i miss my little character though :(( me and my brother would always play together and show off our house builds too. got really emotional when it shut down for good
I cried literal tears and held a virtual funeral for my PetVille dog Biscuit. He was a yellow lab and I had him from the first week PetVille launched until they took it down. RIP Biscuit 2009-2012
@@AlbertSnider-k3z Did you win? Did you get a laugh? Did you get the satisfaction? Did it feel good being unnecessarily mean behind the veil of anonymity?
somewhere out there in the internet multiverse, youre logging on and feeding Biscuit a treat. You close the tab and he knows he will see you again tomorrow when you get back from school, and all is well. ✨🦮💕
I was obsessed with so many Facebook games. Honestly I think it was my favorite era of gaming. The mobile games that replaced them just aren't the same. Not as social, often too complicated, etc.
mobile games are too greedy with money.. the fb games were too tbh but they werent this bad. also they were higher quality. didnt have ads every 5 seconds
I was in my late teens / early twenties when they started making these. I was a programmer and participated in and watched game development conferences (like GDC) and some of the discussions where actually bald faced "This is how we psychologically manipulate people to rip them off and make millions of dollars, isn't that neat!?" When gamers and devs spoke out against practices like microtransactions and criticized games like Farmville, we were more or less told to shut up and to stop being behind the times. Anyone criticizing these games were seen as naysayers and elitists that just didn't want people to have fun. The common sentiment was that nongamers didn't want to waste all their time and energy playing something challenging and that it wasn't hurting anybody to spend a few bucks here and there since the game was essentially free. Some devs saw how easy it was to make a game like Farmville for Facebook or iPhone over an actually good game and saw the money they would make and then jumped on the bandwagon. Fast forward about a decade and we have more and more games with microtransactions and the release of shameless cash grabs like Diablo Immortal. If you didn't grow up experiencing the days where you would just go to the store, buy a full / completed game, pop it in and play it without any pay walls, low effort DLC, microtransactions, loot boxes, etc.. then this probably didn't seem like a big deal, but for a lot of people my age it looked like the death of gaming, or at least what made it enjoyable.
You literally get what you paid for back then. If a game was a buggy hot mess, things like bugfixes or patch updates didn't exist. You were just stuck with it. This might just be nostalgia speaking, but it had a certain charm where weird, rare bugs were considered playground rumors. Things were different, certainly, but I wouldn't call it the best lol I do agree there ARE a lot of scummy practices that's considered industry standard in gaming nowadays, but it's important to note that these companies and games AREN'T the only ones existing today. There are so many good games out there currently that stayed true to what made games pure, unadulterated fun - none of those microtransactions, DLC band-aids, or "fake free to play" approaches. So, fortunately, it didn't become the "death of gaming" we used to think it would be. The first mobile games and classic Facebook games (and flash games!) seemed like the right balance. At least, back then, microtransactions weren't blatantly intrusive nor forceful. These games were good pastimes. But as with any decent thing, someone out there managed to make it corrupt and twisted, ushering us into this period of predatory business models like gacha, "play to earn", etc. etc
I used to make multiple Facebook accounts and used CheatEngine to get free coins you could get in those Flash games. But it's so insane how AAA games became now, because of that era.
@@ayumuchorizo4486 Not quite true: patches existed all the way back in games like Daggerfall (Bethesda would release patches on their site, the UESP even preserved those fixes) and I'm fairly sure games like DOOM and others had BBSes (ancestors of the modern net) to also publish dev patches. Then you had cartridges, where you had revisions-- where a newer version could be printed, and if it was a bad enough glitch you could ship your game to the manufacturer to get it patched/exchanged. (or at least unbrick your game save) I know Harvest Moon DS had a gamebreaker where you could send the game to Nintendo, and there was also Animal Crossing (the GameCube one!) that could get a newer revision sent back. Also the Pokemon patches for the GBA games that could fix your Ruby/Sapphire berries either through going to a Pokemon Center or Gamestop kiosk OR by linking to FireRed/LeafGreen... Patches still happened, it just took more effort to obtain the fixes. (Or sometimes you got an unconventional fix-- shout outs to the glove you could get if you gave yourself Mario Party blisters rotating the control stick in the minigames!) (Sorry, I had to go all um akshually there, having been one of those people who got my Harvest Moon DS cart swapped for the Rev 1.1 version through snailmail and half a year of waiting.)
You can say it's Stockholm síndrome, but hear me out. I'm not gonna pay for a subscription to an mmo to a live service mmo. but I am willing to pay for a skin for my favorite character. there are certain things around which I draw the line of course, like artificially limiting playtime, or removing challenge in favour of microtrasactions or creating situations where obtaining something is unreasonable unless you put more money in like a slot machine. My take is that live service and microtrasactions may have a place because servers aren't free and devs aren't free and having a constantly expanding game can be fun. However it's a very fine line to walk and development teams must be very careful, it's when profits are put before the experience that things go south. The only game like this that I've had a decent experience with is Warframe, now even they are not free of sin and have done some things that are pretty disgusting. The game has good things about it and it's generally fun to play specially with friends. But because if this capitalist temptation of squeezing the customer they've definitely engaged in fomo, they've definitely put on some limitations that are borderline if not completely predatory and luckily the ones that are actually ridiculous are very few in fact I can only think of two right now. This is what keeps the game from being terrible for me, the moment they try to reach out just a tiny bit more I'm pulling out because at this time they're riding that line where they're offering a generally good experience without constantly asking the players to spend. Hiwever I still think they should tone it down more and I still think they're engaged in some pretty shitty stuff and that's why I say that the moment they put any other artificial limitation I'm just not playing anymore like I did with league. I used to love league of legends and my friends still religiously play it even though I've told them it's turned into a shit game. And I stopped playing because they started to very obviously target the whales and tailor the gameplay towards them to the point where the playstile became completely different from what it used to be.
My grandma used to play cityville every single day. She always had the tab open on her computer lol. She made me really want a Facebook account as a kid so that I could play with her, I managed to convince my mom to make me an account when I was 10 for the games. I played with her all the time up until cancer took her energy and ability to do much playing. It still makes me think of her every time I hear or think about that game. Rip Grammy Joyce ♥
Sorry for your loss. My grandmother is also a Joyce and also died from cancer. I'm surprised she lived as long as she did(90s) considering she smoked since she was a teenager and a massive alcoholic. Seriously at 6yrs old I was taught how to make her favorite drink/breakfast which was a Manhattan.
i miss happy pets so much, whenever me and my sister would sleepover at my grandmothers house she would let us play her facebook games for 10 minutes before we went to bed
my then 31 year old ex husband would set 3 hourly alarms to wake up and harvest his strawberries. this zynga stuff was so advanced in terms of that crack addict high of 'free' games- as this was well before smart phones and pay to play apps and games. Zuck was so smart as the game forced you to add randoms and spam your friends with crap, and i think it was partly responsible for how they attained so much metadata so early on, and why zuck spent so much money on zynga back in the day. Great video, im older than you (38) and its cool seeing a different generations recollections and memories of these things (that i am also super interested in!) good luck with your patreon and i am now subscribed! :)
I can somewhat relate; I had a neighbor that would go on vacation or couldn't logon for a couple days would call me and tell me to harvest crops and replant them in Farmville, so she gave me her username and password. Setting alarms is taking it to another level.
I had no idea I was your first patron 😭 a video by another creator about how hard it can be to make TH-cam into a living prompted me to finally make a patreon and I just started looking up all the creators I liked! Your Wonka video rocked my world, happy to support this nostalgia content, it feels like it's specifically for me
I know what you mean! All of this was part of my childhood, and even though this sounds like I'm looking through rose-tinted glasses, I really enjoy hearing about them again.
When I was little, I played Farmville and Cafe World all the time. If someone ever brought those games back, I would definitely play them still! Especially Cafe World
Im going to cry. I thought I was the only one who was totally obsessed with games like fishville, farmville, castleville, etc. I wish the exact version of these games were still available! Farmville 2 aint too bad though
if you ever felt alone during that time I just wanna tell you that most kids around 2009 in the Philippines are obsessed with facebook games and I'm one of those kids back then. even adults are playing farmville because I remember I visited my aunt's farmville area to see what's up on her farm and she has better looking farm than mine 😅
@@yupitsme7574 Id always look at my moms farm on farmville 1, and I remember being so fascinated with how organized she made it. So nostalgic, wish I could play farmville 1 again! Glad to see Im not alone
It’s crazy to me how the stuff that our age group shared as part of our childhoods are now subjects of retrospective. I’m so happy I found your channel!
7:50 I wish this was true - so many console and pc games are so called ‘live service’ and in 2024 we still have the hellscape of ‘battle passes’, ‘loot boxes’, ‘skins’, etc…. 😢
I used to play happy aquarium, I miss that game a lot it was very unique I love bonding with fish, and it was my main inspiration for getting them as pets, I love my actual irl fish but I miss the moments with my mom playing the game together.
i was absolutely obsessed with happy aquarium. i think about it very fondly and i wish it was still around. teaching my pets to do tricks was so fun hahah
I will forever miss these Facebook games despite their flaws. While it's understandable why they fell off and if anything it's better if none of their flaws are repeated again--it saddens me that they'll only remain as a relic of our generation. Also, this video totally reminds me that my sister and her friends even went as far as creating multiple Facebook accounts just for those Game Requests lol You truly cover contents of nostalgia that we take for granted, including fads that a lot of TH-camrs don't cover. Keep it up!
One of my favorite games back then that I used to play was Pet Society. The game was so fun and simple, I miss having my pet and hangout with my friends' pets and make those old MVs that was all over youtube before the game got shut down. I wish it would come back, lots of childhood memories.
I was obsessed with mall world. Saved up so much money to buy this one “dress” I really loved, only to find out one day while my big sister was watching me play, that it was lingerie, and in fact not a dress. Didn’t totally understand until I got older, but I cringe now thinking about posting pictures of my character excited about my “pretty dress”.
I vividly remember a Facebook game I was absolutely obsessed with. it was called "Bite Me" I think, and iirc, it was a game where you ran and built a vampire nightclub. emo edgy teen me fell in love with it. I do remember hitting walls though where it was difficult to progress without microtransactions, and I too, was not allowed to give into temptation. So I'd usually wipe my data and start over again, I loved it that much.
@@seto9897 I am so glad someone else confirmed remembering it, I never know if some memories growing up are real or just strange mandela effect like things where I misremember basically everything lol
Really sucked that these games became lost media. There was a discussion on the Lost Media Wiki about how it’d be impossible to find playable version of these games; they all ran on Flash (which was discontinued in 2020) and the Facebook company was the only source for any game data. Unless someone went back in time to before those games were shut down (not when Flash ended), the odds would be incredibly low for those games to be playable again.
Not all hope is lost. there's a small project to revive Farmville. But all the server side stuff has to be reversed engineered. Theres also ways to play flash games in 2024
Somebody told me about the Claire’s asbestos scandal and either Google was listening too closely or just by chance I stumbled upon your video about Claire’s many scandal; I have been a fan ever since.
It is so nostalgic. In Brazil, Facebook only became popular in late 2010 early 2011. Orkut was the major social network here at that time, but I remember creating a Facebook account in 2009 because I got a Palm Centro from my parents at that time that had a Facebook app in it. I then logged in my account on my family’s computer and got ADDICTED to FarmVille. I remember telling my friends to join there so I could get items. I had added the most random friends on Facebook (mostly from Hong Kong and Canada somehow) because no one I knew had it then.
The worst was when a game required you to invite "3 or more friends" (or Send This to Friends and Have Them Approve) or whatever... and the amount of friends required was getting higher with higher levels so I eventually (very soon) ran out of friends to invite
Oh my gosh nostalgia hit me like a TRUCK, i felt like I was solely imagining those old graphics, slow animations and fun cows, fish, cats, my zoos and whatnot. It’s always a lovely time when dream jelly uploads, I’m glad you touched up on these games!
i just want you to know i adore this channel sm ! as someone who loves izzzzyz and savantics and obscure / old stories from the web this channel just hits all of the correct points !! it's so fun to watch / listen while drawing ,,
Really great video, I used to always play Dragons of Atlantis, Wolf Packs, and would trade Farmville stuff with my preschool teacher. Thanks for the term explanations too!
pet society is a huge memory for me, i got my first facebook account in 2007 when i was 5 years old just to play it with my aunt. we were both so into it and i just wish there were a way i could go back and play it… ugh
My dad was super into Farmville back when I was in middle school. He was always bugging me and my mom to log in and help do stuff on his farm. It got so bad my mom eventually had to tell him to stop getting on facebook since that was the only reason he would get on and he would be a real butthole if he had to wait on any farm events and stuff.
Have you guys ever seen the clip of Emma Stone explaining to Jimmy Fallon (I think), she had to delete FB cause she got addicted to FarmVille? It’s hilarious and so relatable- at least for people like me, Emma Stone and your dad. 😂
this is hilarious and Im sure is a very cute memory now lol it's really funny cause prior to FB games getting popular my parents would tell me to get off my gaming consoles cause I was playing too long. When FB games exploded in popularity, almost every adult I knew was hooked and wouldn't leave the computer, it's a funny memory to me now
I recently found your account and binged all of the videos. I hope you find it funny that I straight up said, “oh no” when I realized there weren’t anymore to watch. Great content, editing, scripts, and humor!! You deserve the attention frfr
Oh my god that damn fish game!! 😂😂😂 you just took me sooo back. Idk what was so addicting about designing your own tank. I remember when I showed FarmVille to my mom and shortly regretted it because she would refuse to leave the house if she was expecting any crops to be done in a few hours and she would leave places early if she knew her crops were almost done. She would set up alarms so she could wake up early to tend to her farm. I felt I created a monster and my moms boomer brain was just not ready to be exposed to gaming of this sort 😂😂😂 I don’t think she ever spent any money but I she was so into it she made me get sick of it first 😂😂😂
I added one of my classmates' mother as a friend just to send each other Candy Crush lives. I never met her in real life, but she was such a big part of my daily life that I genuinely grieved when I heard she was dead, like a "real" friend. RIP.
the background music really takes me back. i made an account on facebook in 2009 when i was WAAAAAY too young to be on the internet because i saw my family members playing pet society. i became obsessed with so many facebook games, i still kind of miss them today despite all their flaws
Farmville, Frontierville, Cafe World, Cafe Life, Tinier Cafe, Baking Life... so many baking type games that I was addicted to! I miss them so much. It was always nice to come home from a stressful day at work and unwind with a mindless game like that.
Good god can anything remotely retro not be associated with "oh mai god it's so liminal, how cweeeppy!" You're living in the past, which is common in autists.
@@AlbertSnider-k3z liminal space doesn't need to be creepy ? I never found them creepy, just dreamlike and nostalgic. Which is what the channel is about. Nostalgia. Also being autistic as nothing to do with having Nostalgia for a specific era. Most people are like this. Like genuinely, the most common phrase i hear about anyone that talks about their childhood "The toys are so bad these days" "cartoons aren't as good as the used to be" "things were much better back in my day". Those are phrases i hear adults or people my age say. Living in the past is a thing that people often live throught. Your making it wierder then it actually is. Also why are you such a butthole.
College me just saw a vision of my 2nd grade self playing Facebook games on my relatives' laptop past my bedtime when I saw this thumbnail. Time flies.
i was OBSESSED with farmville !! 😭 both my mom and grandma had really nice farms so after school, i’d get on the family computer and keep their farms nice like harvest the crops, plant said crops again and take care of the animals :D played it until i couldn’t anymore
I love your content so much, Can you do a video on how mobile games went from being well made games with original concepts, storylines, and well made character designs that are enjoyable to just being a straight up cash grab?😭 They all feel ai generated at this point
AI generated? Try those mobile mmorpgs, they all are auto play its crazy. who want to watch the phone play for you? even if you play manually, its discouraging seeing people who obviously using the auto play feature and level up faster than you, who are playing manually. It's pretty rampant a few years ago, and because of it anime mmorpg age literally fall to its death, there's rarely anime mmorpg anymore these days. surely to make those games they need money, while the graphic is often between bad to meh, its no way totally awful. why would they waste money to create such boring game?
This!!! I miss games like tap tap revenge, the original piano tiles, rollercoaster mania, tetris, etc. There are a lot of copycats these days but they just don't hit the same
Stop pretending like the old times didn't have trendy garbage and the new ones are just the autorunner games you see on ads. Try actually SEARCHING for games.
Oh man, this is exactly my kind of nostalgia! I made like three or four fake accounts AND convinced my dad to make one for himself, then lend it to me, just so I could keep playing more. I loved it all, FarmVille, Treasure Isle, SongPop... I vaguely recall there being games based on CSI and House M.D., too! As for microtransactions, I might have liked the look of stuff here and there, but somehow I just never felt the need to give in. The horror stories of overcharged credit cards and kids thinking you need to click to milk a real cow did come over here, though. Aside from all that mess, I wish I could go back, I've been really hung up on stuff that makes me nostalgic for a while now.
There was this Hotel Transylvania game and IT WAS SOOO GOOD, the animation, the art style, the sense of progression feel so fun to play. It was a bummer the game got discontinued years ago :'
I miss Epic Monsters. It was so fun creating your own monster and going to other people’s cities to destroy them and fight their monster, using tons of abilities. I still remember one of the monsters you could unlock parts of was made of furniture and was named “Furniture Bastard”. Wish I could play it again, but alas, it’s forever gone.
I remember having a year-long login streak in Fishville (the bonus would give you frogs or smth for each week you logged in) but one day I had forgotten to check in. I realised this at 11pm and my parents had locked up the house so I tried to sneak out my (incredibly shit HP) laptop only for it to BLAST FULL VOLUME with the windows opening and my whole family woke up 😂
i can relate, i was practically covering our pc speakers so nobody in my family would hear but welp HAHAHA you gotta do what you gotta do for the login bonuses
Holy shit a video that understands me. I wasn't allowed on any websites as a kid except for Facebook so I'd strictly play it's games. My favorite ones were pet society, monster galaxy, graalonline delteria, and dragon city! I can talk for hours about all the games I've played tbh
man i remember hearing small things about monster galaxy, unfortunately, unless there's multiple games of the same name made by different people and i'm looking at the wrong one, it's kinda turned into an nft related game, so that sucks
Bro let's talk them cuz this video unlocked a whole new part of my brain I used to play dragon city too, like in the realy early days, today the game kinda sucks but it's still pretty fun. Something oddly specific I remember is accidentaly breeding a butterfly dragon, wich at the time was a rare. I got so proud that I leveled it up to the max and made it my strongest dragon, I also named her Starfire cuz I was watching Teen Titans at the time. Then like a few years later I decided to play the game again and logged into my account, then I noticed they made the butterfly dragon a common instead of a rare now, I got so pissed lmao
@@max_punch omg I would play dragon city the most too. I was a major hoarder and usually had 2 of the same dragons each from breeding bcs I just liked breeding different combos of dragons. But my biggest enemies in that game was building the habitats bcs I never had anyone help me with the materials and had to save up on gems instead. And to double on that hoarding, I had a large sum of gold from gathering so much that I could pretty much buy anything [that cost gold.] My favorite dragon was the star dragon bcs I thought it was the cutest and I think I had 3 of them 😭
@@debbiestellar lmao I hated the habitats because I never had enough gold to build them, and I had a ton of dragon eggs in stock because of that. Also one time I got an oil dragon from an event (I think the elements were like dark and water) and I wasn't supposed to have it yet cause my level wasn't high enough to unlock the dark element. But since it was also water type I managed to hatch it into a water habitat, and I tought I was the coolest person ever for having a dragon above my level lol
After getting tired of how long it took to level up in Farmvillle, Cafe World and Happy Pets and Happy Aquarium quickly became my favorites! I've always hated the pay-to-play loop of these games though... Also nice to see someone else who was obsessed with Ga'Hoole
how much longer before you start a community for discussing this sorta nostalgial, I feel like you're the first person who falls into my nostalgic niche
There was one game on facebook, where you basically leveled ninjas. I think it was called Ninja Wars, but anyway, you basically challenged other players, and the higher level you got, the cooler, more powerful your weapons became; I kinda miss it
I remember growing up and seeing my older brother constantly playing these Facebook games and I always thought “I can’t wait until I can play those things” only to have forgotten about it entirely at some point, and by then the trend of Facebook was pretty much gone anyway
I noticed you live in Australia and I'm from Australia but I live in the UK. I love hearing your stories from USA but I think it would be great for you expose more Australian culture/media to the world. There is great stuff out there that people should know about but unfortunately know little about.
I’m Australian and I don’t want people to do topics on our culture because there’s nothing to talk to about. We have some of the worst musicians, actors, comedians etc.
@@vshcvsh98 Living in Australia is like living in a bubble, I guess in a way similar to living in North America like USA and Canada. You get comfortable to what you know and get used to it and after a while you don't appreciate everything you live with. I found leaving Australia opened my eyes and seeing the world for what it is. Nowhere is perfect but at the same time there's always something to be proud about no matter where in the world you live.
The mobile game Township is the closest to this kind of game nostalgia I’ve found for a while. The ads don’t make any sense compared to the actual game. You can form groups and ask for items and send items and compete in contests etc etc
Happy Pets was my jam. I didn’t have money so getting traded a wolf was my life’s high. Then they added a pay wall and I was devastated. I was even more broken when I did get a job and found out Happy Pets was taken down. Also I LOVED Guardians of Ga’Hoole :)
Pet society was one of my favourite fb games. One of the most memorable ones I did is visiting every fb friends’ pets, idk why but I guess it’s about coins or achievements. It’s time consuming but that was fun for me. I remember I have a cool water floor that splashes when you walk. I miss my pet. 😢
this video definitely brought back memories of me playing facebook games on my mom's account. i'm glad that you addressed they were a driving force in predatory microtransactions though, since even kid me knew that paying for them were bad news. it's a shame that hasn't fully gone away in gaming yet (which i fully acknowledge as someone who plays mobile gacha games)
I'm basically your age it sounds and I remember being hooked on Farmville when I was 11,12,13 and I pretty much found a way to game the system it seemed. I always desired the beautiful exclusive trees you could get and wanted big orchards- I think I paid $5 for a tree once after begging my dad even. But I found a couple facebook groups where, through processes I don't remember clearly, you could visit each others farms and actually get some of their seeds! So I ended up having $100s of dollars worth of trees using this system, which if I remember correctly started slow at first but eventually you had orchards on orchards of trees. What's concerning about this is, while I never got sucked into the microtransactions, you actually had to be Facebook friends with these people. So me, 12 years old is just adding a bunch of random middle aged and elderly people so we can trade tree seeds for our farmville and other resources. Which, looking back on it, is kind of concerning. I was obviously a kid but none of these people ever cared or talked to me about it, we were merely working together to pimp out our farms. Luckily nothing weird ever happened, but still. Kind of weird!
I can't put it to words perfectly, but Dream Jelly has such a friendly & soothing tone to her voice! Definitely why the vibes are so immaculate with each video :)
I got the most obsessed with FrontierVille, I was a cactus collector, which was a whole thing on the Zynga forums lol. I still have some people in my friends list from that time that I never talk to, but we've "known" each other for like 10 years so it's still nice to see their updates on my timeline 😂
I will never forget when I was too young to get Facebook I would watch my mom play Farmville, and sometimes she would let me play with her farm at work while I was waiting on dad to pick me up (didn't have/couldn't afford a babysitter so I'd hang out at the vets office for a while) I remember accidentally using farm cash to buy her avatar a dress and I felt so bad about it that I never told her until within the last couple of years, she laughed and laughed lol
I used to be obsessed with these games as well. I would play on my mom’s Facebook account as I was too young to have one of my own. I also found out yesterday that Yoville is apparently still around just under YoWorld. The game’s creators apparently got the rights back to the game and are now doing their own thing. I wish some of these other games were available in a weird way. More so out of nostalgia than anything else.
My dudette keep on the grind. Your quality is top as hell and you show some nice skill in editing and script writing and hopefully you will see the rewards of your skills.
Woah such nostalgia! I used to play NinjaSaga and Baseball Heroes the most. I especially missed Happy Pets and the FB version of Dragon City. I remember using my moms laptop afterclass to play baseball heroes. i miss 'em
i miss farmville, petville, cafe world, and fishville so much... i was too young for facebook back then but i would play them religiously on my mom's account. we were both obsessed and i remember little me sitting on her lap and we would decorate together... i'd give anything to go back to those days ngl
When I was a kid, my grandma and my mom (along with a lot of my other family members) got super into FarmVille. I remember getting home from school and having to fight my mom for screen time. They would have alarms set to wake them up in the middle of the night to harvest/plant crops. There was also a time where FarmVille partnered with the jolly green giant frozen veggie company. I remember going into the city to go to target so they could get the farm cash on the bags. My grandma also had an extra account for my grandpa, so he “had a farm” that she really just tended to and send gifts from. Looking back it’s definitely weird how crazy everyone got but it was something we all did together. I definitely look back on it with fond emotions and laughs mostly, especially since my grandma passed a few years ago. She would’ve loved the mobile game though!
I am 6'3 weigh more than 200Lbs and live in eastern Europe but I somehow enjoy the nostalgia an american girl has about Facebook games and other stuff. Please continue making these videos I really like watching them its like another world to me. Much love
I've never played any of these, my childhood Facebook games were contract wars, red crucible, a weird Naruto village builder sim, and an off brand dayz. Weird days
I think it’s soooo funny that the you named the old lady who helped u with Facebook games Cindy, that’s my mom’s name & in her hay day, she was a top level player in nearly every ville game that existed on Facebook at the time. She would legit be on the computer for 12 hours at a time some days, just switching between all the different games on Facebook lol
It may have been before your time, but there was a time on Facebook where we had something called Flair. It was basically a virtual corkboard with little buttons and you designed the buttons and you could give the designs to the world and display other people’s designs and I remember making so much flair back in like 2009 and I was very sad when I decided one day years later to go back to flair and it was gone. Quitting Facebook was one of the best things I ever did for my mental health but still I miss flair
I saved all of my favorites, I don't think the quality is great but I still have those "buttons". I miss Flair!! That and SuperPoke were some of the best parts of early FB. Just "poking" people is boring, bring back my ability to "throw a sheep" at my friends 😆😆
Me and my friend would take turns logging into our Cafe World accounts literally all day it was 100% my fave facebook game as a kid! I also gatta say your videos always give me so much needed nostalgia thank you 😄
I miss CastleVille so much. I can't even count the number of times I have relistened to the game's music on TH-cam. I don't get why they can't just bring it back.
Rip petville, I will never forget the day I logged onto my Facebook account, scrolled over to the game tab and discovered you weren't there. You were and will always be my favorite escape from reality 😔✊️
When I was 11, I begged my older sister to help me make an email so I could play SuperPoke Pets! Please tell me I’m not the only one who remembers this game! 😭 I was absolutely heartbroken when Slide shut the game down. 11 years later, I’m still not over it 😭 I miss my kitten
I was OBSESSED with fishville, I would literally constantly annoy my mom to let me play it on her account because I was like 10 years old and obviously couldn’t have an account. I loved cleaning the tank and feeding the fish so much, I still don’t know why because looking back it doesn’t seem like it was that fun (keeping in mind I was a kid with a Wii & Nintendo ds, who was choosing to play with virtual fish). I don’t even know if these games are still a thing because I never never ended up getting a Facebook,(I’m Gen Z and the platform was outdated by the time I finally got a phone & my own personal email). This was such a nostalgic video lol, I love your channel!! :)
I remember fairyland, my mom was obsessed with it and when I got an account I would play with her. Until I lost interest in Facebook but my mom would still tend to my garden for me!
farmville, farmtown, yoville (now yoworld), tetris battle, restaurant city, nightclub city, petville, pet society (now pet society island) and ameba pico virtual world - these are the facebook games that HAD me addicted! 😭 i remember turning on the pc as soon as i get home from school just to play these. some of them were “remastered” and are available as mobile games, but they just aren’t the same anymore. i tried playing yoworld in facebook, but the server is laggy despite not having much online players. ugh. i love this channel so much! it tickles my nostalgic self so so bad❤️🩹
+ just to add, i feel like if ever they slowly return these facebook games on the same platform, facebook will easily beat the newer social media platform apps nowadays in terms of ranking lol. i hope facebook sees this😫
I joined Facebook in my 20s specifically for the games. I was burnt out on AAA games, mobiles games sucked & had less genre variety, & my grandma wanted to learn "Farm 52" or some other game where aliens abduct cows. My grandma was big on softcore indie PC games. When Facebook killed the game feed from friends & intigrated actual mobile games into the site, it completely killed the platform for me.
My grandma was OBSESSED with that Pet City facebook game. I actually have a little bit of trauma related to it lmao. I used to play SuperPoke! Pets on my mom's account until it was shut down. Rip Pebbles the Penguin
I have to say, the background music seemed so natural to me at first, but then I realized it's because I listened to it so much in the past. Brought back so many memories from my childhood. Thankfully my mom never let me near her credit card when I was playing on Facebook, BUT her page is riddled with me making public posts from these games, unknowingly. Since the games were in English, and I didn't speak the language when I was little, all the games were just pictures, and I could only figure out what to do by chance. It was still fun, and I hope my kids can have some fun memories like this too!
some of my fondest memories of my childhood include sitting down on my mom’s bed next to her while she played farmville on her laptop. seems like forever ago.
I loved so much of these games, but my favourite was Restaurant City. There was just something about it I really loved, you could customise your restaurant, character/staff, and loads more. The main point of the game I guess was to increase your restaurant level and dishes, which let you hire more staff and grow ingredients. I looked for it when I was older, only to find it had closed down. I never quite found anything similar enough, but looking at the old Facebook Group page on it is really nostalgic.
Pet society is literally the whole reason why everyone in my class got Facebook, we just wanted those virtual pets
I miss my garden so much 😭😭😭
Pet Society was the bomb tbh
i miss my little character though :(( me and my brother would always play together and show off our house builds too. got really emotional when it shut down for good
LEGIT
i got facebook just to play the game when i saw family play it. i loved it so much and was devastated when it was shut down
isn't pet society a pet party rip-off
I cried literal tears and held a virtual funeral for my PetVille dog Biscuit. He was a yellow lab and I had him from the first week PetVille launched until they took it down. RIP Biscuit 2009-2012
@@AlbertSnider-k3z
Did you win? Did you get a laugh? Did you get the satisfaction? Did it feel good being unnecessarily mean behind the veil of anonymity?
somewhere out there in the internet multiverse, youre logging on and feeding Biscuit a treat. You close the tab and he knows he will see you again tomorrow when you get back from school, and all is well. ✨🦮💕
rip to my grey kitty cat with a bitchin mansion that i didn't pay a real life penny for!!!
nah that's really sad, kinda cried to be honest
RIP Biscuit, may you rest in virtual paradise.
I was obsessed with so many Facebook games. Honestly I think it was my favorite era of gaming. The mobile games that replaced them just aren't the same. Not as social, often too complicated, etc.
I’ve noticed the too complicated part as well, I’m 24 but not very tech savvy. 😅
Too many intrusive ads
i miss the old scooby doo games on the old CN site
mobile games are too greedy with money.. the fb games were too tbh but they werent this bad. also they were higher quality. didnt have ads every 5 seconds
Also they figured out how to part you with your money better lmao
I was in my late teens / early twenties when they started making these. I was a programmer and participated in and watched game development conferences (like GDC) and some of the discussions where actually bald faced "This is how we psychologically manipulate people to rip them off and make millions of dollars, isn't that neat!?"
When gamers and devs spoke out against practices like microtransactions and criticized games like Farmville, we were more or less told to shut up and to stop being behind the times. Anyone criticizing these games were seen as naysayers and elitists that just didn't want people to have fun.
The common sentiment was that nongamers didn't want to waste all their time and energy playing something challenging and that it wasn't hurting anybody to spend a few bucks here and there since the game was essentially free. Some devs saw how easy it was to make a game like Farmville for Facebook or iPhone over an actually good game and saw the money they would make and then jumped on the bandwagon. Fast forward about a decade and we have more and more games with microtransactions and the release of shameless cash grabs like Diablo Immortal.
If you didn't grow up experiencing the days where you would just go to the store, buy a full / completed game, pop it in and play it without any pay walls, low effort DLC, microtransactions, loot boxes, etc.. then this probably didn't seem like a big deal, but for a lot of people my age it looked like the death of gaming, or at least what made it enjoyable.
This 😭
You literally get what you paid for back then. If a game was a buggy hot mess, things like bugfixes or patch updates didn't exist. You were just stuck with it. This might just be nostalgia speaking, but it had a certain charm where weird, rare bugs were considered playground rumors. Things were different, certainly, but I wouldn't call it the best lol
I do agree there ARE a lot of scummy practices that's considered industry standard in gaming nowadays, but it's important to note that these companies and games AREN'T the only ones existing today. There are so many good games out there currently that stayed true to what made games pure, unadulterated fun - none of those microtransactions, DLC band-aids, or "fake free to play" approaches. So, fortunately, it didn't become the "death of gaming" we used to think it would be.
The first mobile games and classic Facebook games (and flash games!) seemed like the right balance. At least, back then, microtransactions weren't blatantly intrusive nor forceful. These games were good pastimes. But as with any decent thing, someone out there managed to make it corrupt and twisted, ushering us into this period of predatory business models like gacha, "play to earn", etc. etc
I used to make multiple Facebook accounts and used CheatEngine to get free coins you could get in those Flash games.
But it's so insane how AAA games became now, because of that era.
@@ayumuchorizo4486 Not quite true: patches existed all the way back in games like Daggerfall (Bethesda would release patches on their site, the UESP even preserved those fixes) and I'm fairly sure games like DOOM and others had BBSes (ancestors of the modern net) to also publish dev patches.
Then you had cartridges, where you had revisions-- where a newer version could be printed, and if it was a bad enough glitch you could ship your game to the manufacturer to get it patched/exchanged. (or at least unbrick your game save)
I know Harvest Moon DS had a gamebreaker where you could send the game to Nintendo, and there was also Animal Crossing (the GameCube one!) that could get a newer revision sent back. Also the Pokemon patches for the GBA games that could fix your Ruby/Sapphire berries either through going to a Pokemon Center or Gamestop kiosk OR by linking to FireRed/LeafGreen...
Patches still happened, it just took more effort to obtain the fixes. (Or sometimes you got an unconventional fix-- shout outs to the glove you could get if you gave yourself Mario Party blisters rotating the control stick in the minigames!)
(Sorry, I had to go all um akshually there, having been one of those people who got my Harvest Moon DS cart swapped for the Rev 1.1 version through snailmail and half a year of waiting.)
You can say it's Stockholm síndrome, but hear me out.
I'm not gonna pay for a subscription to an mmo to a live service mmo.
but I am willing to pay for a skin for my favorite character.
there are certain things around which I draw the line of course, like artificially limiting playtime, or removing challenge in favour of microtrasactions or
creating situations where obtaining something is unreasonable unless you put more money in like a slot machine.
My take is that live service and microtrasactions may have a place because servers aren't free and devs aren't free and having a constantly expanding game can be fun. However it's a very fine line to walk and development teams must be very careful, it's when profits are put before the experience that things go south.
The only game like this that I've had a decent experience with is Warframe, now even they are not free of sin and have done some things that are pretty disgusting.
The game has good things about it and it's generally fun to play specially with friends.
But because if this capitalist temptation of squeezing the customer they've definitely engaged in fomo, they've definitely put on some limitations that are borderline if not completely predatory and luckily the ones that are actually ridiculous are very few in fact I can only think of two right now. This is what keeps the game from being terrible for me, the moment they try to reach out just a tiny bit more I'm pulling out because at this time they're riding that line where they're offering a generally good experience without constantly asking the players to spend.
Hiwever I still think they should tone it down more and I still think they're engaged in some pretty shitty stuff and that's why I say that the moment they put any other artificial limitation I'm just not playing anymore like I did with league.
I used to love league of legends and my friends still religiously play it even though I've told them it's turned into a shit game. And I stopped playing because they started to very obviously target the whales and tailor the gameplay towards them to the point where the playstile became completely different from what it used to be.
My grandma used to play cityville every single day. She always had the tab open on her computer lol. She made me really want a Facebook account as a kid so that I could play with her, I managed to convince my mom to make me an account when I was 10 for the games. I played with her all the time up until cancer took her energy and ability to do much playing. It still makes me think of her every time I hear or think about that game. Rip Grammy Joyce ♥
this is so cute, I bet your grammy was a nice lady
@@delusion5867 She really was! Nothing is the same without her
what a cool memory to have of her ❤️ I think I got permission to make a facebook account just to play farmville with my grandma 😂
@@MC-op3vj my grandma made me my first facebook account when I wasn't even 10 so I could start playing and send her stuff 😂
Sorry for your loss.
My grandmother is also a Joyce and also died from cancer. I'm surprised she lived as long as she did(90s) considering she smoked since she was a teenager and a massive alcoholic.
Seriously at 6yrs old I was taught how to make her favorite drink/breakfast which was a Manhattan.
“Because I was afraid Facebook would somehow know I wasn’t 13 and come swat my house for breaking the rules”
Omg this was so me as pre-teen 😂😂😂
I wish I had been more cautious 😅
And then there was me who didn't care... Sometimes I wish I did at times!
My first facebook account was actually deleted because they somehow found out I wasn't 13. Probably got reported by someone I imagine.
@@GamerBoyDevinthat’s a thing?
@@gracekim1998 happened to me in middle school about 12 years ago so maybe not anymore?
i miss happy pets so much, whenever me and my sister would sleepover at my grandmothers house she would let us play her facebook games for 10 minutes before we went to bed
Love that loading screen with the cat meows that acted like a piano, really thought I was some Mozart with that 😢
@@SimperingSimpleton_ same 😭
I loved breeding different dogs and cats on Happy Pets and seeing what their babies looked like.
Happy Pets was my go to game, along with Petville and Pet Society.
My grandma would let me play on her computer too, it was solitaire and purble place tho
my then 31 year old ex husband would set 3 hourly alarms to wake up and harvest his strawberries. this zynga stuff was so advanced in terms of that crack addict high of 'free' games- as this was well before smart phones and pay to play apps and games. Zuck was so smart as the game forced you to add randoms and spam your friends with crap, and i think it was partly responsible for how they attained so much metadata so early on, and why zuck spent so much money on zynga back in the day. Great video, im older than you (38) and its cool seeing a different generations recollections and memories of these things (that i am also super interested in!) good luck with your patreon and i am now subscribed! :)
I can somewhat relate; I had a neighbor that would go on vacation or couldn't logon for a couple days would call me and tell me to harvest crops and replant them in Farmville, so she gave me her username and password. Setting alarms is taking it to another level.
I had no idea I was your first patron 😭 a video by another creator about how hard it can be to make TH-cam into a living prompted me to finally make a patreon and I just started looking up all the creators I liked! Your Wonka video rocked my world, happy to support this nostalgia content, it feels like it's specifically for me
Omg that’s too cute 🥹🥹
I know what you mean! All of this was part of my childhood, and even though this sounds like I'm looking through rose-tinted glasses, I really enjoy hearing about them again.
When I was little, I played Farmville and Cafe World all the time. If someone ever brought those games back, I would definitely play them still! Especially Cafe World
yes! cafe world was my shit
Im going to cry. I thought I was the only one who was totally obsessed with games like fishville, farmville, castleville, etc. I wish the exact version of these games were still available! Farmville 2 aint too bad though
Ahhh I forgot how much I loved castleville!!
@@wervampz The soundtrack was so beautiful
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if you ever felt alone during that time I just wanna tell you that most kids around 2009 in the Philippines are obsessed with facebook games and I'm one of those kids back then. even adults are playing farmville because I remember I visited my aunt's farmville area to see what's up on her farm and she has better looking farm than mine 😅
@@yupitsme7574 Id always look at my moms farm on farmville 1, and I remember being so fascinated with how organized she made it. So nostalgic, wish I could play farmville 1 again! Glad to see Im not alone
It’s crazy to me how the stuff that our age group shared as part of our childhoods are now subjects of retrospective. I’m so happy I found your channel!
Farmville and Petville were so much fun
Also the Petville intro was so dope back then. I never got to say goodbye to my pink cat 🥺💔
Yea
I've been missing PetVille for years
7:50 I wish this was true - so many console and pc games are so called ‘live service’ and in 2024 we still have the hellscape of ‘battle passes’, ‘loot boxes’, ‘skins’, etc…. 😢
I used to play happy aquarium, I miss that game a lot it was very unique
I love bonding with fish, and it was my main inspiration for getting them as pets, I love my actual irl fish but I miss the moments with my mom playing the game together.
And Happy pets!! I miss those games a lot..
I would spend hours looking at the fish in the store, planing out wich one i'd save up to buy x)
i was absolutely obsessed with happy aquarium. i think about it very fondly and i wish it was still around. teaching my pets to do tricks was so fun hahah
I loved happy aquarium it bought back so many memories 🥹
I will forever miss these Facebook games despite their flaws. While it's understandable why they fell off and if anything it's better if none of their flaws are repeated again--it saddens me that they'll only remain as a relic of our generation. Also, this video totally reminds me that my sister and her friends even went as far as creating multiple Facebook accounts just for those Game Requests lol
You truly cover contents of nostalgia that we take for granted, including fads that a lot of TH-camrs don't cover. Keep it up!
One of my favorite games back then that I used to play was Pet Society. The game was so fun and simple, I miss having my pet and hangout with my friends' pets and make those old MVs that was all over youtube before the game got shut down. I wish it would come back, lots of childhood memories.
i love the dedication to consistently keeping the 90's thumbs up kid as your mascot
I love what they’ve got goin on w that 😂
I didn't notice until I saw this comment
I thought it was a childhood pic of her until now 😭
I was obsessed with mall world. Saved up so much money to buy this one “dress” I really loved, only to find out one day while my big sister was watching me play, that it was lingerie, and in fact not a dress. Didn’t totally understand until I got older, but I cringe now thinking about posting pictures of my character excited about my “pretty dress”.
I vividly remember a Facebook game I was absolutely obsessed with. it was called "Bite Me" I think, and iirc, it was a game where you ran and built a vampire nightclub. emo edgy teen me fell in love with it. I do remember hitting walls though where it was difficult to progress without microtransactions, and I too, was not allowed to give into temptation. So I'd usually wipe my data and start over again, I loved it that much.
I remember that game lol
@@seto9897 I am so glad someone else confirmed remembering it, I never know if some memories growing up are real or just strange mandela effect like things where I misremember basically everything lol
This was one of my all time favorites!
I miss this one so much!!
Too bad you couldn't progress much or at all after some time without paying actual money but I found the idea of the game very fun, good memories.
Really sucked that these games became lost media.
There was a discussion on the Lost Media Wiki about how it’d be impossible to find playable version of these games; they all ran on Flash (which was discontinued in 2020) and the Facebook company was the only source for any game data.
Unless someone went back in time to before those games were shut down (not when Flash ended), the odds would be incredibly low for those games to be playable again.
Not all hope is lost. there's a small project to revive Farmville. But all the server side stuff has to be reversed engineered.
Theres also ways to play flash games in 2024
@@BarrySmootherwhen does it come out?
Flash being dead isn't much of a big deal though. You can still run flash games locally on a computer.
Somebody told me about the Claire’s asbestos scandal and either Google was listening too closely or just by chance I stumbled upon your video about Claire’s many scandal; I have been a fan ever since.
It is so nostalgic. In Brazil, Facebook only became popular in late 2010 early 2011. Orkut was the major social network here at that time, but I remember creating a Facebook account in 2009 because I got a Palm Centro from my parents at that time that had a Facebook app in it. I then logged in my account on my family’s computer and got ADDICTED to FarmVille. I remember telling my friends to join there so I could get items. I had added the most random friends on Facebook (mostly from Hong Kong and Canada somehow) because no one I knew had it then.
You know it's a good day when Dream Jelly posts, absolutely love the content and it always cheers me up!
Off topic but i love ur pfp!
my cat died yesterday
The worst was when a game required you to invite "3 or more friends" (or Send This to Friends and Have Them Approve) or whatever... and the amount of friends required was getting higher with higher levels so I eventually (very soon) ran out of friends to invite
Oh my gosh nostalgia hit me like a TRUCK, i felt like I was solely imagining those old graphics, slow animations and fun cows, fish, cats, my zoos and whatnot. It’s always a lovely time when dream jelly uploads, I’m glad you touched up on these games!
Yea
Man i wish i can relive those times again. It's a loss that most of the facebook games dont get ported to mobile now, so many great games
i’m so glad you made this video because i feel like i’ve been dreaming about these games in solitary for years but they were SO GOOD
i just want you to know i adore this channel sm !
as someone who loves izzzzyz and savantics and obscure / old stories from the web
this channel just hits all of the correct points !! it's so fun to watch / listen while drawing ,,
Wow six months later and she doesn't care.
@@AlbertSnider-k3z dang whats your problem i was just being nice ? ever heard of that 😐
@@AlbertSnider-k3z and yet you care too comment.
seeing those original farmville and aquarium graphics sent me back in time to the old computer room lol, i used to play them obsessively
Really great video, I used to always play Dragons of Atlantis, Wolf Packs, and would trade Farmville stuff with my preschool teacher. Thanks for the term explanations too!
The beauty of this channel is its simplicity. The way you describe things is just relaxing I don’t know why. Keep up the good work!
pet society is a huge memory for me, i got my first facebook account in 2007 when i was 5 years old just to play it with my aunt. we were both so into it and i just wish there were a way i could go back and play it… ugh
My dad was super into Farmville back when I was in middle school. He was always bugging me and my mom to log in and help do stuff on his farm. It got so bad my mom eventually had to tell him to stop getting on facebook since that was the only reason he would get on and he would be a real butthole if he had to wait on any farm events and stuff.
My dad was the same way 💀
My dad would set alarms for when his crops would be done, and had post it notes on his computer for what he was doing on his farm 💀
@@itsamiamario69 HAHAHAHAHHHAHAHAHA
Have you guys ever seen the clip of Emma Stone explaining to Jimmy Fallon (I think), she had to delete FB cause she got addicted to FarmVille? It’s hilarious and so relatable- at least for people like me, Emma Stone and your dad. 😂
this is hilarious and Im sure is a very cute memory now lol it's really funny cause prior to FB games getting popular my parents would tell me to get off my gaming consoles cause I was playing too long. When FB games exploded in popularity, almost every adult I knew was hooked and wouldn't leave the computer, it's a funny memory to me now
I recently found your account and binged all of the videos. I hope you find it funny that I straight up said, “oh no” when I realized there weren’t anymore to watch. Great content, editing, scripts, and humor!! You deserve the attention frfr
Oh my god that damn fish game!! 😂😂😂 you just took me sooo back. Idk what was so addicting about designing your own tank. I remember when I showed FarmVille to my mom and shortly regretted it because she would refuse to leave the house if she was expecting any crops to be done in a few hours and she would leave places early if she knew her crops were almost done. She would set up alarms so she could wake up early to tend to her farm. I felt I created a monster and my moms boomer brain was just not ready to be exposed to gaming of this sort 😂😂😂 I don’t think she ever spent any money but I she was so into it she made me get sick of it first 😂😂😂
Yea
I added one of my classmates' mother as a friend just to send each other Candy Crush lives. I never met her in real life, but she was such a big part of my daily life that I genuinely grieved when I heard she was dead, like a "real" friend. RIP.
the background music really takes me back. i made an account on facebook in 2009 when i was WAAAAAY too young to be on the internet because i saw my family members playing pet society. i became obsessed with so many facebook games, i still kind of miss them today despite all their flaws
Farmville, Frontierville, Cafe World, Cafe Life, Tinier Cafe, Baking Life... so many baking type games that I was addicted to! I miss them so much. It was always nice to come home from a stressful day at work and unwind with a mindless game like that.
Your channel feels like a liminal space almost, so much forgotten memories! Thank you :)
Good god can anything remotely retro not be associated with "oh mai god it's so liminal, how cweeeppy!"
You're living in the past, which is common in autists.
@@AlbertSnider-k3z liminal space doesn't need to be creepy ? I never found them creepy, just dreamlike and nostalgic.
Which is what the channel is about. Nostalgia.
Also being autistic as nothing to do with having Nostalgia for a specific era. Most people are like this. Like genuinely, the most common phrase i hear about anyone that talks about their childhood
"The toys are so bad these days" "cartoons aren't as good as the used to be" "things were much better back in my day".
Those are phrases i hear adults or people my age say.
Living in the past is a thing that people often live throught.
Your making it wierder then it actually is.
Also why are you such a butthole.
@@AlbertSnider-k3z nothing wrong if someone likes the 60s to 90s generation.
College me just saw a vision of my 2nd grade self playing Facebook games on my relatives' laptop past my bedtime when I saw this thumbnail. Time flies.
You know it's a good day when Dream Jelly posts a new video.
@Will they’re both four hours apart lol
i was OBSESSED with farmville !! 😭 both my mom and grandma had really nice farms so after school, i’d get on the family computer and keep their farms nice like harvest the crops, plant said crops again and take care of the animals :D played it until i couldn’t anymore
I love your content so much, Can you do a video on how mobile games went from being well made games with original concepts, storylines, and well made character designs that are enjoyable to just being a straight up cash grab?😭 They all feel ai generated at this point
omg, and the ADVERTISEMENTS too, those feel the most AI generated 😭😭😭
AI generated? Try those mobile mmorpgs, they all are auto play its crazy. who want to watch the phone play for you? even if you play manually, its discouraging seeing people who obviously using the auto play feature and level up faster than you, who are playing manually.
It's pretty rampant a few years ago, and because of it anime mmorpg age literally fall to its death, there's rarely anime mmorpg anymore these days.
surely to make those games they need money, while the graphic is often between bad to meh, its no way totally awful. why would they waste money to create such boring game?
This!!! I miss games like tap tap revenge, the original piano tiles, rollercoaster mania, tetris, etc. There are a lot of copycats these days but they just don't hit the same
@@francinev3971 Tap tap was quite the franchise. So sad that it died.
Stop pretending like the old times didn't have trendy garbage and the new ones are just the autorunner games you see on ads. Try actually SEARCHING for games.
Oh man, this is exactly my kind of nostalgia! I made like three or four fake accounts AND convinced my dad to make one for himself, then lend it to me, just so I could keep playing more. I loved it all, FarmVille, Treasure Isle, SongPop... I vaguely recall there being games based on CSI and House M.D., too! As for microtransactions, I might have liked the look of stuff here and there, but somehow I just never felt the need to give in. The horror stories of overcharged credit cards and kids thinking you need to click to milk a real cow did come over here, though. Aside from all that mess, I wish I could go back, I've been really hung up on stuff that makes me nostalgic for a while now.
There was this Hotel Transylvania game and IT WAS SOOO GOOD, the animation, the art style, the sense of progression feel so fun to play. It was a bummer the game got discontinued years ago :'
OMG I REMEMBER NOW. Thank you for reminding me of it, was it the onw where you literally had to take care of the hotel?
@@Pollicina_db YESSS 😭😭😭
I miss Epic Monsters. It was so fun creating your own monster and going to other people’s cities to destroy them and fight their monster, using tons of abilities. I still remember one of the monsters you could unlock parts of was made of furniture and was named “Furniture Bastard”. Wish I could play it again, but alas, it’s forever gone.
I remember having a year-long login streak in Fishville (the bonus would give you frogs or smth for each week you logged in) but one day I had forgotten to check in. I realised this at 11pm and my parents had locked up the house so I tried to sneak out my (incredibly shit HP) laptop only for it to BLAST FULL VOLUME with the windows opening and my whole family woke up 😂
i can relate, i was practically covering our pc speakers so nobody in my family would hear but welp HAHAHA you gotta do what you gotta do for the login bonuses
Yea
The fish game sounds a little familiar
Chef Ville was probably my favorite. The way I was OBSESSED with that game, and I miss it so much 😭
Holy shit a video that understands me.
I wasn't allowed on any websites as a kid except for Facebook so I'd strictly play it's games. My favorite ones were pet society, monster galaxy, graalonline delteria, and dragon city!
I can talk for hours about all the games I've played tbh
man i remember hearing small things about monster galaxy, unfortunately, unless there's multiple games of the same name made by different people and i'm looking at the wrong one, it's kinda turned into an nft related game, so that sucks
@@rainbowsylvie16 God dammit. I'll have to look into that but that's my literal childhood game 💔
Bro let's talk them cuz this video unlocked a whole new part of my brain
I used to play dragon city too, like in the realy early days, today the game kinda sucks but it's still pretty fun. Something oddly specific I remember is accidentaly breeding a butterfly dragon, wich at the time was a rare. I got so proud that I leveled it up to the max and made it my strongest dragon, I also named her Starfire cuz I was watching Teen Titans at the time. Then like a few years later I decided to play the game again and logged into my account, then I noticed they made the butterfly dragon a common instead of a rare now, I got so pissed lmao
@@max_punch omg I would play dragon city the most too. I was a major hoarder and usually had 2 of the same dragons each from breeding bcs I just liked breeding different combos of dragons. But my biggest enemies in that game was building the habitats bcs I never had anyone help me with the materials and had to save up on gems instead. And to double on that hoarding, I had a large sum of gold from gathering so much that I could pretty much buy anything [that cost gold.] My favorite dragon was the star dragon bcs I thought it was the cutest and I think I had 3 of them 😭
@@debbiestellar lmao I hated the habitats because I never had enough gold to build them, and I had a ton of dragon eggs in stock because of that. Also one time I got an oil dragon from an event (I think the elements were like dark and water) and I wasn't supposed to have it yet cause my level wasn't high enough to unlock the dark element. But since it was also water type I managed to hatch it into a water habitat, and I tought I was the coolest person ever for having a dragon above my level lol
After getting tired of how long it took to level up in Farmvillle, Cafe World and Happy Pets and Happy Aquarium quickly became my favorites! I've always hated the pay-to-play loop of these games though...
Also nice to see someone else who was obsessed with Ga'Hoole
how much longer before you start a community for discussing this sorta nostalgial, I feel like you're the first person who falls into my nostalgic niche
You helped cure me of my deep desire to locate and play old facebook games and similar offshoots. Thank you.
There was one game on facebook, where you basically leveled ninjas.
I think it was called Ninja Wars, but anyway, you basically challenged other players, and the higher level you got, the cooler, more powerful your weapons became; I kinda miss it
Lol maybe it’s “Ninja Saga” not Ninja Wars. Cityville and Ninja Saga are my two favorite Facebook games HAHAHHA
I remember growing up and seeing my older brother constantly playing these Facebook games and I always thought “I can’t wait until I can play those things” only to have forgotten about it entirely at some point, and by then the trend of Facebook was pretty much gone anyway
really good video, was shocked seeing that you had 30k, definitely see your channel growing in the future!
I noticed you live in Australia and I'm from Australia but I live in the UK. I love hearing your stories from USA but I think it would be great for you expose more Australian culture/media to the world. There is great stuff out there that people should know about but unfortunately know little about.
That would be cool!! As an American I’m diggin the U.S. pop culture moments but am always willing to learn more about the world around me😊
I’m Australian and I don’t want people to do topics on our culture because there’s nothing to talk to about. We have some of the worst musicians, actors, comedians etc.
I agree😊 I LOVE learning
@@budbanter i would love to hear why this is though!
@@vshcvsh98 Living in Australia is like living in a bubble, I guess in a way similar to living in North America like USA and Canada. You get comfortable to what you know and get used to it and after a while you don't appreciate everything you live with. I found leaving Australia opened my eyes and seeing the world for what it is. Nowhere is perfect but at the same time there's always something to be proud about no matter where in the world you live.
The mobile game Township is the closest to this kind of game nostalgia I’ve found for a while. The ads don’t make any sense compared to the actual game. You can form groups and ask for items and send items and compete in contests etc etc
No game will ever be as fun as Farmville
ahhh so much nostalgia just from the thumbnail. 💕 my favorites were sims social, pet society, cafe world, and friends for sale.
Happy Pets was my jam. I didn’t have money so getting traded a wolf was my life’s high. Then they added a pay wall and I was devastated. I was even more broken when I did get a job and found out Happy Pets was taken down.
Also I LOVED Guardians of Ga’Hoole :)
I loved Guardians of Ga'Hoole as a kid as well! I'm happy to see that the owl books had so many fans
I just want to say, as someone who got your videos recommended, and now subscribed, I love these videos
Pet society was one of my favourite fb games. One of the most memorable ones I did is visiting every fb friends’ pets, idk why but I guess it’s about coins or achievements. It’s time consuming but that was fun for me. I remember I have a cool water floor that splashes when you walk. I miss my pet. 😢
this video definitely brought back memories of me playing facebook games on my mom's account. i'm glad that you addressed they were a driving force in predatory microtransactions though, since even kid me knew that paying for them were bad news. it's a shame that hasn't fully gone away in gaming yet (which i fully acknowledge as someone who plays mobile gacha games)
I'm basically your age it sounds and I remember being hooked on Farmville when I was 11,12,13 and I pretty much found a way to game the system it seemed. I always desired the beautiful exclusive trees you could get and wanted big orchards- I think I paid $5 for a tree once after begging my dad even. But I found a couple facebook groups where, through processes I don't remember clearly, you could visit each others farms and actually get some of their seeds! So I ended up having $100s of dollars worth of trees using this system, which if I remember correctly started slow at first but eventually you had orchards on orchards of trees.
What's concerning about this is, while I never got sucked into the microtransactions, you actually had to be Facebook friends with these people. So me, 12 years old is just adding a bunch of random middle aged and elderly people so we can trade tree seeds for our farmville and other resources. Which, looking back on it, is kind of concerning. I was obviously a kid but none of these people ever cared or talked to me about it, we were merely working together to pimp out our farms. Luckily nothing weird ever happened, but still. Kind of weird!
I can't put it to words perfectly, but Dream Jelly has such a friendly & soothing tone to her voice! Definitely why the vibes are so immaculate with each video :)
I got the most obsessed with FrontierVille, I was a cactus collector, which was a whole thing on the Zynga forums lol. I still have some people in my friends list from that time that I never talk to, but we've "known" each other for like 10 years so it's still nice to see their updates on my timeline 😂
I will never forget when I was too young to get Facebook I would watch my mom play Farmville, and sometimes she would let me play with her farm at work while I was waiting on dad to pick me up (didn't have/couldn't afford a babysitter so I'd hang out at the vets office for a while)
I remember accidentally using farm cash to buy her avatar a dress and I felt so bad about it that I never told her until within the last couple of years, she laughed and laughed lol
I used to be obsessed with these games as well. I would play on my mom’s Facebook account as I was too young to have one of my own. I also found out yesterday that Yoville is apparently still around just under YoWorld. The game’s creators apparently got the rights back to the game and are now doing their own thing. I wish some of these other games were available in a weird way. More so out of nostalgia than anything else.
My dudette keep on the grind. Your quality is top as hell and you show some nice skill in editing and script writing and hopefully you will see the rewards of your skills.
I miss cafe world so much, I was 14 and obsessed with it and still have a lot of nostalgia for it lol
Woah such nostalgia! I used to play NinjaSaga and Baseball Heroes the most. I especially missed Happy Pets and the FB version of Dragon City. I remember using my moms laptop afterclass to play baseball heroes. i miss 'em
This is insane, because I was getting nostalgic for Farmville a couple days ago, and I haven't thought about that in almost ten years.
You make all the videos I didn't know I needed
i miss farmville, petville, cafe world, and fishville so much... i was too young for facebook back then but i would play them religiously on my mom's account. we were both obsessed and i remember little me sitting on her lap and we would decorate together... i'd give anything to go back to those days ngl
When I was a kid, my grandma and my mom (along with a lot of my other family members) got super into FarmVille. I remember getting home from school and having to fight my mom for screen time. They would have alarms set to wake them up in the middle of the night to harvest/plant crops.
There was also a time where FarmVille partnered with the jolly green giant frozen veggie company. I remember going into the city to go to target so they could get the farm cash on the bags.
My grandma also had an extra account for my grandpa, so he “had a farm” that she really just tended to and send gifts from.
Looking back it’s definitely weird how crazy everyone got but it was something we all did together. I definitely look back on it with fond emotions and laughs mostly, especially since my grandma passed a few years ago. She would’ve loved the mobile game though!
I am 6'3 weigh more than 200Lbs and live in eastern Europe but I somehow enjoy the nostalgia an american girl has about Facebook games and other stuff. Please continue making these videos I really like watching them its like another world to me. Much love
I've never played any of these, my childhood Facebook games were contract wars, red crucible, a weird Naruto village builder sim, and an off brand dayz. Weird days
I think it’s soooo funny that the you named the old lady who helped u with Facebook games Cindy, that’s my mom’s name & in her hay day, she was a top level player in nearly every ville game that existed on Facebook at the time.
She would legit be on the computer for 12 hours at a time some days, just switching between all the different games on Facebook lol
Her name was actually Cindy! Maybe it was your mom....
Your vids are so freaking good. Great work 🙏
It may have been before your time, but there was a time on Facebook where we had something called Flair. It was basically a virtual corkboard with little buttons and you designed the buttons and you could give the designs to the world and display other people’s designs and I remember making so much flair back in like 2009 and I was very sad when I decided one day years later to go back to flair and it was gone. Quitting Facebook was one of the best things I ever did for my mental health but still I miss flair
Dude I *loved* Flair, what a throwback!!
I saved all of my favorites, I don't think the quality is great but I still have those "buttons". I miss Flair!! That and SuperPoke were some of the best parts of early FB. Just "poking" people is boring, bring back my ability to "throw a sheep" at my friends 😆😆
Me and my friend would take turns logging into our Cafe World accounts literally all day it was 100% my fave facebook game as a kid! I also gatta say your videos always give me so much needed nostalgia thank you 😄
there was one facebook game where you ran a boutique that i was completely obsessed with as a kid.. spent hours on it
I miss CastleVille so much. I can't even count the number of times I have relistened to the game's music on TH-cam. I don't get why they can't just bring it back.
I remember being devastated when they shut it down, it was my favorite of all ville games
Rip petville, I will never forget the day I logged onto my Facebook account, scrolled over to the game tab and discovered you weren't there. You were and will always be my favorite escape from reality 😔✊️
When I was 11, I begged my older sister to help me make an email so I could play SuperPoke Pets! Please tell me I’m not the only one who remembers this game! 😭 I was absolutely heartbroken when Slide shut the game down. 11 years later, I’m still not over it 😭 I miss my kitten
I was OBSESSED with fishville, I would literally constantly annoy my mom to let me play it on her account because I was like 10 years old and obviously couldn’t have an account. I loved cleaning the tank and feeding the fish so much, I still don’t know why because looking back it doesn’t seem like it was that fun (keeping in mind I was a kid with a Wii & Nintendo ds, who was choosing to play with virtual fish). I don’t even know if these games are still a thing because I never never ended up getting a Facebook,(I’m Gen Z and the platform was outdated by the time I finally got a phone & my own personal email). This was such a nostalgic video lol, I love your channel!! :)
I remember fairyland, my mom was obsessed with it and when I got an account I would play with her. Until I lost interest in Facebook but my mom would still tend to my garden for me!
Holy shit dude, I literally just found your school lunch video and was surprised it was from a new starting channel ! So glad you exploding in views
farmville, farmtown, yoville (now yoworld), tetris battle, restaurant city, nightclub city, petville, pet society (now pet society island) and ameba pico virtual world - these are the facebook games that HAD me addicted! 😭 i remember turning on the pc as soon as i get home from school just to play these. some of them were “remastered” and are available as mobile games, but they just aren’t the same anymore. i tried playing yoworld in facebook, but the server is laggy despite not having much online players. ugh. i love this channel so much! it tickles my nostalgic self so so bad❤️🩹
+ just to add, i feel like if ever they slowly return these facebook games on the same platform, facebook will easily beat the newer social media platform apps nowadays in terms of ranking lol. i hope facebook sees this😫
I joined Facebook in my 20s specifically for the games. I was burnt out on AAA games, mobiles games sucked & had less genre variety, & my grandma wanted to learn "Farm 52" or some other game where aliens abduct cows. My grandma was big on softcore indie PC games. When Facebook killed the game feed from friends & intigrated actual mobile games into the site, it completely killed the platform for me.
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My grandma was OBSESSED with that Pet City facebook game. I actually have a little bit of trauma related to it lmao.
I used to play SuperPoke! Pets on my mom's account until it was shut down. Rip Pebbles the Penguin
I completely forgot about Guardians of Ga’Hoole. It sparked my owl hyperfixation when I was younger.
I have to say, the background music seemed so natural to me at first, but then I realized it's because I listened to it so much in the past. Brought back so many memories from my childhood.
Thankfully my mom never let me near her credit card when I was playing on Facebook, BUT her page is riddled with me making public posts from these games, unknowingly. Since the games were in English, and I didn't speak the language when I was little, all the games were just pictures, and I could only figure out what to do by chance. It was still fun, and I hope my kids can have some fun memories like this too!
I never played the Facebook games, but it's interesting to see you cover them
This channel hits all of my niche nostalgia fr! can't wait for more to discover you
some of my fondest memories of my childhood include sitting down on my mom’s bed next to her while she played farmville on her laptop. seems like forever ago.
Happy Pets and Happy Aquarium were my absolute favorite Facebook games. Miss them so much
I loved so much of these games, but my favourite was Restaurant City. There was just something about it I really loved, you could customise your restaurant, character/staff, and loads more. The main point of the game I guess was to increase your restaurant level and dishes, which let you hire more staff and grow ingredients. I looked for it when I was older, only to find it had closed down. I never quite found anything similar enough, but looking at the old Facebook Group page on it is really nostalgic.
finally a restaurant city comment! i also played nightclub city
@@czypherth nightclub city! i completely forgot i used to play that, it was a great game.
I enjoy how you consistently use that kid very approvingly using the computer in your thumbnails. Makes me smile every time. Love your videos!