“You would never have 2 of these running at the same time” My brother in Christ, I was a child with unmonitored PC access. This would’ve been the first thing i did
ah yes, putting a copyright watermark on a screen saver is a great idea, and the entire point of a screen saver was to save your screen from burns. great idea Kelloggs and Microsoft.
11:39 I busted out laughing at the unexpected 3D CGI door opening animation. Reminds me of that SpongeBob episode where he goes through the metal wall.
15:36 The intricate mechanism focused on the mortal's words like the cosmic force of one million savvy ears. A treasure only sent to the select few who chose to give it life, primed to grant any wish The Cerealholder asked for. "Speak, Toucan Sam." The being rapidly processed the mortal's request. It began to speak the knowledge that resonates the past and the future, the close and the unreachable, and everywhere and everything in between, a truth only the worthy would ever get to observe. "I love lemons."
Loved this. I didn't even know this was a thing. I actually met Thurl Ravenscroft back in the early 80's (Voice of Tony The Tiger). he really did sound like that in person. Just the nicest person you could ever meet. It was sad when he passed away after these programs were made. I think he passed away about 2005 or so.
and his connection to Disneyland Mark Twain Riverboat The Enchanted Tiki Room Pirates of the Caribbean Adventures Thru Inner Space The Haunted Mansion Country Bear Jamboree Country Bear Christmas Special Country Bear Vacation Hoedown Splash Mountain Disneyland Railroad
@@MickeyMousePark Not to mention his connection to Dr. Seuss's tv specials, even singing some lines in specials other than The Grinch, like in one of the songs from The Lorax.
MY MOM HAD THE TONY ONE OF THESE! Speech recognition and crappy digital assistants are on every cell phone now but back in the day it was considered pretty nifty, even if it barely worked lol
That's so funny, because up until the latest LLM-powered AI programs, every time a company would release some "revolutionary" AI you could talk to, my reaction would be "Oh, they just made Talking Toucan Sam."
I love these old corporate screensavers that always had a bunch of static elements. It's like every company wanted to make one and none of them understood what their purpose was. I had a Pokémon one with a logo in the corner at all times... thankfully I realized that defeated the point of a screensaver and didn't use it.
Laughing myself half to death at the idea of somebody with the Rice Krispies program installed on their computer getting burgled, they yell at the home intruder and say "WHO ARE YOU?!" and the Rice Krispies trio pop up on the screen and start talking 😭 LMAO
These still aren't as cool as Chex Quest, a full-on Doom clone given away for free in the mid-90s. It has such a cult following that a sequel was made about a decade ago, and the source code for the original game was released.
Hey Michael! I found a rare Microsoft product online called the Surface PixelSense. It was a tablet embedded into a table and ran Windows Vista and was introduced in 2008. Apparently 2012 was not the first time MS incorporated the Surface brand. It would be really cool if you find one but they are pretty rare!
I remember getting some games from cereal boxes as a kid when they did a promo for Hasbro. Got Monopoly and Operation and my grandma ended up getting Scrabble (I already had an older pc version of that one from the 90s, that didn't come with a cereal box lol).
There's probably a whole video that could be made on the subject of "things companies made you had no idea about." Like during the world wars, Ford built both planes and tanks. At one point, Coca-Cola was producing television shows and had an entire movie studio. And tons of other examples.
I remember my grandma getting the one with Tony the Tiger, but I also remember playing a demo of Spider-man and Extremely Goofy Skateboarding from these... Ha, shareware, I miss those days...
I had the Snap Crackle and Pop one of these as a kid, but I could never get it to work. Thank you for covering these! So neat to see them actually functioning Hm. I wonder if I still have it...
I miss when cereals used to give away CDs. I remember getting Microsoft Flight Simulator and some of the DK's 'my first interactive' series programs from Nesquik boxes.
I cant believe they gave Tony the worst game out of all of them. You'd think he would be the priority. But still, something fun to download and play around with from the Internet Archive. Definitely safer than Bonzi Buddy, too.
Quick nosy on wikipedia suggests Kellogg's released a game that played (and I quote from the article) "similar to Donkey Kong Country" and you could play as Snap, Crackle, Pop, Tony or Coco Monkey. It was called Mission Nutrition.
Hey MJD, recently came across your channel, some awesome content. I love your variation on old school stuff like server 2003, XP, 2000 etc... this is an awesome video and every kid would have loved this 20 years ago, shame if they didn't have a microphone back then though.
This is a really well-made cereal box pack-in. That is a sentence! No, but the animations and full voice acting are _so_ cute. But it's also creepy, gives me Buy 'n' Large vibes....
I got a copy of the original roller coaster tycoon in a cereal box like 20 years ago and I still have the disc. It was literally inside the box, none of that needing to mail away for things stuff would just fall out of the box. I miss that time.
These are awesome. That's definitely Maurice LaMarche playing Toucan Sam, but I can't tell if that's the original voice of Tony the Tiger or his understudy, who would have been voicing him around the same time. No idea about Snap, Crackle and Pop- they had SEVERAL different voices throughout the years!
I knew that sounded like Maurice. I thought Crackle kind of sounded like Danny Cooksey(Jack Spicer from Xiolan, Brad from Kick Buttowski, and Montana Max from Tiny Toons).
Since Snap, Crackle, and Pop were voiced by Thom Adcox, Chad Doreck, and Dino Andrade from 2000-2009. And considering that these were from 2004, they most likely voiced them here.
Gosh, I remember the CDs in the cereal boxes! There was that Kellogg's platformer game that was pretty intense, and another one that gave me nightmares as a child where some kid's dog gets abducted by aliens who'll swallow you alive if you get too close.
I had the toucan Sam desk, probably still is somewhere around today. I remember when The disc would crash, some generic guy's voice (Not tucan sam) would start repeating the same thing over and over until you closed the program
I know this software has it's issues, but it's honestly pretty impressive for software that bundled free with cereal. Especially in an era where software like Dragon Naturally Speaking was several hundred dollars
I had the Rice Krispies one. I quickly realized that it took way less time to open IE than to open a program, wait for it to load, tell it a voice command, wait like 5 seconds, and then hope that it worked. That disc soon went right in the garbage.
I was reminded of the old Mario DVD video on Cinemassacre because of the voice of the toucan. Turns out that Toucan Sam has the same voice actor as Inspector Gadget.
They also did the same thing with spiderman and poptarts. I remember the promotion requiring codes from 3 unique flavors so you had to buy three different kinds to get the barely functional system. I also remember it popping into games like Humongous Entertainment games and the internal GPU glitching out and rendering all the wrong colors for the pop-up.
The way they open the same agent again if you try and chain them makes me wonder if the reason some stuff won't open - like Internet Explorer at first - is they forgot to set the current directory to the folder the program is in when they open it, which would be a very easy mistake to make and not catch
Management meeting Quality Assurance team:
- So does it work correctly?
- uh... No.
- Splendid!
literally, it cracked me so long xD
>Every AAA video game since 2014 ever
Better reaction than, “You’re fired.”
best part of the video. "Splendid!"
Splendid comment !
The floating "TM" is cracking me up. Kellogg's REALLY wants you to know that these characters trademarked 🤣
“You would never have 2 of these running at the same time” My brother in Christ, I was a child with unmonitored PC access. This would’ve been the first thing i did
Summon them all and make them fight.
My siblings and I got roller coaster tycoon from a cereal box! So many hours spent on that series...
This game is awesome, still enjoyable to this day. Great prize.
Nice! Someone burned me a copy when the first one came out and I could spend hours on that game. I still play it through Steam.
@@keiganthetennessean1796 There's actually an opensource version of it, that adds a bunch of stuff on top of the original game. It's called OpenRCT2.
Omg same
I got mine from Totinos Pizzas!
ah yes, putting a copyright watermark on a screen saver is a great idea, and the entire point of a screen saver was to save your screen from burns. great idea Kelloggs and Microsoft.
Froot Loops will be burned into your screen, FOREVER!
Toucan: Did the program open?
Michael: No! >:(
Toucan: Splendid! :D
lmao
loll
@@someonestuff_ xd
11:39 I busted out laughing at the unexpected 3D CGI door opening animation. Reminds me of that SpongeBob episode where he goes through the metal wall.
The door was just too complex for 2D.
"select the program you would like- MMMMM RICE CRISPIES " made me laugh so hard
3:20 I like how you say "hey Toucan Sam" like you're in a alcoholics anonymous meeting
In heindsight, it was a ballsy move installing random software from a box of cereal.
When you put it like that, yeah lmao
It was from a time where just having a brand in a user's face was what gave software value, not harvesting every datapoint for resale.
PC version of pills from a truck stop bathroom
Back in my day, we used to install software that came on random floppies in the mail
But the world would be a poorer place without cereal box computer games of Candyland and stuff, XD.
"to unlock your computer, go to the store and buy some kelloggs frosted flakes then read me the barcode number on the box"
15:36
The intricate mechanism focused on the mortal's words like the cosmic force of one million savvy ears. A treasure only sent to the select few who chose to give it life, primed to grant any wish The Cerealholder asked for.
"Speak, Toucan Sam."
The being rapidly processed the mortal's request. It began to speak the knowledge that resonates the past and the future, the close and the unreachable, and everywhere and everything in between, a truth only the worthy would ever get to observe.
"I love lemons."
You can tell how corporate it is by the fact they ALL have a (TM) on the desktop
Yooooooo what? Youo still don't have a @?
@@reallypurpled the heck do you mean here
™
@@Pwnz0rServer2009😂
Greed™️
Loved this. I didn't even know this was a thing. I actually met Thurl Ravenscroft back in the early 80's (Voice of Tony The Tiger). he really did sound like that in person. Just the nicest person you could ever meet. It was sad when he passed away after these programs were made. I think he passed away about 2005 or so.
and his connection to Disneyland
Mark Twain Riverboat
The Enchanted Tiki Room
Pirates of the Caribbean
Adventures Thru Inner Space
The Haunted Mansion
Country Bear Jamboree
Country Bear Christmas Special
Country Bear Vacation Hoedown
Splash Mountain
Disneyland Railroad
@@MickeyMousePark Not to mention his connection to Dr. Seuss's tv specials, even singing some lines in specials other than The Grinch, like in one of the songs from The Lorax.
The Froot Loops version is why Image Line had to rename Fruity Loops to FL Studio because they were sued by Kellogg's
Oh! Now I see why it has "FL" in the name! "FL" means "Fruity Loops"! Pretty interesting, huh?
Makes sense why its a mango now 🥭
@cutralefan1996no way LMAO
@cutralefan1996LMAO WHAT
"Play the Gotcha Game!"...that did not age well. The Rice Krispie kids are now gambling on lootboxes.
Toucan predicting mobile games in 2005
For those interested and have a retro PC these are all available on the web archive.
Thanks!
link?
MY MOM HAD THE TONY ONE OF THESE! Speech recognition and crappy digital assistants are on every cell phone now but back in the day it was considered pretty nifty, even if it barely worked lol
yep
That's so funny, because up until the latest LLM-powered AI programs, every time a company would release some "revolutionary" AI you could talk to, my reaction would be "Oh, they just made Talking Toucan Sam."
@@Cornllamalol
Over 20 years old cereal company software is able to do what Microsoft AI copilot is trying to achieve now.
Copilot is a spy
@shadowopsairman1583 so were a lot of these old virtual assistants lmfao
@@jordanl5444bonzi buddy lol
@@jordanl5444 you got a good point lmfao
@@jordanl5444 they weren't made by the same company that made the os, nor such a high profile company.
3:14 * clears throat * “Hey Toucan Sam that be what you say whenever you need my help.”
Weird activation phrase but you’re the boss.
Does it work? “No.” SPLENDID!
I love these old corporate screensavers that always had a bunch of static elements. It's like every company wanted to make one and none of them understood what their purpose was. I had a Pokémon one with a logo in the corner at all times... thankfully I realized that defeated the point of a screensaver and didn't use it.
I just love how it looks like Toucan Sam is standing on the Windows XP background hill like he's a giant xD
It would be a sick flex to use Toucan Sam to run cheat macros in an FPS or something.
yep
What I learned: Tony the Tiger's voice actor better be paid a LOT of money because that boy has a golden voice. Like he was destined for this life
Did program opened:"No"
The bird:Oh no,anyways
SPLENDID!
lol
Clippy: It looks like some annoyingly characterful Toucan has followed his nose a little to close to...Windows. Would you like me to ELIMINATE HIM?
🤣
With that schnoz he'd break right through a window.
Imagining a thunderbolt comes out of Clippy and brutally shocks him
[ elimination is imminent ]
Laughing myself half to death at the idea of somebody with the Rice Krispies program installed on their computer getting burgled, they yell at the home intruder and say "WHO ARE YOU?!" and the Rice Krispies trio pop up on the screen and start talking 😭 LMAO
"Hey Toucan Sam. Bonzi Buddy."
"... I don't know what you mean >_>"
A screensaver that burns Kellogg's copyright on your screen. Brilliant!
I would have loved this so much as a kid. Surprising how much effort was put into these discs.
These still aren't as cool as Chex Quest, a full-on Doom clone given away for free in the mid-90s. It has such a cult following that a sequel was made about a decade ago, and the source code for the original game was released.
Hey Michael! I found a rare Microsoft product online called the Surface PixelSense. It was a tablet embedded into a table and ran Windows Vista and was introduced in 2008. Apparently 2012 was not the first time MS incorporated the Surface brand. It would be really cool if you find one but they are pretty rare!
There's so much cereal related stuff for old PC's. The one cereal related thing I can remember the most is Capn' Crunch's Crunchling Adventure.
Chex Quest?
That one was amazing. You could play it as a cd and it was a Captain Crunch radio drama.
@@yamigekusu chex quest is hilarious as fuck tho
I remember getting some games from cereal boxes as a kid when they did a promo for Hasbro. Got Monopoly and Operation and my grandma ended up getting Scrabble (I already had an older pc version of that one from the 90s, that didn't come with a cereal box lol).
It is honestly really impressive how well these work for the time
Never knew these existed. I honestly had no idea that Kellogg's would make those.
There's probably a whole video that could be made on the subject of "things companies made you had no idea about." Like during the world wars, Ford built both planes and tanks. At one point, Coca-Cola was producing television shows and had an entire movie studio. And tons of other examples.
@@drygnfyre Well that explains the Coca-Cola Telecommunications Logo
same, living outside USA is insane
Kellogs will make anything lol
I love the uncomfortable static pose
Sam's random twitching fingers just add to it.
Wow, that is very interesting! Just as fun as Microsoft Agent characters of the late 1990s and the early 2000s.
I'm so glad that surfing the web stayed the preferred vernacular.
I still think cruising the information superhighway was cooler.
if viavoice and bonzibuddy had a cursed lovechild
Webpals i think was another
They ate too much Froot Loops
I'd rather have the voice of Toucan Sam for my AI virtual assistant than the voice of "similar but legally distinct from Scarlett Johanssen"
Family guy?
the games on these discs feel like they'd be found on some awful shareware collection. I guess it's not too far off
I saw Kelloggs and Windows and my mind immediately went to windows cereal 💀
Love that ram marshmallows!
Well, it’s the only plausible move after ice cream and tacos…
I remember my grandma getting the one with Tony the Tiger, but I also remember playing a demo of Spider-man and Extremely Goofy Skateboarding from these... Ha, shareware, I miss those days...
Me: Mom, I want Siri
Mom: We have Siri at home
I like this Floppy background
Same!
wait I'm gonna do this for my office I think. super cool idea :D (ofc I'm gonna look for dead ones)
@@擢 would be hard but a cool thing. If you ever do it, post it somewhere and share the link here :D
@@awethebird for sure :)
Splendid!
I had the Snap Crackle and Pop one of these as a kid, but I could never get it to work. Thank you for covering these! So neat to see them actually functioning
Hm. I wonder if I still have it...
If you don’t you can use the dl link in the video description which has all three of the ones mod covered in this video!
I still have the CD from Kellogg's cereal box about a Vikings' animated documentary! This is seriously nostalgic looking at these now.
For a long time, I had a DVD that came with some Kellogg's Cereal boxes here in Canada back in 2003.
You get ads shoved in your face. We used to willingly put the ads in our own faces. We are not the same.
facebook and tiktok??
These discs should be digitized and sent to the Internet Archive.
thank you for giving me the recovered memory. i loved these so much as a kid.
Kelloggs Copilot.
I miss when cereals used to give away CDs. I remember getting Microsoft Flight Simulator and some of the DK's 'my first interactive' series programs from Nesquik boxes.
Can we get a speedrun category for the Froot Loops one?
I cant believe they gave Tony the worst game out of all of them. You'd think he would be the priority.
But still, something fun to download and play around with from the Internet Archive. Definitely safer than Bonzi Buddy, too.
Who needs gpt4o when you can have Toucan Sam.
Quick nosy on wikipedia suggests Kellogg's released a game that played (and I quote from the article) "similar to Donkey Kong Country" and you could play as Snap, Crackle, Pop, Tony or Coco Monkey. It was called Mission Nutrition.
27:03 had me laughing out loud
MMMM RICE KRISPIES
Hey MJD, recently came across your channel, some awesome content. I love your variation on old school stuff like server 2003, XP, 2000 etc... this is an awesome video and every kid would have loved this 20 years ago, shame if they didn't have a microphone back then though.
5:40 lmao when you mocked his “brilliant”, you came off sounding like vailskibum 😭
19:52 Tony being sarcastic
a cereal company decides to make a bonzi buddy ripoff
The mute kid getting that.
This is a really well-made cereal box pack-in. That is a sentence!
No, but the animations and full voice acting are _so_ cute. But it's also creepy, gives me Buy 'n' Large vibes....
19:50
I didn't even hear what he sa-
Wow! That's amazing
Who needs Alexa when you have this?
I got a copy of the original roller coaster tycoon in a cereal box like 20 years ago and I still have the disc. It was literally inside the box, none of that needing to mail away for things stuff would just fall out of the box. I miss that time.
I just watched a half hour about these 3 cds…which was way more time than I gave them as a kid
I’ve had the Talking Tony CD since i was a kid, the craziest thing to me is that it runs on Flash :p
These are awesome. That's definitely Maurice LaMarche playing Toucan Sam, but I can't tell if that's the original voice of Tony the Tiger or his understudy, who would have been voicing him around the same time.
No idea about Snap, Crackle and Pop- they had SEVERAL different voices throughout the years!
I knew that sounded like Maurice. I thought Crackle kind of sounded like Danny Cooksey(Jack Spicer from Xiolan, Brad from Kick Buttowski, and Montana Max from Tiny Toons).
Since Snap, Crackle, and Pop were voiced by Thom Adcox, Chad Doreck, and Dino Andrade from 2000-2009. And considering that these were from 2004, they most likely voiced them here.
Gosh, I remember the CDs in the cereal boxes! There was that Kellogg's platformer game that was pretty intense, and another one that gave me nightmares as a child where some kid's dog gets abducted by aliens who'll swallow you alive if you get too close.
Can I put milk on this?
LOL
Think so
4:11 lol yourself, and the voice sounds a lot like the voice in Lego Island
More accurate and useful than Siri, ngl.
I like how Tony the Tiger does the same weird limb thing as Stan from Monkey Island
wow you're absolutely right
timestamp? which weird limb thing?
I had the toucan Sam desk, probably still is somewhere around today.
I remember when The disc would crash, some generic guy's voice (Not tucan sam) would start repeating the same thing over and over until you closed the program
Wow this video just unlocked a very DEEP memory of these assistants...
I know this software has it's issues, but it's honestly pretty impressive for software that bundled free with cereal. Especially in an era where software like Dragon Naturally Speaking was several hundred dollars
AI assistant long before AI. "Hey Toucan Sam" predates Siri, Alexa, Google and Cortana.
I had the Rice Krispies one. I quickly realized that it took way less time to open IE than to open a program, wait for it to load, tell it a voice command, wait like 5 seconds, and then hope that it worked. That disc soon went right in the garbage.
2:06 I'm going to clip this whole section out of context and use it as my ringtone.
lol
I was reminded of the old Mario DVD video on Cinemassacre because of the voice of the toucan. Turns out that Toucan Sam has the same voice actor as Inspector Gadget.
I had the Rice Krispies one when we had our first PC back in 2004!
They also did the same thing with spiderman and poptarts. I remember the promotion requiring codes from 3 unique flavors so you had to buy three different kinds to get the barely functional system. I also remember it popping into games like Humongous Entertainment games and the internal GPU glitching out and rendering all the wrong colors for the pop-up.
I like how the PDF for the third one is called SCP. Indeed it is.
I feel like these would be a fun littl addition with how much more advanced we could make them.
I'm actually impressed by how well the voice recognition is working. I remember it being pretty bad in the 90s and early 2000s
Wow, what a flashback! I had the Tony the tiger one.
Did I enjoy this video? Yeah, it was grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat! Sorry, couldn't resist.
The way they open the same agent again if you try and chain them makes me wonder if the reason some stuff won't open - like Internet Explorer at first - is they forgot to set the current directory to the folder the program is in when they open it, which would be a very easy mistake to make and not catch
Its funny that a program from a box of cereal is better than many commercially sold softwares today.
I used to have a ''DJ program'' from Kelloggs.
I believe it came with honey pops a long time ago.
So now someone needs to mod these to connect to ChatGPT
cannot miss a mjd video
This is a splendid video
Toucan Sam seemed so friendly, like a helpful little pal. Maybe that’s the sleep deprivation talking…
The fact that toucan has teeth unnerves me greatly...
0:09 Kelloggs
3:07 Fun fact, that's Maurice LaMarche voicing Sam, who also apparently was in Microshaft Winblows. Small world hmm
Brilliant! Splendid! See you soon!