File:Capture the Newbies First Ever Video of Lost Online Nicktoons Game

https://youtu.be/MJoZdPeeWxI?t=315

Description
Remember Capture the Newbies? If you don't, it was an old game on the Nicktoons website, existing from probably around 2006 until the site's revamp in 2009. Unlike most games you'd find on a Nickelodeon website at the time, this one wasn't made with Flash; Instead, it was made with Java. It was an applet.

Unfortunately, after Nickelodeon's [terrible] rebrand in 2009, the Nicktoons website was overhauled and Capture the Newbies was nowhere to be found. Even the instances of the game on different websites ceased availability, mostly because those instances were just the original game on the Nicktoons website cast to the website using IFrame.

Luckily, even though the game would no longer work even in the Wayback Machine, all of the files the game needed were still there. And so, with lots of help from the nice folks at the Lost Media Wiki, we were able to get the game working for the first time in years!

But, due to the fact that most browsers think of anything Java-related as "unsafe" these days (probably), the only way to play it is to use the AppletViewer application included in the Java SDK. I made sure to include it in the download I provided below.

You can see the original thread I started on the Lost Media Wiki forums here:

http://forums.lostmediawiki.com/thread/1690/capture-newbies-lost-nicktoons-online

You can download the files for Capture the Newbies here (run the Batch file and the applet should open):

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1I_snexbntxqW5eJ4W69Ny8VMxSkgMWlp

(EDIT: I'm aware that appletviewer.exe breaks frequently and the easiest solution to fixing this is to download the latest version of the Java JDK and copy the program from its files to use instead.)

Some additional information about the game itself:

The game is a kid-friendly shooter based on the Scared engine, created by David Brackeen of Interactive Pulp, which in turn is based on Wolfenstein 3D.

Brackeen's website:

http://www.brackeen.com/

I hope you found this interesting. Have a good day!