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Several flash games were created during the release of Zoo Tycoon 2. All of the minigames present on the original Zoo Tycoon Website were developed by If/Then Studio. With the discontinuation of Adobe Flash Player on December 31, 2020, some of these games have become lost media, however some have also been successfully archived and are still playable.

Zoo Tycoon 2: Dung-O-Meter[]

ZT2 Dung-O-Meter Play Screen
Status: Playable
Link to Play (Must have Ruffle extension)
Description:
Select an animal's poo and a stinker of a message, and then dung your friends!

Gameplay[]

Zoo Tycoon 2: Dung-O-Meter was the first flash game for Zoo Tycoon 2. Unlike the other flash games, Dung-O-Meter was more of an educational tool, of which players would learn about animal poop, including appearance, size weight, and fun facts. Players could also send friends emails about the selected animal's dung with a playful message. This mechanic of the game however is no longer fully functional.

List of animal dung the player can learn about:
Elephant
Tiger
Gorilla
Rhino
Penguin

African Adventure: Photo Safari[]

Status: Lost Media
Description:
You gotta be fast to catch a snap of the African savannah's wild animals!

Gameplay[]

African Adventure: Photo Safari was the second flash game released for Zoo Tycoon 2. In it, the player would take photos of African Adventure animals for a highscore. The game would start off by selecting the silhouette of an animal, of which the player had to take a photo of. Various animal renders would pop up and slide across the screen, so the player had to be fast to photograph the correct animals within the time limit. Once the correct animal was photographed, the game would select a new animal to photograph. Bonus points were scored if the player was quick to get the photo of the required animal. The game would continue until the player failed to photograph the required number of animals to take photos of within the time limit.

The game also featured a scrapbook, which the player could use to keep track of what animals they had photographed and what ones they had yet to take a photo of. The player could also send their highscore to a friend at the end of their game. This mechanic however, no longer functions.

Gallery[]

Marine ManiaĀ® Photo Quest[]

ZT2 Marine Mania Photo Quest Play Screen
Status: Playable
Link to Play (Must have Ruffle extension. More stable on Pale Moon Browser)
Description:
You gotta be fast to catch a photo of these marine animals!

Gameplay[]

Marine ManiaĀ® Photo Quest is a clone game of African Adventure: Photo Safari. The gameplay and mechanics are exactly the same, the only differences being the Marine Mania theme.

Zoo Tycoon 2: Animal Escape[]

ZT2 Marine Mania Animal Escape Main Menu
Status: Playable
Link to Play (Must have Ruffle extension)
Alternative Link (Does not require Ruffle)


Zoo Tycoon 2: Animal Escape is a unique game in that it was not featured on the main Zoo Tycoon Website, but instead was played on the Neopets website. It is currently unknown if If/Then Studio developed the game or not.

Gameplay[]

Zoo Tycoon 2: Animal Escape is a game where the player takes on the role of a green Chia Neopet dressed as a Zookeeper. The player must run around an enclosure of Rockhopper Penguins to repair the fence and keep the penguins in. If any penguins escape, they will run around the enclosure. The player can jump over escaped penguins to score points, however if the player touches an escaped penguin they will lose a life. Penguins that remain inside their enclosure will contribute to the player's score at the end of the round.

Additionally, letters will spawn randomly around the enclosure which the player can pick up, if the player collects all of the letters (spelling TYCOON2) during the round, the player will gain an extra life. The more rounds the player passes, the harder the game becomes.

Extinct Animals: Block Bash[]

ZT2 Block Bash Play Screen
Status: Lost Media
Description:
Join in for some Extinct Animals fun!

Gameplay[]

Extinct Animals: Block Bash was the last minigame made for Zoo Tycoon 2 and was themed after the Extinct Animals expansion pack. In it, the player takes on the role of a palaeontologist and would have to rapidly click on rocks that were on a conveyor belt. As they did so, the rock would chip away, revealing either a fossil or junk. If the player collected enough fossils, they would form the skeleton of an animal present in the game.

If the player didn't chip away all of the rock in time, or incorrectly sorted the fossil as junk, they would lose that fossil.

Gallery[]

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