Death of a Game: Toontown Online

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[@nerdSlayerstudioss]

Hello everyone I hope you all enjoy my rendition of the death of Toontown Online. I would like to thank the community and my junior detectives for helping me in research as always, and the sources are linked in the description. Here is Toontown Rewritten, where you can play Toontown right now for free! www.toontownrewritten.com

[@ertus306]

can you do Metin2 too pls pls pls pls pls pls pls pls pls pls pls pls

[@ogtaki]

Do death of a game about the game called FREE REALMS, that was my childhood pc game in middleschool. 🥺😫

[@daveybentley9059]

Let’s see one on the other Disney mmo Pirates of the Caribbean online.

[@cosmicthing2]

Although I absolutely love this series, the only reason I don't watch every episode of it is that many of these games I've never heard of. Toon town online? Have many people heard of that? Maybe it's just me. It's very interesting and informative, I just wish I'd heard of more of the games you cover.

[@ogtaki]

Davey Bentley this was a good game too, i think they have a rewritten version now.

[@planescaped]

"You fight back against the cogs, evil businessman robots..." Odd design choice of Disney to make themselves the villains in their own game.

[@do3807]

LMAO, facts though

[@Maggerama]

I betcha they didn't even see themselves like that back then. Brands only started to seem self-aware recently, which is a dangerous thing, 'cos now they joke about being evil corporate scum to dull our senses by making us think "oh, so they're capable of reflection, surely it means that they're not that bad, since now they also have empathy and can't ignore the consequences of their evil actions without feeling ashamed". Of course they can. Edit: sorry, didn't mean to lower the laughing meter of this thread, lol

[@joshuam696]

It's just Disney Civil War is all

[@sailorellie8310]

@@Maggerama"...as Zizek provocatively pointed out, anticapitalism is widely disseminated in capitalism. Time after time, the villain in Hollywood films will turn out to be 'evil corporation'. Far from undermining capitalist realism, this gestural anti-capitalism actually reinforces it. Take Disney/Pixar's Wall-E ... What we have here is a vision of control and communication much as Jean Baudrillard understood it, in which subjugation no longer takes the form of a subordination to an extrinsic spectacle, but rather invites us to interact and participate. It seems the cinema audience itself is the object of this satire ..." Mark Fisher in Capitalist Realism, beginning of chapter 2. It sounds like you may have already read this book, but if not I am sure it would be interesting to you based on your comment.

[@Antiyoukai]

@@sailorellie8310 Is that some commie book?

[@mantisonmoon983]

I love how a mega corp owned a game thats about anti mega corp

[@BewegteBilderrahmen]

They don't call it propaganda for nothing, I guess

[@thebigpig2364]

I always assumed it was anti mega Corp because cartoons don’t need that sort of stuff. Cartoons are not in real life and they’re meant to live fun, laughable lives. These cogs, however, being robots, are about business no matter what. The only way to stop them is to destroy them.

[@sonikku956]

There are times where people working in a system try to fight back against it in subtle ways. It's been said that the Cogs were influenced by Eisner-era Disney, after all.

[@wrigglenight93]

@@sonikku956 I do think it's telling that one of the Cog subfactions was based around excessive litigation

[@biomechanicalcyber-jesus7573]

We need a rerelease nowadays…

[@ThePigKnight]

They don’t want donations because the Mouse would crucify them.

[@sesom07]

The mouse has gotten a lot nicer nowadays. They get a free trip to China and can do good for the world in donating their organs.

[@sesom07]

@@goldster100 That's actually what I wrote. I only was a bit cynical about it.

[@dramaexterminatus]

@@sesom07 Oh mr. Mouse, why are your ears so big? So I can better call the geheimpolizei, my dear

[@calzonecalvin3586]

💁‍♂️💁‍♂️💁‍♂️ RIGHTT

[@Ikcatcher]

Fun fact: The composer of Toontown Online went on to compose Metal Gear Rising Revengence

[@Oldschoolgamer13]

*RULES OF NATURE*

[@CasaiAgicap]

I mean, both Toontown's music (namely the main theme and Donald Docks theme) AND Rules of Nature are permanently burned into my skull, so that's appropriate I guess

[@GrafZ3ppelin]

I could imagine a cartoon dog approaching Senator Armstrong and then some silly shit ensues.

[@rustyshackleford5668]

@@Oldschoolgamer13 AND THEY RUN WHEN THE SUN COMES UP

[@jaxoncarter2electricboogal921]

NANOCOGS, SON!

[@mrshook145]

"Disney still considers it in beta form, although very few bugs currently exist" Damn, those were the days

[@LordProteus]

These days they release a Beta(sometimes an Alpha) and charge full price, counting on the players to do the beta testing for a fee. I remember when companies used to get dedicated professionals to test games and work out the bugs and imperfections, people who were actually focusing on finding bugs, broken or badly implemented mechanics, and so forth.

[@acewolfgang276]

I was thinking the same thing. Just look at Anthem

[@Obelion_]

i still think its hard to believe that not too long ago, the state a game shipped in was its final state and they mostly worked flawlessly

[@keechoocalzone8712]

@@LordProteus when was the turning point do you think? Fallout 76? Sonic 06?

[@wrigglenight93]

@@keechoocalzone8712 WoW's been doing this for years

[@smashingtulips]

*“very few bugs exist.”* [flashbacks to me in 2012 glitching out of the maps and floating around the playgrounds]

[@trapsrus5611]

Clipping into cog building and going outside the streets. Getting behind goofy in the gag shops. Getting under the map in Minnie's melody land. Getting above the map in Donald's dreamland. Walking underwater. Camera changing random locations during cog fights. All the glitches I can think of at the top of my head.

[@smashingtulips]

Lemon Head walking underwater was S tier shit

[@magiconic]

@@smashingtulips I always remember just being able to play the game while fully invisible

[@liamiangaming7931]

Yeah ikr.

[@calzonecalvin3586]

RIGHTT 💁‍♂️😂😂

[@Hyskaris]

As someone who was "there" during the final years of Toontown Online and was one of the first alpha testers for TTR, I did want to mention something that not everyone was quite aware of once the game was shut down. Major updates to the game halted entirely by 2008, as mentioned before. But I do believe that the developers intended to go further had there not been the shift of focus to other titles. There's an unused tunnel residing in one of the playgrounds that was theorized to be apart of some future patch. Hints and words such as "Cog Nation" plastered over boxes and sewer grates found in the headquarters of Cogs. And of course, the simple idea that the game survived as long as it did, implying that they really did want to do something more with it. The primary reason it died was the shift, I can agree. But the shift had already started long before the game actually closed. What was happening in-game, a result of the shift, only further pushed this beloved game off the edge. With the lack of effort being put into generating new content, as well as running the game on its own, more and more bots, hackers, and trolls appeared and made the game even more unbearable. There were two entire servers that, at almost any hour of any day, were full beyond their capacity, causing huge lag spikes while in those servers. However, they were the most popular, with the most EXP boost events, currency gain events, and most players doing things. Getting into the overloaded server was as easy as teleporting to your friend who was in it. Hell, there was even a third-party bot network put in each of the playground areas where you could have a bot teleport you TO the server, or any other place in game. It was used by virtually everyone that knew about it, and up until the end, that teleporting bot and any others were still running around. I myself have never worked in game development and therefore, I'm not aware of how you can even begin to fights bots like the ones in the final years of Toontown. All I know is that they were hardly acknowledged by the development team. And they were hardly fixed or covered up, either. If you look up videos of Toontown Online in its final years and you look in the background of some of those videos, I can almost guarantee you'll see bots T-posing in a tower or colored in a certain shade that didn't exist in the normal toon creator. It wasn't a rare sight to catch them. But it didn't stop them from lagging out playgrounds and being an overall nuisance of a sight. Hackers would at times "break into" your house and interrupt whatever it was you were doing. It never happened to me, but I've heard stories about people who got banned by hackers. The community was also heavily splintered at that point... There were maybe three types of players in the game by the end of the run: the hardcore end-game content players, the people that just wanted to hang out in Toon Valley and attend fashion shows/roleplay/whatever there was left to do in this game, and the new people who would quit maybe two weeks later. There were external sites used to get parties together to run boss battles, because if you couldn't get into Nutty River, the most popular server in the game, then you were never gonna find a team just waiting around. Exploits to go "shopping" were discovered in one of the boss battles of the game that involved everyone alt-F4ing out if the reward they were going to get was deemed useless. And no, there was no punishment for doing this. You had trolls that would deliberately make wrong choices in the turn-based combat that would result in getting team members attacked and "killed" (effectively the same as booted from the boss fight and sent back to a safe area). I honestly feel bad for any new players that had jumped in at the end of the cycle. This game really is dear to me and always will be. And hearing that someone's first and last experience with Toontown began and ended with the hacker-pocalypse and shut down of the game? It's saddening. And I only hope that, as time passes and Toontown Rewritten progresses, we'll have back the game we all know and love in a much improved state. They developers of TTR have shown they love this game with the effort they put into the alpha stage alone. I will never forget attending the first Cog Invasion in TTR history. I will hold that experience with me and hold it tight. As I will with all my beloved memories of this game.

[@carlygarly]

This comment gave me flashbacks for real omg

[@IceWeiss8]

You hit the nail on the head!! I always made it a thing to get into River cuz that’s where everything was happening. The amount of hackers was insane and they were EVERYWHERE. I remember anxiously waiting for cog nation to come out and I had so many theories. when they shit the game down, I was so heartbroken. I lost my toon with 127 Laff and some awesome friends. I joined TTR last year and even though I love it, it’s not the same as the original. There are much less people and no one seems to want to do the side things anymore, like cart racing, etc.

[@theLittle726]

Remember Freckleslam?

[@bauhausbrabo6201]

Actually, Disney's Toontown Online hadn't met an endgame,yet,when you beat the Bossbot HQ's CEO,it had some loose ends,implying that there would be an even higher boss in the cog hierarchy called "The Chairman".

[@AcidTNT]

Which we see if you play Toontown Corporate clash which is made by the same people who made Toontown Rewritten

[@kirbysuperstaruhh3769]

@@AcidTNT corporate clash was not made by the same people as ttr, they have nothing to do with eachother

[@jennameister]

I've played Toontown Online since I was 6 years old. I was 14 when it closed down. I'm 20 now and I still enjoy playing Toontown Rewritten from time to time.

[@kiki-lj8mq]

saaame!

[@zoebustamante9819]

Oh my were the same age and I too was and still am a huge fan lol

[@kurttheking5582]

I played it when I was 3. Still play it to this day.

[@PaigeA6741]

Still play too town rewritten too

[@NebuLPS]

same!

[@AppleBiscuits]

From the 2004 Gamasutra article, in the "What Went Wrong" section: "...As it turns out, many people today are still generally uncomfortable with the idea of buying a game that doesn't come in a box that they can hold." 15 years can change a lot...

[@c8tv1]

I never bought a game that is not physical in my life I always pirated games

[@nightfire734]

I always saw this game advertised as a kid and tried to set it up often, but the family computer had trouble running Runescape.

[@blindedjourneyman]

Aye ;-;

[@Skarwind]

I was enjoying ffxi over this. I dont regret it.

[@ToxicKeyblade]

@@Skarwind Well yeah, most other MMOs were deeper than Toontown but it was specifcally designed to be as family friendly as possible, so it kinda limited the scope of it, was still fun tho

[@victoriaisnthere]

toontown represents a time in our lives when the only responsibility we had was to do the dishes. so many nights i’d sit in front of my parent’s desktop and play this game for hours. a good time to be alive

[@vladimirlenin3942]

My pops is playing the hell out of the rewritten version. His original character's name was Pyewacket, named after a cat in the 1958 movie "Bell, Book and Candle".

[@peanutbumber2858]

I cant belive vladimir Lenin has played toontown, probably thats why its so communist.

[@screamsinrussian5773]

hah that's a reference I did not expect to hear, your da has some great taste

[@Corrupted]

I played this when I was about 8 or 9 and had extremely cloudy memories of this game, damn this is some strange nostalgia

[@theamishgoblin695]

When I was a wee lad, my grandma in an attempt to connect with me because of my love of video games wanted to play toontown with me. It had seriously helped develop the awesome relationship we have today. Somehow this has progressed from my grandma playing toontown to wizards 101, to WoW, and now she plays ESO. I owe a lot to this game.

[@VenomBlade95]

Pirates of the Caribbean Online is a MUST for the show now. FANTASTIC video as always, man. You're the Defunctland of video games.

[@NOSfusion]

"... Or maybe even 18" Son I started playing this game at 18, and now my kids and I play rewritten together.

[@estrelaplatina5711]

So they created game where player was fighting Disney itself.

[@zzcolby27]

Requested this and it's out on my birthday, damn

[@badwrongfun5541]

Happy birthday!

[@Vermbraunt]

When you are so rich that you just buy all your opposition even when their product has 7x the subscribers

[@marcclague]

Love that at least 50% of the gameplay shown was TT: Corporate Clash, when they promote TTR, lol

[@Slademon0000]

Toontown is toontown

[@cattrucker8257]

"... so basically Disney today." If I hadn't been liking your videos before, I would've put a thumbs-up just for that alone. Well-written and well-timed.

[@mayor6366]

Toontown was lucky to die a peaceful temporary death. Club Penguin Island was savagely raided to death.

[@thanos4959]

MemeMayor at least both games have been recreated

[@stargirlally]

"Very few bugs exist" Greening: I'd like to introduce myself.

[@MissMarvel_]

Toontown was a massive part of my childhood, I love to see it covered. After getting my mom to buy me a sub, she tried it out and actually no-lifed it. She got all the way up to max Laff points within a few weeks and I still hovered midway between that. It had dungeons and raids. The raids had platformer puzzles that were fun and challenging. Learning the strats of what to CC (there were CC gags, debuff gags, damage gags and healing gags) and when to use certain gags added layers of depth. As I got older, I was able to progress further into harder raids. When I finally started progressing on the last raid, they announced the shutdown. It was such a pity. The quests gave you cool temporary cosmetic rewards, like being transparent, super small, a giant head, etc. I liked keeping up the transparent buff. RIP Loopy Rainbow Dandymuffin.

[@mccookies3664]

Oh my god I’ve played this game literally my entire life. This video is giving me mad nostalgia

[@ItsIvolok]

a lego universe episode is necessary

[@SkyCaststeelNichijou]

Yesss, this was my first mmo and it was god awful

[@NOSfusion]

Why have a whole universe when they can sell you each world for $59.99?

[@TymofiiLisovychenko]

Admittedly, I like the IDEA of LUO, and it had a great Property thing going for it, but it was ultimately shallow in all the other departments, which is a pity. Toontown just sounded like a much more interesting game for me from the mechanics, which is something Lego maybe could consider if they want to do another "children's MMO". Which I hope they heckin' do and that it ain't Minifigures again.

[@ojigbo]

@@TymofiiLisovychenko They also created a "Lego Chima Online", however I only played the beta. Considering that the Lego Chima theme doesn't exist anymore, the game likely doesn't exist anymore either. Lego probably wants to forget that they even created it.

[@TooniversalStudios]

Hello! We appreciate your post about spreading the vibe of Toontown. We know it's heart breaking that Disney's Toontown Online closed, however there is many private servers out there of which, Tooniversal, Toontown Rewritten and many others are apart of to bring the community back and better then ever before. :)

[@AscendantStoic]

It's kinda ironic because Disney itself has become the evil cogs, live long enough to become the villain i guess XD

[@jeefberky9101]

I haven't seen many games with such genuine charm advertised toward kids, they usually feel artificial to anyone over 12. I felt like such a kick in the crotch for them to shut it down to focus on club penguin only to later shut down club penguin, I have so much gratitude for the people that brought it back from the dead after Disney took it down.

[@joki9121]

Holy crap, I remember when this was first announced. The commercial had kids getting zapped into toons or something right? What a trip.

[@MikeGosot4]

I find it really interesting that Disney based the game on the Studio's classic animation look and comedy instead of going with the more bombastic "brand recognition" approach it does today(Disney Infinity possibly being the best example.).

[@blisterfingers8169]

Those of us who were actually playing these games back in 2002 all called them MMOs from the very early days. I guess game journalists being out of a touch isn't a new phenomenon.

[@hahanope9858]

Hey, former mod of the biggest fansite for this game, Toontowncentral.com (now mmocentral). Site at one point was asked by Disney to be the official forum for the game, but admin staff turn it down. I think because they wanted to virtually take over the site. Played this game since 2005 up until its death. Friend of mine helped launched TTR, I was in the alpha stage testing it until I just didn't enjoy it anymore. You nailed a lot of the main issues, no updates, Disney focusing on other stuff. Big part you haven't mentioned were the trolls who would intentionally exploit glitches, plus people would refuse to work together (using a "lure" gag to not have cogs attack for several rounds unless attacked, negating your lure by using a "sound" gag that would attack all the cogs at once for very little damage.) The game was fun for a time, but lack of content killed it. Once you hit 100 health points you would start this process of collecting achievements in order to get the next 37. Many people didn't get much further than 110, with many of these achievements coming at the mercy of RNG. For example, there were huge posts compiling the percentages of where to find rare fish. Many people would take years to catch all the fish, basically causing their endgame to run on RNG. The game was very nice for the multitasker. It had a sort of mindless repetitiveness where the stakes were just high enough for you to feel good about your accomplishments. Unfortunately much of the game ended up as an endless grind, securing points in order to obtain access to a boss battle (until you were maxed). If I recall, it took 8 or so runs of 20-40 mins to collect all of these points. In boss bot hq it took maybe 2 hours to complete a single one of these runs. The adults in this game did so much great work, creating guides and walkthroughs. It was a pleasant community with a fixture of weirdos and this sort of innocence that you just dont find online anymore. Remember how it felt as a child to walk up to anyone and immediately be friends? That was the sort of thing that Toontown inspired. another note: there was an open chat where you didn't have to use the premade phrases. Called Secret Chat, where you would get a code from a friend and they could see what they were typing. Otherwise it looked like "woof woof ruff" - animal noises. Toward the end of its lifespan Disney experimented with an approved whitelist of words that you were allowed to type. As I mentioned earlier, there was a large group of hackers and exploiters of bugs. think of TT as the birthing grounds for all your favorite aim bot script kiddies who got a lot out of making people upset. It was a great game to foster interest in PC gaming for an entire generation. But I think it overstayed its welcome about five years too long.

[@drbgamez4926]

A childhood game... nice to go back and see what good memories I had with it

[@MDMDMDMDMDMDMDMDMD]

There's a big Toontown presence at a con I go to every year. It still appears to be fun for everyone from children, old ladies, cat ladies, and shut ins. I have never seen an organized gaming population that was heavier skewed towards obviously un-wed women.

[@AppleBiscuits]

Having played Rewritten plenty, most of the people I've run into were college-age guys trying to recapture the old nostalgia.

[@MDMDMDMDMDMDMDMDMD]

@@AppleBiscuits then they should show up to the in-person events. They could probably get some scarves knitted for them, a couple friendship bracelets, someone might draw them a picture of a unicorn. They'll be the studs of the con. Plus, there's usually pizza.

[@tyteen4a03]

ReplayFX? There was a ToonFest

[@MDMDMDMDMDMDMDMDMD]

@@tyteen4a03 maybe...

[@MDMDMDMDMDMDMDMDMD]

@@thegoodolddays9193 the rest of ReplayFX is significantly more entertaining

[@SmokeyEdits]

Toontown holds a special place in my heart, as my late father and I played it together when it was still out. He passed over 10 years ago, but I still like to think back to how I'd kick the shit out of him in those trolley games.

[@cashbotcfo8916]

13:19 brought back terrible memories for me at actually made me sad I remember how much this game me to me and my brothers when we where kids I grew up playing this game and it will always hold a special place in my heart and I remember how upset I was when I found out it was closing down I still have very many fond memories of the game and Im glad I got to experience it in my childhood

[@YouSodaMakeMeFeel]

I used to play Toontown Online when I was 6 years old back in 2003-2004. I remember my toon was an orange cat named Aiden. And now my toon will he forever in my heart. I miss you Toontown! We toons are still toon enough! ❤❤❤

[@Sinisterx18]

I will always remember my toon as well. He was an orange mouse named Crazy Rhinospeed. He will be forever missed.

[@mickey4336]

I love Toontown Rewritten. I'm actually playing it right now while listening to this! People really be sleeping on VMK though.

[@IkarosNeko]

Wow. You just brought up a deep memory. VMK was amazing.

[@aeukeno]

Death of a Game: Anthem ...I hope we can look forward to that at some point.

[@Skarwind]

Something that was never alive can ever die.

[@hiddencrow7907]

Just one or so months then it's dead

[@cherryblossom1460]

I remember my neighbor had a laptop in the 2000's and played Toontown frequently. I would come over and watch her play, I was so jealous.

[@samjohnson3554]

Would love to see this game rise in popularity. Servers get a little quiet outside of the afternoon-evening hours. If you're even slightly considering loading back into the toon universe, give it a shot. The game hasn't lost a beat and all content is completely free!

[@MemeRaider]

Toontown Online shutting down in 2013 basically means that the cogs won and the toons lost. There are no toons left to log on to that part of Toontown letting to cogs take over the town.

[@Tenosyn]

This hit me right in the nostalgia. Kinda sad that VMK didn't even leave a footnote in the Disney MMOs. That was my first one.

[@RexcorJ]

VMK was better than it should have been, but so worth it for the interactive and social experience. I blame the awesome backgrounds. If you haven't heard of it, try out MyVMK!

[@Master0Corvo]

Absolutely one of the best games I have ever experienced. I was even on during the final moments with my buddy :( R.I.P.

[@Jetxx]

Overall a great video, although the mix of Toontown Rewritten and Corporate Clash content is a bit misleading.

[@pawkichi]

There was a free to play toontown. I remember back when I used to play it before it shut down, you didn't have to pay the subscription but the game was very limited. You couldn't get most of the other car upgrades or race in the other cups besides the first cup in goofy speedway, you could only golf in one cup (which was the basic cup), and you couldn't get any of the more rare doodles (the pets) and you couldn't own more than one or two at most Though some of these feature restrictions could be bypassed. If you had a member host the game in golf or racing, you could play the other cups with them.

[@jonahontherun]

Damn I just found this video but as a 18 year old that grew up on this game, I really appreciate this video. It really pulled me back into the good old days and I’m so glad you redirected people to TTR. They have such a great community and have been great to me any time I want to hop back in. I haven’t in awhile but I think I know what I’m doing right after this haha.

[@thefantasticdrill788]

I just gotta say, your death of a game series is one of the best, and as a SWGL and STO player, your series is incredibly accurate and fun.

[@knightcydoniax9561]

Death of Game: Adventure Quest I remember playing this game as kid and early teen.

[@justharry2190]

its still up

[@knightcydoniax9561]

I know it’s had a bunch of spin off games over the years, but it would be more towards the original browser game. Which I think it’s long past it’s peak.

[@petemoss7704]

holy crap I just remembered THE Aurelio Voltaire had a cameo

[@petemoss7704]

in aq, not adventure quest

[@dougphisig]

Been hitting up all your death of series, and really loving it. Pretty crazy how many of this series I've actually played. I did think of one not covered that could be interesting, pretty sure it's one of the many MMO's I played that you actually haven't covered yet which is Anarchy Online could make for an interesting series I'd guess.

[@Indig3nousLif3]

Man the nostalgia from seeing this is big, used to play this all the time but stopped paying attention to ot after i gave it a break, good to see a video about its death.

[@sagittalaxis7574]

Toontown also had to compete with another Disney project, VMK, Virtual magic kingdom I believe, because there was an era where additional content came to a near grinding halt as they were trying to feed into another mmo. As I write this, there was a Pirates of the Caribbean mmo as well that screwed with the development of ToonTown.

[@smashbear9315]

Im conflicted about something...Toontown 2 was planned and the demos looked amazing with a lot of interactive things but was sadly shuttered because of Disney Infinity I really think they are both good games but im unsure if i would of rather had Toontown 2 and Toontown mobile or Disney infinity...

[@RexcorJ]

Ah, my old favorite. I'd feel pretty melancholic seeing this, but bless the folks working on Rewritten. This was my childhood, and I'm happy to see it enduring now through the hard work of talented individuals and fellow fans.

[@carlosbfly]

I just have to say, I love your videos. Even when I don't know the game you're looking at, its so entertaining and well presented.

[@NoahClevinger]

Toontown was a big part of my childhood and I'm so happy to see Rewritten is still successful.

[@frostheart88]

This game was a special part of my childhood. This may sound kinda dumb, but Toontown sort of sparked my love for cartoons and drawing. Heck, I’m aspiring to become an animator when I get older. I’ve been a part of the community since I was 9 years old, but since I’m 18 years old now, I only play Toontown Rewritten once in a while.

[@221b]

Just FYI, the game engine that Toontown Online was built on, Panda3D, is open-source, free to use and still being maintained.

[@daedriccheddar4639]

One thing I always hated about the original Toontown Online is that you couldn't say numbers with SpeedChat Plus. It mad communication difficult. It's a good thing the Rewritten staff changed that.

[@rodsmith4life]

This is always a really interesting and well done series. Credit to you for consistently releasing these, and I'm glad to see you start getting some recognition, you deserve a lot more subs.

[@Deioth]

STILL want to see a Life of a Game offshoot series covering some of the still going, still profitable old af shit, especially the stuff no one seems to have heard of. kru interactive's Nexus, Dark Ages, and Shattered Galaxy would be a great starting point for unknown still alive MMOs.

[@evilwalrus9527]

I second this. Possibly Runescape too, although I can see that already being covered to death.

[@yomejjuan]

Good video man! Watched a few older ones and there has been a lot of improvement since then! You're doing awesome bro! One thing that would be cool to see is maybe interviews with people who made the games and people who played them. You probably won't be able to reach the more famous guys, but it would be cool to see that.

[@SaiyanGamer95]

I remember really wanting to play this when I was a kid. I eventually got to, but I recall things running very slowly and choppily. It was practically unplayable. And yet, it somewhat holds a special place in my heart.

[@Sinisterx18]

I sunk so much time into this game, when it shut down I lost my main toon and never got back into it much. I did a bit in toontown rewritten, but I had mostly moved on from the game already. Will never forget my time with it though, loved playing it so much growing up.

[@gibsonbrown6878]

This video makes me want to dl toontown rewritten and multibox 4 accounts again...

[@3DRC-707]

Alright, so... I never make suggestions, but this series is near my heart, as I have played nearly every game in this playlist. So, I would like to round it out with Tabula Rasa. There was huge hype around the game, and massive pre-order box sets I spent like 150 on as a kid. Keep up the great work. Thanks

[@sirtoast4502]

I tried playing this once as a kid, but our internet was so bad the free trial ran out before the game even loaded :(

[@victoryoon8334]

Lineage 1 will always be the ultimate nostalgia trip for me.

[@HenriqueRJchiki]

Death of a game: Battleforge

[@vladimirlenin3942]

Yes.

[@GrenaGreystone]

Death of a game: mgsv chapter 3

[@ZachBlackforest]

Accursed Farms did a great video on that game.

[@roswald321]

Just something about the theme of the channel that I like, not to mention the well developed video. You have earned my subscription.

[@slurpwis]

This is my first video of yours and I love it. Dope aesthetic. Subbed.

[@gonzaajj5149]

Free realms next please! Awesome vid btw, binged all of these over summer and now I cant wait for the next each time

[@gameboyjsa]

OMG 3:50 i was 6 years old when I went to epcot in 2001 and I played that game with my sister. I thought it was sooo cool as the concept of multiple arcade machine multiplayer blew my small mind.

[@amberisrad]

i love toontown so much! such a big part of my childhood. i still play it from time to time. the commercials with the teleport holes were what got me to sign up and play lol

[@greenfox3010]

Great vid., i remember playing wizard 101 when i was younger mb you could do a video about that game? cheers!

[@pineappleprism1852]

I’m so glad you made a video on this! I love ToonTown and play TTR myself! My toon’s name is Prism/Taxi Toon and I have a blast!

[@Vartellas]

Really good video as usual, I hope to see Heroes of Newerth featured next

[@Exigentable]

I love these videos, thank you for making them.

[@MuuToo]

Hearing “endgame content” in context of ToonTown is weird

[@WazzupTTR]

I really enjoyed this video. Went into really great detail. I'm still an active player after 13 years of enjoying it.

[@cas6382]

This was my first MMO and I absolutely adored it for years until I moved on towards WoW and other games as I got older. It cultivated my lifelong love of MMOs and while I've long had my fill my sister still plays it through the 2 largest private servers that continued the development as a volunteer project to the community which is really sweet.

[@Sedward9]

Always love the intro. Keep the good videos coming

[@mystiicrose8432]

TOONTOWN REWRITTEN IS AMAZING!! I legit cried when ToonTown Online shut down. I grew up with the game so when Rewritten came out I was so happy. I'm so glad it came back, and still play it to this day!❤

[@MercurySG3M]

I played this game for a good 4 years up until it shut down in 2014. However, I had a friend from a France who was friends with the French moderator on Toontown Rewritten a Goshi, so I had that connection and managed to get a key for closed beta :D played for maybe a year before getting tired of it again. After completing everything you’re left to just grind out boss fights to get level 50 suits which I lost interest in fairly quickly. I did get to meet Charlie (the kid from the Charlies Begs to Save Toontown video in 2013) and Kong (rest in peace :( was the best toontown youtuber) and some other big names in the community during this time which was really cool, miss these days. Quality video my friend, you’ve earned a sub! :D

[@woohoorandom]

As someone who's main game was Toontown from about 2008/2009 till end, this is one of the best videos I've seen on the subject! Though there's a lot of major points that went unmentioned, (How endgame is doing the vp/cfo/cj/ceo 77 times each, with resource grinds inbetween, dunno why you mentioned how minigames were repetetive instead of that) how unbalanced sound was - especially in a game where you could not pick sound and get fucked over as a result (which especially happened to younger kids), how bad field offices were (cluttered up the streets with barely any reward, while not being useful/task required like normal buildings), how you needed to get into nutty river server to do most endgame things; which was constantly full so you had to go around begging for a ride in. But I respect that this video was more focus around landmark things early in the game's life! This video wasn't annoying/wrong like a majority of the summary videos for this game after the fact, so thanks so much for introducing more people to a very important thing to me!

[@kakkershaw]

Glad that this was included in DOAG, gives an inclusive look at the genre in full. I never knew this game existed, and now I have kids... Gives me some ideas.

[@byungbin1395]

Club Penguin being acquired by Disney is also the reason that game died... Twice (rip Club Penguin Mobile) I live in Germany, never did I see any advertisements for this game, even though it was released over here. I never played the actual game, but Toontown Rewritten makes for a genuinely good time. I kinda really need a Lego Universe Episode now, because I actually played that game and still miss it today.

[@brohogany9920]

Is it weird that toontown is probably in my top 3 mmos? You'd think that big budget epics like warhammer age of reckoning would be at the top but for some reason games like toontown and maplestory will always be the most memorable.

[@LadieMaverick]

This whole video is interesting yet funny to me in a way. I started playing toontown when I was 8-15 then now in my twenties is still a download on my laptop. I do wish there was a way to reward the people who kept it alive!

[@acetown2263]

Hitting us with this on Canadian thanksgiving, nice. Cant wait to eat then watch this and probably end up re-installing toontown rewritten ❤

[@mattfahringer148]

odnom Canada isn’t real

[@taylorwinslette8252]

Holy crap just listening to that music brought back so many memories from when I was a kid

[@darrenellis7442]

This is legit my childhood. No game in the world will ever be as good as toontown.

[@Ghoffman91]

I tried to play this as a kid when it first came out, but when you live deep in the rural country with a dial up connection, playing an online game just wasn't possible.

[@Kdenight]

The Game mechanics are amazing loved every time I got to go in a building with people to raid so effortlessly to have fun and enjoy the taking down of a cog.

[@DeusExDraconian]

Never even played it, but seeing how often I saw little niche threads pop up to talk about it, I felt as though I had lost something when it died.

[@yuripantyhose4973]

So the game was about fighting Cathleen Kennedy and everything wrong with corporations today? Sure they didn't pull the plug because the game was a reflection of what Disney had become?

[@braydenyonts3758]

Agh!!! So much time spent in this game. It's overwhelming to even think about it..