A Childhood Love For Browser Based Flash Games
Mar. 10, 2016A Childhood Love For Browser Based Flash Games
I‘ve always loved gaming, and by love I mean every kind and every platform can get me interested. Sometimes the best gems come from the most unexpected places, and that’s how I found some of the best games I ever played.
Back when I was a kid, I didn’t have enough opportunities to fully enjoy the gaming consoles. Even with a PS1, I used to travel a lot due to my father’s work, and it was in one of those boring 90’s offices that I first discovered PC gaming, not to be confused with the PC gaming we know today. As a 10 year old kid, I would never imagine that people could win gigantic prizes for winning a League of Legends competition, or that people could play modded Skyrim for insanely realistic graphics, but that’s not what I discovered in those offices, I’m here to talk about old browser flash games.
Sure you’ve heard of them, at least once in your life you experienced them. Don’t tell me when you went to the “computer” class at school you’d never try to evade your work and go play those cool, “easy to access and play” games. Some of those cool sites are still fresh on my mind, the first to come up is Armorgames.
This site, and many others, feature so many games that you can spend days trying them all, or hours playing only one good game. If you think about it, it’s not much different than what we have today as mobile apps. To think that none of these flash games developers ever had the chance of earning billions, like that Flappy Bird guy. What is more unsatisfying is that some of these flash games are ten, no, a hundred times more entertaining.
The key word here is variety. There’s just so many categories, from sports to RPG adventures and point and click strategy, the list just never seems to end. And the fact that it’s so easy to boot up and play, and most of the time it doesn’t required you to save and continue just makes it even better.
Now the best flash game I ever played it’s a bit different from those. These guys just worked hard, and got everything right: Art, Voicework, Soundtrack. I’d say only the story seems to be lacking, but it reminds me of the “Dark Souls” way that the player can interpret half the story on their own. I’m talking about Sonny.
It’s a bit sad to think that times are changing, and the industry too. We live in the age of the so called “AAA” games and big advertisements, and “casual” mobile gaming. It feels that flash games are dying, and with them a big part of my childhood. Nevertheless, I’m grateful to all those developers who created this stuff, from small bits of fun to fantastic worlds condensed in the flash player format.
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Carphil
keep them coming Carphil.
Ithink i might go play some old school browser games over their flashy freemium apps counterparts
You should definitely post more articles Carphil, but yeah you’re article definitely reminds me of my time way back when I would spend a ton of time on Newgrounds and Addictinggames. Those sites and the old Runescape were the places that me and my gradeschool friends would go when we wanted to avoid homework.
Thanks guys! I’m definitely not a great writer, but I like to share some random thoughts, so why not
Yes! There’s so many good writers on the blog, I read it a lot but never thought about writing. But who knows, I might post more stuff!
Nice Article you brought back memories of playing on addicting games.
I used to play on Newgrounds and Kongregate.
Is this your first article with us??? Liked reading it a lot btw, it’s crazy to see how far gaming has come in such a short time.
