Remember when I said "in no particular order"...? I lied!!! Don't forget to Wishlist Repella Fella ► store.steampowered.com/app/1008860/Repella_Fella/ ◄ Links to the rest of the games are in the video description. So be sure to check that out if it was any of the other games that caught your eye instead.
you forgot to add henry stickman,necronator dead wrong (from the well known flash necronator series),infernax(made by berserk studio which has given us lots of fun flash game such as peacekeeper) in that list
@@evagelospapamixail9139 it started as Stick war on pc, then there was stick war 2 and stick empires (both flash games on PC), then it went mobile with stick war legacy and soon stick war three.
@@nekuchan900 that shouldn't even be in the same category as today's ads, those ads were actual ads, but now instead of being ads, they are literal promotional videos
It's really cool to see our series (Decision) here! We're currently fixing the Stamina issues, and our AI as well. It'll be rolling out as soon as we can, and it's looking pretty good! :) One thing is that our game is also available on GOG! Trolls were actually in our original game as well. EDIT: For anyone out there, we're two updates deep now and we're planning for more content! I hope we get to do it. All big issues from fans have now been fixed!
Epic battle fantasy has been going since early flash and EBF5 is the best of the lot imo. It's great to see these passion projects stand the test of time.
I have three others to mention: Zombotron got a new entry released on Steam a while back, with all sorts of improvements to the formula. My Friend Pedro was quite prominent a while back, so prominent, and so different from the original Flash game that most players didn't know it came from Flash. Strike Force Heroes Remastered has been announced for steam, and not only revamps the visuals, but improves on the gameplay of the flash games and will have a multiplayer mode.
I have a video on MFP! Although I am debating revising it, as I never properly interview the developer to help expand what I had to say. I did a Zombotron video back in the day. And I am working to revise that one. I've already conducted that interview. So that'll be a fun one to share! SFH is a series I know less well, but it's exciting to see it making a comback!
That's great news! SFH was part of my holy trinity of flash series (along with Raze and Sony), but I couldn't play the last one too much because of how big it was compared to how awful flash games run.
I think I undervalued it back in the day. But ever since Neverseen dropped, I'm realizing it was up there among the *Very* best. And Neverseen surpasses it in every possible way!
You got my hopes up when I saw Armed with Wings in the intro sequence. xD AWW Was where I spent almost all of my flash game life, along with Drakojan Skies which I'm super sad just feel off the face of the Earth seemingly without warning...AWW Rearmed on Steam was a blast to play, and still a guilty pleasure for me to go back through every so often.
Armed With Wings was on the original 10 Games version of this list! But when I started cutting games to shorten things, I cut AWW, because I felt that I didn't know Rearmed well enough to really speak to it. Hopefully I can include it in the next one! Drakojan Skies is not one I really know. After a quick google, I'm fairly certain I've never come across this one!
Drakojan's spiritual succesor, set in the same universe, Forgotten Rites recently had a small trailer referencing its aliens on TH-cam, so maybe it ain't dead yet. We'll see, FR was my favorite game of the series, was always sad that it was just a demo, hopefully that will change soon
Dude!! Repella Fella looks sooo awesome! I am blown away by the fact that one guy made it! And at the fact that he made those South Park games when he was only 16 YEARS OLD!!!? That is insane! I will definitely be keeping my eye out for Repella Fella. Cannot wait! What a talented guy.
Love the homage and promotion. Glad to see that there’s a Decision with sustenance taken into account. Loved Decision: Medieval the most among the series even tho I loved the others too. I just wished you featured more of the first Madness Project Nexus as much as how you featured the others. You haven’t went into much specifics, such as arena mode that could be good for casual playing for its replayability (imo), the tac bar, using barrels as cover, deflecting bullets to take out enemies and the mechanic where you have to damage the helmets of the giants with fists or melee weapons iirc. All of that could have promoted the game better if the watcher isn’t convinced yet with what you have shown. All in all tho I’m still glad that there’s more love for Flash games up to this day. Keep ‘em coming!
Fair! I probably should have spent less time talking about the Madness universe, and instead talked about the mechanics specific to the MPN Classic, seeing as the full release does make use of so many of the specific features the Flash game introduced. In hindsight, it seems like an obvious flaw in how I approached that one. Good feedback!!
god the HOURS i spent on arena mod in the original project nexus. The game starts to chug when you reach the really late endgame with a full party wielding miniguns lol
Couldn’t reach that far ‘coz the lag’s killing me when there’s several G03LMs and A.T.P. Soldats tumbling around on top of deflecting the bullet rain. A chain of critical shots gets me everytime which I could have dodged if not for the lag lol. I think there’s a lot of similar reviews (some were outright rants) on NG about that. Game’s got flaws but it’s well made and enjoyable. Such a grand classic.
it makes me so happy to see the people who created those flash games we played in our childhoods and still play to this day are alive and well, plus ready to make another masterpiece, like with Strike Force Heroes and Epic Battle Fantasy having another title (don't see those in this video), and thank you for this video, it certainly brings in the good news that i like to hear also, i really loved playing the Ray games, making me see all the outcomes of every choice now one of my first complaints is Repella Fella is the setting, the post apocalyptic setting feels off with me, in Ray 1 and 2 and the 3 teaser, it had that 1980s GTA Vice City along with Ray 3's early 1990s Gulf War aesthetic, which felt special and unique, i don't know if the spiritual successor is gonna have that but that won't mean i won't get his spiritual successor, anyways thank you for telling me what happened to Ray 3, it's sucks so bad to hear that all the progress was gone, as a kid i always kept waiting and checking PhillJC's page for Ray Part 3 every time and i never even knew what happened to PhillJC oh yeah, and i certainly am hyped for all the other games being made by FlyAnvil (used to play their games so darn much, though the bug enemies always scared me as a kid in Insectonator), SoulGame (also liked his games as well) BoMToons, and the almighty Krinkels (even though my edgy phase is long gone and i have sort of been...avoiding Madness Combat, i still love him and what he's done, and yes i know that he made anthro art, aka furry art...)
My understanding is Phill went post-apocalyptic, because he wanted a setting where *anything* was fair game. Future tech, zombies, anachronistic medieval villages. Rather than sticking to a specific, more grounded setting, he's blowing the lid off to make things as wild and weird as possible :)
@@2leftthumbs ah, now i understand, and maybe we will see a reference to Ray part 1 and 2 (like going to a city and seeing a guy in a Hawaiian shirt ;), but yeah i don't actually hate the post apocalyptic setting, and i like those ideas and everything i saw in the trailer and i wish Phill best of luck with his spiritual successor
Thank you for featuring Chibi Knight! I remember stumbling on this game randomly as a child and it blew my mind so much I wished there were more games out there with similar gameplay (as a kid, I had never heard of Zelda games before). Also for some reasons it was very obscure despite its supposed popularity (none of my friends had any recollections of it) so til this day I consider it a tiny secret gem that I was fortunate enough to experience.
Man, now I'm feeling nostalgic. SMB Crossover, Plazma Burst (especially the second one), Thing Thing Arena, My Friend Pedro, Exmortis...so many hours well spent.
OMG, Chibi knight! I have had memories of playing it many years ago but could never find it, I forgot it’s name and couldn’t describe it well enough to find it. The it just turns up here, thank you!
Enjoyed this video and I think the details are nice! I didn’t expect the Repella Fella plug but it was funny, and interesting knowing its history, same with Chibi Knight which I haven’t heard of before
Glad it was integrated how I intended, rather than being forced or overly transparent xD I wanted to approach it as being informative first, and a plug second!
The Madness series was a big part of my childhood. I loved the animations and the some of the fan made games were really fun as well. I'm so glad they're still around, totally getting the Madness game on steam now!
I guess you could say "Last wicket in the innings" For the cricket analogy. It's a shame flash is gone. I imagine it helped alot of people get into game development animation etc.
One other game that comes to mind is Strike Force Heroes, the series is coming back with Strike Force Heroes Remastered, look it up if you're a fan, it's completely insane!!
Wooooo! Madness Combat! I have been playing madness games since my childhood and I was one of the lucky people to play Project Nexus since the alpha! Project Nexus is such a fun game that I HIGHLY recommend playing it. The game is even better if newcomers watch the playlist of the whole series of Madness Combat before you play it. I still or will continue to come back to the game. This series is my comfort series.
Oh my god!! I literally cried when seeing Chibi Knight. I remember playing it as like 7-9 years old and i didn't even know to read yet. I literally count that game as a mayor part of my childhood, my brain still remembers how i beat the final boss like 9 times xD. Astounding video as always! Keep it up!
Great video! I'm curious how you chose which games to feature in the video. I'm not very knowledgeable on Flash Games, but I would guess the Bloons Tower Defence series is one of the most popular formerly Flash series. Besides that, my personal favorite formerly Flash series is Kingdom Rush. I don't have much to say about it in a comment , but the games are all on mobile now. -we don't talk about the 4th one tho-
I first had 10 pick out, but as I started scripting things, it was becoming too long too fast for that many! Ray was chosen for selfish reasons. Madness was chosen to give it a little nod before my BIG video on it. Decision was decided because it had a release this week. From there I wanted to pick games/series that I already felt comfortable with as I was sort of in a crunch to get this video out on time. I debated between a few others. But Chibi Knight and Swords and Souls were games I knew enough about to not need to dig up much additional research/info.
@@2leftthumbs Also this might sound weird, but what are the chances of you doing videos explaining different flash games websites. As a UK lad, my friends, my family and i grew up on Friv, 2player games, miniclip, teamopolis and cool maths games. It would be quite difficult but i think each vid would only need to >10 mins long
These games formed my life. I never found anyone talkting about Decision and the Souls series. This Video warmed my heart. Dont say you also played Chaos Faction 2, Armor Mayhem, Treasure Seas Incorporated, Freeway Fury 1-3, Ace Gangster Taxi, Arcuz II: Dungeons and GROW Cube? To just name a few I played a LOT, but nobody seems to talk about them. Im so happy to have the Flashpoint archive since the switch at the end of 2020, because without it my heart would miss a piece, that could not be replaced. Thanks a lot for that nostalgia kick and the words I always thought but never heard from Decision, Rouge Souls 2 and Sword and Souls. Have a great day!
Finally, after a lot of years, this video helped me find game i couldn't remember! I played chibi knight a lot when I was a kid, I remeber evenings I spent playing this awesome game. I can't thank you enough
When I was younger I spent HOURS playing the Fancy Pants games, and I learned recently that it has a steam release called Super Fancy Pants Adventure! It has incredible fluid platforming, amazing animation for being a stickfigure game, and a short playtime of about an hour and a half or so (going off my steam hours, I've played the game a lot and have 6.1 hours in it so.) To anyone who loved these games, check it out on steam, it's one hell of a nostalgia trip.
Castle Cat was pretty simple but was really fun in my opinion, I heard they're actually making Castle Cat 5 but in HTML now. Castle Cat 4 was a bit too much of a change, and it seems they got back to the original classic style 2 and 3 had. (1 was more like a demo really, 2 and 3 adding attacks such as the cannon and mace throw. 3 even added a leopard skin, so I guess that's one of the earliest example for skins in video games lol.) Maybe you can make an entire video about the Mausland games, all of them are pretty wacky and creative. For example Castle cat, Miami shark, Aggressive alpine skiing, Honey bunny, Go go plant, Franks Adventure (which was a mature game so beware), etc. etc.
Ray and Sword & Souls were some of my childhood flash games, I come back to play them yearly or when I'm bored but when flash ended it kinda stopped. I'm glad to know they are branching more .
hearing madness in this video put a smile on my face remembering the chaotic fun i would have watching, also 2 left thumbs thanks for making me feel nostalgic
FnF is the reason i came back to madness! i remember seeing the animations when i was really young, although I eventually forgot about them, going on to watch whatever the hell had my interest at the time, and I had forgotten about madness combat for quite a few years. Come the release of the tricky mod, I just *knew* something was familiar about that name, and lo and behold, here I am one of the many people who raved on about the new nexus, buying it day one, making countless grunt ocs, my own little universes and so on. Yes, there are a lot of young people in the fandom now due to said surge from the fnf mod, but so what? Let them enjoy it. I am extremely thankful for the mod as otherwise i probably would've had that lingering thought in the back of my head until nexus was finally announced! Here's to 20 years of madness!
OH MY GOD... I HAVE BEEN LOKING FOR THE PAST YEAR TO FIND SWORDS AND SOULS BECAUSE I HAVE SUCH GOOD MEMORIES OF IT BECAUSE I PLAYED IT AS A KID THANK YOU SO MUCH YOU MADE MY WHOLE YEAR TODAY . I WILL SUB AND LIKE EVERY VID MAN I LOVE YOU
This brings great nostalgia, I am not sure how much this game was popular, but a turn based strategy flash game called Renegades was continued and now in steam we got Recon Control. Now we might even have continuation of Strike force heroes which was great. Also great video.
One flash game I would like to see on this series is Phoenotopia. It was well received when launched back in 2014, which originally prompted the developers to make a sequel before pivoting to a remake instead. The lead dev even has a blog you can visit if you want to look at the development process behind the original title and it's remake.
OMG!! RRAYY! I was trying to figure out what the name was a couple weeks ago cause I got hit with nostalgia! Thank you so much! Will definitely check out the other game coming out.
My favorite madness game is Madness Retaliation the game is a classic to me the gameplay was so fun and the feeling of getting more powerful the more armor and weapons you find is great
one of my favorite flash games was Intrusion. It's a run 'n' gun game with cool ragdoll physics. It even got a sequel on steam for 7 bucks. Highly recommend it.
CHIBI KNIGHT HAS A SEQUEL?!?! THAT WAS MY CHILDHOOD HOW I SEEIOUSLY TRIED SPEEDRUNNING IT BEFORE I KNEW WHAT SPEEDRUNNING WAS HOW TF DID I NOT KNOW THERE WAS ANOTHER
One of the series of flash games that I think is underappreciated is the sift heads series. For such a simple fps stick figure game I enjoyed every bit of it and with the steam having sift heads reborn I would enjoy it more and more.
Armed with wings.... I loved that game so much, and did all achievements on steam when It came out. It's still severely underrated, so I definitely recommend to check it out :)
Yoooo someone finally mentioned Decision Man love that game, from the medieval to the modern one man And also when you unlocked the sword and shield...man it's just slash and shout
Bro... I played all games in the list i just forgot about them but i had spend a lot of hours and hours in them is good to know they managed to move on and still active to this day whit new games and all
Another flash game that got a suite as a Steam game is Lakeview Cabin, which has started on Kongregate and Newground in 2013, then got a new game in 2015 on Steam, Lakeview Cabin Collection, another game in 2019, Lakeview Valley, and yet another game in 2020, Lakeview Cabin 2, which is still in the making. It's quite unknown, yet the dev is really perfectionist about his games, with small details sprinkled throughout every game, a pretty good/cryptic lore, and a really clever game design. It's objectively really good, subjectively it's my favorite franchise, I recommend anyone who wanna check it out to, well, check it out! Anyway, yall have a nice day!
One classic flash game to me I haven't seen mentioned yet is the HeliAttack series, particularly HeliAttack 2 for me. Though now that I'm doing some quick googling it may have been hosted on Miniclip rather than Newgrounds, so it might quite be in your wheelhouse. Also, whatever that fox platforming game you had in the beginning gave me some serious flashbacks, as that was one of the first front page games I every tried just on a whim.
@@2leftthumbs Perfect! Yeah I think it was William and Sly 2 that I played. And since I only ever played HeliAttack 2, I didn't recognize the brief shot of 3. Thanks!
The passion from the developers in the Flash days was strong. Big AAA studios invest in a lot of manpower to come out with great (usually) titles. Small indie studios might have a 5 man or even 1 man team working on a product. The guy might be not pay himself until he gets sales, and if the game is a flop the business is over. Nothing is wrong with doing something for a living and it's great if people enjoy your work. But most of these Flash games? They were usually created by people with some hobby. Most of them never expected to sell anything, they just wanted to share their talent with the world. It's true some of these were repetitive, but I'll always have nostalgia for the Flash era.
Epic battle fantasy, infectonator, kingdom rush, gemcraft, Henry Stickmin (from the same developer of Among us), the trader of stories, ball factory, dead detective, fancy pants adventure, submachine, learn to fly, cursed treasure, creeper world, medieval cop, ducklife, pandemics, achievement unlocked, the binding of isaac, meat boy, plant vs zombies, ...
It was on my original list of games to talk about! I didn't realize until I had completed the video that the EPF Collection released on Steam almost immediately after this video! Otherwise I would have made certain that one was included. I'll get it next time for sure!
There's a Flash series I've been trying to refind. The first is one of those top down center of the screen zombie base defense games and I quite vividly remember the intro cutscene for one of the sequels having characters say something like "surrounded by zombies you had to fend off? That sound like a game!" then laugh. I remember that because the car then crashes and it's a there's an open world to explore this time. It's kinda really bugging me.
GemCraft is among the all-time greats! Someone suggested doing a video like this specifically on TD series. So if/when I do that, I'll be sure to include GemCraft :D
Remember when I said "in no particular order"...? I lied!!!
Don't forget to Wishlist Repella Fella ► store.steampowered.com/app/1008860/Repella_Fella/ ◄
Links to the rest of the games are in the video description. So be sure to check that out if it was any of the other games that caught your eye instead.
Swords & souls is what I'm going with
you forgot to add henry stickman,necronator dead wrong (from the well known flash necronator series),infernax(made by berserk studio which has given us lots of fun flash game such as peacekeeper) in that list
@@evagelospapamixail9139 what about the Stick War series?
@@GreenKnight343 wait there is a stick war game on pc?
@@evagelospapamixail9139 it started as Stick war on pc, then there was stick war 2 and stick empires (both flash games on PC), then it went mobile with stick war legacy and soon stick war three.
dude flash games were the best, no microtransactions, no p2w, no ads, no cashgrabs, nothing, just the game and pure happiness
Ab-so-lutely!!
What a great time to be a broke and bored young gamer without any consoles xD
@@2leftthumbs agreed, i wish the flash era lasted a bit longer
there absolutely were ads, they just weren't disrupting. Always in intros/side bars/ pause menus
@@nekuchan900 that shouldn't even be in the same category as today's ads, those ads were actual ads, but now instead of being ads, they are literal promotional videos
@@nekuchan900the ads mosyly show ups when the game is loading
It's really cool to see our series (Decision) here! We're currently fixing the Stamina issues, and our AI as well. It'll be rolling out as soon as we can, and it's looking pretty good! :)
One thing is that our game is also available on GOG! Trolls were actually in our original game as well.
EDIT: For anyone out there, we're two updates deep now and we're planning for more content! I hope we get to do it. All big issues from fans have now been fixed!
Great to hear from you!
Looking forward to seeing how Red Daze continues to evolve and take shape. Thanks for keeping that classic series alive!
Hold on, your on the team working on that?
I loved all the flash games growing up. I'm gonna have to buy that one
I loved Decision: Medieval! You guys made one of my favorite games ever!
Dude your game made my childhood. Thanks for making it fun
U guys r crazy thanks for making my childhood :)
Epic battle fantasy has been going since early flash and EBF5 is the best of the lot imo. It's great to see these passion projects stand the test of time.
2008-2009 isn't really early Flash. It's the tail-end of the Silver Age of Flash.
Ahhhh memories....
Its a grand series
It's shmup spinoff, Bullet Heaven, is my favourite shmup series
I like a lot of the animations from the first game, sadly we probably can't have that since it used copyrighted characters like Pokemon.
I have three others to mention:
Zombotron got a new entry released on Steam a while back, with all sorts of improvements to the formula.
My Friend Pedro was quite prominent a while back, so prominent, and so different from the original Flash game that most players didn't know it came from Flash.
Strike Force Heroes Remastered has been announced for steam, and not only revamps the visuals, but improves on the gameplay of the flash games and will have a multiplayer mode.
I have a video on MFP! Although I am debating revising it, as I never properly interview the developer to help expand what I had to say.
I did a Zombotron video back in the day. And I am working to revise that one. I've already conducted that interview. So that'll be a fun one to share!
SFH is a series I know less well, but it's exciting to see it making a comback!
@@2leftthumbs Oh, wow, thanks for responding! Didn't know about your Zombotron and MFP videos, I'll be sure to check them out!
I was desperately trying to find a comment about Zombotron and SFH:R here, and you have no idea how glad I am that someone mentioned it
@@Fafr Well, you found it man, lol. I grew up on the Zombotron and SFH series, so I was really looking out for them.
That's great news! SFH was part of my holy trinity of flash series (along with Raze and Sony), but I couldn't play the last one too much because of how big it was compared to how awful flash games run.
Sword and Souls.... man i missed that game so much
I think I undervalued it back in the day. But ever since Neverseen dropped, I'm realizing it was up there among the *Very* best. And Neverseen surpasses it in every possible way!
damn, I like that game too
Same here i loved playing rogue soul
@@HydraulicOverHere oddly, haven't seen any other game like it since the sequel, thanks for reminding me of that fact.
I played that game so much when I got my laptop, it was a really good game
You can still play most of these on FlashMuseum :)
Flash games were my childhood, I'm so glad to see videos and retrospectives over the topic
Swords and Sandals, Madness, and Dead Frontier are amazing works of art that I'm glad have such recent games out.
its swords and souls not swords and sandals, thats a different game
Oh! I was meaning Swords and Sandals Immortals!! @@shadoww7301
@@shadoww7301 yeah hes saying that game series had a released another game recently
You don't understand how hard the nostalgia hit me when I heard the age of war theme playing in the background of the video.
You got my hopes up when I saw Armed with Wings in the intro sequence. xD
AWW Was where I spent almost all of my flash game life, along with Drakojan Skies which I'm super sad just feel off the face of the Earth seemingly without warning...AWW Rearmed on Steam was a blast to play, and still a guilty pleasure for me to go back through every so often.
Armed With Wings was on the original 10 Games version of this list! But when I started cutting games to shorten things, I cut AWW, because I felt that I didn't know Rearmed well enough to really speak to it. Hopefully I can include it in the next one!
Drakojan Skies is not one I really know. After a quick google, I'm fairly certain I've never come across this one!
Yooo, Armed With Wings! Man, I grew up with that game series playing it on a laptop with high ping while fighting the bosses, good times 👏👏👍
Drakojan's spiritual succesor, set in the same universe, Forgotten Rites recently had a small trailer referencing its aliens on TH-cam, so maybe it ain't dead yet. We'll see, FR was my favorite game of the series, was always sad that it was just a demo, hopefully that will change soon
Epic Battle Fantasy will forever be my personal favorite flash game and every one of em is as memorable as the last
This was great! I would love to see more of these types of videos alongside the more in-depth reviews of one series!
Dude!! Repella Fella looks sooo awesome! I am blown away by the fact that one guy made it! And at the fact that he made those South Park games when he was only 16 YEARS OLD!!!? That is insane! I will definitely be keeping my eye out for Repella Fella. Cannot wait! What a talented guy.
Phill is NUTS!
I'm very much looking forward to the eventual Ray-specific video so I can *really* pick his brain!
Love the homage and promotion. Glad to see that there’s a Decision with sustenance taken into account. Loved Decision: Medieval the most among the series even tho I loved the others too.
I just wished you featured more of the first Madness Project Nexus as much as how you featured the others. You haven’t went into much specifics, such as arena mode that could be good for casual playing for its replayability (imo), the tac bar, using barrels as cover, deflecting bullets to take out enemies and the mechanic where you have to damage the helmets of the giants with fists or melee weapons iirc. All of that could have promoted the game better if the watcher isn’t convinced yet with what you have shown. All in all tho I’m still glad that there’s more love for Flash games up to this day. Keep ‘em coming!
Fair! I probably should have spent less time talking about the Madness universe, and instead talked about the mechanics specific to the MPN Classic, seeing as the full release does make use of so many of the specific features the Flash game introduced. In hindsight, it seems like an obvious flaw in how I approached that one. Good feedback!!
god the HOURS i spent on arena mod in the original project nexus. The game starts to chug when you reach the really late endgame with a full party wielding miniguns lol
Couldn’t reach that far ‘coz the lag’s killing me when there’s several G03LMs and A.T.P. Soldats tumbling around on top of deflecting the bullet rain. A chain of critical shots gets me everytime which I could have dodged if not for the lag lol. I think there’s a lot of similar reviews (some were outright rants) on NG about that. Game’s got flaws but it’s well made and enjoyable. Such a grand classic.
it makes me so happy to see the people who created those flash games we played in our childhoods and still play to this day are alive and well, plus ready to make another masterpiece, like with Strike Force Heroes and Epic Battle Fantasy having another title (don't see those in this video), and thank you for this video, it certainly brings in the good news that i like to hear
also, i really loved playing the Ray games, making me see all the outcomes of every choice
now one of my first complaints is Repella Fella is the setting, the post apocalyptic setting feels off with me, in Ray 1 and 2 and the 3 teaser, it had that 1980s GTA Vice City along with Ray 3's early 1990s Gulf War aesthetic, which felt special and unique, i don't know if the spiritual successor is gonna have that but that won't mean i won't get his spiritual successor, anyways thank you for telling me what happened to Ray 3, it's sucks so bad to hear that all the progress was gone, as a kid i always kept waiting and checking PhillJC's page for Ray Part 3 every time and i never even knew what happened to PhillJC
oh yeah, and i certainly am hyped for all the other games being made by FlyAnvil (used to play their games so darn much, though the bug enemies always scared me as a kid in Insectonator), SoulGame (also liked his games as well) BoMToons, and the almighty Krinkels (even though my edgy phase is long gone and i have sort of been...avoiding Madness Combat, i still love him and what he's done, and yes i know that he made anthro art, aka furry art...)
My understanding is Phill went post-apocalyptic, because he wanted a setting where *anything* was fair game. Future tech, zombies, anachronistic medieval villages. Rather than sticking to a specific, more grounded setting, he's blowing the lid off to make things as wild and weird as possible :)
@@2leftthumbs ah, now i understand, and maybe we will see a reference to Ray part 1 and 2 (like going to a city and seeing a guy in a Hawaiian shirt ;), but yeah i don't actually hate the post apocalyptic setting, and i like those ideas and everything i saw in the trailer
and i wish Phill best of luck with his spiritual successor
Man, thank you for the video! Just got Swords&Souls Neverseen, and I’m loving it. If not for this video I would have never known it existed!
Thank you for featuring Chibi Knight! I remember stumbling on this game randomly as a child and it blew my mind so much I wished there were more games out there with similar gameplay (as a kid, I had never heard of Zelda games before). Also for some reasons it was very obscure despite its supposed popularity (none of my friends had any recollections of it) so til this day I consider it a tiny secret gem that I was fortunate enough to experience.
chibi knight was my shit
Man, now I'm feeling nostalgic. SMB Crossover, Plazma Burst (especially the second one), Thing Thing Arena, My Friend Pedro, Exmortis...so many hours well spent.
OMG, Chibi knight! I have had memories of playing it many years ago but could never find it, I forgot it’s name and couldn’t describe it well enough to find it. The it just turns up here, thank you!
That's always a joy to hear!!
Same here with swords and souls.
The soul games and the madness are just pure nostalgia
Enjoyed this video and I think the details are nice! I didn’t expect the Repella Fella plug but it was funny, and interesting knowing its history, same with Chibi Knight which I haven’t heard of before
Glad it was integrated how I intended, rather than being forced or overly transparent xD
I wanted to approach it as being informative first, and a plug second!
The Madness series was a big part of my childhood. I loved the animations and the some of the fan made games were really fun as well. I'm so glad they're still around, totally getting the Madness game on steam now!
Thank you for making this video. I have games I need to play now that you’ve brought them to my attention!
I hope you find some new favourites!
I guess you could say "Last wicket in the innings" For the cricket analogy.
It's a shame flash is gone. I imagine it helped alot of people get into game development animation etc.
Ebf5 imo is the best flash game sequel, it's crazy how polished it is!
One other game that comes to mind is Strike Force Heroes, the series is coming back with Strike Force Heroes Remastered, look it up if you're a fan, it's completely insane!!
Wooooo! Madness Combat! I have been playing madness games since my childhood and I was one of the lucky people to play Project Nexus since the alpha! Project Nexus is such a fun game that I HIGHLY recommend playing it. The game is even better if newcomers watch the playlist of the whole series of Madness Combat before you play it. I still or will continue to come back to the game. This series is my comfort series.
Seeing things from the Alpha was nuts! Like, that was already a cool game. But the finished project all those years later was *phenomenal*!!
The nostalgia hits pretty hard with your videos
Flash games originally got me into gaming
Same! Always happy to share that with others :)
Oh my god!! I literally cried when seeing Chibi Knight.
I remember playing it as like 7-9 years old and i didn't even know to read yet. I literally count that game as a mayor part of my childhood, my brain still remembers how i beat the final boss like 9 times xD.
Astounding video as always! Keep it up!
Great video! I'm curious how you chose which games to feature in the video. I'm not very knowledgeable on Flash Games, but I would guess the Bloons Tower Defence series is one of the most popular formerly Flash series.
Besides that, my personal favorite formerly Flash series is Kingdom Rush. I don't have much to say about it in a comment , but the games are all on mobile now. -we don't talk about the 4th one tho-
Tbh the tower defense flash games have really prominent series. Another one i would add would be Gemcraft, Cursed Treasure, and Creeper World series
I first had 10 pick out, but as I started scripting things, it was becoming too long too fast for that many!
Ray was chosen for selfish reasons.
Madness was chosen to give it a little nod before my BIG video on it.
Decision was decided because it had a release this week.
From there I wanted to pick games/series that I already felt comfortable with as I was sort of in a crunch to get this video out on time. I debated between a few others. But Chibi Knight and Swords and Souls were games I knew enough about to not need to dig up much additional research/info.
Having a TD specific video could actually be a really fun way to group another one of these videos together!
Those 2 were my favourite series. I would love to see more videos like this. Maybe this sub series could be called Flash (Spot)light or some variation
@@2leftthumbs Also this might sound weird, but what are the chances of you doing videos explaining different flash games websites. As a UK lad, my friends, my family and i grew up on Friv, 2player games, miniclip, teamopolis and cool maths games. It would be quite difficult but i think each vid would only need to >10 mins long
These games formed my life. I never found anyone talkting about Decision and the Souls series. This Video warmed my heart. Dont say you also played Chaos Faction 2, Armor Mayhem, Treasure Seas Incorporated, Freeway Fury 1-3, Ace Gangster Taxi, Arcuz II: Dungeons and GROW Cube? To just name a few I played a LOT, but nobody seems to talk about them. Im so happy to have the Flashpoint archive since the switch at the end of 2020, because without it my heart would miss a piece, that could not be replaced. Thanks a lot for that nostalgia kick and the words I always thought but never heard from Decision, Rouge Souls 2 and Sword and Souls. Have a great day!
The madness series. I remember watching it when I was 10 years old and now I'm gonna be 20. Damn
the age of wars music in the background at the start was a nice nostalgia hit
Finally, after a lot of years, this video helped me find game i couldn't remember! I played chibi knight a lot when I was a kid, I remeber evenings I spent playing this awesome game. I can't thank you enough
When I was younger I spent HOURS playing the Fancy Pants games, and I learned recently that it has a steam release called Super Fancy Pants Adventure! It has incredible fluid platforming, amazing animation for being a stickfigure game, and a short playtime of about an hour and a half or so (going off my steam hours, I've played the game a lot and have 6.1 hours in it so.)
To anyone who loved these games, check it out on steam, it's one hell of a nostalgia trip.
Castle Cat was pretty simple but was really fun in my opinion, I heard they're actually making Castle Cat 5 but in HTML now. Castle Cat 4 was a bit too much of a change, and it seems they got back to the original classic style 2 and 3 had. (1 was more like a demo really, 2 and 3 adding attacks such as the cannon and mace throw. 3 even added a leopard skin, so I guess that's one of the earliest example for skins in video games lol.) Maybe you can make an entire video about the Mausland games, all of them are pretty wacky and creative. For example Castle cat, Miami shark, Aggressive alpine skiing, Honey bunny, Go go plant, Franks Adventure (which was a mature game so beware), etc. etc.
Ray and Sword & Souls were some of my childhood flash games, I come back to play them yearly or when I'm bored but when flash ended it kinda stopped. I'm glad to know they are branching more .
The Thing-Thing series was one I loved way back when I’d go to the library and play Addicting Games.
I like how whenever a TH-camr talks about flash they'd use the Age of war soundtrack as background music
The " Decision " games are such a blast, the tower defense is amazing and doing the side missions are rewarding.
hearing madness in this video put a smile on my face remembering the chaotic fun i would have watching, also 2 left thumbs thanks for making me feel nostalgic
FnF is the reason i came back to madness! i remember seeing the animations when i was really young, although I eventually forgot about them, going on to watch whatever the hell had my interest at the time, and I had forgotten about madness combat for quite a few years. Come the release of the tricky mod, I just *knew* something was familiar about that name, and lo and behold, here I am one of the many people who raved on about the new nexus, buying it day one, making countless grunt ocs, my own little universes and so on. Yes, there are a lot of young people in the fandom now due to said surge from the fnf mod, but so what? Let them enjoy it. I am extremely thankful for the mod as otherwise i probably would've had that lingering thought in the back of my head until nexus was finally announced! Here's to 20 years of madness!
This is wholesome , packed with nostalgia and making me wann try stuff i ignored back when i was a kid.. you earned a sub fella
21:20 lmao, i love how sir pupset just said ". . .,beaten by . . . a moskito...BUT YOU GOT THAT DAMN MOLE!"
OH MY GOD... I HAVE BEEN LOKING FOR THE PAST YEAR TO FIND SWORDS AND SOULS BECAUSE I HAVE SUCH GOOD MEMORIES OF IT BECAUSE I PLAYED IT AS A KID THANK YOU SO MUCH YOU MADE MY WHOLE YEAR TODAY . I WILL SUB AND LIKE EVERY VID MAN I LOVE YOU
2nd video of this channel ive seen.
Your content so good bruh keep on keeping man.
Hopefully I can maintain that batting average!
i feel old, I played and adored Chibi Knight as a kid.. Probably why I love all things knight nowadays
This brings great nostalgia, I am not sure how much this game was popular, but a turn based strategy flash game called Renegades was continued and now in steam we got Recon Control. Now we might even have continuation of Strike force heroes which was great. Also great video.
Dude I played Swords and Souls CONSTANTLY back in the day. I never knew it came out with a sequel!
Perfect vid, would love to see a part 2! (:
One flash game I would like to see on this series is Phoenotopia. It was well received when launched back in 2014, which originally prompted the developers to make a sequel before pivoting to a remake instead. The lead dev even has a blog you can visit if you want to look at the development process behind the original title and it's remake.
OMG!! RRAYY! I was trying to figure out what the name was a couple weeks ago cause I got hit with nostalgia! Thank you so much! Will definitely check out the other game coming out.
I just realized that the madness flashlight episode is, probably, more hyped then the games you promote/publish
Dude this is crazy! I'm all here for knowing all these old creations from the old days of Newgrounds. This is some interesting stuff!
Great to hear! That's very encouraging for me, wanting to make more videos like this in the future :)
Strike force heroes is also getting a remake on steam, one of my favorite flash game series of all times, alongside raze
My god, this video was an incredible nostalgia trip. Thanks for that
I remember how shocked I was when I saw that my friend pedro became a full game, good to see there are more old flash games that have evolved
Just seeing the "Armor Games" logo takes me back to those days. Mini Clipps @ Newgrounds flash games. I miss it.
I never new Madness Project Nexus even existed. I have to play it now.
Strike force heroes and Tdp4 was a big part of my childhood.
Chibi Knight brought back memories i had forgotten long ago
Neverseen was one of the most amazing games I've played ever, it's a great sequel that made the original look even better
My favorite madness game is Madness Retaliation the game is a classic to me the gameplay was so fun and the feeling of getting more powerful the more armor and weapons you find is great
Apparently he's been working on a sequel for YEARS. Latest update I've seen was from 2020
one of my favorite flash games was Intrusion. It's a run 'n' gun game with cool ragdoll physics. It even got a sequel on steam for 7 bucks. Highly recommend it.
Duuude OMG Swords and Souls 2 😭 It was like one of my favourite flash games to binge as a kiddo
CHIBI KNIGHT HAS A SEQUEL?!?! THAT WAS MY CHILDHOOD HOW I SEEIOUSLY TRIED SPEEDRUNNING IT BEFORE I KNEW WHAT SPEEDRUNNING WAS HOW TF DID I NOT KNOW THERE WAS ANOTHER
Glad to be able to share that :D
Phoenotopia has done this too, from flash game to a full remake with console releases.
It's really good.
bro rouge soul WAS SOOO GOOD, I WOULD PLAY IT SO MUCH. thanks for giving me a little nostalgia
I remember playing Rogue Souls 1 for hours and that was my first time playing a single game for hours on end, good times.
I love the background music it’s so nostalgic
One of the series of flash games that I think is underappreciated is the sift heads series. For such a simple fps stick figure game I enjoyed every bit of it and with the steam having sift heads reborn I would enjoy it more and more.
True and it does seem Chris is trying to improve on it
Armed with wings.... I loved that game so much, and did all achievements on steam when It came out. It's still severely underrated, so I definitely recommend to check it out :)
As a thing thing fan, I'm honestly surprised that the game didn't at least get an honorable mention as a memorable series
Swords and souls was an amazing game and im so happy neverseen exist.
I never knew about some of these new games- and I loved these flash games when they were out!
Didn't mean to click tried to swip but now I'm interested
I'll take it!
You’re not gonna talk about that nostalgic music I was related to the game are used to play it I love it 0:00
Honestly I'm shocked you never mentioned Sonny. That stuff's going strong.
The age of war music makes me so nostalgic
Yoooo someone finally mentioned Decision
Man love that game, from the medieval to the modern one man
And also when you unlocked the sword and shield...man it's just slash and shout
Ahhhh that intro music. Age of war and miragine war. Great rage filled times
this is a big hit of nostalgia
Saw this in your tweet. Pretty cool!
Bro... I played all games in the list i just forgot about them but i had spend a lot of hours and hours in them is good to know they managed to move on and still active to this day whit new games and all
Another flash game that got a suite as a Steam game is Lakeview Cabin, which has started on Kongregate and Newground in 2013, then got a new game in 2015 on Steam, Lakeview Cabin Collection, another game in 2019, Lakeview Valley, and yet another game in 2020, Lakeview Cabin 2, which is still in the making.
It's quite unknown, yet the dev is really perfectionist about his games, with small details sprinkled throughout every game, a pretty good/cryptic lore, and a really clever game design. It's objectively really good, subjectively it's my favorite franchise, I recommend anyone who wanna check it out to, well, check it out!
Anyway, yall have a nice day!
One classic flash game to me I haven't seen mentioned yet is the HeliAttack series, particularly HeliAttack 2 for me. Though now that I'm doing some quick googling it may have been hosted on Miniclip rather than Newgrounds, so it might quite be in your wheelhouse. Also, whatever that fox platforming game you had in the beginning gave me some serious flashbacks, as that was one of the first front page games I every tried just on a whim.
1:05 has HeliAttack 3. That's the only one I really remember playing. But it was excellent!
And the fox one is from a pair of games, William and Sly.
@@2leftthumbs Perfect! Yeah I think it was William and Sly 2 that I played. And since I only ever played HeliAttack 2, I didn't recognize the brief shot of 3. Thanks!
The passion from the developers in the Flash days was strong. Big AAA studios invest in a lot of manpower to come out with great (usually) titles. Small indie studios might have a 5 man or even 1 man team working on a product. The guy might be not pay himself until he gets sales, and if the game is a flop the business is over. Nothing is wrong with doing something for a living and it's great if people enjoy your work. But most of these Flash games? They were usually created by people with some hobby. Most of them never expected to sell anything, they just wanted to share their talent with the world. It's true some of these were repetitive, but I'll always have nostalgia for the Flash era.
I've been playing Rouge Soul 2 for about 30 minutes and its so much fun to play. I'm actually still playing the game while typing lol.
Epic battle fantasy, infectonator, kingdom rush, gemcraft, Henry Stickmin (from the same developer of Among us), the trader of stories, ball factory, dead detective, fancy pants adventure, submachine, learn to fly, cursed treasure, creeper world, medieval cop, ducklife, pandemics, achievement unlocked, the binding of isaac, meat boy, plant vs zombies, ...
Speaking of flash game series continuations, there's a Kickstarter campaign happening for Strike Force Heroes to be remastered on steam.
Very awesome video, wish you woulda also brought up the Epic Battle Fantasy series! Surprisingly its made it up to EBF5.
It was on my original list of games to talk about! I didn't realize until I had completed the video that the EPF Collection released on Steam almost immediately after this video! Otherwise I would have made certain that one was included. I'll get it next time for sure!
There's a Flash series I've been trying to refind. The first is one of those top down center of the screen zombie base defense games and I quite vividly remember the intro cutscene for one of the sequels having characters say something like "surrounded by zombies you had to fend off? That sound like a game!" then laugh. I remember that because the car then crashes and it's a there's an open world to explore this time. It's kinda really bugging me.
I played Ray when I was like, 13, I hope Repella Fella turns out well!
Bro. Swords and Sandals is such a GG Game Series.
I played swords and souls all the time on armor games after school when I figured it out it released on steam I put it on my wishlist immediately
Where Gemcraft series😔 My favorite flash game series and the dev is still planning to pump out new games, still using flash
GemCraft is among the all-time greats!
Someone suggested doing a video like this specifically on TD series. So if/when I do that, I'll be sure to include GemCraft :D
I highly recomend checking out both the Robot Wants games and the Epic Battle Fantasy games, both having continuations on Steam and both being superb.
That intro song. Wow so nostalgic.
I remember playing Thing Thing for hours as a kid