Oh man! So many old flash games its impossible to remember them all.
Hex Empires & sequels (strategy)
Exmortis & 2 (horror point & click. Part 2 scared me when I was younger.)
Rebuild & 2 (zombie city builder)
Guy of my dreams (This little game had a lot of impact on me about expectations from dating. more than I think the maker intended.)
Epic Battle Fantasy & 2 (So many of these with nostalgia)
Battalion & sequels (turn based tank strategy game)
I used to play flash games a lot. But when they needed plugins or stopped working and I couldn’t figure out how to get them working again, I just stopped. That was years and years ago. So sad.
I can’t recall the name exactly but it was something like ‘swords and sandals’ or something similar. It was about making your own custom gladiator and well just fighting in arena , upgrading your dude and such. I think it was on Newgrounds.
exactly that. The developer relatively recently released a bundle on Steam with the entire series. Pretty good deal for the 8,19 euro (or 9 dollars) asking price.
Remembered one more, Monsters’ Den! And there’s a plus, the developer released all versions on steam.
You can play Book of Dread and Chronicles on flash games sites, but Godfall was the last and released on steam, I remember following the development for it on his blog.
This downhill ski game, played it probably too much:
Also Slime Soccer, played with a couple of friends, and I remember it was fun until we figured out that we could hold down our keys and ghost the opponent’s keys, and then it became stupidly broken…
I remember playing a ton of Bloons Tower Defense too… plus its subsequent sequels, I think I played 1-3 on Flash.
Also the original N, before it got reloaded into Steam as N++ (NPLUSPLUS)…
Spent too much time playing Bejeweled the original, at the time I knew it was a waste of time but it was so addictive.
The most amount of time spent/wasted on a flash game for me though was probably Runescape…
Anyway, lot of others I am sure, those are just off the top of my head.
I don’t have any Flash game suggestions, but damn, this came earlier than expected. I knew that Adobe was going to cut off support on browsers, but I didn’t know that it was literally next year.
I’m going to try and play some of these games during the 4 day weekend (2 days off - yay!). Thanks for the nostalgia, y’all.
I don’t know if anyone is interested, but I have a SWF file player from a while back. If you have a Shockwave flash game as their .swf file, it can play it from your computer without a browser (or internet since it’s all saved to your computer).
They also released it on Steam and I just had to buy it for nostalgia’s sake.
Also loved those tower defense games. All kinds of those. Pretty much all of those I could find on flash game websites.
Strike force heroes are my favorite game series. i thing the first version of the game i the best flash game i have ever played. i am talking about Strike force heroes, what is your favorite flash game?
I remember Newgrounds was my go-to choice for Flash games, even to the point I thought it was basically just another Armor Games/Kongregate/Mniclip/etc., and when I had to go in front of the class and say what I did in my spare time…you can probably guess what kind of reaction that got. I remember thinking "The hell are y’all “ooh"ing for? It’s just a Flash game website,” and I still never knew why until a few years later.
Anyway, I noticed that a few of the games I used to play haven’t been mentioned, so I’ll go ahead and list them (in no particular order):
Super Mario 63
Bullet Maze
Tower of Heaven
Pause Ahead
Pixel Hate
Melee Man
Captain Fugly
Enough Plumbers (1 and 2)
Spikes Tend To Kill You (1 and 2)
Tiny Dangerous Dungeon (I saw it has sequels; I’ll have to check them out at some point).
And, of course, the elephant games (Elephant Rave, Achievement Unlocked, This Is The Only Level, Elephant Quest, etc.).
Much more recently, I played the Flash version Gravity Duck (1 and 2, but not 3; that was made by someone else and it shows), and that’s another one I’d recommend. It didn’t convince me to get the retail version, though.
Ah, Adobe Flash games. My area of expertise. Time for my console-less childhood with only a computer with educational games experience to shine. One of my favourites growing up was Ultimate Flash Sonic. It basically is a Sonic Advance game if it is done with Flash games. Replaying the game it is just OK, but back then it was pretty cool.
Speaking of Sonic Flash games, there were a few Flash games that were official that were used to promote the new games that were coming out at the time. The Sonic Rush Adventure one, playing it again a while back, actually forced me to play well somehow. Speaks volumes on my skill level, though I did beat it thankfully.
Raze was also a really fun Unreal Tournament esque shooter if it were in 2D. The music was pretty cool, also. Although I didn’t really get too far in the campaign back then.
I did like those Papa’s games and whatever similar genres like the one at the Pizzaria or however it’s spelled. I actually managed to beat one game where you are a donkey(?) blacksmith making weapons. I liked those games even though they were dead simple in what they expect.
Those diner games are also a huge guilty pleasure for me, even though they were made for girls in mind probably. With today’s society accepting men liking girls stuff and vice versa, I think it’s perfectly safe to admit this part of me.
