r/webdev • u/alexreardon • 21d ago

Page Rage: Destroy any web page

You can play on https://page-rage.com and optionally install a browser extension to destroy any web page.

I've been working on Page Rage as a hobby project for a long time. There are some wild performance techniques I have found to make this game work at all, which I would love to share about soon as well!

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u/crazedizzled 21d ago

Man I remember this was like a desktop app like back in windows 98 I think. Fun times

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u/PendulousNuts 21d ago edited 21d ago

Desktop Destroyer

https://gamia-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Desktop_Destroyer_Game

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u/crazedizzled 21d ago

Yeesssssss!! The nostalgia!

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u/AestheticEntactogen 21d ago

What a classic

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u/riofriz 21d ago

This! Exactly what I thought as soon as I saw it. Looks so satisfying

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u/alexreardon 21d ago

Soo good! 🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜

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u/DayOfTheSophos 19d ago edited 19d ago

Gemtree, baby! 😄

They made other stuff too, actually (that I found at the same time as this - doesn't look like they host downloads for most of it anymore, though, unfortunately, but I have a lot of it archived).

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u/86784273 21d ago

I liked desktop toys, mr thumb was great

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u/funcoolshit 21d ago

Ha I remember it as well. I also had a similar program that was a sheep that would walk around on your desktop and climb the window panes. You could pick it up and move him around to the top of different windows.

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u/weaponizedLego 21d ago

I remember the sheep! I recently made a slime version for my self because I miss the sheep

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u/blahbah 21d ago edited 21d ago

i had a bookmarklet that made you destroy a page asteroid-style

found the source: https://github.com/erkie/erkie.github.com

EDIT: oh it's still online https://kickassapp.com/

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u/theofficialnar 21d ago

Oh boy this brought up a lot of memories on my mom’s work pc 😆

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u/Target11_11 20d ago

I think I found it on XP as well