Nesquik World: Internet Games & Lost Media
Nesquik World: Internet Games & Lost Media
Sep 23, 2023
Sep 23, 2023
Nesquik World was a point-and-click adventure game hosted on the Nestlé site from 2004-2008 to advertise Nesquik. Players solved puzzles by exploring the world and acquiring various hidden items. According to designer Brian Siu, this game tripled the Internet traffic to the Nestlé Nesquik site.
The game was removed in late 2008 due to changes in the website. While the Wayback Machine has a partial crawl of the game, including a reasonable amount of assets, it never passes the "Loading Fun" screen due to files not being backed up correctly.
The main locations included Very Vanilla Valley, NESQUIK Forest, Syrup Springs, Strawberry Meadows, Double Chocolate Falls, and Parched Plains (with a comically large Nesquik vending machines), as well as the Castle, Dock, and Game Station.
Players moved through the grid system on the map using the control pad.
Reddit user rozniak writes, "This game is one of many from this era of advergames online that have vanished with little to no archives or mentions on the Internet (even more 'gone' is the 2002 Kellogg's World site that used to be full of games, there's practically no reference to it online at all, nor any of the minisites like cocopops.co.uk)."
The Game Station in Nesquik World had minigames from both their CD-ROM release and web games, including Chocolate Mountain Challenge (2002), Bunny Slurp (possibly Slurp Off?), Bunny Grab (1999), Jungle Adventure (2004), and Music Maker (2003).
Though its a long shot, I have reached out to Brian, Jon, and Jeff in an attempt to get more of the files/assets.
While you're here…
Investigating Nesquik World reminded me of some other old internet games that I remember fondly :-) Check them out if you'd like.
References
Nesquik World - 2004, Lost Media Wiki
Nesquik World Game, r/lostmedia
[Partially Lost] Nesquik World game, r/lostmedia
Nesquik World, Brian Siu
Nesquik, Jon Reil
Recovering Files from Browser Cache, Flashpoint Archive
Nesquik World was a point-and-click adventure game hosted on the Nestlé site from 2004-2008 to advertise Nesquik. Players solved puzzles by exploring the world and acquiring various hidden items. According to designer Brian Siu, this game tripled the Internet traffic to the Nestlé Nesquik site.
The game was removed in late 2008 due to changes in the website. While the Wayback Machine has a partial crawl of the game, including a reasonable amount of assets, it never passes the "Loading Fun" screen due to files not being backed up correctly.
The main locations included Very Vanilla Valley, NESQUIK Forest, Syrup Springs, Strawberry Meadows, Double Chocolate Falls, and Parched Plains (with a comically large Nesquik vending machines), as well as the Castle, Dock, and Game Station.
Players moved through the grid system on the map using the control pad.
Reddit user rozniak writes, "This game is one of many from this era of advergames online that have vanished with little to no archives or mentions on the Internet (even more 'gone' is the 2002 Kellogg's World site that used to be full of games, there's practically no reference to it online at all, nor any of the minisites like cocopops.co.uk)."
The Game Station in Nesquik World had minigames from both their CD-ROM release and web games, including Chocolate Mountain Challenge (2002), Bunny Slurp (possibly Slurp Off?), Bunny Grab (1999), Jungle Adventure (2004), and Music Maker (2003).
Though its a long shot, I have reached out to Brian, Jon, and Jeff in an attempt to get more of the files/assets.
While you're here…
Investigating Nesquik World reminded me of some other old internet games that I remember fondly :-) Check them out if you'd like.
References
Nesquik World - 2004, Lost Media Wiki
Nesquik World Game, r/lostmedia
[Partially Lost] Nesquik World game, r/lostmedia
Nesquik World, Brian Siu
Nesquik, Jon Reil
Recovering Files from Browser Cache, Flashpoint Archive
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