Postopia (partially found online games from website; 2001-2011): Difference between revisions

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Postopia's 2nd logo, used from 2003-2011.

Status: Partially Found

In 2001, Post/Kraft created a website called Postopia. It was a website where people could play games featuring cereals like Fruity/Cocoa Pebbles, Honeycomb, Golden Crisp, Oreo O’s, etc. In 2003, along with a new logo, the website was updated to include "Postokens". Postokens were codes that were printed on marked boxes of Post Kids’ cereals (like the mentioned, Fruity/Cocoa Pebbles, Honeycomb, Golden Crisp, etc.) that users could enter on the website if you had an account. These codes would give people stuff like exclusive mini-games (one example being the dunk tank game in Big Barney Chase), cheats, extra levels, etc. In 2011, Postopia was shut down, and replaced with PebblesPlay.com. When that happened, a lot of the games on the website were not included on the new site (although, many other game websites archived them before PebblesPlay.com was around).

Availability

Some Postopia games are still available to play from other sites, but not all of them. Most of Postopia's games were lost after the move, probably the Wayback Machine did not archive all of the games, so most of the game files are missing. Postopia was the property of Ralcorp, the company that bought Post Cereals from Kraft, but they were in turn purchased by Treehouse Brands.

Between October 11th and October 13th, 2019, a Dev going under the username nightpearl gave the Advergame Recovery Project Discord server a google doc containing 43 lost games.^[1]

Games

Partially Found/Found Postopia Games

Game Title	Status	Notes
Asteroid Avalanche	Found	N/A
Be A Popstar	Found	N/A
Bedrock Bobsleddin' Blowout	Found	N/A
Berry Pebbles Bumper Pool	Found	Wayback Machine
Big Barney Chase	Found	N/A
Bobblehead Creation Zone	Found	Wayback Machine
Bronk's Jungle Adventure	Found	N/A
Bronk's Sky Glide Challenge	Found	N/A
Cafeteria Caper	Found	N/A
Camp Dino Capture the Flag	Found	N/A
Camper's Canoe	Found	N/A
Cocoa Pebbles Boulder Dash!	Found	N/A
Cocoa Pebbles Super Cocoa Man	Found	N/A
Craver's Slurp & Slide	Found	Wayback Machine
Craver's Snowboard Jam	Found	Wayback Machine
Crunchtime	Found	Wayback Machine
DJ @ the Starfish Lounge	Found	N/A
E.T. Phone Home	Found	Wayback Machine
Fruity Pebbles Beach Break	Found	N/A
Fruity Pebbles Fruity Pool	Found	Wayback Machine
Fruity Pebbles Spy Caper	Found	N/A
Game Frame	Partially Found	Missing ppdamain.cct
Honeycomb Big Rock Show	Partially Found	Unplayable prototype found.
Honeycomb Factory Frenzy	Partially Found	Missing loader.
Honeycomb Stunt Bike	Found	Wayback Machine
Honeycomb Havoc	Found	N/A
Honeycomb Monster Truck	Partially Found	Missing some files.
Hysterical History	Found	N/A
Ice Burbs Frozen Bowling	Found	Wayback Machine
Justice League Builder	Found	N/A
Kiki's Dream Room Designer	Found	N/A
Kiki's Extreme Polar Ice Caps	Partially Found	Missing assets.
Kiki's Polar Challenge	Found	N/A
Kiki's Polar Ice Caps	Found	N/A
Know It All Ball	Partially Found	Missing triviaquestions.xml.
Make It, Skate It Fashions	Found	N/A
Marching Monkeys	Found	N/A
Marshmallow Mania Pebbles: The Great Gazoo Space Chase	Found	N/A
Mission Match Up	Found	N/A
Monkey Huts	Found	N/A
Mor Fits Farm	Found	N/A
Mor Fits Quest	Found	N/A
Nick's Ocean Quests	Partially Found	Missing some files.
Nick's Octo Hockey	Found	N/A
Night Spy Mission	Partially Found	Missing some files.
Oreo O's Creme Team Journey	Found	N/A
Oreo O's Extreme Creme Control	Found
Oreo O's Flying Disc Toss	Found	Wayback Machine
Paint a Bronto	Found	Wayback Machine
Passport to the World	Partially Found	Missing some files.
Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm’s Bedrock Dance Academy	Found	N/A
Pebbles Bedrock Snowball Bash	Found	N/A
Pebbles Dome Reefball	Found	Wayback Machine
Pebbles Popstar	Found	N/A
Pebbles Quarry Adventure	Found	Wayback Machine
Pebbles Robopup Run	Found	Wayback Machine
Pebbles VidRock	Found	N/A
Pop Fly Challenge	Found	Wayback Machine
Postopia Cereal Factory Pinball	Found	N/A
Postopia Food Fling	Found	Wayback Machine
Postopia Miniature Golf	Found	Wayback Machine
Postopia Power Play	Found	N/A
Postopia Speedway Challenge	Found	N/A
Shop, Don't Drop!	Found	N/A
Slurp & Slide	Found	Wayback Machine
Sonic Scoop	Partially Found	Missing files.
Space Nation Pilots	Partially Found	Lost version with robot in replacement of Chelsea.
Stadium Soccer Showdown	Found	N/A
Stealin' Home	Found	Wayback Machine
Strawberry Blasted Factory Frenzy	Partially Found	Missing main file.
Strawberry Blasted Sky Glide	Found	N/A
Sugar Bear's Wacky Waterskiing	Found	N/A
Sugar Bear's Beach Break	Found	N/A
The Great Cocoa Chase	Partially Found	Missing many files.
The Polar Express Train Adventure	Found	N/A
The Postopia Adventure	Found	Wayback Machine
The Ultimate Party Kit	Partially Found	Missing some files.
Ultimate Baseball	Found	Wayback Machine
Waffle Boy's Jungle Adventure	Found	N/A
Waffle Boy's Mountain Adventure	Partially Found	Missing Waffleboy.xml
Whack-y Ballgame	Found	N/A
Zander's Robotopia	Found	N/A
Zander's VertJam Skateboarding	Found	Wayback Machine

Pebbles Cereals

Game Title	Status
Adventure Beneath Bedrock	Lost
Brontos on the Loose	Lost
Fruity Pebbles PebPals	Lost
Fruity Pebbles Bedrock & Roll	Lost
Lair of the Cocoa Dragon	Lost
Mt. Pebbles Snowboard Dash	Lost
Post Pebbles Cereal PebPals	Lost

Honeycomb

Game Title	Status
Bernard's Honey Pursuit	Lost
Big Mouth Life	Lost
Grind & Grab	Lost
Honeycomb Blastoff	Lost
Taste and Tell Poll	Lost

Alpha Bits

Game Title	Status
Mystery of Sector Alpha	Lost

Gallery

External Links

Reference

↑ Google Drive folder containing the 29 lost games that were uploaded by nightpearl. Retrieved 14 Oct '19

[1] Google Drive folder containing the 29 lost games that were uploaded by nightpearl. Retrieved 14 Oct '19

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 ==Availability==
 Some Postopia games are still available to play from other sites, but not all of them. Most of Postopia's games were lost after the move, probably the Wayback Machine did not archive all of the games, so most of the game files are missing. Postopia was the property of Ralcorp, the company that bought Post Cereals from Kraft, but they were in turn purchased by Treehouse Brands.
-We also have a discord server that is dedicated to saving advergames, a link is provided in the "External Links" if you want to join or want to help out. A lot of these games are available on Flashpoint, so if you want to play the games found so far, go download it.
 Between October 11th and October 13th, 2019, a Dev going under the username nightpearl gave the Advergame Recovery Project Discord server a google doc containing 43 lost games.<ref>[https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DBAsZpu189iZeRgMWnxFhgVIuTu-t4Sb?usp=sharing Google Drive folder containing the 29 lost games that were uploaded by nightpearl.] Retrieved 14 Oct '19</ref>
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 ==External Links==
-*[https://discord.gg/wbFfmtT Advergame Recovery Discord]
+*[https://discord.gg/wbFfmtT Postopia Games Recovery Discord server.]
-*[https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/ Bluemaxima's Flashpoint]
+*[https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/ Bluemaxima's flashpoint.]
-*[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i24y2ae0S4GaImNK6olAMKFjMufMotnBYK_G6aS5Efc/edit List of missing game files]
+*[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i24y2ae0S4GaImNK6olAMKFjMufMotnBYK_G6aS5Efc/edit List of missing game files.]
-*[http://www.kibagames.com/Game/Flintstones-Bobsled The Flintstones: Bedrock Bobsleddin' Blowout available to play]
+*[http://www.kibagames.com/Game/Flintstones-Bobsled The Flintstones: Bedrock Bobsleddin' Blowout available to play.]
 *[http://timsheridanportfolio.com/honeycomb-big-mouth-life Information on Honeycomb Big Mouth Life]
 *[http://timsheridanportfolio.com/post-pebbles-cereal-pebpals Information on Post Pebbles Cereal PebPals]