The Specialman: Robotopia 3-D (partially found massively multiplayer online role-playing game based on Nickelodeon animated series; 2001-2014)

The Specialman: Robotopia 3-D was an online MMORPG from 2001 to 2014, based on the long-running animated sitcom series of the same name. In the game, the player could customize their own character and take on missions given to them by other The Specialman characters in the city of Huawei.

However, due to the fact that Nickelodeon was making almost no profit from it, it was shut down 13 years later, with no mirrors in sight. The game itself was developed by Nickelodeon with the use of Lua script, Havok engine and flash, the game had an 1,300,253 visitors and more of 60,000,000 registered users, hosted at https://www.robotopia.com

Availability
The first time when the game was available is an playable demo showed at E3 2001. Later, this playable demo was available on https://play.e3demo.com, but was closed down in early 2003. This version also was recovered on an subpage domain after the closedown in 2014, but taken down in early 2017 due to Nickelodeon's DMCA issues.

In 2018, on 4chan, the source code of the game was leaked by 2pay1game, alongside the E3 demo and an list of versions available (See versions tab), but can't be playable due to login creation server is closed. It was uploaded on Internet Archive, but was taken down by Nickelodeon due to DMCA. However, in 2020, an fan recreation was opened, named as "Robotopia 3-D Rewritten" and hosted on https://www.rt3drewritten.com, but the creator was arrested by USA police and shut down the server in May 2021, but it got free, and unable to use internet for 3 years.

In March 2022, through Wayback Machine, was found an "playable" and downloadable link dated back from 2010. The playable link has issues with the server, as the message on the menu screen said: "The connection has been lost. Try again later!".

The downloadable link had an executable file, which can be found on this page, those links are hosted on an shockwave domain. In October 2022, was found an playable demo for PS2, during the development stage, it was cancelled. Currently, this build has an dumping issue, which 120 files (mostly from textures) has been corrupted.

2001

 * NICKELODEON_SOFTWARE_DEMO 2001-05-14 02:42:03 (The E3 playable demo, available on source code)
 * NICKELODEON_SOFTWARE_DEMO 2001-06-10 07:47:30 (The web/standalone demo for computers, This version has been lost)
 * NICKELODEON_SOFTWARE_DEMO 2001-08-22 01:33:01 (The unreleased PS2 game playable demo, see above)

2002

 * SPECIALMAN_ROBOTOPIA_WEBCHAT 2002-09-01 03:37:45 (The very first public beta, originally hosted at https://www.webtopia.com)
 * SPECIALMAN_ROBOTOPIA_WEBCHAT 2002-12-13 15:49:33 (Updated 3 months after the release, currently lost)
 * SPECIALMAN_ROBOTOPIA_WEBCHAT 2002-12-15 00:47:32 (Updated to fix bugs 2 days after the update, available on the source code)
 * SPECIALMAN_ROBOTOPIA_WEBCHAT 2002-12-25 09:20:46 (Christmas update, existence unconfirmed)

2003

 * SPECIALMAN_ROBOTOPIA_PREALPHA_1.0.0 2003-03-13 19:20:32 (Pre-Alpha version, can be played offline by compiling the  files paste on source code, sadly, can't host an server based on this version)
 * SPECIALMAN_ROBOTOPIA_ALPHA_1.1.2 2003-03-28 01:43:25 (Alpha 1.1.2, currently lost)
 * SPECIALMAN_ROBOTOPIA_BETA_1.1.25 2003-04-10 03:06:20 (Beta version, can be cached by using an html5 compiler)
 * SPECIALMAN_ROBOTOPIA_BETA_1.2.32 2003-07-12 06:37:45 (The final beta version, currently lost)
 * SPECIALMAN_ROBOTOPIA_PRERELEASE_1.801.0 2003-08-01 12:32:43 (The prerelease version, available by clicking on this link: https://www.play.prert3d.com)
 * SPECIALMAN_ROBOTOPIA_PRERELEASE_1.806.0 2003-08-06 16:54:30 (Japanese localization prerelease, available by compiling on source code paste, the location is )
 * SPECIALMAN_ROBOTOPIA_PRERELEASE_1.819.0 2003-08-19 17:32:01 (European localization prerelease, available here: https://download.specialman.com/robotopia_eur_prerelease819.exe
 * SPECIALMAN_ROBOTOPIA_PRERELEASE_1.827.0 2003-08-27 04:44:12 (German localization prototype, available here: https://download.specialman.com/robotopia_de_prerelease827.exe
 * SPECIALMAN_ROBOTOPIA_PRERELEASE_1.829.0 2003-08-29 16:32:10 (French localization prototype, currently lost)
 * SPECIALMAN_ROBOTOPIA_PRERELEASE_1.829.1 2003-08-29 19:43:10 (Updated 3 hours after to fix the menu bug, it also had an debug menu, which can be activated by pressing the  keyboard button. Available here: https://download.specialman.com/robotopia_fr_prerelease829-1.exe
 * SPECIALMAN_ROBOTOPIA_PRERELEASE_1.920.0 2003-09-20 05:10:23 (North America localization prototype, currently lost)
 * SPECIALMAN_ROBOTOPIA_RELEASE_NA 2003-10-05 12:32:01 (North America release, with some bugs and the debug menu is still enabled by pressing the  keyboard button, available here: https://download.specialman.com/robotopia_na_release.exe
 * SPECIALMAN_ROBOTOPIA_RELEASE_BR 2003-10-12 06:12:32 (Brazilian release, currently lost)
 * SPECIALMAN_ROBOTOPIA_RELEASE_DE 2003-10-27 03:12:10 (German release, available here: https://download.specialman.com/robotopia_de_release.exe)
 * SPECIALMAN_ROBOTOPIA_RELEASE_EUR 2003-10-27 08:40:31 (European release, currently lost)
 * SPECIALMAN_ROBOTOPIA_RELEASE_FR 2003-10-27 11:45:32 (French release, available on source code)
 * SPECIALMAN_ROBOTOPIA_RELEASE_JP 2003-11-07 13:20:12 (Japanese release, available here https://download.specialman.com/robotopia_jp_release.exe)

2004

 * SPECIALMAN_ROBOTOPIA_DEBUG_RU 2004-01-14 13:32:01 (Russian debug prerelease, about 13 submissions available on this build are in english, playable here: https://223.632.012-65/debug/specialman_ru_play)
 * SPECIALMAN_ROBOTOPIA_DEBUG_ES 2004-03-18 01:03:48 (Spanish debug build, same as the russian, available here: https://223.632.012-65/debug/specialman_es_play)
 * SPECIALMAN_ROBOTOPIA_MEMBERSHIP_WW 2004-04-27 16:37:09 (Worldwide release of membership, can be found on 2006-7 updates, for 2004-5 are currently lost)
 * SPECIALMAN_ROBOTOPIA_RELEASE_ES 2004-06-20 19:45:54 (Spanish release, debug is still enabled, playable here: https://178.246.037-43/play/specialman_es)

2005

 * SPECIALMAN_ROBOTOPIA_DEBUG_BR 2005-0X-0X 12:43:02 (Brazilian localization debug build, playable here: https://126.200.063-65/debug/specialman_pt_br_play)
 * SPECIALMAN_ROBOTOPIA_RELEASE_RU 2005-12-25 03:45:32 (Russian release and worldwide christmas update, the russian version is no longer available due to servers closedown)

2006

 * SPECIALMAN_ROBOTOPIA_SHOCKWAVE_RELEASE 2006-02-20 06:37:12 (Shockwave release of game, which is this version were archived on wayback, dated back on 2010)
 * SPECIALMAN_ROBOTOPIA_MEMBERSHIP_UPDATE_WW 2006-07-23 03:12:43 (Worldwide update of membership, which is also present in every localization of the game)

2007

 * SPECIALMAN_ROBOTOPIA_MEMBERSHIP_UPDATE_WW 2007-09-28 13:34:43 (Final worldvide update of membership)
 * SPECIALMAN_ROBOTOPIA_RELEASE_RU 2007-12-11 10:46:12 (Final update of russian version)

2011

 * SPECIALMAN_LAST_UPDATE_WW 2011-04-20 19:20:30 (The last update of the game in several countries, which also led the NA servers shut down in 2014 with the series cancellation)

Aftermath
After the North America servers closedown with the series cancellation in 2014, the game remains available in several countries for limited time. The russian servers, which was shutdown due to loss of popularity, censorship in several episodes, massive resignations and game office being closed, and the servers were closed in August 25, 2010.

The european servers (which also includes the German, French and Spanish) were closed in October 19, 2013 due to one of the servers had an massive hacking incidents. The Japanese servers has announced were the game has stopped recieving updates in 2012, which led the servers shutdown in February 18, 2015.

And the Brazilian servers, remained as the only surviving server, alongside the debug and prerelease builds (which some of them are sill playable, but can't host a server due to those happens), it stopped updates in March 2014, and finally, the servers closed in New Years' Eve of 2017, making the first release completely lost.