Toontown Online
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Toontown Online, commonly known as Toontown, was a 2003 massively multiplayer online role-playing game based on a cartoon animal world, developed by Disney's Virtual Reality Studio and Schell Games, and published by The Walt Disney Company.[4]
Developer | Disney's Virtual Reality Studio Schell Games[1] Frogchildren Studios[2] |
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Type | Massively multiplayer online role-playing game |
Launch date | August 2001[citation needed] – January 16, 2002 (Beta 1)[3] September 10, 2002 – October 21, 2002 (Beta 2)[3] [3] October 21, 2002 – June 2, 2003 (sneak preview)[3] June 2, 2003 (2003-06-02) (official launch)[4] November 28, 2006 (Mac OS X)[5] |
Discontinued | September 19, 2013 (2013-09-19)[6] |
Platform(s) | Macintosh operating systems and Microsoft Windows[7] |
Website | toontown.go.com (archived on August 24, 2013) |
The game allowed players to create a character avatar, known as Toons, to explore a cartoon world, complete quests and engage in lighthearted combat in the form of utilizing weapons referred to as Gags—commonly slapstick comedy items, such as a thrown cream pie—to fight and destroy Cogs, robot businessmen who served as the game's antagonists.
Various servers hosting Toontown Online were shut down throughout the game's tenure, with the US servers and the game itself closing in September 2013. Since the game's closure, various fan servers have been created using most of the game’s original assets. The most popular of these, Toontown Rewritten, was created some days after Toontown Online's closure.