day in kindergarten and puff pieces about how cool my Doberman was. I feel like a lot of the licensed PC games have kinda gotten lost to time though, especially in the cases where something super popular got a game and its just titled after the movie/show/book or whatever it was based on which got console games too that were totally different.

 

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All hail the Angel combustion and her warrior saint!

 

[Rekeita's Kidneys]

Both of the Riddick games were genuinely pretty damned good. I think it helped a lot that Vin Diesel was actually directly involved with the development of them both.