This is somewhat of an obscure article topic, but I was thinking about these recently and wanted to give my review on these three rare online video games. All of these are sadly no longer available in an officially licensed way online, but they can still be found on the Internet. Two of the games, however, only have part of the game available now even on these non-officially licensed sites. Do you guys remember this game? This one came out right after the Goblin King film did, and was genuinely challenging to get through. The game had five levels, where you had to navigate the skies as either Scooby-Doo or Shaggy on a witch's broom. Along the way, you had to avoid three types of goblins flying in the air. The first type is Glum (the skinny goblin) from the movie. The Glum Goblins have no powers whatsoever, they just fly in the air blocking your path, and give you 100 points. The second type is Glob (the heavier set goblin from the movie), which are worth 200 points. Part of the game is shooting these goblins out of the sky so you can get through, so you can shoot with multiple different kinds of pumpkins. Type 1 is just a regular pumpkin, type 2 is a giant pumpkin that takes longer to throw, and type 3 is two small pumpkins thrown in different directions. With the Glob goblins, you have to hit them twice to be able to knock them out of the sky. Hitting them once does nothing. All other goblins only need to be hit once to be defeated. The final goblin type is worth 150 points, and the most difficult in my opinion. This goblin is the type from the movie that shot the cannon to knock the broomstick out of the sky. The third goblin type throws pumpkins at you while going by, which makes it more difficult to avoid. As I mentioned before, there are five levels. Each level gets increasingly more difficult. Four and five are the toughest. Level 4 is pretty tough especially at the end, when there's a whole line of the third goblin type which shoots pumpkins at you, and you have to rapidly knock them all out of the sky at once to get past. While playing these games a few times again for this article, I always lost 2 out of my 3 lives before finally being able to get through with one life remaining. This didn't leave me enough lives to get through the 5th level, where you have to defeat The Amazing Krudsky at the end. I know I have beaten in the past, however. What I really love about this game is that you can tell how much love is put into it. There's so much cool detail, the backgrounds are immaculate, and you also get to choose your broom parts (which are unlocked throughout the game) out of 15 different options. You're given 6 broom parts at the beginning of the game, but you can unlock broom parts during the bonus round after each level, in which you try to collect as much candy as possible before the time runs out without falling off your broom. I really wish this game would come back some day! It was a genuinely very cool and challenging game. You can play the game here, but you MUST have Adobe Flash Player for it to work. This game was released with the Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare film. In 2010, the running game Temple Run was just taking off, in which you must run from a monster chasing you. This theme fit perfectly with Scooby-Doo, so naturally they adapted it with the three Camp Scare monsters. The game is pretty straightforward, you have to run from the monster and collect snacks, while dodging obstacles. If you hit too many obstacles, the monster catches you and the game is over. You have only one life in this game, and once you've lost it, the game ends. I honestly have no idea how many levels this game has. The format of the game is that the first level villain is the Woodsman, the second level is the Fishman and the third level is the Spectre of Shadow Canyon. Each level takes place in the villain's respective habit (camp, lake, and Shadow Canyon). Once you finish those first three levels, the cycle continues to repeat (i.e. Woodsman level 4, Fishman level 5, Spectre level 6, Woodsman level 7 and it continues). I've made it up to level 53 (a Fishman level), but I couldn't make it past that. I have no idea how many levels there are, as 53 seems like a lot! The challenging part in this game, is once you collect 5 snacks, the game goes into hyper-speed. While this is good for getting away from the monster, it gets very hard to navigate the obstacles. If you hit an obstacle, the monster gets closer and the game goes back to regular speed. Once you get into the 30s and 40s of the levels, the gang speeds up so much that it becomes nearly impossible to navigate. So, an interesting twist is that you actually have to avoid the snacks towards the end so you can control Scooby and Shaggy, and still win the game. Don't ask me how Scooby and Shaggy are able to run on water this game. Unless they've become Jesus, haha. Though Shaggy is an all-powerful being supposedly, so maybe that's it lol. You can play this game here (Flash Player is needed again for it to work). I mentioned earlier that some of the games are missing a piece, and that is unfortunately present in this one. In the original game when it was still on the WB site, you could enter in a code "Camp86" which unlocked a secret fourth level where you had to run away from the tidal wave destroying the camp. The game's level cycle would shift accordingly, and the secret tidal wave level would repeat every four levels (i.e. Level 1 Woodsman, Level 2 Fishman, Level 3 Spectre, Level 4 Tidal Wave, Level 5 Woodsman, Level 6 Fishman, etc.). Sadly, this was not carried over, and the code doesn't work on any of the non-official sites. It's still a fun game though, and it generally makes you want to get as far as you can. Here's hoping I'll beat level 53 someday, haha. The final game is Scooby-Doo's Magic Mystery Mansion, which has sadly been pretty mutilated in being migrated over to non-WB sites. This was another genuinely fun and challenging adventure game that was posted on the WB site with the release of the Abracadabra Doo film, but was removed a while ago. Currently, the game only has the first level intact now. The game involves finding an object (or several) to trap the monster from Abracadabra Doo. You have to search the mansion for the magic object, avoiding the monster(s) along the way, then once you find the object, you can capture the monsters in the castle. The first level is very easy, you have to find a magic wand and capture the lion. There are only two floors you have to navigate. After this, none of the other levels work on their current less-than-legal versions. Every site I checked just gives you a "loading" page and then it never loads. But luckily I do remember the other levels, so I'll detail them here. The second level featured the Banshee, and was much more challenging. I remember the second level had a glitch, and if you stepped on a certain spot on the top floor, the whole game would freeze up and you'd have to reload. Once you knew the spot, you just have to avoid it and you could get through the levels without problem. Level 3 featured the gryphon, which I believe the object had something to do with a magical expanding net, but my brain could be making that up. After level 3, you could enter in a code "Cone1" which would give you a ton of secret levels. I think I only made it up to level 7, so I'm not sure how many levels there were. There is little record of these games at all online, so everything I'm saying is coming from memory. Level 4 featured both the gryphon and the banshee, Level 4 got much more complicated, to the point where there were probably ten floors you had to search, and you didn't necessarily know if you'd find the villain on any of them. It was pretty difficult from there on out. Level 5 featured two gryphons and a banshee, level 6 featured two banshees and a gryphon, and was in some sort of a creepy school instead of the magic mansion. Level 7 featured two banshees and two gryphons. I'm not sure if it was so difficult for me to get past because it was the final level, or if there was a level 8 which maybe featured the lion from the original level, or maybe three of some villain. Either way, searching for the objects and then having to capture the monsters made for a genuinely fun and difficult game that I really miss and I wish was still playable to some extent. For me, that one level being still available (and it was the easiest level too) doesn't make it worth playing. If you still want to play it though, here it is. I hope you enjoyed this article and maybe enjoyed playing some vintage Scooby-Doo games. There was a fourth game I remember loving from Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins, but I can't find any trace of that. After "Camp Scare," sadly, the games tying in with the movies stopped, which is a shame given they were pretty well made! I believe one was made with Curse of the Lake Monster, but it had nothing to do with the film, it just was sort of a "hey, we made this game, and we also have this movie coming out, so let's release them at the same time and say they're related!" type thing.
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Scoob16
9/20/2019 10:26:02 pm
Aw man, I remember playing the Goblin King game years ago and my hands were shaking when I was trying to beat Krudsky. I think I made it eventually. One of my favorite games. :D
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9/21/2019 10:55:51 am
Same, haha. The Goblin King game was genuinely pretty tough on that last level. I always thought it was even more challenging that they just put the boss fight at the end of the fifth level, rather than making it a new level. I had already lost at least one of my lives by then so it was hard to beat him!
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IkeDaKil
9/21/2019 11:32:47 am
I had abracadabra doo dvd and I remember me getting the code for the game, sadly my code no longer works
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9/21/2019 08:10:26 pm
Yep, I remember my code as well and it doesn't work on any of the the games. Must not have transferred over from the WB games.
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9/21/2019 08:11:21 pm
Yep, I remember my code as well and it doesn't work on any of the games. Must not have transferred over from the WB games.
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