Toontown Online

Toontown Online
DeveloperDisney's Virtual Reality Studio
Schell Games[1]
Frogchildren Studios[2]
TypeMassively multiplayer online role-playing game
Launch dateAugust 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]
DiscontinuedSeptember 19, 2013 (2013-09-19)[6]
Platform(s)Macintosh operating systems and Microsoft Windows[7]
Websitetoontown.go.com
(archived on August 24, 2013)

Toontown Online, commonly known as Toontown, was a 2003 massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) based on a cartoon animal world, developed by Disney's Virtual Reality Studio and Schell Games, and published by The Walt Disney Company.[4]

Players played as anthropomorphized animals, known as Toons, to explore a cartoon world, complete quests ("ToonTasks"), and engage in combat against the Cogs, robot businessmen who served as the game's antagonists. Players used weapons known as "Gags"—typically slapstick comedy items, such as a thrown cream pie—in combat.

Various servers hosting Toontown Online were shut down throughout the game's tenure; the primary U.S. servers and the game itself were ultimately closed in September 2013. Various fan servers have since been created using most of the game's original assets; the most popular of these, Toontown Rewritten, was created less than a week after Toontown Online's closure.

  1. ^ "Games developed by Schell Games". Schell Games. Archived from the original on May 30, 2019. Retrieved January 22, 2021.
  2. ^ "Frogchildren Studios Games Artwork". Retrieved February 24, 2014.
  3. ^ a b c d "Release Notes Archive". August 21, 2006. Archived from the original on August 21, 2006.
  4. ^ a b "Disney's Toontown Online to Launch June 2003" (Press release). North Hollywood, CA: The Walt Disney Company. May 5, 2003. Archived from the original on November 27, 2004. Retrieved May 30, 2014.
  5. ^ "Disney's Toontown Online Now Available For Macintosh". GamesIndustry. November 28, 2006. Retrieved March 15, 2024.
  6. ^ Kelly, Heather (August 23, 2013). "Coping with the loss of an online world". CNN Business. Archived from the original on December 27, 2013. Retrieved May 6, 2019.
  7. ^ "Search ESRB Game Ratings".