oldweb sideblog

here i toss old website archive screenshots, and stuff of that nature, mostly targeting geocities and old children's websites and games since those tend to be the most visually interesting. if you have any ideas or requests feel free to send an ask!

[cookiezcleard]

Hi! I’m… having a bit of a conundrum, involving a possible case of lost media. So I thought I’d reach out to people here to see their thoughts. I’d go somewhere specifically designed for lost media hunting, but TBH I feel a little nervous to. If anyone else wants to bring this to other platforms, feel free but be sure to link me to the conversation so I can read, or perhaps join in if I make a new discovery :D

To get to the point–the Thwarp! games by Teletoon don’t appear to be on Flashpoint, and are also not playable through Wayback. Or posted under their original names on any unshady flash game sites. They have all but disappeared off the face of the internet.

Here are all the images I’ve scraped together.

All these are from thumbnails. In order: Thwarp!: Escape From Gruel School (AKA just Thwarp!) Thwarp!: Pickle Panic (or Thwarp 2), Thwarp! Halloween, Thwarp: Pickle’d Pinball Thwarp! Escape From G.R.U.E.L Mountain, Thwarp! Episode 5: Camp Gruel. Call of Deli thumbnail is just a smaller version of the next image.

Images from Teletoon’s twitter circa 2014–this appears to be around the time ‘call of deli’ was launched judging by tweet contents.

From some person’s pinterest board of games.

A lucky main page got me this!

There are likely more images if you go through Wayback harder than I did, but all the game files seem to have gone poof, which is really the important part

I’ve looked up Thwarp, looked up individual game titles, there are results, but the only ones that even have the potential for gamehood are SHADY and I’m not clicking them. If anybody has more info (or preferably, a source to it that doesn’t look like it’ll give me 423827 viruses) please do message me. I know a lot of this blog is for the ~aesthetics~ but I care deeply about the media I cover. That includes obscure series of flash games like THWARP!

[cookiezcleard]

Update! New images have been located. This is just a screenshot since its made of a lotta images, but the link’s bepow to the archive page I got it off. (tumblr wouldnt let me put it in the link thing but its straight from wayback)

https://web.archive.org/web/20130727113450/http://www.teletoon.com/en/?language=en&func=php|templates/home.php|0

Still 0 luck on the game proper. Still trying here.

[cookiezcleard]

MAJOR UPDATE. I know this blog is dead, shhhh

I decided to comb through the teletoon site archive some more, and guess what I found through messing with inspect element on the game link.

https://web.archive.org/web/20151201000000*/http://www.teletoon.com/fun/games/thwarp/unrealGame.swf

It brings me to a ruffle extension page when I click, thus this form of link, but it's there. Nothing WORKS, maybe because it needed files only Teletoon had, maybe just Ruffle being Ruffle, but I FOUND it.

Boots up to display this. At least it's honest something is up.

Look at that title screen! It's the next best thing to a functioning video game!

Play freezes it and Instructions leads to a black screen, but high scores gives you a better view of the bg

And here are the credits! I'm just. Overwhelmed. Not a WORKING game, but it's there. It's there and it almost works and just seeing this much is ghhhh giving me feelings

[cookiezcleard]

May just do a post or series of posts on old Pokegod rumors if anyone would be interested? It’s a topic I’ve found quite a few Angelfire sites discussing, and while it might be one of my more research-intensive posts (I want to do it justice!) I can’t shake this fascination with them.

Will probably post no matter the interest levels, just wanting to let y’all know where my mind is at in terms of posts.

[cookiezcleard]

fun trivia: i accidentally posted this right away instead of scheduling in march when i first took this screenshot. nyway happy bday to this guy

[cookiezcleard]

good news: just found an online virtual world id never heard of thats still ongoing today i think??? their youtube is still active. found it while looking up some more obscure terms looking for content on Nickelodeon’s The Club virtual world, but it seems to have nothing to do with nickelodeon at all

bad news: 90% of the content i can find for it is in a language i do not speak in the slightest so researching this will be difficult lol. Would explain why I haven’t heard a word about it in my life though XP

[bennythejetsblog]

I’m on the look out for this lost decal myspace song titled being you, i have contacted the offical decal facebook page with no luck. if someone does find this i will pay pal you 1$ for you’re effort. Lets hope we can find this lost gem :)

[dingleberry-7708]

PLEASE help my friend with his search for being you by decal! like he said, whoever will find it will get $1 for their effort via paypal.

[cookiezcleard]

kept seeing that post abt ppl thinking default icons are bots so i updated my icon to have shutter shades and a starry halo thing n be diff colors. best of both worlds, i get my triangle pal and yall still believe im not a bot!

heres them full size, i made the edit in like 10 mins so its a biiit scuffed but its fine

[cookiezcleard]

Hi! I’m… having a bit of a conundrum, involving a possible case of lost media. So I thought I’d reach out to people here to see their thoughts. I’d go somewhere specifically designed for lost media hunting, but TBH I feel a little nervous to. If anyone else wants to bring this to other platforms, feel free but be sure to link me to the conversation so I can read, or perhaps join in if I make a new discovery :D

To get to the point–the Thwarp! games by Teletoon don’t appear to be on Flashpoint, and are also not playable through Wayback. Or posted under their original names on any unshady flash game sites. They have all but disappeared off the face of the internet.

Here are all the images I’ve scraped together.

All these are from thumbnails. In order: Thwarp!: Escape From Gruel School (AKA just Thwarp!) Thwarp!: Pickle Panic (or Thwarp 2), Thwarp! Halloween, Thwarp: Pickle’d Pinball Thwarp! Escape From G.R.U.E.L Mountain, Thwarp! Episode 5: Camp Gruel. Call of Deli thumbnail is just a smaller version of the next image.

Images from Teletoon’s twitter circa 2014–this appears to be around the time ‘call of deli’ was launched judging by tweet contents.

From some person’s pinterest board of games.

A lucky main page got me this!

There are likely more images if you go through Wayback harder than I did, but all the game files seem to have gone poof, which is really the important part

I’ve looked up Thwarp, looked up individual game titles, there are results, but the only ones that even have the potential for gamehood are SHADY and I’m not clicking them. If anybody has more info (or preferably, a source to it that doesn’t look like it’ll give me 423827 viruses) please do message me. I know a lot of this blog is for the ~aesthetics~ but I care deeply about the media I cover. That includes obscure series of flash games like THWARP!

[cookiezcleard]

Update! New images have been located. This is just a screenshot since its made of a lotta images, but the link's bepow to the archive page I got it off. (tumblr wouldnt let me put it in the link thing but its straight from wayback)

https://web.archive.org/web/20130727113450/http://www.teletoon.com/en/?language=en&func=php|templates/home.php|0

Still 0 luck on the game proper. Still trying here.

[the-n-tv]

[cookiezcleard]

[cookiezcleard]

The Yoshi Web Pet Expedition

Now, this all started during one of my journeys through a Geocities archive–Restorativland’s backup this time, if you’re curious. Oocities is fun, but you can’t see where you’re actually going. Anyways, I came across this.

It led to a Yoshi’s Story website, and after messing about with Wayback, I got to this page. Bingo.

Sadly, they needed an account–but they seem to be interactive in some way? I don’t know how that’d work. Clicking the links gets you nowhere.

I thought I remembered them getting rid of Nsider accounts in the future–but not future enough this’d be gone, I didn’t think. Maybe they somehow lifted the restriction? Wishful thinking, but worth trying. I jumped forward. Hm. Nope. It apparently had that message for MONTHS.

Huh, Pikmin food. Nice. Interesting selection of sites which also apparently had this promotion going on.

Thoroughly distracted by Pikmin, now, I detour from my promised Yoshi. Hopefully this works… I eye that ‘get flash’ message with caution. (Not photographed, but there was a quiz to go with it! The actual interactive quiz is gone, but the underlying file remains. I can’t parse the answers, but the questions are still intact.)

Shockingly, it works! No ‘get flash’ pages, bane of my existence they are.

There were also ‘movies’ for red, yellow and blue Pikmin, along with Olimar, but sadly they show up separately and give a 403 Forbidden error.

I try to see the site in the future, but get redirected to Nintendo and thusly 404′d. Sending me back to the actual point, the Yoshi. 

Sadly, going to the future there has equally disastrous results. You never will get reunited with your Yoshi. Or maybe you do, who knows. But, before I could… I was met with this. God fucking damnit. Mario taunts me with the secrets that lie beyond this screen. Before you ask, the link doesn’t work.

I sigh, unsatisfied. Guess I will have to steal that guy’s Yoshi. But I’ll give them to you, too. Enjoy your Yoshi, as I hope you have enjoyed this little aimless wander through internet history, in search of Yoshis that may never be found. I wish you well doing whatever this animation is meant to be, Yoshis. Even if nobody is around to see it.

[cookiezcleard]

Put my update on the wrong blog first-time, oops! Anyways, ty to Yoshi2000, a random Angelfire page, for having the rest! 

If there are any more yoshi webpets, they weren’t on that page, and so remain undocumented :(

[cookiezcleard]

Fun Paper Mario trivia which may be stated elsewhere but I don’t know these sorts of things: According to the 2001 website, he has a diary, containing ‘private secrets’. Sadly the contents are lost to time, as far as I’m aware. Not on Wayback, at least. Guess Bowser can keep his secrets :p 

[cookiezcleard]

The Yoshi Web Pet Expedition

Now, this all started during one of my journeys through a Geocities archive--Restorativland’s backup this time, if you’re curious. Oocities is fun, but you can’t see where you’re actually going. Anyways, I came across this.

It led to a Yoshi’s Story website, and after messing about with Wayback, I got to this page. Bingo.

Sadly, they needed an account--but they seem to be interactive in some way? I don’t know how that’d work. Clicking the links gets you nowhere.

I thought I remembered them getting rid of Nsider accounts in the future--but not future enough this’d be gone, I didn’t think. Maybe they somehow lifted the restriction? Wishful thinking, but worth trying. I jumped forward. Hm. Nope. It apparently had that message for MONTHS.

Huh, Pikmin food. Nice. Interesting selection of sites which also apparently had this promotion going on.

Thoroughly distracted by Pikmin, now, I detour from my promised Yoshi. Hopefully this works... I eye that ‘get flash’ message with caution. (Not photographed, but there was a quiz to go with it! The actual interactive quiz is gone, but the underlying file remains. I can’t parse the answers, but the questions are still intact.)

Shockingly, it works! No ‘get flash’ pages, bane of my existence they are.

There were also ‘movies’ for red, yellow and blue Pikmin, along with Olimar, but sadly they show up separately and give a 403 Forbidden error.

I try to see the site in the future, but get redirected to Nintendo and thusly 404′d. Sending me back to the actual point, the Yoshi. 

Sadly, going to the future there has equally disastrous results. You never will get reunited with your Yoshi. Or maybe you do, who knows. But, before I could... I was met with this. God fucking damnit. Mario taunts me with the secrets that lie beyond this screen. Before you ask, the link doesn’t work.

I sigh, unsatisfied. Guess I will have to steal that guy’s Yoshi. But I’ll give them to you, too. Enjoy your Yoshi, as I hope you have enjoyed this little aimless wander through internet history, in search of Yoshis that may never be found. I wish you well doing whatever this animation is meant to be, Yoshis. Even if nobody is around to see it.

[cookiezcleard]

me, totally prepared with ruffle and everything, vs the no flash warning that a website on the wayback machine keeps redirecting me to. agh

on the plus side the pic they used is good

[cookiezcleard]

Taking a look at the gameboy sites!

 Pretty basic, moderately broken. Has a link to a Pokemon site, might make a part 2 with links I find through this. Don’t get too fond of this design, it doesn’t last long.

Then there’s this design...

Which doesn’t really change for the SP.

Taking a quick detour, the Player site comes with music! Thank you so much, sites that you can TELL you have flash, instead of them just locking you out when you have Ruffle RIGHT THERE, and the only thing stopping you is actually THAT SCREEN THAT TELLS YOU TO DOWNLOAD FLASH. Agh.

Rant done. 

In 05, we have our first of a couple sites for the Micro. 

Not too fancy, but it works. There’s a WAY cooler one up ahead.

This sleek site from 06, nothin loads though lol

The Micro site has a cool intro and sound effects! Also wallpapers--I nabbed the one based off the flower :)

For some reason, there’s a nearly year-long gap in archives, the one that is there is nonfunctional. By the end it’s same as ever, so hopefully we all didn’t miss much. It stays like this until 2011, in which it begins just redirecting over to Nintendo’s site.

That was fun :D

[cookiezcleard]

A gif of all the things that come up when you hover over the top text on the 2001 Nintendo website! Gonna be poking around old gaming sites tonight >:D

[cookiezcleard]

Hi! I’m... having a bit of a conundrum, involving a possible case of lost media. So I thought I’d reach out to people here to see their thoughts. I’d go somewhere specifically designed for lost media hunting, but TBH I feel a little nervous to. If anyone else wants to bring this to other platforms, feel free but be sure to link me to the conversation so I can read, or perhaps join in if I make a new discovery :D

To get to the point--the Thwarp! games by Teletoon don’t appear to be on Flashpoint, and are also not playable through Wayback. Or posted under their original names on any unshady flash game sites. They have all but disappeared off the face of the internet.

Here are all the images I’ve scraped together.

All these are from thumbnails. In order: Thwarp!: Escape From Gruel School (AKA just Thwarp!) Thwarp!: Pickle Panic (or Thwarp 2), Thwarp! Halloween, Thwarp: Pickle’d Pinball Thwarp! Escape From G.R.U.E.L Mountain, Thwarp! Episode 5: Camp Gruel. Call of Deli thumbnail is just a smaller version of the next image.

Images from Teletoon’s twitter circa 2014--this appears to be around the time ‘call of deli’ was launched judging by tweet contents.

From some person’s pinterest board of games.

A lucky main page got me this!

There are likely more images if you go through Wayback harder than I did, but all the game files seem to have gone poof, which is really the important part

I’ve looked up Thwarp, looked up individual game titles, there are results, but the only ones that even have the potential for gamehood are SHADY and I’m not clicking them. If anybody has more info (or preferably, a source to it that doesn’t look like it’ll give me 423827 viruses) please do message me. I know a lot of this blog is for the ~aesthetics~ but I care deeply about the media I cover. That includes obscure series of flash games like THWARP!

[cookiezcleard]

Oswald: Big Diner Special, 2001

I remember playing this as a kid! :) Never actually seen Oswald, though :p