Learning how to find free Disney Games is an easy process for those that love the characters and magic that is produced by the Walt Disney Company. While Disney is famous for making money off their entertainment products, they do offer many free video games if you know where to look. The Disney Game’s characters range from Handy Mandy and Mickey Mouse to the Disney Princesses and Capt Jack Sparrow. The games range from simple flash games designed for toddlers to puzzle games adults could find challenging to virtual online environments.

All you need is a computer and an Internet connection and you can begin your search. Disney makes no effort to hide their free games, and they make it easy to follow your favorite shows or movies online. You can look for the games you like to play in several ways. The first step is to try out the games Disney offers online from the Disney’s official site. Most are flash games which are simple yet entertaining. There are also now offer virtual worlds created with kids in mind, but adults find interesting. There are also places that hold authorized Disney games which can be played for free, or at least have a free demo.

Disney’s online site is the best place to start. There are many games available, and it is easy to get lost looking. Since there are so many games Disney has taken the time to group them in several ways. If you are looking for certain television characters from specific show you can go to that show web site and go to their game section. For toddlers and young children who find Mickey Mouse or the morning cartoons from the Disney channel appealing they best place to start is Playhouse Disney. For a complete list of all their games you can go to their game section on the Disney website. There they have the games grouped in several ways.

From the Disney Channel the games are grouped: http://disney.go.com/games/#/games/all/

Alphabetical

Characters

Genre (Action, Activity, Arcade, Fashion, Maze, Memory, Puzzle, Racing, Sports, Strategy, Trivia,Video Games, Word, Disney XD)

Game Type ( Multiple Player Online, Single Player Online, Video Game, Disney XD)

Disney channel Shows ("American Dragon", "Camp Rock", "Cory in the House", "Emperor’s New School", "Hannah Montana", "Hatching Pete", "High School Musical", "Jonas", "Jump in", "Kim Possible", "Lilo and Stitch", "Pheneas and Ferb", "Sonny with a Chance", "That’s so Raven", "The Replacements", "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody", "The Suite Life on Deck", "Wizards of Waverly Place")

Movies ("A Christmas Carol", "Aladdin", "Alice in Wonderland", "Beauty and the Beast", "Bolt", "Cars", "Dumbo", "Emperor’s New Groove", "Enchanted", "Finding Nemo", "G-Force", "Hannah Montana the Movie", "Meet the Robinsons", "Monsters Inc", "Nightmare Before Xmas", "Old Dogs", "Oliver and Company", "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Ponyo", "Snow White", "The Chronicles of Narnia", "The Game Plan", "The Jungle Book", "The Princess and the Frog", "UP", "Underdog", "Wall-E")

Take a look at Disney’s virtual worlds. They have four different Worlds to enter into: "Club Penguin", "Toontown Online", "Pirates of the Caribbean Online," and "Pixie Hollow", with "Cars Online" to be launched soon. They have different amount of free trails or free sections. These games also require basic system requirements.

Club Penguin: An online environment built for kids. Security is provided in both filters and monitors. It is free to play, but a paid membership of $5.95 per month allows more uses and access. http://www.clubpenguin.com/membership/

Pirates of the Caribbean Online: Fans of Pirates of the Caribbean can follow the movie into an online where they can play the part of a pirate. The game is rated E 10 and up and membership cost 4.95 the first month and 9.95 every month after.http://piratesonline.go.com/#/account_services/membership_options.html

Pixie Hollow: The world of Tinker Bell and the Fairies is available to play for free where a player can select and dress a fairy of their very own. Membership which is 5.95 per month, 29.95 semi annual, or 57.95 annual allows the member to shop and go on quest and play new games before the free members can.http://pixiehollow.go.com/?source=PpPHPixDol00069&cmp=fai_BAC_PH_GP_144x120_VW_Fairy_Friendship_Festival_Extl

Toontown Online: The Toontown section of the Disney’s Magic Kingdom is the back ground for Toontown Online. The game world allows the player to build their own cartoon character and go anywhere in Toontown for free. The membership part cost 9.95 per month, 49.95 semi annual or 79.95 annual.http://toontown.go.com/membership/

Look outside the Disney sites. The next place to look would be sites that do not belong to Disney, but are licensed and able to use their characters in their games. Disney offers free games as advertisement, but does not like its copyrighted material to be used without its permission. Some of these sites will have simple flash games for free while others have more complex games which are demos of games for sale. The for sale games demos are nice to see the graphics and actions of the game before you buy it. Always look for a demo before you buy it.

Dan-Dare.org has several flash games with different Disney characters in each one. One is called “Lightning McQuenn’s Desert Dash” which is a 1.39MB flash game. http://www.dan-dare.org/freefun/games/CartoonsMoviesTV/Cars.htm

Playthq offers a demo of their "Wall-E" and "UP" video games. Both games are available for sale in most game system formats and windows. Free-online-games has several Disney flash Games available including several “Little Mermaid” games. http://www.free-online-games.ro/disney_games.html

Caution should be exercised when looking for Disney games from non Disney sites as they could be spam sites or sites that have content not appropriate for younger viewers. If your look outside of Disney or major game system producers make sure you have a good security software installed.