What were your go-to's, my nigga?
>>737654172that one digging gamecant remember the name but it was kino
>instead of studying and paying attention in class he waste his time with gamesKys useless
>>737654220Fun fact I met the devs of this game at a conference once and they were very cool thanks guys.
for me it was deep freeze
>>737654172that one metal slug clone
While I used Miniclip sometimes, my go-to website was flyordie, only because they had this amazing multiplayer game I loved called TANX.The website still exists but that game in particular is defunct.
>>737654546>>737654172for me it was Heli attack
>>737654172On the Run Canyon defense
>>737654172>that 3D game where you built up fighting robots, and fought over actual players on a rooftopI yearned for another game like that, rented a shitty game based on a TV show of the same concept (Battlebots?), but it paled in comparison.You had a budget, and had to carefully spend it either on unique weapons, speed, weight, spikes, or whatever. It was rife with cheaters and had constant connection problems, but it was amazing in concept.
>>737654242Nigga I was learning how to download a flash player offline so I could bypass my school's shitty website blocking, if that ain't studying how computers work then I don't know what is
anybody remember the name of that one game that was like a science kid or something in a green laboratory with a bunch of acid and had to navigate platforms isometrically? cant remember the name but used to play that alot of some reason
>>737654172
This site literally never worked on my schools decrepit eMac G4s, but I nonetheless kept trying.
for me it was Caravaneer and Flash Trek Broken Mirrorthen I discovered the ultimate combination of both, Starsector and 1600 hours of my life wasted away
>>737654537As a kid I found the bosses scary for some reason
Okay but have you considered THIS?
>>737654802Robot Rage, it was fucking badass.There were paid weapons that looked really cool but I literally never saw anyone use them in game ever. Also there was some annoying rank system that was basically forced you to smurf because you never got matches at anything over the lowest rank even when the game was active.
Not sure if it was miniclip, but there was this flash game I vaguely remember from the late 90s or early 00s that was essentially a brick breaking game but with Pikachu in a see-through ball. I tried finding it but it completely disappeared from the internet as far as I could tell.
>>737654172Just had to be there
What kind of people even made these games? By the dozens and hundreds? What did they get out of it?
https://play.cplegacy.com/Get in here, post penguins, meet in Plaza and fuck shit up.
I loved this shit
>>737654172>WHO WANTS TO PLAY NITROME WITH ME!>We sit together and share the keyboard space.
i'd love to play heavy cannon if i could find it somewhere
>>737654740this and boxhead 2
>>737655423the joy of creation for no monetary gain is really that foreign of a concept to you? does your birthyear start with 2 by any chance?
>>737655517>NitromeDon't get me started...sorry I couldn't find this in higher res...
Any electric man 2 enjoyers?
>>737655608i was born in 2000 and played plenty of flash games in the elementary computer lab in the late 2000s you retarded millennial fuck
>>737655608My birthyear starts with a 19. Still, it was a lot of work, and I'm pretty sure these websites did have revenue. Did any of that ever trickle down to the people who actually made the games?
>>737654172the beach volleyball game with the topless cheat
>>737655668its just the fact that you think its weird that people just made shit for fun. thats how everyone used to be like on the internet and even artists throughout history have enjoyed making stuff for the simple reason of satisfaction.
>>737654172You can see a girls nipple in one of the game
real nigga shit
For me it was Cricket.
I used to bring an N64 emulator on a USB stick and play Mario Kart. I remember the emulation was fucked and you could turn far more sharply than you could in the real game.
>>737654172What's this? A roms site?
>>737654740That game was godtier.
>>737654546This one right here. Especially the 2nd one, I think. It remember it having a bunch of different weapons.
>>737654172who remembers the original nikke?
this >>737654525this >>737654740this >>737655593and this >>737655039also runescape (it was #1 in the top 10 i think)
>>737655593I was the bomb at this. Played it so many times.Anyone remember Soap Bubble 2? Great atmosphere.
>>737654172Need For MadnessHeli AttackCommando (Metal Slug clone)
>>737656596We were too young to understand that Commando was a Metal Slug clone, but I still played the shit out of Commando 2.
>>737654875Well, did you?
>>737654172mine was usually orisinal, but i miniclip was fine sometimes. you can still play orisinal games now.
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday...SUNDAY MEANS BROKEN BONES
dinkybomb on spikeything.com
>>737656596>Need For MadnessI remember there being a specific level that me and my friends all lost our minds trying to beat because there was a semi truck that was programmed to focus on killing you instead of actually trying to race, and it was fucking impossible for us.
my nigga Sonny
>>737655668>2
>>737655514OH MY FUCKING GOD IM GONNA SUCK YOUR DICK I WAS SEARCHING FOR THIS FOR YEARSEDSNJKA;DM
I don't remember the name but I played this game where you were in a small space ship and you navigated through different levels and their environments. I got my mom to call on the phone back around 2004 and spend an absurd amount of money for the full game itself lol
>>737654172armorgames >>>>>>> everything else
i miss grab.com. i miss competing with my friends for highscores. i miss being a bigshot in the teen forums there.
popcap had some absolutely addicting bangers
>>737656421Came here to post about this one, beat to me it. Based.
>>737658462Fun fact about this game i've posted before, all the males were voiced by the same dude
>Enhances your kino in your pathWhen I was a kid, I had no idea they were referring to his height. I was wondering where his 3rd foot was like a retard.
>>737661224this type of childhood retardation ALWAYS makes me laugh. what board should i go to make a thread about that sort of thing? /bant/?
>>737661224Hmm maybe he's a hung shota
>>737661224i thought that too but thats just because im euro and only Goymerica uses feet and shit.
why is everyone suddenly reminiscing over Flash lately?
>>737654172Anyone remember the Rob Dyrdek flash game?
>>737661765one thread equals everyone suddenly reminiscing?
>>737654242you first worthless weak tourist
>>737658014You could waste EL KING yourself with Lead Oxide or Wow Caninaro, but the easier way was just to avoid EL KING and win by racing
>>737654220>>737654525>>737656596Unfathomably based choices
>>737663610So much time was spent dicking around with this in class.
>>737654172That and newgrounds
>>737654884>>737654172Acid Factory
>>737654242My computer classes were basic as fuck. Powerpoints and basic word shit. I wish I got to do actual coding classes in highschool.I remember when pic related swept through my 5th grade class like a storm.
>>737654172for me it was crazy flasher 3
>>737654740I played the shit out of this in middle school
>>737654172yea it's gamer time
>>737664007>I wish I got to do actual coding classes in highschool.My highschool had a "computer" class that one of my friends took because he was interested in programming, and according to him the class was literally just making excel projects and nothing else.
>>737664007My HS had Java coding but the teacher only taught like twice the entire semester and made us self-learn out of the textbook otherwise. Super cool guy who played games with us in class (cod2, quake 3, UT2004, dawn of war, etc.) and probably my only mentor figure. You could never have an overnight LAN party on-campus ever again.
getumout
>Kongregate>Armor Games>Miniclip>NitromeWho else?
>playing games in a locked down web browser>not having one of these bad boys with your choice of shit-tastic 2000s emulators on it (nesticle and snes9x my love)i had a 128mb because i was HOT SHIT but trying to find one on google images just gives me 128GB drives instead
>>737654172unreal tournament 99holy shit, computer lab was funof course we already knew how to work on and with computers 20 years ago. of course, learning how to program would have been a good use of that time, too.
this was my go to. it was a little roguelike mmo u could play in the browser
vgh, kino.
>>737663876i liked making huge nuclear bombs that could be activated by a player in a highly shielded bunked and seeing if they could survive the firestorm of exploding firework lasers, nitro, and oil
>school's IT guy puts in strict blocks>friend uses SSH tunneling to bypass it
>>737665904
>>737665896It's still going on
>>737664451It's honestly amazing that shit like this is still part of the modern curriculum. Or at least it was back in like 2013 when I took a similar class in middle school. We spent an entire year on a basic Microsoft Word tutorial and pointless WPM typing games. Meanwhile, kids in China already coded their own money-printing gachaslop when they 5.
>>737664000Never beat it, I gotta go back and do just that.
there was a game, i think it was called "fu fighter" or something, i think the dev was "phillip fu", you were a little spaceship, it was kind of like a shmup, but in a single arena more like centipede. i remember random cheerios/donuts flying around to shoot, and white/grey balls with red spikes slowly homing in on you. i cant seem to find any information on it. i think the site i played it on was freearcade.com, and it would be pre-2006, maybe even as far back as 2001.i would love to be able to try it again.
>>737666187MOTHAFUCKINFASTYPE.BAT
>>737666123no its not. fuck off
>>737666213I beat it once when there was an extended class or something. It's on Newgrounds if you're looking for it.
>>737666489ok woman
>>737654172>What were your go-to's, my nigga?Whatever this genre was called
>>737667024i remember a bunch of "trials" games. good times.
>>737654172I loved the version of Missile Command they had. Was called Lunar something I think.
>>737654172Anyone remember puffgames? It was my go to flash game site as a kid, it's long dead now and i haven't vistited in like 20 years but I remember it having a really fucked layout where every single game was listed on the front page
>>737654931I remember playing shitty pokemon romhacks on my grandma's vista computer
Where my postopia niggas at? I remember going for the strawberry honeycomb to get the codes in the box
>>737654172Cactus mcCoy, of course
>>737654909my fucking n-word
Bubble tank niggas rise up
>>737654546>>737654740>>737667024The fucking goats
>>737654172I'm 39 and have no fucking clue what this is.
>>737668685website to play flash games, very popular in the 2000s. was that picture from the march tournament last month?
>>737668747Not sure. I saved it during the last basho on /sp/. Don't know if it came from that tournament though.
>>737655593This and Bubble Trouble
>>737654525>>737654220I was the first one of my group to beat this gameNot a thing to brag about but was funny at the time to just be trying to get the highest score and stumble across a satan boss fight
>>737668828i think it was. this past tournament was my first time tuning in to sumo and i remember somebody got hit in the eye pretty hard. kind of fun recognizing something!
test
>>737666489ok city slicker, sneed.
>>737654172The Nitrome game where you’re a Brit shooting a literal chain gun (I can’t remember the name)
All the games were filtered in my school, but my friend's dad was the IT guy and he showed us how to get around it using a few commands in the command prompt.
>is on every desktop in the class
>>737668949the fucking GOAT
>>737654172When we figured out how to install Counter Strike 1.6 or Source and Unreal Tournament we mainly just played that instead of the crappy web browser ones. But i do remember this game being played. Including many of the miniclip ones. We'd have to revert back to the web ones if the admin figured out we were playing them and restricted it somehow.
>>737671875And Quake Arena. My high school class was even playing that. In my later high school years people got into Minecraft and i disliked it.
>>737654172Can't believe no one has mentioned these GOAT's yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E_tbMuJd2whttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld7hBsh7aMQ
>>737655423Retarded zoom zoom
>>737671993Anon, zoomers played these games too. It's gen alpha that's unaware.
>Runescape is on miniclip>Get addicted>Want to make a clan>Somehow convince forums I'm a pretty big deal>Somehow end up, as a kid, with a clan of over thirty members>They are giving me free stuff. Despite the fact I didn't ask for this.>They are making forums for me. Despite the fact I didn't ask for this.>Get bored three months in and give the title of leader to my actual second in command>Clan somehow grows every larger, but inevitably splits and splinters>They wrote fanfiction about me and I kinda cringed at the time because it was very clearly the plot of Shining Force 1Sadly all evidence of the forums is gone. I wonder if I can use the wayback machine and find those posts. Good times, though.
>>737672114>Somehow convince forums I'm a pretty big dealYou discovered how big clans started
>>737671941probably because it didnt even release until 2010, which basically makes it zoomerslop.
>>737672298Again do you know what zoomer means?
>>737672428>millenials have graduated highschool and moved into college dorms>a kid aged 8-12 plays this game when it comes outzoom zoom
>>737672634The site came out in 2001. Wouldn't by that logic make every game on it zoomerslop?
>>7376726915 and unders didnt get computer time in the 2000s. miniclip came out when millennials had computer lab and studyhall. the peak of its popularity was with millennials. millennials weaned off of flash games in their college years as they had more important things to do, as well as real opportunities for multiplayer console games. additionally, console and pc games had reached a point of quality and availability that flash games really began to lose their luster. the 2010s saw a big shift into mobile gaming too, and the general quality of things being put on to miniclip (or any flash game site) were seriously diminishing. sure, some surprising outliers popped up here and there, but it was on the decline. zoomers were the ones accessing it during this period. yes, they played the old greats too, but they were the ones playing the new slop.
>>737673086>5 and unders didnt get computer time in the 2000s. miniclip came out when millennials had computer lab and studyhall.I had a computer lab and time spent around that age.
>>737668685did they have computers in your time, old man?i'm pretty sure you attended class in those one-room school rooms like in the cartoons
>>737672428I don't care about a retarded boomer's charts, zoomers will always be anyone born after the year 2000. Gen alpha's don't exist, they're all zoomers.Everyone that is over 40yrs old now are also all boomers.
>>737654525>>737654220As an autist with scrupulosity, [the fear of demons] I enjoyed this game very much as a kid until someone told me the boss is actually demon, which ruined my mood.
You were the cool kid if you managed to reach level 13 on Dune Buggy.
>>737655593For me it was this, got me through so many boring classes when I was young
>>737668949Simple yet addicting, a solid attention stealer
>>737654172for me, it's raft wars and deep freeze
2003ish, the random kids that always hung out in the computer lab decided to make a “video game” club and we got permission to install some stuff on the school server. We had counterstrike and then random things like the Halo demo that just had blood gulch multiplayer.,
And Fancy Pants Adventures.
>>737665896I remember the /v/ thread for this and the /v/ guilds, fun time. Too bad they mcfucking killed it
>that one kid who played the torture game during computer class
>>737664403I remember me and a friend playing Rampage (the arcade game) for like six hours straight on this website
>>737655593This was the fucking shit. I forget if it was 2 or 3 where you could turn on godmode basically and just put down whatever you want. I would make the craziest shit and spam everything I could.
>>737654172There was some 3D fps game where you fought aliens and it had a deserty alien arena and I think the aliens were orange and kinda round. Was never able to find it again
>>737654172What was that one 3D third person tank controlling game and that one snowball fighting game at night with the house called?
>>737654172Normie trash.Real chads were installing actual pc games and emulators on said computers.
>>737654242Implying today's schools are useful
>>737654525This might be my fav flash game everI tried the newer version on Steam and it just doesn't have that magic
>>737677907you have a better way to gather up kids so the government can bomb them?
>>737654740my favorite fucking game, sometimes i still play it to this very day, surprisingly no one has copied the simple game loop to this day ( or maybe i dont know )https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGJ9DrAiw2Y
>>737654172I wonder how many remember this shit, im too fucking old
>>737654172Parkalot
EL EMMIGRANTE
>>737654525>beat this game>tell friends that there is a bossfight with satan at the bottom of the map>they laugh at me and tell me I didn't beat it>I argue and get really saltyFuck you Kevin
>>737679409kevin sounds like a total faggot. fuck that kid
>>737654242I graduated college with a 4.0 GPA. Me playing games during class in middle school had no effect on the course of my life.
>>737656769No, I actually just remote accessed my home computer through school wifi to play vidya at a 200ms delay
>>737654172why do americans call class rooms a laboratory?
>>737679409To be fair the freeware version hosted on these flash game sites didn't have the Satan boss fight at the end so it's understandable why Kevin didn't believe you
>>737679971it was there when i played it on armorgames or something.
>>737671789https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48Dz6Wtm1Go>25 year old game has better physics than unreal engine
>>737680270>does a flip off every possible jumpA true connoisseur
Any of you niggas remember something like a bullet hell/shmup that was kind of isometric in the POV/camera and was 3D and was really simple/minimalistic in the design/graphics?I remembered it after playing Frantic again the other day.
>>737680543realm of the mad god
>>737680543Only Isometric shoot em up I am aware of is Zaxxon, I remember playing it on pc, but don't quite remember how. maybe there was a port on shockwave? Speaking of which. I mostly remember shockwave. and bonus.com. I think my favorite obscure flash game was MouseMountain. A kind of turn based strategy game.
>>737654884Acid Factory was gonna be my pick for this thread, so nostalgic
>>737680689>>737680780Hmmm IDK if I'd call it isometric but it was kind of close. Forgot to mention it was likely a Shockwave game IIRC that released around the 2010 (give or take a few years)It used 3D models but there wasn't really any textures IIRC, was mostly just gray and flat but with some shadows, the player basically just looked like a 3D mouse pointer/arrow head
Great game>never knew that the multiplayer version they released had a soundtrack until well over a decade laterstill nothing will ever beat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfpQ9NLaS-8
>>737681373Damn shame the dev cucked himself out of Steam because he didn't realize he can't sell mtx for a Steam game over his own site, otherwise the community would be bigger and we'd have more convenient mod support via Workshop.Now he's releasing a NFM remake on some literal who browser game site.
>>737682254>check the game>AI generated images>textures on cars>>synthwave soundtrack>basically the same game set aside a few awful UI changesas you said, he shot himself in the foot and is coming back a decade too late at this point.
>>737654242>implying computer classes in schools were any goodthe only good things about them were flash games and doing your homework from other classes if you needed to
website still alive
Only true gamers installed the Miniclip tool bar on their family's computer.
>>737654401Amazing how this is a PERFECT time capsule of early 2000s nerd fandom. Like it doesn't get more earnest than this. Someone trying to make a Smash fangame today would get themselves twisted in knots over who 'deserves' to be in or whatever. Meanwhile this dude was like >Ichigo and Naruto? Yep they're in!
>>737684378Yeah for me the 00s's biggest keypoint was the limitless potential that was in front of us.Then 9/11 and a whole bunch of bullshit happened.
Boxhead and Heli Attack 2 and 3 were the big ones from miniclip for me. Otherwise there was Stick RPG, Thing-thing, that one where you draw tracks for a bobsled on a 2D background, and a zombie one I forgot the name of. It was the third in a series and it changed up the previous formula by having you trapped in a city and you needed to progress via stronger weapons to break barrades to escape.
>>737654172>Monday Monday Monday>MONDAY IS YOUR DAY
>>737685231THIS is the trials game that i remember playing.
>>737654401that's Super Smash Flash right? too bad he ruined SSF2 with tournament-focused bullshit instead of making the game more fun
>8th grade, 2001>brand new middle school was built with high tech computer network. Every class from math to science to history had a respectable, new computer.>every student had an account and file storage. You can work on your essay anywhere in the building without needing a disc! Amazing right?>one kid explains ROMs to someone>suddenly everyone has every game and every system uploaded to the 2000's internet>IT has to manually go through every kid's account and pull out all their roms and emulators>no one gets in trouble despite the mass piracy we all committedI wound up re-downloading shit anyway. I guess we just collectively gobbled up the storage because no one planned on it being used like that
>>737654172I'm a classy guy.
>>737687259That isn't snooker.
>>737687401i said classy guy, not a homo
>>737654172>Anything on Nitrome, especially Final Ninja or the demolition ones>Any sniper sims>Territory Wars Online, basically stickman Worms>That one game where you changed between black and white, maybe called Shift?>Meet N Fuck series Steve>InfectonatorFuck, there were so many good flash games. I downloaded one of those big archives so I'll work my way through some every once in a while
>>737663876This was awesome, same with Stick Ranger. I still play Powder Toy sometimes (similar but more extensive)
towards the end of my time in high school the IT put a really zealous firewall on the internet making it almost unusable>locked down Windows XP with forced internet explorer 6, eventually 7>most proxy sites blocked>figured out that Microsot Outlook wasn't affected by their firewall until they figured that out and blocked that as well>firewall was internal and would block pages pretty aggressively, sometimes refreshing would work>school ditched a personal laptop policy (this was a very tech-progressive school that started this scheme in like 2002 where every student was assigned a laptop as long as your parents paid for it on a payment plan) just as I joined for communal laptop banks that of course the shitter kids would just remove the keycaps from>banned one time for using a proxy because the IT staff had nothing better to do but snoop on us with screencap softwaremy childhood sucked ass
>>737677864Yeah and then the librarian calls your parents because she thinks you installed malware on the computers
This one was pretty good, even had voice acting
>>737654172NO GAMES IN MY CLASS FAGGOT
>>737672428every single one of these charts always have a different age range for whatever group they want to label that it loses all meaning.
>>737654172I wasted so many hours playing Feudalism 2 on a shitty Dell PC in the corner of the computer room. Good times
that game with stick figures fighting and bullet time shooting The Ray games
>>737654172Half my class was addicted to Urban Rivals, and so was I
>>737654172rubble trouble, skywire, raft wars
>>737654172Heli Attack and Mine Loader
I recall some weird ass platformer with a fairy that was made to advertise 3M products of all fucking things. Some of these flash games were like a goddamn fever dream
>>737654172a bit later than miniclip but I fucking hated theory class for welding and would often spend a lot of those classes playing crush the tower. Which is basically an earlier, cooler and gorie version of angry birds
>>737654172heli attack 2but that one anon is right, eventually i just put an emulator on the computer and played lufia 2that teacher liked me and my friends so most of the time he just let us and didn't care unless he was in a bad mood
>>737654172>enhances your computer lab class
>>737673164Scariest horror game ever
>>737654172>ywn go back to AP English class and squeeze in the same chair as your oneitis and play Kitten Cannon instead of doing your workI miss her so much bros
>>737654740if helitattack 3 is so good, where is heliattack 4
>>737663876>>737664007while not THE falling sand guys, noita did call their studio "falling everything"....
still looking for this game where its a gravity space ship style thing, your just trying to fly around an obstacle course, and one of the default wall textures was a purple cupcake. cant find that shit anywhere
King
My school was large and had a Stasi tier IT department who must have done Bi-weekly school wide history checks and pretty much banned any website that let you have a modicum of fun. It was as if they had collected every bitter administrator from the country and put them in a room together and told them to have fun ruining whatever fun kids might have using the internet.
>>737673164Based, I loved how the car exploded into cheeto dust when you died
How insane did you aquarium?
>>737684378And there would be Youtube essays about how dare they add non-game characters to a Smash game or whatever lol
>>737688594That's because there aren't neat lines actually dividing generations. People are being born constantly after all. Retard.
Remember a wormslike game called 'tanks' that we used to play in high school, and it was allowed because it was on a website called coolmathgames.com. The librarian came up to us seething one day, but we showed her the URL to which she groaned, rolled her eyes and fucked off. Bubble Struggle 2 was another game, albeit an extralegal one, that was popular in those days.
>>737691958That's because its divided via economic booms moron.
I want to play stick wars now
>>737676352this was it
mofunzone
>>737665696Haha, I remember buying my first flash drive in like 2007ish or something and it was 256MB and cost me 31€.
Kino Defense
>>737692931I put so much of my prepaid phone plan into that shit. Horrible. It was *always* won by these tryhards who legitimately had rules like, "if you log off, you get a warning. Second warning, you're out" who would play utterly 24/7 for the whole, what, three month period?
Kingdom of Loathing was the hot computer lab game when I was in high school
>>737654537this and frost jack
>>737671789The absolute GOAT. I played the shit out many, MANY custom level packs, many of which are probably lost media by now.Come to think of it, it was ELMA that got me into modding games. The level creation process just tickled me autism right.
