Cereal Box Games! | A Retrospective
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
- Remember when you could get a computer game free inside specially marked boxes of General Mills cereal? Let's recollect on the memories, learn a bit about the promotion and install some classics!
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0:00 - A History
3:08 - Timon & Pumbaa's Jungle Games
3:55 - Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside
4:48 - Ultimate Yahtzee
5:15 - Clue
5:29 - Winnie the Pooh: Print Studio
5:38 - Tonka: Search & Rescue
6:18 - Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
7:22 - Tarzan: Print Studio
7:47 - Chutes & Ladders
8:20 - Monopoly Junior
9:24 - RollerCoaster Tycoon
10:34 - Parker Brothers Classic Card Games
10:53 - Battleship: Surface Thunder
11:41 - Mr. Potato Head Activity Pack
12:12 - SpongeBob SquarePants: Operation Krabby Patty
13:53 - Stuart Little 2
15:20 - RollerCoaster Tycoon 2
15:55 - Wheel of Fortune
16:22 - Atari's 80 Classic Games in One
17:24 - Conclusion
Outro Music: Launch Base Rearranged - Savaged Regime
Background Music:
Who Likes to Party - Kevin MacLeod
Hey Sexy Lady (Instrumental) - iSQUARE
#generalmills #cerealtoy #retrogames 
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Man, RollerCoaster Tycoon from a cereal box is perhaps one of the best things to ever be put in a cereal box. It's one of the greatest PC games of all time. And they put it in a cereal box.
I got mine from Carl’s Juniors happy meal back in 2003
😭😭😭
Played RCT2, RCT3 skipped the shitty 4th game as well as all these crappy mobile phone iterations (not including the RCT classic and RCT 3 mobile phone versions as they are basically the same PC game but now playable in phones)
Then came the amazing ‘Planet coaster’.
Apparently, Age of Empires II was also in a cereal box at one point.
@@seanmyster6 yeah in Australia we got it in kellogs boxes
I have a general mils copy its the best! full game in a cereal box!
you should get openrct2 you can play both rct1 and rct2 as long as you have the original copies, and you can play online, it is free and you should download it.
this video made me realize that 90% of the computer games i had as a kid came from cereal boxes.....
Same, It feels so wierd
i have a cd wallet full of them and ps1 demo discs
@@jackcarter9081you don't know how lucky you are to have them all
i had no idea they were so cheap, I seem to remember spending dozens of hours on each of these... great value lol
My favorite as a kid was the weird Operation game. The Tonka rescue one was pretty classic too.
I wanted to try out the Operation game
i had those too but i never knew they were cereal games till now
oh weird. Hey Claw Dad.
Oh hey you know FrameBrater?
Hell, I grew up with Chex Quest, I thought Papa Claw was older.
This was the best part of being a kid in the 2000's I remember getting Rollercoaster Tycoon 1 and 2 in a box of cereal and I played it for hours!
I knew of a few on here but had no idea there were so many cereal games. Still crazy to think these were all full games as well!
4:43
Yo Mister Mario thank you for helping me with PS Vita CFW ;)
0:42 Imagine you didn't know about this and all of a sudden there's a full size rifle in your kid's cereal.
As a Canadian, Pyjama Sam was my introduction to video games.
That and Freddi Fish for me (also the games that made me learn english)
@@MrCed122 Une Canadienne Français?
@@Xavious061 Un Canadien Français
@@MrCed122 touché
as an american, same
Every aussie kid from the early 2000s remembers getting age of empires on nutrigrain boxes
I remember once getting a PC copy of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 in my box of Nutri-Grain.
there was a captain crunch computer game that came in a box, it was one of the ones i genuinely got addicted to.
Cap'n Crunch's Crunchling Adventure. A true kino classic.
Happy to see i’m not the only one who remembers that Captain Crunch game.
back in the day, the home computer couldn't handle the game so the captain would often repeat himself or there was bad lag. he would say before we get started several times... but my brother and I still liked playing it
Wow I remember that one. I loved that game.
I was about to comment on this game !
The Game of Life was my favourite one. This video made me realize how many of these I had as a kid and played lol
Game of life was the best me and my sister would always play together haha
If you liked Putt-Putt and Pajama Sam as a kid, you need to check out the other games Ron Gilbert has made. Secret of Monkey Island, Monkey Island 2, Maniac Mansion, and Thimbleweed Park.
spy fox too! it was made by the same people who made pajama sam but it was made for the slightly older demographic and it's still pretty entertaining even as an adult
Dude you're shitting me I didn't know ron Gilbert made monkey island 1 and 2!
Also, Gilbert gave the world Deathspank-- hands down one of the FUNNIEST games I have ever played. I laughed more with Deathspank than I did with Portal 2.
Yet, you never hear much of anyone talk about Deathspank. It's like a lost gem. But those who know? They know how funny it is.
Ah nostalgia, I loved Rollercoaster Tycoon 1 and 2 and the Tonka games
That Tonka one brings back so much memories. I loved that one.
Anybody remember getting backyard baseball from one of these promotions? I had a ton of fun with that one
Pajama Sam is one of those games that I didn't even remember that I remembered it.....
You can get it on the apple store
Freddi fish and the ispy games
Every humongous entertainment game was my childhood, haha, every single one of those pajama Sam cut scenes brought back memories I forgot I had
Even though it was not covered in this video, Lego Creator was the bomb!! I remember playing it for hours when I was a kid. I also remember getting Amazon Trail in a General Mills box. Great video!
wow, Amazon Trail. For years I tried to recall the name of that game and this is the first time I've seen in mentioned
Who Wants to be a Millionaire was developed by the same people who make You Don't Know Jack and the Jackbox Party Packs
That explains Regis’ attitude
Really? I knew they made an Austin Powers trivia game but not this, but that's cool
You Don't Know Jack was a classic. I just wish the Jackbox Party Packs weren't local multiplayer only. Even Use Your Words worked around that limitation, and that was a crowdfunded indie game.
@@Cyberbrickmaster1986 It's meant to be streamed over twitch, zoom, or discord
@@Pendarr yeah, totally a copy of Cookie
"Ooooh! Don't put the dirt there~!" was a running joke among the family.
I remember so many of these games from my childhood and never knew they came from cereal boxes
I always wondered how Roller Coaster Tycoon ended up in my house back then.
Same
Roller coaster tycoon from a cereal box is one of the greatest games from my childhood
Winnie the Pooh “Forget 9/11”
That gave me a laugh
yeah your right, move over 9\11 the 2016 US presidential eleccion is the new never forget
pajama sam, freddie fish, and roller coaster tycoon were my childhood
also the pooh’s print centre opened up some memories for me lol and chutes & ladders OMG
I fondly remember the day I found a copy of Rollercoaster Tycoon in a cereal box. One of the greatest moments of my childhood!
Chex Quest was my introduction to DOOM. It was also how my cousin found out she had epilepsy!
The Candyland game was my favorite!! I'm so glad I got this video in my recommended. I loved playing these types of games as a kid.
I remember playing Clue with my mom and Roller Coaster Tycoon with my dad and sister on the family computer. Life was so simple back then
The Clue game was fire! Slightly traumatized by Mrs. White using the rope from Mr. Body's POV. You straight up watched her hang someone lol.
Also, fun fact: Pajama Sam used to be voiced by Bobby Hill
This is what I get for sitting on ideas too long, other people end up making videos that are better than anything I could do. Good job on this!
Pajama Sam came from a cereal box? Man, that was my favorite game as a kid
You could also buy it and there were different sequels/games.
The nostalgia punched me in the gut
Nice. Putt Putt Goes To The Moon was my first game ever.
I remembered first playing it as a young kid and was stuck for over an hour in the part where putt-putt was stuck on some mud pit having no idea what to do and was pressing almost everything a million times until I figured out all I had to do was press the horn.
As soon as I saw that menu for Tonka Search and Rescue I was transported 20 years into the past
well the great thing about reddit is that there's ones where people either give away steam keys or link a game that got majorly discounted to 100% off
Great video, I have always had a weird love for food based promotional games!
I actually got my copy of RCT1 from Tostito's Frozen Pizza after mailing in 5 UPCs and I think it was years before it was in the cereal boxes. And also there actually were some Taco Bell games that were given away on floppy disk, I still have a couple of them.
It's a shame you didn't mention Ultimate Yahtzee's banging soundtrack
I love the paint theme from that soundtrack
18:05 That scene alone has been reposted to Instagram
It's gained a lot of traction since then
Still playing roller coaster tycoon to this day. Absolutely love it!
I can't believe it took me until this video to realize Stuart Little was voiced by Michael J Fox.
I eventually found that out before seeing the first movie. What I didn't know was that George was played by one of the twins from The Suite Life. I don't know which one it was, or if it was both like the Olsen twins in Full House.
Bigger surprise for me was when I found out the first movie was written by M. Night Shammalon of all people.
@@brandonlyon730 No surprise why they didn't ask him to do the sequel. Though, it's already surprising how the guy keeps getting work when he's always screwing films up, ever since the ego got to him because of the success of his early work.
Before he developed Parkinson's disease
@@Cyberbrickmaster1986 He wasn't played by one of those twins. He was played by Jonathan Lipnicki
Why does “Spongebob Operation Krabby Patty” look like Spongebob in Tehran
I still think about how fun some of these games were! They did DVDs for a while too. I had a few Muppets movies from cereal boxes that I watched so much they don't work anymore lol
I remember getting 2 CDs from General Mills. One of them was Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, and the other was a Carmen Sandiego game. They also included a service from Lightdog as seen on 1:25.
You’re missing out on an amazing game by not playing Zoo Tycoon 2. Probably my favorite game
At the time maybe, but now there's no reason to play it if you don't have the nostalgia over planet zoo
@@chemax79 that’s your opinion 🤷♀️
@@chemax79 Zoo Tycoon just like Rollercoaster Tycoon are true tycoon games, While Planet Zoo and Planet Coaster were more like management games. Both have their place but i prefer the Tycoon style
I loved when General Mills did this! It was one of those things that made going to the store a lot more exciting, and not only did I end up with games I never would have otherwise owned, what you said was also a great point -- I got to try cereals I otherwise never got to have.
It kind of figures a lot of board game adaptations were a part of this -- Hasbro Interactive was one of the big contributors to this and being the electronic entertainment division of Hasbro toys, their catalog consisted of a lot of such things. Plus, it's hard to argue against how universal the name recognition is with board games.
Oh, and as for that baseball bat click point you were confused by -- believe it or not, if you click on the baseball next to it shortly afterwards, you initiate a really small activity where you have to try to swing at the ball. They were clever about having click points occasionally work together like that!
Man, thanks for doing this video. Brings me back to doing farm work at my grandparents' house during the summers with my cousins when we were kids. We'd go to the grocery store once a month and and these PC games in our cereal were our entertainment for those months besides local TV.
I played and loved most of these. Monopoly Jr, Roller Coaster Tycoon, Tonka Rescue and Pajama Sam are huge parts of my childhood. Fantastic video!
Thank you sir, you have unlocked some DEEP hidden memories for me
A pleasant nostalgia trip!
I especially remember the Stuart Little 2 game being a fun time-waster while the Clue game creeped me out
I remember loving the crunch berry game that came with captain crunch. My brother and I would play that for hours.
6:06, his comic book hero is called Pajama Man, so Sam calls himself Pajama Sam. I used to love these Humongous Entertainment games. They've remastered them for both mobile and steam now too.
There was another game produced by General Mills called Big G All Star Baseball, basically a baseball game with the general mills mascots vs real baseball teams.
It's Not Only Just General Mills Brand Cereals But It's Also Kellogg's Brand Cereals Post Brand Cereals And Quacker Brand Cereals That Have Done And Still Do And Will Keep Doing The Prize Tie Ins With Their Cereals
Rollercoaster Tycoon 1&2 are truly a masterpieces. They were a few steps ahead of the other games, it's just insane to think how they were coded in X86 Assembly by a single madman. The spongebob game was also pretty fun
Just spent 9 hours in Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 with my brother. We saw it on steam and we remembered we used to play it (and the original) as kids. We probably got it from this. I vividly remember "Dora Dora Dora Spongebob" and "donkey kong" (But I always heard "Lose control") Good times.
Omg I remember that cursed Spongebob game! Couple months ago I tried to google it but couldn't find it! Totally forgot it was a cereal box game 😂 that video brought back a lot of memories thank you :)
Watching how he grabs the CDs makes me nervous
Wow the nostalgia...I remember each and every one of these, especially Pajama Sam. Thanks for a great blast from the past!
Ah man, this brings back so many good memories! I loved Timon & Pumba's Jungle games as a kid and didn't really ever get bored of it too quickly. We also had Sorry! (my brothers and I always found the voices & animations highly entertaining) and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. That one was more frustrating to play as a young kid because we didn't have the knowledge to get very far in the game. We also had the Mr. Potato Head activity pack, fun enough for my younger brother. And then we get to Roller Coaster Tycoon - which led to hours upon hours of fun, as well as some tears because we would fight over who got to play. We ended up buying the Expansion packs for RCT 1 & 2, and we also got RCT 3 when it came out years later. Best fun I've ever had. I would love to back and play the original RCT, and would probably spend far too much time creating my dream park at Arid Heights.
Shantae dancing in the outro
ah yes I see FrameRater is a man of culture
I remember demos were popular too, i still got the Rayman 3 demos from opening frosties back then.
I loved the Stuart little game so much as a kid, the drain escape was my favourite level. 8 felt so smart when I solved it
" *Cap'n Crunch's Crunchling Adventure* " was just for the promotion as well.
It was a finished game that was fun and replayable. You raised a Crunchling, feeding and playing stages, not like a Gigapet type pet game though.
It was genuinely fun and I immediately found others excited remembering enjoying it in the comments, so I thought I'd point out that it was just for the promotion.
5:28 Hey, it’s Puyo Puyo many years before Puyo Puyo became big. Even before Puyo Pop Fever, too.
No. Puyo Puyo was originally released in 1991. This game was around 1995. Puyo Puyo may have borrowed ideas from Tetris and Dr. Mario but there is no way they were inspired by a Disney game. Surprise: Disney borrowed its ideas from others, plopped a couple popular mascots on it, and sold out.....
@@mrp4242 I was referring to this game using Puyo Puyo mechanics before it became popular over here.
Puyo Puyo was gettting traction in Japan when this game came out, so the devs behind this game could've seen the potential craze coming and added this mode in the game.
Also, this was after Mean Bean Machine & Kirby's Avalanche, which were also Puyo Puyo, but with different names and with classic characters like Arle, Dark Prince, Rulue, and Schezo replaced with generic robots, including Grounder and Scratcher in the former, and classic Kirby allies and enemies in the latter.
Considering how much I played Mean Bean Machine as a kid, how I never made that comparison is beyond me
I use to watch the cutscenes for that spongebob game all the time as a kid , and I found then super hilarious.
I only had the two Roller Coaster Tycoon games. Best cereal promotional games ever. I was introduced to the games by a friend who also got them through cereal promotions lol. Fell in love immediately.
Big G All Stars was a baseball game that was one that was mailed out. It was a baseball game that you played with the general Mills mascots.
So much nostalgia!! Thank you!!
8:13 I have a similar legend about destroying our old family computer by installing Lego Racers 2 as a kid, so maybe that really did happen.
Also, seeing that Tonka game again brought back some deep forgotten memories, wow!
at 13:02 the duck sound is heard in a POP Cap game it's insaquarium deluxe
Anyone else remember the Treasure Planet disc? "Eat my solar crystals!". Loved that game. I'll never forget that line, either!
18:45 Oh hey, a game I actually played! Not from a cereal though, we actually bought it. It was fully translated to Russian. Finished it in a single hour, but had fun.
Stuart Little 2 is still my favourite movie of all time, which is why we bought the game in the first place. Monty, Snowbell's cat friend, is my favourite character.
PS1 Stuart Little 2 is actually a fun little 3D collectathon. PS2 Stuart Little 3 has absolutely nothing to do with the movie Stuart Little 3, which is actually a feature length release of the Stuart Little animated series with the same art style.
The movie is about a trip to summer camp, while the game is about restoring a ruined photo album by taking all of the pictures again. The movie is a bit boring, but I like where it goes near the end once the main antagonist shows up, still the animated series was better, with the short episode length it gets to the interesting parts quicker, while the game has no real story, just a set of locations to explore and minigames to play.
Interesting fact: in the second level, the park, in the pond you can swim into a little sewer area, and I swear the music in there sounds like the main menu theme of Shadow the Hedgehog! As a kid, it felt like my favourite movie and favourite game were connected! Can you imagine Stuart Little and Sonic the hedgehog crossover?
Now that I think about it, Stuart Little 2 and Banjo-Kazooie are likely to blame for my love of birds...
the reason Infogrammes is so present in these promotions is because they were the main European studio on board with the promotions, a big market for AOL and General Mills
I have so much fond memories from most of these cereal box cd games as a kid, especially RollerCoaster Tycoon and RCT2. :)
Chutes and Ladders, Stuart Little 2, and Roller Coaster Tycoon were my introduction to PC gaming. The Nostalgia was real in this one.
i remember this weird captain crunch cereal game, i wonder if that one is still floating around the internet
Cap'n Crunch's Crunchling Adventure
Yes, there are several sites including Abandonware that have it available.
_insert Jontron reference here_
Shoutouts to all my other Aussies who got Pac-Man Adventures in Time in a box of LCMs.
I had the majority of these, forgot about most of them, you brought back some memories here
There was a cereal game from captain crunch where you had to train these little hairy guys by skateboarding and stuff. i have been searching for years for it, hoped i would find it here.
I remember having one that was a ripoff of breakout but rio themed (the movie about the blue bird)
Stuart Little 2 is also on PS1 and it's a far better game. It's a 3D collectathon and I remember it being pretty fun.
One thing to note about these Cereal Box games is that they were slightly more expensive than buying the cereal without the game inside (at least in Canada). I know this because my mother would constantly tell that when I was younger.
Also, Roller Coaster Tycoon 1 & 2 were put in more cereal boxes than the other games. I would see that game everywhere in the cereal isle.
I played a ton of the Yahtzee as a kid. There’s a Battle Yahtzee mode where you can use the funky physics to retool your opponent’s dice before they pick their score. As someone who enjoys Yahtzee the variations were always fun. You can also play it without the disc, albeit without music. I also had the retail version of The Who Wants to Be the Millionaire and the Atari 80 games collection and have pretty fond memories of them too. The Atari’s extras menu also has a prototype of Tempest for the 2600.
Later on General Mills began including DVDs that have a kids movie or a few episodes of a kid’s show along with some small flash style games. Also a good pickup with your breakfast
The only promo toy that has honestly had the best use was the plastic whistle from the crackerjack boxes because it allowed you to make free long distance calls. (Aka freaking)
Only in America would you find a full-sized rifle in the bottom of a cereal box :D
Only at the time would they give toy versions of real life guns to children.
Holy shit, you just unlocked my memories of that Chutes and Ladders game and Monopoly Jr game. For some reason I always loved the Circus level of Chutes and Ladders
In Australia (and apparently New Zealand too) if you bought a box of Kellogg's Nutri-Grain in 2002 you'd get the full-version of... AGE OF EMPIRES! That's how a lot of my friends got into the game.
Rich Uncle Pennybags has had tons of voice actors and none of them fit the character.
Monopoly Junior and Monopoly 2002 had different voice actors between the US and UK versions. I'm Australian, so I was more familiar with the UK voice of Mr. Monopoly in those games. Though I did play the demo of Monopoly 2002 a long time ago, and that was based on the US version.
dude I swear these cereal games were packed with viruses, or maybe I was just a dumb kid, but I vividly remember ads
Maybe you're computer already had a virus before hand....imagine the backlash if the CDs actually had viruses
Ads aren't necessarily viruses, usually a virus would do a lot worse than displaying ads. But yes in the early 2000s the lines between malware, adware and even copy protection methods were blurrying.
ive heard dora dora dora ... spongebob for years.... reminds me of the great background voices of so many games. by great i mean wildly interpreted as something else that drives you to madness
if I remember correctly, the Mr Potato Head game also allowed you to print off cutout Mr Potato Head parts that could be used on a real Mr Potato Head toy
I have to thank you because this video helped me find a game I had been looking for for YEARS.
What game is that?
I loved playing Backyard Baseball that I got from a cereal box. Might have to reinstall that one.
Tonka Search and Rescue just awakened some real deep memories I didn't even know I had
I love the Humongous Entertainment games. They are forever golden! And love the Hasbro Tonka games. Search and Rescue was great, especially growing up in a first responder family and being a fireman ya self.
Honestly... these were basically 90% of the video games I had growing up. We didn't have a console, just a computer, and my parents didn't buy us a lot of games, but they did buy us a lot of cereal!! My favourite was the game of life. That board game was perfect for letting me, my brother, and my sister play together. The worst was the print centres because we didn't have a printer...
On your Roller coaster tycoon "Dora Dora Dora, Songebob" and "Donkey Kong" crowd bit. Im already with ya pal. I could never unhear that after I picked up the loop
This video has unlocked some deeply buried memories.
This brought back a whole ton of memories of Timon & Pumbaa's Jungle Games (Jungle Pinball was actually pretty good, at least as a child), and I had no idea it was a cereal box release (yeah, I know it was released independently, but I don't doubt that's where I got it given my parents' love of the bargain, so I doubt they would have got it if not there)
I really enjoyed this video, well made, and very entertaining!