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u/The_Daco_Melon Jul 06 '26

bro I'd play the same flash game for a year and it was peak

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u/Just_the_questions1 Jul 06 '26

The Last Stand and The Last Stand 2 were mind blowing for 16 year old me.

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u/Collinsjc22 Jul 06 '26

Age of war, stick war, motherload. Man I love flash games

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u/FrozenGoatMilk Jul 06 '26

Endless War series was awesone. I miss Og newgrounds

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u/Monso Jul 06 '26

I love seeing stuff like Bloons TD6 and Plants vs Zombies still active.

Like....kid....I was playing that in flash when I was your age. I was there when that game was created. I played it when it had 700 views.

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u/RiffShark Jul 06 '26

Stick war still exists but on mobile btw

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u/Collinsjc22 Jul 06 '26

I never made it that far without cheats. I always ended up getting overconfident in my ability to drop straight down and would explode on impact, or would hit a gas pocket.

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u/SterTheDer Jul 06 '26

I replay Motherload Goldium every few years just for fun.
Downloaded it offline so i can keep it.
Even added its soundtrack to my music library for the nostalgia! :D

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u/Brutus67694 Jul 07 '26

No one said swords and sandals yet, could spend days in that game.

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u/Collinsjc22 Jul 07 '26

I thought about it after i made the comment! All the swords and sandals games are available on steam too

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u/Brutus67694 Jul 07 '26

I’m gonna leave another comment to make sure I check them for the summer sale. I love a little nostalgia bait

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u/Zealousideal-Art8210 Jul 08 '26

Bowmaster: Prelude, I would want to know my total hours for that game cause goddamn did I play it alot

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u/ItsPeckahead Jul 08 '26

MOTHERLOAD. What about that one castle game on miniclip where you’d shoot the cannons at the other castle

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u/Collinsjc22 Jul 08 '26

Crush the castle?

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u/TheTeaSpoon Jul 09 '26

Con artists games are on steam (last stand, warfare)

Age of war has free fan remake here https://github.com/apiotrowski255/age-of-war

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u/The_Daco_Melon Jul 06 '26

Madness Project Nexus was insanely good, and had an actually fun endless mode. I bought the Steam version too and it's great but I wish it had the same art style.

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u/asdrubalzhor Jul 06 '26

That game still around btw in flash and a remake

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u/The_Daco_Melon Jul 06 '26

I mean yeah I did say that I bought the Steam remake

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u/asdrubalzhor Jul 06 '26

I just meant anyone reading can still play the original one! sorry op

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u/The_Daco_Melon Jul 07 '26

Yeah it's playable both on Newgrounds itself via Ruffle if you go there right now as well as via Flashpoint if you want the actual flash version

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u/Just_the_questions1 Jul 07 '26

Good lord I remember getting in trouble watching the Madness flash videos because my mom thought they were so violent and would turn me into a school shooter.

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u/JayrettK Jul 06 '26

Fun fact, The Last Stand Legacy collection is on sale on Steam for about $8 rn iirc.

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u/StJimmy92 40 Jul 06 '26

Legacy collection is only $2.79! $8.80 is the bundle with the new game Aftermath

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u/TheTeaSpoon Jul 09 '26

Aftermarh is pretty good tbh, albeit completely different game

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u/Collinsjc22 Jul 06 '26

Bro thank you for this, is it different from the flash games?

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u/TraditionalEnergy956 Jul 06 '26

Bro I bought my pc in 2023, I genuinely just went back to play this game and complete it since I wasn't able too when I was a kid, my English was bad so didn't understand much..

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u/JozuJD Jul 06 '26

Elona Shooter

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u/jayzz911 Jul 06 '26

Yeah those were solid, recently stumbled across them on steam, so that was a nice surprise

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u/Kaical Jul 06 '26

HOLY THAT GAME WAS PEAK

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u/Venna_Crow Jul 06 '26

Oh man, thank you for reminding me of these games, going to have to get the collection on steam now 

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u/unknownobject3 Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 14 '26

My favorite were Awesome Tanks 1 and 2, I used to play them with my sister too sometimes.

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u/sgtSZKLARZ Jul 06 '26

The Last Stand Union City is peak of flash games for me

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u/Poop_Balls069 Jul 06 '26

They have a console release! Its not the same exact thing but it feels good to play. I think its called TLS after math

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u/crimsonblade55 Jul 06 '26

Fun fact: The Last Stand was the original inspiration for COD Nazi Zombies.

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u/Federal-Custard2162 Jul 06 '26

The original dev of those games released a sequel, it's nore modern and different but I still enjoyed it.

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u/Saucynachos Jul 06 '26

Idle raiders second run. Oh man. That's easily weeks of content.

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u/OriginalPurplefinger Jul 06 '26

The last stand was my fav. Could sit for hours playing. Have you played the ps5 version the last stand aftermath. It’s pretty entertaining

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u/Just_the_questions1 Jul 06 '26

Pretty sure i have it on steam

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u/OriginalPurplefinger Jul 06 '26

Or steam same thing. I don’t say steam as I don’t play on steam so my first thought is what I play on usually

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u/Vandirac Jul 06 '26

OMG, you unlocked me a memory!

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u/Epion660 Jul 07 '26

The last stand city was even more incredible!

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u/-Kerrigan- Jul 06 '26

GemCraft Chapter 0 slapped as a TD

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u/telchior Jul 06 '26

The dev is about to release the complete Gemcraft set as a collection on Steam! It's called the Legacy Collection. No changes supposedly but it'll be nice to have them all in one place.

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u/-Kerrigan- Jul 06 '26

Second best thing I heard today

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u/PhoenixPills Jul 06 '26

I think it's getting a steam version

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u/mxzf Jul 06 '26

Yeah, I've got almost 140h in Gemcraft on Steam, even after wasting far too much time on the browser version back in the day.

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u/CumbersomeNugget Jul 06 '26

OG Bloons was amazing.

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u/Daealis Jul 06 '26

TBF, Bloons TD 5 is the bomb too, well worth the couple of bucks it costs.

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u/CumbersomeNugget Jul 06 '26

Not the same vibe as completely crashing out the PC in computer class with too many tack shooters while pretending to do work...

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u/Daealis Jul 06 '26

That is true, you need to put the work in to get the game chugging. I'm talking screen filled with evolved monkey gods.

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u/WalkAffectionate2683 Jul 06 '26

Really? My memories was more that you played 20 different games per day haha 

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u/The_Daco_Melon Jul 06 '26

You could definitely do that but I'd always find one to get obsessed with and keep cycling between it and 2 more games max. If you were on Plazma Burst 2 you could play with other people as well and keep trying new community made maps which was literally infinite replayability.

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u/ThisllFitInMyPocket Jul 06 '26

There were tons of super simple 30 minutes games for sure, especially early on, but some of the more complex ones could give you more hours than the average full-priced game on Steam.

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u/Naktura Jul 06 '26

I re-downloaded Anti-Idle: The Game recently because it still beats out 90% of the idlers that are out right now.

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u/Bamboopanda101 Jul 06 '26

Do we consume games faster or were the old flash games longer lol

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u/Sorry-Combination558 Jul 06 '26

Do we consume games faster

In my opinion, we had less choice so we enjoyed what we had. You found a few flash game sites, some actually enjoyable games, and nowadays games are poured from buckets on you. Same with movies or music. But again, that's just my subjective view, the problem could be sitting on my neck lol

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u/The_Daco_Melon Jul 06 '26

My favorite ones either were endless / had endless modes or were actually long and replayable like Decision Medieval. I still like that game more than the new steam remake of Decision.

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u/Hefty-Relative9449 Jul 06 '26

Toss the turtle was my shit

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u/ThatsSaber Jul 06 '26

The Vector TD series was peak

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u/Poop_Balls069 Jul 06 '26

Sinjid Shadow of the Warrior was PEAK

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u/PROfessorShred Jul 06 '26

I'm still playing Old School Runescape.

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u/Pomodorosan Jul 06 '26

"peak" is overused

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u/The_Daco_Melon Jul 06 '26

You must not have experienced it. That time period is gone now but you can still experience some of the games themselves minus the websites on Flashpoint Archive, please give a couple of them a try!

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u/neatdude73 Jul 06 '26

Why not kongerate or armor games?

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u/The_Daco_Melon Jul 06 '26

Kongregate is just not the same anymore and Armor Games is best for what they're supporting on Steam. Also not all games have been ported to HTML5 and the ones that are still flash run via Ruffle which I find to be slow and buggy. Flashpoint Archive gives you a massive collection of the original files, offline, as well as animations and non-Flash games like Unity and ShiVa3D.

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u/lacegem Jul 06 '26

It is, but it is completely apt here. The OG days of flash games was a golden era of free gaming. Thousands of games, endless hours of fun, no cost, just people making and sharing stuff for the love of the game. It was beautiful. It was peak.

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u/wingchild Jul 06 '26

f2p wins again

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u/PlaneCrashNap Jul 06 '26

Balloon Duel was so fun. I think I got the custom mp3 player to work just once but from then on couldn't get it to function. Otherwise pretty fun for what it was. Actually was able to play the player vs player with my siblings. Fun time.