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[–] kepix@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

nostalgia has made these crap games great. they never were good in the first place. you had a good laugh as a 12 year old at tech class, but thats it.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] sidebro@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

For five minutes, maybe.

[–] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 weeks ago

Plenty of mobile games are clones of free Flash games with added monetization.

For example Angry Birds is just Crush the Castle.

Noe, I'm not going to argue that these mobile games are good, but they're shitty because of their monetization schemes. As free flash games that were short enough to not overstay their welcome they were fine.

Add to that there being a few flash games that were genuine attempts at art. Which I think are valuable if for no other reason than to see the history of indie games.

[–] Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

AdventureQuest though..

I must've sunk hundreds of hours at the library playing that

Also honorable mention to danball powder game

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They actually ported it to their own flash client for just their games I think to keep it alive, and are making ports of aq world in its own engine

[–] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 weeks ago

There were a couple of gems though.

I remember going to the library to play specific games over and over. We tried fresh ones every day, but kept going back to games like those motorbike racing sidescrollers.

[–] Static_Rocket@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Ah, but raft wars