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i don't review or log flash games because i feel they disingenuously bloat my played list. much like most others in my age range however a large part of my childhood was molded by newgrounds and similar sites - iambored, crazymonkey, armorgames, andkon, mostfungames, funnygames, yada yada - you name it, i probably browsed it at some point as a kid

igdb's listing isn't definitive by any means. so if i feel ultra compelled to mention something i'll just put a note on something-irrelevant-but-similar-sounding-enough instead

also, please, whether you've had a similar upbringing or you're shyer to the medium, download and explore bluemaxima's flashpoint! it's one of the most ambitious and important archive projects on the internet period. it even contains the necessary plugins to run old ass shockwave content. absolutely essential program

i remember my anticipation for this movie like it was yesterday. i used this promo site constantly and exhausted every piece of content on it until the film finally released

...and honestly i never loved it like i do the rest of the show. it's very good, but ngl my experiences with the website were stronger and more memorable than the movie

i do think it's a good cap for the series though. really does represent the end of an era. maybe that's part of why i feel a little milder on it

oh also i just want to note how fucking utterly bizarre and surreal the shockwave games on nick.com are. everything from their stiff controls to their eerily repetitive sound design and bleak visuals really encapsulate a feeling of emptiness that can only be compared to like, wet dry world from sm64

seriously, just look at it
this was the very first flash game i ever played with my own computer that wasn't on some corporate site like nickelodeon. i still remember it like it was yesterday

kinda funny knowing now that it's a silly spinoff for a fucked up denpa vn
catch-all for postopia.com, my beloved long lost child. some of the best flash/shockwave games to ever see the net. shame their two most major outings are lost media right now (monster rumble and big mouth life)

this is actually one of the site's less noteworthy games tbh but it's still memorable
catch-all for anything done by the old forkheads creators. most notably evangelion sim date (which you probably know for this screencap) azumanga daioh the druglord game, and all 35 million sex kitten sim rpg games (which were basically rpgmaker-lite walking sims loaded with stupid quizzes and stolen hentai cgs (i wonder how many of those i'd actually recognize now))

in other words - soul
catch-all for lego.com's games

mostly junkbot though

fucking love junkbot
i wish i knew of a multiplayer game with these kinds of mechanics that's still actually playable

being related to inuyasha is a plus too
walked so plague inc could steal its entire concept (and do it much better)

fuck madagascar. all my homies hate madagascar
the amount of moral grandstanding i've seen about this game is fucking hilarious

just make the skin someone you don't like if you feel bad about punching him in the face. or don't punch him in the face and just let him vibe. play catch. let him dance. interact with your fucking buddy!!!!!!!
shoutout to zone fr. one of the best western animators out there. talent so strong it broke the unspoken rule newgrounds had against front-paged porn

said porn parodies are also fucking hilarious
can you tell i went on newgrounds and watched a lot of madness combat?

thing thing arena was better because it wasn't bound by any kind of who-gives-a-fuck narrative structure, but it's not on idgb. so here's the shittiest thumbnail ever instead
before project nexus there was this. honestly, as cool as pn was when it first dropped, the challenging and more sandboxy gameplay here was sorely missed

spawning urinals as weapons was my #1 reason for having a keyboard with a numpad as a child
kinda funny how much better the remake is than the og flash game. og kinda fucking sucks ngl
YOU SURE LIKE SHIT!
probably played a role in kickstarting my interest in weird japanese shit
xgenstudios was great

i still remember stick arena's ingame chat caused the first instance of me ever falling for a shock site (meatspin)
edmund was always a really creative and clever guy. i'm glad his work made it big, but ngl i still prefer some of his earlier flash work to his current output

spewer and time fcuk especially go hard
still one of the more impressive flash games out there. really cool idea
the online version of this was a godsend to my friends and i when i still had a mac

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was always really proud of and happy for these guys branching this game out to like every system known to man. loved the xbla version especially
underappreciated wave survival series that i adored
solos habbo hotel
mogs castle crashers

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cool idea

1 year ago

Damn I sunk so many hours into Nanaca Crash... I remember there was this one guy who would launch you like vertically up into the air and I absolutely hated him

1 year ago

i mean if you actually logged these games it would be a 3%~ increase if your overall games played. not bloat imo but i understand the hesitation.

glad to see some respect for time fcuk and spewer. those games are awesome.

1 year ago

plasma burst

1 year ago

@erato_heti well yeah that would be the case if i only added these, but even doing that would feel disingenuous because the amount of flash games i've played is genuinely countless at this point. moreover most of them aren't even on idgb. they don't even have a lot of the """"classics"""" like "the skull kid" or "the classroom" - let alone some of my lesser known favorites like "shitty fucking art game" or mostly forgotten licensed games like "tom's trap-o-matic"

it's just too inconsistently documented and adding them all individually would be a pain in the ass. so this list just tackles a few that are particularly significant to me

1 year ago

anyone else play ultimate flash sonic


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