Flash Game Nostalgia

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  • Looking back at the wild wacky world of Flash games. Lots of classics, gems, and unknowns. Whether you played them or not, I hope you enjoy the trip.
    Music: pastebin.com/38jMi2LA
    Chapters
    Intro 0:00
    First Round of Games 0:52
    Flash Websites 21:50
    Second Round of Games 30:28
    More Websites 48:52
    Stickmania 56:37
    Classic Animations 1:15:48
    Madness Mania 1:21:06
    Third Round of Games 1:28:32
    Grab Bag 1:38:08
    Flash Remnants 1:51:00
    What Happened to Flash? 1:55:17
    Closing Thoughts 1:57:10
    Twitter: / redlyne_
    Twitch: / redlynenine
    Discord: / discord
    omg this is so frutiger aero guys!! wow! omg!
    (This video was supposed to be like 20 minutes long)
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  • @SmileySaysNo
    @SmileySaysNo 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +638

    21 with the voice of a single father with 2 adult kids God damn

    • @whyishoudini
      @whyishoudini 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +125

      21 with the voice of a 47 year old grizzled divorced north eastern sanitation worker

    • @gruntingskunk2237
      @gruntingskunk2237 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      Seriously, I was about to comment how he sounds at least 34.

    • @Electric0eye
      @Electric0eye 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Could listen to that silky smooth voice all day, almost fell asleep to this tbh

    • @QuilloManar
      @QuilloManar หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      My dude got to legal drinking age and speedran to age 42 with alcohol.

    • @iWonchan
      @iWonchan หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Bro sounds like he works 14 hours a day

  • @apehawk
    @apehawk 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +642

    I can't describe how fucking surreal it is hearing Jerma's voice coming out of a 2005 flash game lizard with anime hair

    • @nozers
      @nozers 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

      not really surreal to me, seems like usual jerma 😂

    • @robertschnobert9090
      @robertschnobert9090 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      ​@@nozersyeah, I could see Jerma being the voice actor for a lizard with anime hair today!

    • @vacantrefrigerator4566
      @vacantrefrigerator4566 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      holy grail

    • @aegisfate117
      @aegisfate117 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Thanks for including the timestamp

    • @AbsoluteAbsurd
      @AbsoluteAbsurd 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@aegisfate117lmao

  • @matthewgumabon7498
    @matthewgumabon7498 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +331

    I think I’m a bit older than Redlyne, but I was a young kid during the early 2000s boom of Flash games, and I was lucky enough to go to elementary and middle schools with computer labs and savvy computer teachers.
    I remember I had one computer teacher who was super tech savvy, and he made and maintained the school website himself, even adding a page full of Flash games links that he had collected himself for us.
    He would add new links for every new season like Halloween and Christmas, and he made sure all the sites were kid-safe and didn’t have any rated-R content using a firewall program he made.
    (But being the kids we were we always found sites that somehow go through the blocking haha).
    After the obligatory lessons about using MS Word and PowerPoint, then some Mavis Beacon typing practice, he would let us loose on the flash games page.
    Just the look and feel of these small window games with blocky hand drawn 2D sprites and super compressed sound effects bring back so many great memories.
    Rest in Peace Mr. Mabli.

    • @caveirainvocada9438
      @caveirainvocada9438 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      I love this. Looks like he was such a great dude

    • @blitheringrando1410
      @blitheringrando1410 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      The few awesome teachers made life so much easier. We had a guitar class in my senior year, that teacher was awesome (Mr. Beasley) he'd hold occasional LAN parties and we'd play the original Halo game. Haloween was the theme for one of them 😂

  • @gloweyesca5339
    @gloweyesca5339 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +94

    Man Nitrome was my entire childhood. I remember my sister and I getting hyped whenever a new one would get made and rush to go play it, not to mention the many multiplayer games we played together. Good times.

  • @halorocks101a
    @halorocks101a 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +907

    Hearing you say that Stick RPG is 20 years old almost killed me on the spot.

    • @OrgusDin
      @OrgusDin 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      lmao old man
      same

    • @Kydino
      @Kydino 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      same thing. Got a similar feel when I heard dudes calling halo 3 old.

    • @georgelincolnrockwell6248
      @georgelincolnrockwell6248 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      EXISTENTIAL CRISIIIIIIS! 😎

    • @jaredfortin6810
      @jaredfortin6810 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Genuinely same

    • @hylianro
      @hylianro 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      For real

  • @KrinkelsNG
    @KrinkelsNG 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1392

    !!!MADNESS MENTIONED!!! Dude thanks for folding the cartoons and games into this nostalgic trip!!

    • @feIon
      @feIon 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      hell yeah

    • @damiannichols1250
      @damiannichols1250 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

      Thanks for your amazing animations they were a huge part of my childhood

    • @CRT-5826
      @CRT-5826 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      I was waiting for the madness sequence the whole time in the video. Legendary series, thanks for making it

    • @zacharyharris2177
      @zacharyharris2177 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      You’re a huge inspiration to so many people man.

    • @waste4245
      @waste4245 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Legend!

  • @JeyVGaming
    @JeyVGaming 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    You forgot to mention the old flash games that Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network & Disney has made back then.. I remember being such a cartoons kid that I play those non stop on my old family computer.

  • @alexwolff9395
    @alexwolff9395 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

    Anyone remember those particle physics flash games? With the plants that grew with water, explosive gasses and real air physics with the “fans”. (All just diff colour particles/solid blobs) I remember playing those for hours just making crazy things happen with the airflow physics you could do
    Edit : found it. It’s called powder game

    • @joble6098
      @joble6098 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      The Dan Ball games! There were a few others on the site which were good as well, but powder game was the clear winner, so cool.

    • @SkigBiggler
      @SkigBiggler 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Power game is in part the spiritual predecessor to Noita. Dunno if people have made functioning computers in Noita though

    • @manic221
      @manic221 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The other one like that was Phun now known as Algodoo

  • @Pvrge.
    @Pvrge. 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3446

    A 2 hour long video essay about something that a lot of people are nostalgic about? This video is guaranteed to get a crazy amount of views

    • @Asbestoseater23
      @Asbestoseater23 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

      i hope so

    • @BudBonkerson
      @BudBonkerson 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      i hope so 2

    • @pingpong5877
      @pingpong5877 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Bet.

    • @fratrickmachomes5263
      @fratrickmachomes5263 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Without a doubt this video will be at 2 mil within a month

    • @Skybreaker1337
      @Skybreaker1337 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      This just reminds me of how old we are. Even people who are 20 today have no idea what flash games are, let alone the younger gen.

  • @Cheshyre
    @Cheshyre 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +380

    Thank you so much for the mention in the video! I really appreciate it and I know the other Madness people do too! Much appreciated!

    • @g_way
      @g_way 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Love your work homie !!!

  • @MichaelSchwartzJazz
    @MichaelSchwartzJazz 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    So happy to see you talking about Super Mario 63 and the community! Runouw's forums and the level designing community was my first batch of internet friends ever. Runouw did an amazing thing creating not only a beautiful flash game, but also a supportive community who wanted to reprogram and experiment with the level design, or talk shop, or just chill out with each other. Mauro and Avo and Master1.0 were friends :) Still talk to a few from that bunch nowadays and call a couple some of my closest friends

  • @eeeveeeve
    @eeeveeeve 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I think you might seriously be my favorite person on this site right now. Your content makes me feel very happy, and when I get a notification from your channel it’s always a treat. Thank you for your awesome videos!

  • @zacharyharris2177
    @zacharyharris2177 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +370

    This era of the internet was so inspiring. It felt like the ultimate hub for aspiring artists. I guess the internet still is today, but I don’t know, places like newgrounds just don’t seem as popular as they used to be nowadays. Not to sound cliche, but the internet really is dominated by more “corporate” websites these days so it just feels different than it used to. I’m sure aspiring artists can still find ways to shine in this new landscape though. It just feels a lot less centralized now so it’s harder

    • @rihardsrozans6920
      @rihardsrozans6920 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +80

      The internet absolutely has become a corporate hellscape.
      I miss the old internet, it was unique and varied instead of just being broken websites wrapped around ads.

    • @tumultoustortellini
      @tumultoustortellini 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      There are soo many amazing 20k-100k range youtubers who'vd be million sub channels if they were around in a less saturated time, or if they had reputation. The internet just can't support all of us.

    • @CoreyDavid-is8kv
      @CoreyDavid-is8kv 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      People do stuff for the clicks not the love nowadays. Rare to see a new artist come out who isn't riding trends. Or to see people who arent rich kids who's parents buy their way into the industry.

    • @Bulley
      @Bulley 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Over the past decade the vast majority of Internet traffic went from being divided between about a thousand top website to like 10, which are owned by just a few corporations. It's a tragedy and I fear the implications of centralized information/communication.

    • @moonasha
      @moonasha 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      yep. Growing up on newgrounds was incredibly inspiring. A lot of the animations look crappy by today's standards, but as a 12 year old, you could look at those crappy animations and say to yourself "I can do that". Adobe flash was one easy download away, and the sky was the limit. Without flash I never would have learned how to code. I think you're right, there's a lot less room for "crappy" artists to shine through today, since corporate (even small 3 or 4 man LLCs i.e., successful youtube channels) media dominates the landscape. Newgrounds slogan was everything by everyone. TH-cam seems to be a few things by a few people.

  • @gommyboi380
    @gommyboi380 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +253

    Learning that jerma was just always like that rocked my world. Like i thought that a person couldnt be born like that.

    • @deadaccount03791
      @deadaccount03791 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

      he was ALWAYS a psycho streamer at his core

    • @oi-cj1pz
      @oi-cj1pz 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Typical rookie mistake. Jerma wasnt born, he was simply produced in TestPd_985 as the latest in a long series of biomechanical automated sleeper weapons designed to artificially hypnotize the general populace into pushing radical ideologies

  • @Evanz111
    @Evanz111 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Thank you for reminding me of about two dozen games I was convinced nobody else had ever played yet which I absolutely loved. Largely as games I could play in IT classes at school.

  • @EdwardBishop98
    @EdwardBishop98 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This was a great video essay and you did a great job of showcasing a lot of influential flash games over the years. It's crazy how many of these I played back in the day and how many I didn't even know existed. I love the style you present everything in.....that said; The grab bag part absolutely killed my brain i love it lmao. good job.

  • @ANProductions
    @ANProductions 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1783

    Territory War dev checking in. Much love for the mention! The AI did not scale with difficulty, I'm just a bad programmer 😅
    (I still make games btw! th-cam.com/video/mSBcxlrPHKo/w-d-xo.html)

    • @sfm.viciousmane1374
      @sfm.viciousmane1374 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +139

      Dude I spent so many hours playing it as a kid it's not even funny

    • @JohnSmith-ox3gy
      @JohnSmith-ox3gy 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +58

      Your The Escape games were a huge inspiration for flash gaming, thank you.

    • @zacharyharris2177
      @zacharyharris2177 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

      Man I loved playing this. I remember playing the two player mode with my brother taking turns on the computer. And even playing solo was really fun. Thanks for the memories bro

    • @artratengo3685
      @artratengo3685 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Thanks for making that banger of a game, i remember me and my dad playing it, one of the few good memories i have with him bc he was away working most of the time.❤

    • @violetrose4547
      @violetrose4547 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Dude. This was the first flash game I ever played when I was a kid. Great memories with my friends!

  • @makeaton
    @makeaton 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +89

    I always wanna say to myself "oh, I remember that from when I was like 15! It's not that old right?"
    It's been like 25 years man

  • @Notthross
    @Notthross 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    Okay, sir. I have watched your entire catalogue several times, now. I understand that putting these together is an enormous task, but I still respectfully request that you release another video soon. I literally cannot get enough of your dulcet tones and editing/writing style.
    Don't rush, though. I don't want you wasting an ounce of that stimulating quality you make your videos with.
    I especially enjoy your Dead Games videos. I find it pleasantly eerie to go back in time and look at things that players created. It feels a lot like stumbling upon a dilapidated building in the woods to me.

  • @FusedReaper
    @FusedReaper 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Oh my god. You just unlocked so many of my memories. 😢 this is a beautiful piece of work, definitely deserves a sub

  • @ShenDoodles
    @ShenDoodles 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    XGen, the creator of StickRPG, unfortunately passed away a few years back. XGen Studios will continue, but we lost an icon. I've not watched far enough to see if you've included the Shark series, but Wiesi also passed last month. The creator of The Skullkid also passed. While we're being all nostalgic, we should spare a thought for the Flash icons who aren't with us anymore.

  • @ldezzer3950
    @ldezzer3950 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +142

    Great video overall.
    Only thing that hurt is omission of NotDoppler and Kongregate, especially Kongregate.
    Kongregate had forums, chatrooms, and was a site where the whole Idle game craze originated from thanks to Tukkun and many others.
    Nowadays its a shell of its former self, but back in the late era of flash games it was just as significant as the other giants mentioned.

    • @combastion5227
      @combastion5227 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      I knew I felt like he was missing out on a really big name, but couldn't think of what it was, but it was Kongregate. Indeed still an amazing video though, and with just how much there was out there it's understandable that he didn't think of everything, and as he said at the end, by the time he finished putting all this together he had remembered a whole bunch of other stuff aswell but the video is already 2 hours, so it'd be pretty crazy to add in more.

    • @G3rmanGsnLP
      @G3rmanGsnLP 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      I had to scroll way to far to see kongregate mentioned. Its crazy, I probably played for over 1000 hours to collect as many achievements as possible.. To get congpanions as one of the first 100 made me talk about nothing else for a whole week

    • @HellWatcher117
      @HellWatcher117 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Kong used to be a lot of fun.

    • @is7taken141
      @is7taken141 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Adult Swim also made some fun flash games on their site.
      Burrito Bison Revenge is probably my number one favorite.

    • @termsypoo
      @termsypoo 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Also was weird he omitted the Binding of Isaac, considering how popular it is today

  • @Xerkies
    @Xerkies 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I didn't even regard how long the video is before I clicked on it and I can't tell you much relieved I am to see that in not even a third way to the video. Just halfway. And I still got an hour left! I had a feeling some of the stuff I've seen weren't gonna be mentioned before I thought it was a gonna be a short 30 min vid

  • @kuro_o_o
    @kuro_o_o 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Dude you brought back so many memories, TERRITORY WARS IS one of the games I couldn’t remember the name of, used to play this one with one of my cousins, tysm!

  • @xFluing
    @xFluing 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +192

    You're right about the nostalgia bit. The thing I feel most nostalgic for are experiences you can never go back to, things I haven't done in years, or things you can only experience once, such as me being a 15 year old kid customizing the hell out of the painterly pack sneakily at night when I wasn't allowed on the PC. Regarding you FNAF example - I'm on the same boat, I'm not feeling nostalgic for the game itself however I am feeling nostalgic for watching markiplier play the game as I come back home from school. As some old saying goes: "you don't miss X, you miss how you used to feel about X"

    • @raditzhoneyham
      @raditzhoneyham 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      You had me until the last part, is anyone actually nostalgic about twitter? (Joke)

    • @bldontmatter5319
      @bldontmatter5319 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Correct. I don't feel nostalgic for electric man the fighting game. I play it once every couple years. Still good.
      I feel nostalgic about those old racing games I played in the late 2000s that are junk now

    • @zacharyharris2177
      @zacharyharris2177 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Back then the internet felt like a more centralized hub for aspiring artists. Nowadays it just isn’t the same because it’s more so dominates by a few major “corporate” websites

  • @randyvandal8959
    @randyvandal8959 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +349

    My jaw actually dropped when I heard that the Mario 63 levels were archived. Some of my fondest childhood memories, honestly. Thank you so much, dude.

  • @jamallboivin5811
    @jamallboivin5811 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The mixture of comedy and nostalgia got you an inevitable subscription, thank you!!

  • @tylerm2784
    @tylerm2784 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    thanks for this video it was a really fun nostalgia trip! shocked to see albino blacksheep not even get mentioned! next to new grounds it was the top place i remember going to watch flash animations.

  • @WaterflameMusic
    @WaterflameMusic 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +147

    Amazing video! I have been following your stuff for a while, so it was strange to suddenly hear my name and music in the first 3 minutes! :D
    This was super nostalgic to watch - I grew up on all of these games too. Thanks for keeping flash alive a bit longer! 😍 And keep up the awesome work in general, love your videos.

    • @michaelkozluk9619
      @michaelkozluk9619 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      wow, I remember your music from ether war when candystand was still up, good times

    • @aredeakay3141
      @aredeakay3141 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Redlyne came out of nowhere and I'm sure he's gonna be one of the GOATs

    • @ELiT3Griefer
      @ELiT3Griefer 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Dammn the guy who also made the Geometry Dash soundtrack, absolute banger

    • @leihau
      @leihau หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ELiT3Griefer no he didn't, he just made music on newgrounds which geometry dash gets its custom songs from

  • @ErasmusMagnusR
    @ErasmusMagnusR 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +250

    Rest in peace to Stick RPG's XGen and Miami Shark's Wiesi, latter having just died recently. Legendary game creators.

    • @ColinGeiger0
      @ColinGeiger0 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      No more stick arena dimensions :(

    • @Ronbotnik
      @Ronbotnik 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      ​@@ColinGeiger0 stick arena shutting down hit me extra hard for some reason. i still remember going to LAN centers and playing that with a bunch of buddies in person and it was a blast every time. even the LAN centers are gone now, truly the end of an era :(

    • @jordank6546
      @jordank6546 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Are you saying the creator's of those game's passed away or just the studios that developed those game's

    • @ErasmusMagnusR
      @ErasmusMagnusR 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jordank6546 The former

    • @jordank6546
      @jordank6546 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ErasmusMagnusR that's sad as hell man rip, I never played those games well shark Miami i did and that game was fun as hell

  • @kylechipman5850
    @kylechipman5850 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Super fun video. The Last Stand was another highlight for me, as were Shockwave websites (Merlin’s Revenge 2 was incredible). Thanks for the fun memories!

  • @monniehernandez5959
    @monniehernandez5959 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love this so much, not only about the games but websites and songs too!! You're a legend!

  • @BlueMaximaC099
    @BlueMaximaC099 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +121

    Nice little present to see you thoroughly use something I worked on for five years. Cheers Redlyne, love your stuff.

  • @the_real_mccoy398
    @the_real_mccoy398 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +44

    I will tell you right now that the “tricking” of teachers with cool math games 1000% worked. My librarian let us go on the website during indoor recess and it took him like 2 years to figure out what was going on.

    • @patrickmccutcheon8860
      @patrickmccutcheon8860 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Same with our librarian. I’m pretty sure that my graduating class was the sole reason for half of the rules that are in place in the schools today.

  • @user-zm1xc9tx2b
    @user-zm1xc9tx2b หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Checking in as one of the flash games dev, maaan, what a great time that was. Forget mobiles, or steam, with flash, as a dev, you had access to millions of people. So, unlike the modern "stores", anyone, and I mean anyone, could get at least some valuable exposure, like 10k plays or something, and that's a huge number that either kills you for sure (so you understand your game actually sucks), either lifts you up beyond your expectations. To put it in perspective, with Android, you'd probably hit 50-500 plays before making a desicion to just stop trying. What a shame. And that's why Flash was such a gem technology back in the days. Talking numbers, great flash games had millions upon millions of views, millions. Some of that from the returning players sure, but still, just think about that. I'd argue that some of those games outnumbered the so called AAA games from those corporate studios with strict rules and shit all creativity. Flash is a thing from the internet of old, it let people connect directly, heart to heart, dev to player, no authentication or credit card required. It is missed, and it just gets more and more boring as the corporations slowly absorb the player base around the world.

  • @trikstuh760
    @trikstuh760 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is one of the best viedoes I've seen. Thank u for the nostalgia.

  • @ShenDoodles
    @ShenDoodles 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    QWOP was made by a dev called Bennett Foddy, who later made it big with Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy, a philosophical rage game which has commentary on game design and life itself that's way deeper than it gets credit for. Most people ignore his narration because they're too angry.

    • @telesticHarlequin
      @telesticHarlequin 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      also he made GIRP! a silly little physics based climbing game where you play keyboard twister to reach for handholds. it owns

    • @ShenDoodles
      @ShenDoodles 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@telesticHarlequin TH-camr/game dev Pontypants is making a game that combines Getting Over It and GIRP!

    • @telesticHarlequin
      @telesticHarlequin 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@ShenDoodles oh that sounds so sick! ty for letting me know!

    • @HellWatcher117
      @HellWatcher117 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Nice I had no idea that QWOP was by Bennett Foddy.

    • @itsfine5818
      @itsfine5818 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      GIRP is easily my favorite out of all Foddy's games and it's a crime that it doesn't get talked about at all.@@telesticHarlequin

  • @rockerj881
    @rockerj881 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +224

    A 2 hour Redlyne video? A Christmas treat!

  • @PrimmsHoodCinema
    @PrimmsHoodCinema 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    😂😂 Killer 7 sound fx/music. Nice touch 🙌🏿

    • @jordank6546
      @jordank6546 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Bro wtf my nigga primm!? Why is you here on a vid about Iconic flash game's

  • @SerosNym
    @SerosNym หลายเดือนก่อน

    This video was a trip. And some eclectic music choices. A vintage Jerma callback of all things... and God Hand music? This is a slam dunk of 2 hours worth of nostalgia. Excellent stuff.

  • @lepus9588
    @lepus9588 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +229

    i am quickly realizing that being a girl made my flash game experience very different. i was doing dress up shit and not army games lol

    • @steampunk-llama
      @steampunk-llama 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +70

      Girlsgogames was the shit, I looooved playing platformers and the Devil and Angel series

    • @xaviorshideout
      @xaviorshideout 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@steampunk-llamaI swear to god that website changed their domain name. It used to be GoGirlsGames, right? I’m losing it…

    • @lookatdemijipers
      @lookatdemijipers 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +44

      as a boy I was doing both... especially if you could take the clothes completely off 👀

    • @Xx_0angelfire0_xX
      @Xx_0angelfire0_xX 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      those avata sue and barbie games were absolute peak

    • @RosaStars921
      @RosaStars921 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      LiSpeaks and Izzzyzzz both have several videos about girly flash games!

  • @Dj4394
    @Dj4394 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    sift heads was and still is criminally underrated, it had so many games and they jump in quality just kept getting better and better. they were genuinely some of the most fun flash games i have ever played. my first gamertag was actually inspired by one of the characters in it

    • @zacharyharris2177
      @zacharyharris2177 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Man I remember sift heads. I was always a sucker for anything stick figures

    • @chiseledmedal2634
      @chiseledmedal2634 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      There was an mmo I think for it too

  • @TheAlmightyHulester
    @TheAlmightyHulester 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Love your vids brothaaa, from one Canuck to another, keep it going!

  • @kedimen6782
    @kedimen6782 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i love your channel man as a person that really misses the past days of my life your videos really make me happy thanks for bringing my happiest memories

  • @uruburus5203
    @uruburus5203 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +49

    Damn...im old
    Most of this video i just kept saying to myself "Oh yea i remember this one"
    even the smallest details like the AI in territory war made me chuckle, wow miss those times

    • @Kitten_TV8
      @Kitten_TV8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It’s ok, age is part of life, old doors close, but new ones open

  • @milky-tp2ro
    @milky-tp2ro 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +91

    One of my fond memories of Newgrounds animation (although I found it on TH-cam because I was way too young to be on Newgrounds in it’s peak era) was “There She Is!!” by a group of 3 Korean creators called SamBakZa in which a bunny girl falls in love with a boy cat in a world where that was not socially acceptable, symbolizing how interracial relationships (most likely Japanese and Korean relationships) were looked down upon in society and the series targets how love should be acceptable no matter one’s race or gender identity. In contrast to some other popular Newgrounds media, it was definitely a breath of fresh air with depth and a positive message to me. :D

    • @kashino55archive94
      @kashino55archive94 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      YES dude
      I was looking for a comment like this. I absolutely LOVED that series.

    • @ChunkyWaterisReal
      @ChunkyWaterisReal 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Dude. Yes. So fucking good. I remember seeing all of them the days they came out. 4 was such a huge deal for me.

    • @TheUKNutter
      @TheUKNutter 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      My partner loves this show. ☺️

  • @shanemcalinden8883
    @shanemcalinden8883 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Really fun video exploring a part of my childhood that I honestly forgot :)

  • @mailosdoe206
    @mailosdoe206 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is the best TH-cam video ever made. Seriously, thank you so much for putting this together.

  • @GamersDk123
    @GamersDk123 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +105

    2 hours of redlyne is the best Christmas present

  • @DarkMoe
    @DarkMoe 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    DarkMoe from Flashpoint Archive, thanks for mentioning us. Great video and showcase of great games !

  • @yohan3445
    @yohan3445 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    an incredible video that had me captivated from point A to point B ! it's funny and nostalgic while being educative !!!

  • @TheRarenth
    @TheRarenth 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was a regular on the Xgen Studios forums as a kid. This was an amazing trip down memory lane, there's so many great games in here and it's all very well presented. Thanks!

  • @Akerfeldtfan
    @Akerfeldtfan 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +71

    The generational differences in games here are nuts. I graduated high school in 2006, so I mostly remember the earlier set of games that were often much more simplistic than the later ones you brought out. I didn't know a lot of these, but it's cool to see how Flash evolved after I was playing the games on a daily basis.

  • @Skybreaker1337
    @Skybreaker1337 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    Referring to the ultimate showdown, there was a 15th year anniversary version that came out 2 years ago. In addition, this year in fact, the Duck song got a sequel.

  • @GamingSednaStyle
    @GamingSednaStyle 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you so much for including Nitrome, a huge part of my childhood was just playing through those games with my dad. Good times.

  • @sebabuffa7741
    @sebabuffa7741 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This video was an amazing nostalgic trip, simply beautiful, thank you for uploading this

  • @stupidjuggler2985
    @stupidjuggler2985 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

    Not sure if its because my parents wanted me to play "educational" games but the PBS kids flash games were a massive part of my childhood. Stuff like the cyberchase games or the one where you had to protect the environment were some of the earliest games I remember playing on a desktop. The old LEGO website games were a ton of fun as well.

    • @demon-goat
      @demon-goat 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      was there an isometric MMO-type cyberchase game?

    • @zyaicob
      @zyaicob 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      LEGO Star Wars the Quest for R2D2 might be one of my favourite video games of all time and I haven't been able to get it to work at all.

    • @dagoth_ur0
      @dagoth_ur0 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I used to love Eco Creatures and the weird one where you played as germs to get the bad guys sick.

    • @Billsby
      @Billsby 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Fuckin loved the LEGO website games, especially the 3d unity one where you drive a RC car through a LEGO store

    • @jameer7565
      @jameer7565 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I loved that one it was basically an open world rpg@@demon-goat

  • @EdenNeedsAYoutubeHandle
    @EdenNeedsAYoutubeHandle 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    DeviantArt had (still has technically, even though the files don't display anymore) an entire flash category that primarily hosted flash animations (the site didn't really have a video player until the later 00's, so flash was the only way to have sound with your animations). It wasn't uncommon to see Newgrounds artists cross-post their stuff on there too. Most of my memories of DA flash games were those drag-and-drop paper doll dress up games, though. There were tons of them.

    • @humanunknown4273
      @humanunknown4273 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If i recall correctly, someone created a website that allows you to play any flash file as long as you still had the file itself on your computer. I was able to rewatch a lot of old classics with it. I think its still in development, but for the most part it still works. I think its called Ruffle or smth

    • @lookatdemijipers
      @lookatdemijipers 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I had a prototype of a game I never finished hosted on DeviantArt, I'm sad I didn't back it up before Flash died. would love to have the fla files back

    • @Syndiate__
      @Syndiate__ 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@lookatdemijipers You could most likely get it back using some subdomain searching stuff and/or Wayback Machine

  • @xchrononautx
    @xchrononautx 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for your latest video. Your video essays are fantastic and I can't wait for the next one!

  • @dzo296
    @dzo296 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Man what a nostalgic trip! Keep up the good work you just earned a sub

  • @piotrziemba2257
    @piotrziemba2257 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    lovely good old days , the flash games i played the most were : Plazma Burst 1 & 2 , Strike Force Heroes 1 ;2 and 3 and of course Madness Project Nexus , they had such a unique vibe about them.

    • @YungPollock
      @YungPollock 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Plazma burst is a goated classic holy shit man

    • @connorgibala4698
      @connorgibala4698 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Diving backwards in plasma burst was one of the sickest moves of all time!! Thanks for the memories man

    • @iconica9516
      @iconica9516 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      dude i havent heard of plazma burst in so long
      just looking it up i now know theyre making a third one
      very fun game, though i could never beat the campaign without having my data removed (i never had a home computer, always played in school)

    • @dedem1315
      @dedem1315 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Great pfp

  • @j-mm4763
    @j-mm4763 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    A shame that I didnt get to see other games like Toss The Turtle or Super Smash Flash, but then it made me realize that a dedicated 2 hour long video on the subject is still not long enough to cover just how big flash games were, and in some ways, still are today. Nice to see many of those big names 15-20 years ago kept at their craft and are mainstays til this day.
    I will say, I cannot forgive you for not including Spank The Monkey.

  • @matreviews559
    @matreviews559 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I wish I had a friend like you to talk all over these different games, websites and animation back when I was little. I couldnt stop drawing stickman with guns while in class hahaha thanks for the nostalgia trip

  • @mattbrock2883
    @mattbrock2883 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sad to not see the thing thing series in this but spot on with everything else great work!

  • @Moon88279
    @Moon88279 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    This is honestly the best made video essay I’ve ever watched. Most videos like this I use as background noise while doing work or cleaning my house. But this was so interesting and nostalgic I just couldn’t stop watching it. Top 10 Christmas gift of all time

  • @MrDrMedic
    @MrDrMedic 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    31:17, I felt the inner Jerma come out there for a second. How could you not like it, it's got candy!

  • @Thynexn
    @Thynexn 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i love the yearly uploads keep it up

  • @retroke6560
    @retroke6560 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    THANKS FOR TELLING ME THE NAME OF CLASH N SLASH!!!
    you just refreshed some brain cells with this footage and music, my god

  • @afm9405
    @afm9405 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    1:03:23 Groovin Googie did NOT go unnoticed or unappreciated, my man. Thank you for that, made my night 😼🎧

  • @carlosedd
    @carlosedd 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    I'm also 21 and seeing these things for the first time in like a decade are just WILD. Keep up the great videos man, i'm loving them

  • @WarHero373
    @WarHero373 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awesome video man. So many great games from my childhood!

  • @vsoriginalpoetry6696
    @vsoriginalpoetry6696 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I played every game up here except those in the last bit lightning round... also, there was an excellent fighting game on stickpage I was really hoping you'd mention. I think they could have made it big with that game specifically. Last, that madden music I hadn't heard since I was a kid. It was my favorite song and hearing it I almost cried. Thank you for this wonderful nostalgia trip!

  • @maxthompson4655
    @maxthompson4655 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    The fact that Strike Force: Heros wasn't mentioned is a CRIME! I remember playing Strike Force back when I was in middle school, particularly Strike Force 2, really fun game series and my personal favorite flash game of all time.

  • @zorinazutella3270
    @zorinazutella3270 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Deviantart was very big on flash, but most of the things posted there were animations, dress-up games and indie visual novels/dating sims. Very visuals-based rather than gameplay-based. I think those flash animations with extremely elaborate stickmen action scenes originated there.

  • @walnut_raisin2621
    @walnut_raisin2621 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    omfg godbless you, you found the game i had deep in my psyche as a kid but could never find again 1:32:50
    like genuinely i never ever thought i'd find this game again!! i could never find it mentioned ANYWHERE and it was so frustrating because i loved it as a kid
    also adored bomb-it, surprised it wasnt on this list

  • @GeminiWoods
    @GeminiWoods 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love how this guys channel just came outta nowhere, and it's so good. Guys deadpan humor kills me.

  • @astridbek2183
    @astridbek2183 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    On launcher games: I believe the first launcher game was Kitten Cannon from around 2005, although that one didn't seem to have upgrades like later instances of the genre did. Hedgehog Launch (jmtb02, from June 2008) seems to be the first example that really hits the formula. Toss the Turtle was another big one from 2009-ish.

  • @donovanvu2699
    @donovanvu2699 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Love your videos. I'm 23 and this video showed me how different our flash game journies were. I played so much of The Game and N+. It just goes to show it is impossible to encapsulate this entire era and was sad you didn't mention Monkey Go Happy, Dust Game on NotDoppler, or the Shock series on Stickpage. But I think just like you, I'm biased towards the games I loved and that there are flash games for literally everyone. Keep it up Redlyne.

    • @wewserlethaldude9
      @wewserlethaldude9 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I've been scrolling through comments for any mention of N, and surprisingly(??), yours is the first.

  • @ShigadyShigadyShwey
    @ShigadyShigadyShwey 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    AMAZING video, some of this was absurdly nostalgic, and it was all really well done and interesting to hear your thoughts on different games.
    Curious if you, or anyone who crops up remembers Thing Thing? It reminded me a lot of madness and it's probably the most nostalgic flash game for me, but I still have no idea just how popular it was or how much it's stuck in people's minds.

  • @korbytilley5946
    @korbytilley5946 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I can't believe this is a video. My childhood feels so complete. This made my day, thank you Redlyne.

  • @Litepaw
    @Litepaw 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    Flash animations and games were a massive part of my youth.

  • @Daynger_Fox
    @Daynger_Fox 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    The madness series was a massive part of my childhood. Im so glad you got that in there. Thank you for this. HOLYYYYyY what a trip down memory lane.

  • @Mr_Ozone
    @Mr_Ozone หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Man, this was one hell of a nostalgia trip. One of my favorites back in the day, and i know a lot of other people will agree with me, was Dino Run. Man that shit was awesome as a kid. Back when the multiplayer servers were still alive it was the most fun 8 year-old me could have with a computer. Eventually bought it on Steam as an adult and got all the achievements. And when you showed Miami Shark my fuckin brain exploded, it's been over a decade and a half since I remembered that game! The wild west era of the internet and Flash in general was such a unique time that you just had to be there for, before everything got corporatized and ad-ridden. Thanks for helping me remember such a huge focus of my childhood!

    • @lucy4666
      @lucy4666 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      dude dino run! i loved that shit and definitely played the multiplayer back in 08. loved the amount of hats and colors you could dress up your dino in.
      really hoping that kickstarter dino run game comes out one day, id definitely play it

    • @Mr_Ozone
      @Mr_Ozone 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@lucy4666 iirc, Pixeljam is still working on Dino Run 2. They give update posts about it every once in a while, super excited for it to come out eventually

  • @LilLyko
    @LilLyko 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    just found this channel 5 minutes ago and love his you're sense of humour redlyne

  • @WorldOfWaldo
    @WorldOfWaldo 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    It's wild to think that GrayStillPlays originally built a good chunk of his Career off of HappyWheels, so much so to the point to where his viewers would dedicate incredibly intricate levels specifically for him to feature on his videos, and he would; And yes, he still to this very day occasionally revisits the game.

    • @gucciguy3408
      @gucciguy3408 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yea it is crazy how many people still play/watch Happy Wheels.

  • @northan2
    @northan2 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Legit can't believe you made a two hour long video about flash and didn't mention Homestar Runner even in passing.

  • @GoaEnjoyer
    @GoaEnjoyer 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for showing crush the Castle. Something I haven't thought about in many years but played a ton of

  • @TzHaarable
    @TzHaarable 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great vid as always! Loving the gains

  • @crushbeast29
    @crushbeast29 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Amazing video, easily the best you've ever made. What a wave of nostalgia. I was born in the late 90s and have very fond memories of playing these flash games on my old laptop in the 2000s. They were some of the only games my laptop would run. Love your videos RedLyne, they have such a unique and interesting style to them. Keep doing what you're doing, brother.

  • @reportedworm4314
    @reportedworm4314 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I’m so happy you mentioned andkon arcade, that site occupied so much of my childhood but you never hear anything about it now. The game game, the Superman type game, raze, and cycle maniacs are some of my favorites. Earned a sub!

  • @MrFIRESEAL117
    @MrFIRESEAL117 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    This was definitely a fun trip down memory lane. I was very surprised he's only 21. I expected someone in their 30's or 40's, someone who experienced these flash games when they were first released.

    • @Spike84
      @Spike84 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah i'm turning 24 this year and i've played a lot of flash games back in the day 😂

    • @lucy4666
      @lucy4666 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Spike84 24 this year and ive never played as many flash games as this guy lmao

  • @SaHa0v0
    @SaHa0v0 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fantastic video as always!

  • @MrCairo283
    @MrCairo283 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    I'm so happy Googie is back.

  • @UltraNurture
    @UltraNurture 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I hope this video eventually gets millions of views. You covered everything nostalgic about Flash and it's impact on the internet, I have so many great memories with Flash and I'll always miss the wild west of the internet when anything by anyone could get seen thanks to Flash.

  • @knightofsolice1304
    @knightofsolice1304 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The M&B Warband music during Crush The Castle sent me back 😭 that was like my entire childhood. Flash games and Warband

  • @RedPandaStan
    @RedPandaStan 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I could listen to this man ramble abt anything for hrs on end, fire vid

  • @LunarNeedle
    @LunarNeedle 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Duude! Animator vs. Animation was played by my college Math teacher at the start of his class (where he talked about interesting things before Math). So I really relate there. Great video by the way!

  • @Amyntheri
    @Amyntheri 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +233

    Respectfully, being 21 does classify you as a zoomer though

    • @yukimonski
      @yukimonski 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      total zoomer

    • @mkv2718
      @mkv2718 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      yeah… not sure what that bit was about. born after 2000, before 2020…. yeah. zoomer. not sure why he seems so touchy about it

    • @deadaccount03791
      @deadaccount03791 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

      @@mkv2718 zoomer is often used as shorthand for literal child, the bit was likely to make millennials and gen x feel old because 21 is indeed not a literal child

    • @FunctionallyLiteratePerson
      @FunctionallyLiteratePerson 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      ​@@mkv2718zoomer is after '96, not 2000 but I'm not quite sure where the cutoff is

    • @LeDoctorBones
      @LeDoctorBones 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@mkv2718 Speaking from my own experience as someone from 2001, I've never really fit most, if any, of the zoomer stereotypes that began developing around half a decade ago. I also often feel quite detached from people younger than myself and their experience with Fortnite, TikTok etc, while I have never tried either, which probably only exacerbates this feeling of misidentification.

  • @ninonenn
    @ninonenn 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    One of the best videos on this platform genuinely

  • @VideoGamer110
    @VideoGamer110 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This video was amazing! So many memories brought to the forefront. If you do a follow up video, you gotta mention Homestar Runner, the undisputed king of Flash. The games are fun, Stinkoman and Peasant's Quest still hold up imo.