I had so much fun gathering footage for the crazy amount of Flash games featured throughout this video! I tried to include as many of my favourites as I could, plus some that people recommended. Did I include one of your favourites? Is there a Flash game you love that didn't make it into the video? Lemme know!
Man, you included favs I forgot about! If I had to pick one you didn't show that I adore, it's a little known game called Charger Escape. You help a horse escape its stable by turning it into an alicorn.
Adobe: Yeah we're gonna be shutting flash down eventually. Newgrounds: Who wakes me from my slumber? What's the proble-oh okay yeah I'll get right on it
Ever since I heard about Flash being dropped completely, I've been dreading the end of 2020. I was afraid that games I played ever since I was a kid would completely disappear. Not to mention all the cool animations I watched like Super Mario Bros Z. The people working on Flashpoint are awesome. They could've made it a profitable service but instead they made it free to make sure they don't take credit for the creators work. I'm also glad that everything on Newgrounds will be alright, but I'm kinda worried about Armor games. I'm downloading Flashpoint right now to take a stroll down memory lane, and to show my younger brothers what they missed out on. :')
@@dream6562 "Speak for urself,my memory is fucked!" Some random guy(Omid)from the walking dead when being pulled into a train lol XD.Even though,my memory really is fucked...Like,I can't remember what I ate yesterday,or even TODAY as a matter of fact,but I can remember things that happened like 10 years ago?R u freaking kidding me?Then again,that's probably because 10 years ago was like 1000 times better than today,cuz I was still a kid.A mere 10 y o kid...With no expectations...Not a care in the world...Ugh...Man...What I wouldn't give to be 10 again lol
The Library of Congress has a whole building and staff dedicated to preserving old movies and TV shows which is awesome. I wish they would put that same amount of effort into preserving video games including flash games, maybe even more just because if it's something like an MMO then you need server code and a server to run and not just a copy of the game. They don't do nothing but it seems like most of the effort is coming from pirates, emulator makers and people in the community.
No, because video games bad! In all fairness it's sad that when we grow up we will regret and blame the oldest boomers for thinking that our latest generation childhoods didn't deserve to be preserved because they most than likely think that if it is on the Internet it will never disappear. Heck, I'm worried about programs that simulate experiments that use Flash, and because the college teachers may not even know that it's going to shut down they will be left dumbfounded and then they will shift the blame onto students to try to run simulations without being able to go to labs due to Covid.
@@l0k048 Did you just only read the first part of my comment or are you trying to imply something about how games won't disappear like movies haven't because people will keep having them stored?
Studying archival sciences and going to spend my next 40 years working full-time as an archivist (I'll start writing my thesis soon), I'm happy to see how much effort the community is putting to preserve this piece of cultural heritage for the future. Yes, flash games are cultural heritage without any doubt, preserving them is therefore an important task, which is sadly overlooked, so the community has to do it on their own, voluntarily and by sacrificing lots free time and relying on donated funds. It's wonderful to see how much love and dedication goes into this huge preservation project. Hopefully we all will overcome any hurdles and get this done.
The sad thing for me, is that several games i liked werent popular, were very obscure and wont ever make to any of these compilations or preservation projects. And i cant even remember their names or find them.
I know how you feel. But you’r be surprised at how many of them are actually on there! And for the ones that are not, there will still be websites (even husks of websites) that still refer to them in one way or another, if that can give you peace- nothing on the internet is truly ever gone!
same here i decided to look for a website i used to play games on daily & i only have vague memories of it. such a shame we'll probably never get to rediscover them before flash is gone for good
@@turtleliker64 In my case i found one of my childhood games, scooby speed. I knew it was a scooby doo game, just didnt remember the name. Guys on reddit couldnt find it either. But i found in flashpoint. Maybe if you know something about them, you may find them there
There were so many nostalgic games I worried about the fate of. But simply seeing them in this video for a few seconds gave me a sense of confidence that they'll never be lost.
Glorious music playing in the background feels me with so much childhood nostalgia...Age of War, Siegius...on top of being an absolute masterpiece and THE most iconic song for the era of flash games imo.
Interactivity is amazing with newgrounds animation. I always, and I mean always use the .swf option when I can. Whether flash dies or not, I'll still be using it through the newgrounds player. Can't stop me, adobe! :)
@@IAm-zo1bo The thing swf files did best was portability because most of the big browsers supported flash players. Nowadays there are alternatives that can do the same things as swf files so there isn't really any need to do use them specifically. The biggest reason to support them is backwards compatibility, and the biggest reasons to get rid of support are security and browser code maintainability.
@eatmyasskuro idiot its kinda ur fault if u made your website on flash when it was shit for years Yes sad that the games go but its very buggy and sorry but when was ur website made? Cuz it was exppected for it to die
@@IAm-zo1bo Don't call someone an idiot when you can't even spell or capitalize letters properly. Let alone make low tier grug shit arguments for flash's death. *DURR THE BURNING OF THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA IS KIND OF YOUR FAULT IF YOU MAKE STORAGE FOR PAPERS IT BURN GRUG GRUG REAL SMORT!* This is literally book burning btw, this sets a terrible precedent that can cause massive damage to historical archiving and preservation etc.
@TaxelPalks The Dork You should work on trying to archive it maybe? Try looking up how to possibly, you might still have plenty of time to change its functionality and update it with some form of emulation etc.
Sites like Newgrounds might actually become bigger than ever before since the end of Flash makes people research stuff like this and Newgrounds will have little to no competition now.
This is going to be the last good bye for my love of Flash games. I will never forget the good times when Friv, Kizi, or Not Doppler used to be my "playground" on the Internet.
Every time I start a flashgame, I see a brief intro of whoever made the game or whichever website hosts the game. The flashy rectangle from NEWGROUNDS | EVERYTHING BY EVERYONE! The fighting swords from ARMORGAMES! The ant from KONGREGATE! If you played a lot of flashgames in the past you'll know what I mean. Now that I look back on my old flashgames, I notice that I have subconsciously become nostalgic for those intros. They're still there, in my downloaded flashgames. Since noone ever talks about them, I feel like it would be a novel, unique, and original idea to make a video compilation out of a lot of them.
It's kind of disappointing to think about that fact that the future generation might not even know what there is/used to be and what they are missing out on. BlueMaxima is a godsent. I wish them best of luck.
@@skrillah6259 i don't think i've ever played that either, i played alot of flash games but there were also alot that i skipped, i used to love zombooka lol.
I mean, I grew up with Flash games and all, but I have never shown Newgrounds the Respect it deserves. Too bad a bunch of animations I know won't get ported. 16:23 there should be a messiah pose there
Just use the standalone Flash player. It’s an exe file that you can use with swf files to play them. It will still work after the Flash player (web version) gets discontinued and the Newgrounds Player also works just like it. And it’s officially made by Adobe. And also Flashpoint uses it.
You have to learn how to rip swf files from sites, which some people might not feel comfortable learning. And we'd have to know that something was in place to keep these archives of games alive. If this initiatives weren't operational, they'd shut down and all those games would be lost
I was part of a small dress up game community when I was younger. A year or two ago we spent time mourning the loss of our games, but now I have a mission. Tying to get all the games preserved on Flashpoint will be tough, because there was quite a few of them, but they're worth preserving, for myself, my community, and those in the future who will get to experience them. Thank you so much for making this video, because I was part of the hopeless crowd thinking that I'd never get to play another flash game once time ran out.
A few years ago, I started downloading all flash animations I liked. One animation I didn't find however. It was a parody of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon that was drawn with vector graphics, i.e. not pixel art. After the personality test was over, Gardevoir looked at the score and saw that the points would be enough to turn into Mew. Then, the conversation went something like this: "You're going to be a Bulbasaur." - "Bulbasaur? Can't I be a Pikachu?" - "Nope!" I think I saw it on UA-cam, meaning that I'm not sure if the original SWF file ever existed, but if you know the UA-cam video it would still help me out a lot!
Ah it's so nice to see that so many people share the same dedication to preserve parts of their childhoods. I do actually remember one flash game which i really liked to play during my time: "Super Mario 63." It was such a nice homage to Super Mario 64 with the additions of Mario Sunshine's and Mario Galaxy's elements. It would really be a shame to see such great games like these be gone. Thanks for making this video, I'm glad to know there are still options even after the end of 2020.
Super Mario 63 has still an active community! The links for the discord servers are: The runouw community discord (runouw created mario 63 and other games, with his inactivity the community has also expanded to other stuff): discord.gg/v5KcbR A more super mario 63 centered server: discord.gg/TGfj8x The old forum were the community originated (now it is frozen and it probably will be canceled in the future): runouw.com/forums/
This is a relief to here that these games will be preserved. I grew up without the money to buy a computer that could run most big popular games so I always loved that I could play games on the internet free of charge with adobe flash player. Flash was my childhood.
72 Hours Later: "It's alright, Soldier! We haven't got the tumours! Everythings going to be all right, so long as you haven't been prematurely deleting flash games." "I have done nothing but prematurely delete flash games for the past 72 hours."
A few of my favorite flash games: Duck Life, Battle in Megaville (Powerpuff Fighting game), Sonic RPG, Dragonball games, Mario games, Happy Wheels, Bomb It, Playing with Fire, Diner Dash, Sift Heads, Bloons TD, Swords and Sandals, Super Smash Flash, Escape Games, and so many more. I miss being a kid :(
Oh man, what I would give to be able to play Swords & Potions 1 again. That game actually felt like you were a shopkeeper without tacking on different genres like Recettear, and without the garbage in S&P2. The Flashpoint preservation list says that there is a revival project going on in a discord since the servers were long since shut down, but I couldn't find any information on that at all. Maybe someone here knows anything?
Not that I've heard, but I was never really familiar with that game. That's cool that people are taking these preservation efforts and step further, and actually reviving shut down mmo games!
@@2leftthumbs All we need now is for a community to come together for a "Flashpoint Adult" project. There's a huge repository of adult cartoon and hentai flash games that a lot of people grew up on. Hell, just the other day, my coworker and I were talking about how he still remembers Frank's Adventure from way back in the day. There's a lot of timeless classics that became the backbone for H-games today.
@@Chaooo I've always thought it would be funny to do a Frank's Adventure Flashlight episode in a coy way, where I pretend that I've never actually played it myself haha. I thiiiink Flashpoint has a separated adult section? I'm not 100% sure how they are managing that?
Man, flash games were my childhood. Age of War, Cactus McCoy, Kingdom Rush, Monster's Den: Chronicles, Battle Cry: Age of Myths, Berzerk Ball, Miragine War...not to mention point-and-click horror games like Don't Escape 3 and The Last Door... But most of all the Gamerias and the Mardek RPG series; seriously tho Mardek is probably my favorite flash game of all time, and the only one I still play sometimes...it'd be really sad to see it go, together with a large portion of my childhood, so I'm glad there is options to preserve them. Glorious Morning is practically the theme of my childhood (and flash game nostalgia in general, being in so many memorable games such as Age of War (2), Siegius and Miragine war) and an amazing masterpiece...there really could not have been any better background music for this video. Edit: 17:00 HOLY SHIT I REMEMBER PLAYING THIS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Also Pseudolonewolf give us Mardek part 4 pls..?
Wait... Since my childhood I remember a 2d shooter I just can't find... I don't remember name... Please tell me it's this one. My nostalgia hunger would be filled just SO MUCH
I recognize Stick RPG in there! My dad actually had it as a downloaded game on an old HP laptop running Windows XP and my family would play it sometimes.
I've spent many years trying to master this one of a kind application, grew up with this, and even mastered all actionscripts from 1-3. Now it's coming to an end but all the valuable things that I learned during the process live on.
I distinctly remember the explosion of popularity in sites like AddictingGames in 2000 and 2001, all built on flash games made and uploaded to those sites.
anybody remembers the name of a flash fighting game hosted on e4 where you had 6 (3 unlockable) characters, you fought either in a city, a construction site or a canyon through punches, kicks and energy attacks? the characters were very small and with enough force you could destroy the terrain by making your enemy crash through it. every1 had an unique attack, such as a robot-looking man that could envelop itself in energy to jump and fall faster and damage the enemy on contact with enough speed, or a woman who could shoot an energy bomb that went through walls. it had a sequel iirc
To the people who did this , thank you , i am actually tearing up , i can play most of my favorite Mario flash games from my childhood , wich i tought were gone forever, now this is internet preservation.
Two of my favorite flash games are dead, most likely, because of this half-assed, fun-ending and childhood-trashing move. But fuck it! 2021 good am I right?
It’s the ultimate sacrifice... In 2021 we will finally be free of this cursed year, but along with it goes an icon. We will miss you flash, we will miss you...
Im sad that I don't think one of my favorite games as a kid was saved. I went throughout the list and see pretty much all of them but "Rubble Trouble" series. It was a small but great game, if anyone finds it pls let me know
You can request for the game/series if you want yourself! Just go flashpoint's website, then go to their game list and then at the top you should see the request blue text! Just press that and follow the instuctions!
you can go frame-by-frame on youtube with the . and , keys, but considering that you didnt know that shows how unknown and cryptic it is, so huge W for newgrounds on that
8:47 "...that allows for frame by frame scrubbing" The "." and "," button on UA-cam: ☹️ But other than that thats a realy good video on the flash thematic. Very nice video with great research. I hope to see more :)
The fact that I suddenly decided that I will download all the riddle school games RIGHT before he said Jonochrome compiled them on Gamejolt unnerves me.
Hey!!! I know probably no one cares but this absolutely iconic game called poptripica is converting their game from flash to HTML5! d not only that, this wonderful member of the community (his name is IDK the Glitcher) is preserving a bunch of parts of poptropica to Flashpoint..... This vid made me cry ngl...
Just watching this video has been such a trip down memory lane. Thank you for spreading awareness and bringing the attention to those interesting preservation projects.
16:21 The problem was that the Flash shut down and there was nothing to replace it... yeah, sure, maybe in a few years there will be something that would work universally on the internet to make everything work as before... but in the meantime, a lot of things simply disappear... It should never happen as it happened... Flash should keep it running with some "on your own risk" warning until there's a proper, and fully working replacement... html5 is absolutely not...
Big corporations will do anything to keep their businesses running. Flash was probably killed by Apple and Google to promote their app stores. They may even have paid Adobe to do so.
8:42 UA-cam allows frame-by frame scrubbing using the comma and period keys. No one knows about this though because UA-cam never explains its own features to its users. Great video btw. I'll be sure to check out flashpoint and consider donating to newgrounds. Your video definitely reminded me of how worthwhile they are.
Oh man, I have been worried about this every time I turn on my computer and see the ''Flash will no longer be supported after 2020'' marking the impending doom very clearly, I reaaally thought there would be no way to use Flash after it was gone but I'm sososo glad I found this as it's useful for a lot of other things that don't involve games too although I'm also relieved I can still play :p
I really like that every flash game is just a Single SWF file which can be run anywhere. The only thing you need is to just visit a website having this game, and download it by finding its source file link.
Ok so there's one game I've been trying to hunt since like more than a few years. It was on MoFunZone (back when if you typed amorgames youd be redirected there) under a two player section. It was like dodgeball in a grid like arena (like a training mode) and for the life of me, i can't find it anymore. Anyone able to help?
About Flashpoint Infinity... I've downloaded it before the end of 2020 and tried to play some games and cartoons on it, but nothing, absolutely NOTHING seems to work. When I looked into info of their Flash Player copy, I've noticed they've got the one from 2018. How to solve this problem? And yes... Rest in peace, Flash. We hardly knew ye...
this reminded me of a browser game i was searching for some years now that I really wanted to play again, it was like a rpg with a kingdom rush art style. there was a storyline, with multiple characters you could unlock as you progress through the levels, then there were different upgrades for each character and those made the character look flashier when upgraded a certain ammount of times. I'd really love to play it again, if anyone catches the game please tell me its name, i'd appreaciate it
"the only player I know that allows for frame-by-frame scrubbing". I think you'll be delighted to hear that you can step single frames forward and backwards in the UA-cam video player using the period and comma keys
My favorite flash game is DBZ develotion such a simple game but the creator worked on that flash game for 15 years and it has such a huge cast of characters
"More stable" is such a huge lie about html5 though. Compatibility is all over the place needing all sorts of plugins at times and not displaying right on some browsers and os. Meanwhile the same flash games i played 20 years ago still work today on new flash players
I had so much fun gathering footage for the crazy amount of Flash games featured throughout this video!
I tried to include as many of my favourites as I could, plus some that people recommended. Did I include one of your favourites? Is there a Flash game you love that didn't make it into the video? Lemme know!
Frame by frame scrubbing is possible on UA-cam with the comma and period keys
can you make one about eyezmaze a lot of grow games i played when i was a kid are from there they have eyezmaze.com
Maybe you were trying to not include characters made by bigger complaines, but Super Mario 63 was definitely on of my favorites.
Man, you included favs I forgot about!
If I had to pick one you didn't show that I adore, it's a little known game called Charger Escape. You help a horse escape its stable by turning it into an alicorn.
Oh my heck you featured Red Remover.
I always forget how hard the devs for Newgrounds have worked to make the site user and creator friendly
It's a never-ending, seemingly thankless job. And they've been doing it with their heads held high for decades!
The fact that I have played 3/4 of the games shown yells me exactly what kind of childhood I had.
The best kind!!
The great ones
Hahah! Right! A lot of familiar games there.
Same.
Yeah I had like 1/4
“Carefully, he’s a hero.”
Yes, flash is a hero
we won’t tell nobody
I have a question he said there is hope but the flash will like the olds one
He's not a hero... He's a legend
You copey
Adobe: Yeah we're gonna be shutting flash down eventually.
Newgrounds: Who wakes me from my slumber? What's the proble-oh okay yeah I'll get right on it
Newgrounds Player is the greatest thing we ever got in Newgrounds in years
@Fine Wine What?
@Fine Wine what's what?
@Fine Wine it is a website that is based and redpilled
@Fine Wine It's one of the biggest websites for Flash games and animations. Started in the early or late 2000's if I recall correctly. Look it up
Ever since I heard about Flash being dropped completely, I've been dreading the end of 2020. I was afraid that games I played ever since I was a kid would completely disappear. Not to mention all the cool animations I watched like Super Mario Bros Z. The people working on Flashpoint are awesome. They could've made it a profitable service but instead they made it free to make sure they don't take credit for the creators work. I'm also glad that everything on Newgrounds will be alright, but I'm kinda worried about Armor games. I'm downloading Flashpoint right now to take a stroll down memory lane, and to show my younger brothers what they missed out on. :')
Its ok if they disappear games were not meant to be preserved forever, they will live on in our memories and that's good enough
@@dream6562 yeah I guess your right :/
@@dream6562 "Speak for urself,my memory is fucked!"
Some random guy(Omid)from the walking dead when being pulled into a train lol XD.Even though,my memory really is fucked...Like,I can't remember what I ate yesterday,or even TODAY as a matter of fact,but I can remember things that happened like 10 years ago?R u freaking kidding me?Then again,that's probably because 10 years ago was like 1000 times better than today,cuz I was still a kid.A mere 10 y o kid...With no expectations...Not a care in the world...Ugh...Man...What I wouldn't give to be 10 again lol
@@dream6562 Yeah no sorry preservation is eternal. These creators put hard work into what they made and they deserve to have their work last forever.
BFDI, BFDIA, IDFB, BFBFDI, BFBFBFDI,
its 2020 and fun has just been declared ILLEGAL
Why wanted to play smash bro’s on a school chrome book when I get one and guess I sorta still can idk GeForce now is not block though
By who? Emulators and piracy are also ilegal, aren't they? Lol
No super smash flash 2
A flash port of smash for 3ds
Actully its happening at the begiining of next year so its actaully 2021 declares fun as illegal
The Library of Congress has a whole building and staff dedicated to preserving old movies and TV shows which is awesome. I wish they would put that same amount of effort into preserving video games including flash games, maybe even more just because if it's something like an MMO then you need server code and a server to run and not just a copy of the game. They don't do nothing but it seems like most of the effort is coming from pirates, emulator makers and people in the community.
No, because video games bad! In all fairness it's sad that when we grow up we will regret and blame the oldest boomers for thinking that our latest generation childhoods didn't deserve to be preserved because they most than likely think that if it is on the Internet it will never disappear. Heck, I'm worried about programs that simulate experiments that use Flash, and because the college teachers may not even know that it's going to shut down they will be left dumbfounded and then they will shift the blame onto students to try to run simulations without being able to go to labs due to Covid.
@@xyannail4678 tell me the difference between a game and a movie
@@l0k048 Did you just only read the first part of my comment or are you trying to imply something about how games won't disappear like movies haven't because people will keep having them stored?
@@xyannail4678 no i'm not ..you now what? sorry for the comment i didn't even fully understood yours
@@xyannail4678 Nice try, "covid" is fake.
watched this with a tear in my eye, probably played 95% of the games shown
Studying archival sciences and going to spend my next 40 years working full-time as an archivist (I'll start writing my thesis soon), I'm happy to see how much effort the community is putting to preserve this piece of cultural heritage for the future. Yes, flash games are cultural heritage without any doubt, preserving them is therefore an important task, which is sadly overlooked, so the community has to do it on their own, voluntarily and by sacrificing lots free time and relying on donated funds. It's wonderful to see how much love and dedication goes into this huge preservation project. Hopefully we all will overcome any hurdles and get this done.
Oh that sounds cool! What is it like working as an archivist? I’ve never really heard about that kind of profession, but it sounds interesting
Are there any contacts you have made that could help this endeavour?
Goodbye flash,it’s 11:24pm,we’ll miss you.
The sad thing for me, is that several games i liked werent popular, were very obscure and wont ever make to any of these compilations or preservation projects.
And i cant even remember their names or find them.
I know how you feel. But you’r be surprised at how many of them are actually on there! And for the ones that are not, there will still be websites (even husks of websites) that still refer to them in one way or another, if that can give you peace- nothing on the internet is truly ever gone!
@@amneetthedelicioussandwich8921 Yeah! I actually got really excited for some projects i will defintly download the 500gb one
same here i decided to look for a website i used to play games on daily & i only have vague memories of it. such a shame we'll probably never get to rediscover them before flash is gone for good
@@turtleliker64 In my case i found one of my childhood games, scooby speed. I knew it was a scooby doo game, just didnt remember the name.
Guys on reddit couldnt find it either.
But i found in flashpoint.
Maybe if you know something about them, you may find them there
Make your own then, try searching them back then downloading their files and make them into torrent files!
There were so many nostalgic games I worried about the fate of. But simply seeing them in this video for a few seconds gave me a sense of confidence that they'll never be lost.
Glorious music playing in the background feels me with so much childhood nostalgia...Age of War, Siegius...on top of being an absolute masterpiece and THE most iconic song for the era of flash games imo.
Interactivity is amazing with newgrounds animation. I always, and I mean always use the .swf option when I can.
Whether flash dies or not, I'll still be using it through the newgrounds player. Can't stop me, adobe! :)
^^
Wait whats the good part about swf aside from games being only in swf
interactivity that really blurred the line between games and animation is probably one of the major points
@@IAm-zo1bo being able to navigate menus and things or have secret buttons hidden in the animation etc
@@IAm-zo1bo The thing swf files did best was portability because most of the big browsers supported flash players. Nowadays there are alternatives that can do the same things as swf files so there isn't really any need to do use them specifically. The biggest reason to support them is backwards compatibility, and the biggest reasons to get rid of support are security and browser code maintainability.
The death of Flash. This would have been expected by no one 15 years ago.
@eatmyasskuro idiot its kinda ur fault if u made your website on flash when it was shit for years
Yes sad that the games go but its very buggy and sorry but when was ur website made? Cuz it was exppected for it to die
@@IAm-zo1bo Don't call him an idiot it's undeserved.
@@IAm-zo1bo Don't call someone an idiot when you can't even spell or capitalize letters properly. Let alone make low tier grug shit arguments for flash's death.
*DURR THE BURNING OF THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA IS KIND OF YOUR FAULT IF YOU MAKE STORAGE FOR PAPERS IT BURN GRUG GRUG REAL SMORT!*
This is literally book burning btw, this sets a terrible precedent that can cause massive damage to historical archiving and preservation etc.
@TaxelPalks The Dork You should work on trying to archive it maybe?
Try looking up how to possibly, you might still have plenty of time to change its functionality and update it with some form of emulation etc.
@@IAm-zo1bo You were expected to die but you're still here you mutant
Sites like Newgrounds might actually become bigger than ever before since the end of Flash makes people research stuff like this and Newgrounds will have little to no competition now.
Adobe: we will no longer be supporting Flash
Newgrounds: oh no you don’t
These games were basically my childhood. I'm glad that they are here to stay.
This is going to be the last good bye for my love of Flash games. I will never forget the good times when Friv, Kizi, or Not Doppler used to be my "playground" on the Internet.
I am sad about friv it has so many memories for me
@@gingerfool me too *gets sucked into a black hole*
I'll never forget adding numbers to Friv to see what I'll get
@@LakesideWoes why would u do that
I remember Flonga and Coolmath, aswell as Nitrome, but never actually went to Newgrounds as a youngling
Every time I start a flashgame, I see a brief intro of whoever made the game or whichever website hosts the game. The flashy rectangle from NEWGROUNDS | EVERYTHING BY EVERYONE! The fighting swords from ARMORGAMES! The ant from KONGREGATE! If you played a lot of flashgames in the past you'll know what I mean. Now that I look back on my old flashgames, I notice that I have subconsciously become nostalgic for those intros. They're still there, in my downloaded flashgames. Since noone ever talks about them, I feel like it would be a novel, unique, and original idea to make a video compilation out of a lot of them.
I have some incredibly fond memories of those as well.
Making a compilation, or maybe a ranking of them, or something could be a super fun idea!
@@2leftthumbs If you ever make such a video please notify me!
It's kind of disappointing to think about that fact that the future generation might not even know what there is/used to be and what they are missing out on.
BlueMaxima is a godsent. I wish them best of luck.
They might never experience war of ages
@@skrillah6259 i don't think i've ever played that either, i played alot of flash games but there were also alot that i skipped, i used to love zombooka lol.
@@daemonvanmeir9697 War of ages is a must play try it now it's never too late.
I will ween my children on flash games before I let them play all those newfangled games lol
As a kid born way too late to enjoy flash games and lived without using computers for years, I agree. I will miss these games.
I mean, I grew up with Flash games and all, but I have never shown Newgrounds the Respect it deserves. Too bad a bunch of animations I know won't get ported.
16:23 there should be a messiah pose there
Mad respect for Tom Fulp and Newground team for preserving and caring for flash since founding.
You guys are heroes of creativity.
Just use the standalone Flash player. It’s an exe file that you can use with swf files to play them.
It will still work after the Flash player (web version) gets discontinued and the Newgrounds Player also works just like it.
And it’s officially made by Adobe.
And also Flashpoint uses it.
You can play ANY flash game FOREVER
@@joechristo2 As long as you have the .swf files of the game to play them.
Us Linux users have to ”settle” for the flash standalone debugger because there is no standalone player just peperflash.
You have to learn how to rip swf files from sites, which some people might not feel comfortable learning.
And we'd have to know that something was in place to keep these archives of games alive. If this initiatives weren't operational, they'd shut down and all those games would be lost
@@2leftthumbs And some games have site protection so you need something like Flashpoint (which emulates the internet) for many games.
The fact that Flashpoint is a genuine, free, archive of literally SIXTY-THOUSAND games, is simultaneously unbelievable and incredible
I will forever cherish the software that made all these amazing games possible to the day I die. Such a special little thing.
5:44 WAIT A SEC I KNOW THAT MUSIC
Account An0nymous same, I know that music from Age of War
I’m so happy Flashpoint has archived Min Hero - Tower of Sages. That game is one of my favourites, and the fact that it’s in safe hands overjoys me.
Tom Fulp is such an awesome guy, I remember messaging him and he actually took the time to reply
I was part of a small dress up game community when I was younger. A year or two ago we spent time mourning the loss of our games, but now I have a mission. Tying to get all the games preserved on Flashpoint will be tough, because there was quite a few of them, but they're worth preserving, for myself, my community, and those in the future who will get to experience them.
Thank you so much for making this video, because I was part of the hopeless crowd thinking that I'd never get to play another flash game once time ran out.
WAIT this is the reason we got the henry stickmin collection? That's so nice of puffballs
A few years ago, I started downloading all flash animations I liked. One animation I didn't find however. It was a parody of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon that was drawn with vector graphics, i.e. not pixel art. After the personality test was over, Gardevoir looked at the score and saw that the points would be enough to turn into Mew. Then, the conversation went something like this: "You're going to be a Bulbasaur." - "Bulbasaur? Can't I be a Pikachu?" - "Nope!" I think I saw it on UA-cam, meaning that I'm not sure if the original SWF file ever existed, but if you know the UA-cam video it would still help me out a lot!
i would probably watch this video just for seeing all the old games in the background. memories...
Ah it's so nice to see that so many people share the same dedication to preserve parts of their childhoods. I do actually remember one flash game which i really liked to play during my time: "Super Mario 63." It was such a nice homage to Super Mario 64 with the additions of Mario Sunshine's and Mario Galaxy's elements. It would really be a shame to see such great games like these be gone.
Thanks for making this video, I'm glad to know there are still options even after the end of 2020.
Mario 63 has a downloadable Exe version right?
@@WednesdayMan Yeah. But that's modified a bit.
Flashpoint archives the exact web version.
@@cst1229 But the Exe version is the official one from the devs themselves. I've played both and found that the Exe version is also running in flash.
Yo i loved that game since i never had the chance to get super Mario 64 or basically any other nintendo game
Super Mario 63 has still an active community! The links for the discord servers are:
The runouw community discord (runouw created mario 63 and other games, with his inactivity the community has also expanded to other stuff): discord.gg/v5KcbR
A more super mario 63 centered server: discord.gg/TGfj8x
The old forum were the community originated (now it is frozen and it probably will be canceled in the future): runouw.com/forums/
This is a relief to here that these games will be preserved. I grew up without the money to buy a computer that could run most big popular games so I always loved that I could play games on the internet free of charge with adobe flash player. Flash was my childhood.
The list of games that were in the background gave me so much nostalgia Downhill Snowboard!!
"Gentelmen start your deathwatches"
"We have 72 hours to live for most men no time at all... We are not most men we are mercenaries and we have the resources to make thi shours count.. "
72 Hours Later:
"It's alright, Soldier! We haven't got the tumours! Everythings going to be all right, so long as you haven't been prematurely deleting flash games."
"I have done nothing but prematurely delete flash games for the past 72 hours."
@@thetrippedup9322 Where have you been deleting them!?
Synchronise* not start
I have been teleporting bread for 3 days
A few of my favorite flash games:
Duck Life, Battle in Megaville (Powerpuff Fighting game), Sonic RPG, Dragonball games, Mario games, Happy Wheels, Bomb It, Playing with Fire, Diner Dash, Sift Heads, Bloons TD, Swords and Sandals, Super Smash Flash, Escape Games, and so many more. I miss being a kid :(
I was just thinking about how time is almost up for Flash. I'm glad there's still some hope for the games I loved.
Oh man, what I would give to be able to play Swords & Potions 1 again. That game actually felt like you were a shopkeeper without tacking on different genres like Recettear, and without the garbage in S&P2. The Flashpoint preservation list says that there is a revival project going on in a discord since the servers were long since shut down, but I couldn't find any information on that at all. Maybe someone here knows anything?
Not that I've heard, but I was never really familiar with that game. That's cool that people are taking these preservation efforts and step further, and actually reviving shut down mmo games!
@@2leftthumbs All we need now is for a community to come together for a "Flashpoint Adult" project. There's a huge repository of adult cartoon and hentai flash games that a lot of people grew up on. Hell, just the other day, my coworker and I were talking about how he still remembers Frank's Adventure from way back in the day. There's a lot of timeless classics that became the backbone for H-games today.
@@Chaooo I've always thought it would be funny to do a Frank's Adventure Flashlight episode in a coy way, where I pretend that I've never actually played it myself haha.
I thiiiink Flashpoint has a separated adult section? I'm not 100% sure how they are managing that?
@@Chaooo last I checked flashpoint was archiving NSFW stuff too
their goal was basically to archive
Man, flash games were my childhood. Age of War, Cactus McCoy, Kingdom Rush, Monster's Den: Chronicles, Battle Cry: Age of Myths, Berzerk Ball, Miragine War...not to mention point-and-click horror games like Don't Escape 3 and The Last Door...
But most of all the Gamerias and the Mardek RPG series; seriously tho Mardek is probably my favorite flash game of all time, and the only one I still play sometimes...it'd be really sad to see it go, together with a large portion of my childhood, so I'm glad there is options to preserve them.
Glorious Morning is practically the theme of my childhood (and flash game nostalgia in general, being in so many memorable games such as Age of War (2), Siegius and Miragine war) and an amazing masterpiece...there really could not have been any better background music for this video.
Edit: 17:00 HOLY SHIT I REMEMBER PLAYING THIS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
Also Pseudolonewolf give us Mardek part 4 pls..?
Flash games were the childhood of kids in the 2000s
big fax
8:45: Desktop UA-cam does that, too; hit , and ..
Also, holy crap the flash games playing in the background gave me nostalgia.
8:32 can i just say HOLY SHIT Tarboy has never looked better!
At 0:55 when you put on the fancy pants adventure music I almost cried brooo
I'm so happy the community did this to save nostalgia.
I really hope that Flipline saves the Papa's ___ria series.
I grew up with them and I want my kids to grow up with him
Let’s hope strike force heroes 2 doesn’t die. That was hands down one of the best flash shooters ever.
Medic class stand up!!
Wait... Since my childhood I remember a 2d shooter I just can't find... I don't remember name... Please tell me it's this one. My nostalgia hunger would be filled just SO MUCH
I recognize Stick RPG in there! My dad actually had it as a downloaded game on an old HP laptop running Windows XP and my family would play it sometimes.
I've spent many years trying to master this one of a kind application, grew up with this, and even mastered all actionscripts from 1-3. Now it's coming to an end but all the valuable things that I learned during the process live on.
There's still hope!!!
Yeah but maybe some websites will shut down because most people will think that their games wont work
*_FOR MANKIND_*
Flash Player may be dead now, but Flash itself lives on in the community.
I distinctly remember the explosion of popularity in sites like AddictingGames in 2000 and 2001, all built on flash games made and uploaded to those sites.
my childhood... playing gore fighting games on my browser with techno music... hope it survives
anybody remembers the name of a flash fighting game hosted on e4 where you had 6 (3 unlockable) characters, you fought either in a city, a construction site or a canyon through punches, kicks and energy attacks? the characters were very small and with enough force you could destroy the terrain by making your enemy crash through it. every1 had an unique attack, such as a robot-looking man that could envelop itself in energy to jump and fall faster and damage the enemy on contact with enough speed, or a woman who could shoot an energy bomb that went through walls. it had a sequel iirc
2020 taking flash down with it. I have had enough with this year.
To the people who did this , thank you , i am actually tearing up , i can play most of my favorite Mario flash games from my childhood , wich i tought were gone forever, now this is internet preservation.
I completely forgot flash was disappearing. Just what 2020 needed: another tragedy.
Two of my favorite flash games are dead, most likely, because of this half-assed, fun-ending and childhood-trashing move.
But fuck it! 2021 good am I right?
I was really freakin scared at first about all these things dissapearing and now here i am installing flash player, to protecc Scratch 1.4 and 2.0
It’s the ultimate sacrifice... In 2021 we will finally be free of this cursed year, but along with it goes an icon. We will miss you flash, we will miss you...
when the age of war music starts 😌
I just want to say
This bring back so much memory when I manage a brothel in a flash game
Kinda inspiring seeing someone who cares more about my childhood than I do. Earned a sub.
remember the commando games? that series is dear to my heart.
I still remember playing fire boy and water girl with my brother, they will be missed, and will live in my memories
The Strike Force games were litteraly my childhood, I still play them. All day I just used to play the games.
goodbye flash.
Not first but still here at no comments no views and 2 likes
Im sad that I don't think one of my favorite games as a kid was saved. I went throughout the list and see pretty much all of them but "Rubble Trouble" series. It was a small but great game, if anyone finds it pls let me know
You can request for the game/series if you want yourself! Just go flashpoint's website, then go to their game list and then at the top you should see the request blue text! Just press that and follow the instuctions!
3:18-3:28
I swear destroying a whole structured castle and not killing anyone in the process was such an aggravating moment.
you can go frame-by-frame on youtube with the . and , keys, but considering that you didnt know that shows how unknown and cryptic it is, so huge W for newgrounds on that
8:47 "...that allows for frame by frame scrubbing"
The "." and "," button on UA-cam:
☹️
But other than that thats a realy good video on the flash thematic. Very nice video with great research. I hope to see more :)
Why there are no one talks about Sift Heads and Sonny? (Both are pretty underrated)
The Sonny games are awesome!
@@carlosdmtz13 yes, and the soundtracks are great too
Flash games are amazing. I will never ever forget about these ancient games.
The end of 2020 won’t be so bad: “Flash will not be supported in December 2020”
This video brings back memories, maybe I will play a couple of flash games while I still can in their original glory
As a flash gamer, I admit that I had such a great childhood.
The fact that I suddenly decided that I will download all the riddle school games RIGHT before he said Jonochrome compiled them on Gamejolt unnerves me.
Hey!!! I know probably no one cares but this absolutely iconic game called poptripica is converting their game from flash to HTML5! d not only that, this wonderful member of the community (his name is IDK the Glitcher) is preserving a bunch of parts of poptropica to Flashpoint..... This vid made me cry ngl...
Just watching this video has been such a trip down memory lane.
Thank you for spreading awareness and bringing the attention to those interesting preservation projects.
bruh i nearly cried when i saw crush the castle, it was one of my favorite games when i was younger
Been 10 years since my last time playing that game, gonna play that game again. Feudalism and Battle Gear are also my favorite
We used to play Adobe Flash Games because of how slow
the Dial-up connection is back in the day.
We will never forget you. You even helped people start career's!
16:21 The problem was that the Flash shut down and there was nothing to replace it... yeah, sure, maybe in a few years there will be something that would work universally on the internet to make everything work as before... but in the meantime, a lot of things simply disappear...
It should never happen as it happened... Flash should keep it running with some "on your own risk" warning until there's a proper, and fully working replacement... html5 is absolutely not...
Big corporations will do anything to keep their businesses running. Flash was probably killed by Apple and Google to promote their app stores. They may even have paid Adobe to do so.
Yeah I couldn't get the NG player to work so I'm getting flashpoint. Thank you, you have saved my flash gaming life.
8:42 UA-cam allows frame-by frame scrubbing using the comma and period keys. No one knows about this though because UA-cam never explains its own features to its users.
Great video btw. I'll be sure to check out flashpoint and consider donating to newgrounds. Your video definitely reminded me of how worthwhile they are.
Oh man, I have been worried about this every time I turn on my computer and see the ''Flash will no longer be supported after 2020'' marking the impending doom very clearly, I reaaally thought there would be no way to use Flash after it was gone but I'm sososo glad I found this as it's useful for a lot of other things that don't involve games too although I'm also relieved I can still play :p
Poll: Did you ever play flash games in school?
I played them when I was in kindergarten
Yes.
@The channel with no name uP
Indeed.
Yep.
Thank goodness I can play my favorite quizzes again
Ruffle and Flashpoint are the Angels the flash world needed to save them
I really like that every flash game is just a Single SWF file which can be run anywhere. The only thing you need is to just visit a website having this game, and download it by finding its source file link.
Ah the memory of playing Flash games in middle/highschool computer lab. So much copter. Good days..
Ok so there's one game I've been trying to hunt since like more than a few years. It was on MoFunZone (back when if you typed amorgames youd be redirected there) under a two player section. It was like dodgeball in a grid like arena (like a training mode) and for the life of me, i can't find it anymore. Anyone able to help?
I've had Flashpoint infinity for ages now, it's got almost every game I could need
I miss the original bubble tanks...
& many other old games.
But time goes on for the losses.
About Flashpoint Infinity...
I've downloaded it before the end of 2020 and tried to play some games and cartoons on it, but nothing, absolutely NOTHING seems to work. When I looked into info of their Flash Player copy, I've noticed they've got the one from 2018. How to solve this problem?
And yes... Rest in peace, Flash. We hardly knew ye...
this reminded me of a browser game i was searching for some years now that I really wanted to play again, it was like a rpg with a kingdom rush art style. there was a storyline, with multiple characters you could unlock as you progress through the levels, then there were different upgrades for each character and those made the character look flashier when upgraded a certain ammount of times. I'd really love to play it again, if anyone catches the game please tell me its name, i'd appreaciate it
"the only player I know that allows for frame-by-frame scrubbing". I think you'll be delighted to hear that you can step single frames forward and backwards in the UA-cam video player using the period and comma keys
My favorite flash game is DBZ develotion such a simple game but the creator worked on that flash game for 15 years and it has such a huge cast of characters
"More stable" is such a huge lie about html5 though. Compatibility is all over the place needing all sorts of plugins at times and not displaying right on some browsers and os. Meanwhile the same flash games i played 20 years ago still work today on new flash players