Cereal Box Games! | A Retrospective



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
2:44 – Honorable Mention – Chex Quest
3:38 – A History (continued)

4:58 – Timon & Pumbaa’s Jungle Games
5:45 – Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It’s Dark Outside
7:23 – Ultimate Yahtzee
7:51 – Clue
8:11 – Winnie the Pooh: Print Studio
8:47 – Tonka: Search & Rescue
9:25 – Boggle(?)
9:35 – Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
11:03 – Tarzan: Print Studio
11:51 – Chutes & Ladders
12:23 – Monopoly Junior
13:29 – RollerCoaster Tycoon
14:46 – Parker Brothers Classic Card Games
15:05 – Battleship: Surface Thunder
16:08 – Mr. Potato Head Activity Pack
16:40 – SpongeBob SquarePants: Operation Krabby Patty
18:28 – Scrabble
18:45 – Stuart Little 2
20:38 – RollerCoaster Tycoon 2
21:19 – Wheel of Fortune
22:10 – Atari’s 80 Classic Games in One

23:12 – Conclusion

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35 thoughts on “Cereal Box Games! | A Retrospective”

  1. Ah, the Cereal Box Hasbro games… I almost have them all since I already had some Hasbro CD ROM Games such as Monopoly Jr. – all this at the time during childhood and when I had a Microsoft Windows Computer, while others didn't either appeal to me nor just reach my attention in the past.

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  2. That cereal game were you was a natvive american and the greedy south american conquer wanting anything you had to poison him he dies think later that native american guy becomes a lawer in the future think i was in Cheerios as a disc i dont have it and they was scabble jr its around that same timeline i think

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  3. I'm pretty sure that there were box-top cereal promotions for either Coleco or Atari games waaaay before this CD-ROM stuff General Mills did, but aggravatingly I can't seem to find proof of it. I have a memory of me and my brother eating an absolute ton of Lucky Charms to send in box-tops for Burger Time I think. To this day Lucky Charms make me feel a little ill – it was a LOT of box tops. Would've been in 1984-5. Wasn't in box though, was a "cut out your boxtops and send em in" type deal. Anyone else have that memory/ did you folks run into any examples of that when researching this vid?

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  4. The Universal theme parks in California and Florida contain attractions and costumed performers based on various Nickelodeon properties, including Dora the Explorer and SpongeBob SquarePants. If the crowd audio was recorded at one of those locations, it's plausible that it includes children speaking the characters' names.

    The aforementioned parks also feature the King Kong character, which a child might mistake for Donkey Kong.

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  5. As someone who lives in Singapore, I've had memories of some pack-in CD-ROM games Nestlé would offer with their cereals back in the day. They had this promo where there were 3 CD-ROM games, and the one I picked was "Zoo Empire", which was sort of like Zoo Tycoon, but not. I believe the original launcher file was replaced with a Nestlé branded launcher, though I can't remember if I inspected the original files or not. This would've been in around 2008 or so as I remember using Windows Vista at the time. There was a promotion that happened several years earlier that involved some Disney-Pixar games.

    (4:05) If you were smart enough, you could just navigate the disc in the file browser by selecting "Open" instead of "AutoPlay" or "Autorun", and find the actual original disc menu or direct link to the installer.

    (5:52) I find it interesting that you used a photo of what I think is a CD-ROM testing station at a public library.

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