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This is depressing man. I played some of these as a kid. You'd think with how the internet and technology has progressed we'd be better at creating backlogs.
The problem to backing it all up is actually how much the internet has progressed. As of 2020, 380 web pages are added per minute, or 547,200 daily. That means in a year there are about 200 million new webpages. There is no way for any computer system to find and back them all up. The amount of servers alone would probably fill a football stadium, if not another couple. The wayback machine is great but doesn't back up games or many videos because of the huge load that would put on their servers. Plus, it's impossible for a backup program to differentiate between a good website that is finished and complete, from a bad one that just has 10 Rickroll videos on it. So it'll never be fully backed up, and people need to back up what is important to them now so it isn't lost in 15 years.
I'm sad they just took our childhoods away like that. I had been playing flash games since around 2006 as soon as I understood how computers worked. I would spend hours some days playing Papa Louie's and all that, and those generic MMO's. I remember the Spongebob movie creator vaguely. I used to make weird plots on there haha. It's sad the original is basically lost.
I’m pretty sure there was this one game about a piranha plant? And something about angel cats shooting bows? Does anyone remember that OMG FEED ME AND TWIN SHOT
Damn, I didn’t realize that Flash would ever end. All of the fun memories that came from Flash games and animations can hopefully be archived for future generations
@Dusk Raccoon It’s not necessarily the age of Flash but more of the fact that it died due to the mobile age, Adobe giving up on upgrading Flash, and Apple leading to the hatred towards Flash. Once the iPhone became a thing that was the beginning of the end for Flash. It’s a shame, because later on in the 2010’s had some really good games made in flash but at that point Flash was dying and being replaced. At the end of the day Adobe is ultimately what killed Flash as instead of upgrading it like HTML5 they decided to abandon it leaving many of the games, and websites that relied on Flash to die.
In a way, this is gonna be a big moment in lost media This is pretty unpresidented I don't think there has been such an event that has rendered so much media lost at once since those old cinema storage facilities burned or something in the 20s Flash used to be a good percentage of the old internet so this is generally just kinda depressing. I'm thankful that there were so many people interesting in archiving this portion of internet history.
Nah, The Flash Files Are Still There So They Aren’t Lost, Just Mostly Inaccessible. Also, More Recently, MySpace Lost 50 Million Songs So I Think That’s Pretty Comparable
OML YESSSSSS I remember this game!! I remember when I would go to my cousin's house to play it with her after she finished her homework. I didnt know what I was doing because I was so young back then. The disappointment I had when I couldnt make an email to play it but when I did the game had to shut down. This literally happened to me with BarbieGirls
Not quite "decorate your bedroom" level sweepstakes, but... I did win a "lifetime supply" of Willy Wonka sweets in the 90's from a comic book called Beano (Dennis the Menace) back when they first started promoting them in the UK. I was so happy when they announced I'd won... and then waited that stupidly long waiting time for competition to end and it be shipped out. It arrived in a huge Wonka branded cardboard box and I started having kid daydreams of how I'm going to receive boxes every month for life filled with sweets. Lifetime supply, right? One box. Just one. One huge cardboard box with 4 packets of nerds, 4 packets of dweebs, and 2 packets of gobstoppers. Individual packets, not display boxes or anything. Just a few packets that even in todays money is worth about £8 tops.
Damn, it seems like every sweepstakes I’ve ever heard about is just a scam lmfao! Makes me wonder about all those disappointed children who all got their dreams crushed.... maybe losing the sweepstakes wasn’t such a bad thing after all!
I have a severe paranoia of content being lost forever. It is seriously one of my phobias. That's why I plan to preserve anything I can. All webpages I visit, all images I see, and all videos I watch. When you only find one screenshot of the lost media you're looking for, it might be me. Remember what I'm doing and remember why. I will see you in the future.
i dont archive everything i see but i do have written (which i still update from time to time) a lot of games i used to play (especially flash ones) as a kid even do i cant play anymore, at least i know the names and can search it for the nostalgic feels~
You are doing the world a great service. Preservation of media is important, and I admire those who have the time, energy, tools, and storage space to archive a lot of stuff.
Flash was such an enormous part of the internet, and this was only 20 media's lost. I can't even fathem the amount of lost games, websites, and animations there must be. I used to play the sketchest ripoffs of games I didn't own, good times...
Rip flash. It was a revolutionary software that even the playing feel for creative minds with it now anyone could create animations and games without a big budget, thanks to it now there are artist that otherwise wouldn't be known, now they are working in bigger projects.
Flash was good because when there was a substitute teacher most of the time they wouldn't know about Cool Math Games so we would get away with playing amazing flash games during class.
I remember playing Fireboy and Watergirl by myself during 6th grade computer class while my teacher wasn't looking instead of actually paying attention, good times xDD
Cool Math Games was amazing. I remember that the last day of 6th grade my teacher let us play cool math games until the end of class. It now blocked in my school.
There are downloads of the 3D Geep driving one that's like the 19-2000 video and a platformer with Noodle in what I think is the Clint Eastwood video available online - only the platformer one ran for me on Win 10 but Geep ran on Win 7 fine
@@MitskulpCh36 Dude this is one of the greatest games lol. Tbh as a kid I knew the song and I knew the game but I had no idea that the game was basically a playthrough/driving sim OF the music video lol (having never seen the music video as a kid)
Actually, The Regular Show Flash Pilot Was Recently Found On A Russian Website EDIT: I’ve Been Told By Someone Much More Knowledgeable In Animation Than Me That The Lost Media Wiki Was Wrong And That The Pilot They Uploaded Was The Finished Rather Than The Flash. Sorry About That EDIT 2: The Prologue For Scooby Doo: Horror On The High Seas Has Been Found. More Specifically, A .swf File Was Found On A Polish Gaming Website.
Mine were Fancy Pants, most of the Bloons, and Castaway II... -(There's actually another one but I can't remember it's title for the life of me. All I remember about it is that you played as a white rabbit in a forest..)-
Noggin/Nick Jr and Playhouse Disney website games. As far as I know, those are all lost. Not even sure if people remember them. Oobi and Go Diego Go were my jam in 2005. Glad it was mentioned in the video!
I remember those surreal Pop-tarts commercials back in the late 2000s and early 2010. I can still hear that slogan, even after so many years! CRAZY GOOD!!!
Newgrounds turned me into an animator. Flash games and cartoons will always be in my heart as the gateway drug that lead me to animation. We stil use flash in a lot of projects but even though we strive to polish things, I will always have a soft spot for crude and gnarly cartoons. Like rats on cocaine.
@@Sleepycreature687 yeah, didn't remember the name earlier but it was called McWorld. It wad pretty obscure even when it was live in the late 2000s and early 10's but you can find some gameplay of it on YT if you look hard enough
Adobe Flash the platform of our childhoods While it is gone, we are blessed that Flashpoint exists. Also, seeing those Pop Tarts commercials again made me so nostalgic
“There’s a guy begging for water, and you can select things like running away, declining, pissing him off or just giving him some water.” *But there’s no way to give him a Nuka-Cola*
Anybody remember the old Lilo and Stitch flash game Disney had on their website to promote Stitch the movie and you could make sandwiches and stuff? Man I miss that game. I also miss the little downloadable characters you could get for your pc and you could have a miniature Stitch crawl over your desktop, pick him up, feed him and stuff. I used to have so many of those as a kid! But I can't remember what they were called...
Yooo sandwich stacker was my CHILDHOOD and a HALF, countless memories of going onto the disney website to play that, and other games like that one sonny with a chance one i forgot the name of, +browsing disney create, the days of me being on disney create was one of the reasons behind my intrest in art and drawing today and i really wish i could recover my old stuff made on there.
there is one flash film that has not been released, but will be very soon. It’s called “there she is: step 0”. it was supposed to be a prequel to the popular Newgrounds series. It was made in 2004, and was only ever shown at a few animation festivals. The full 1 minute short is said to come out on the series memorial DVD. UPDATE: It was actually made in 2005, and I was able to watch it on the dvd. It's really charming and was around 3 minutes long. I don't want to upload it, as I feel it would de value the DVD.
Re: Tamatown, it’s actually the case that only a very small portion of the site has been archived - the V4 version pretty much only has the loader, intro sequence and main town area swfs preserved, so even if you bypass the login you’re not going anywhere else. V3 has a bit more preserved but often didn’t load in preserved versions of the site which led to the misconception that the V4 version was archived. I’ve actually done quite a bit of research into what’s lost and what’s left to recover and I’m considering making a video on it in the future to catch people’s attention, since that tends to be the way to get people thinking and looking for this stuff.
The winner of the Fruit Gushers room makeover was listed in Nickelodeon Magazine after the end of the sweepstakes. There was an expose written on the boy who won. I no longer have that copy but at least anyone looking has a place to start
anybody else remember the lego flash games?? like lego backlot that 3d game and then theres the 2d platforming game where you play a trashcan w legs called junkbot i think and use legos to guide him through the level. man those were the days
Anyone else remember Lego Spybot: The Nightfall Incident? Great little SRPG where you were a hacker and controlled computer programs battling other computer programs as you hacked into various fictional companies, played it as a kid on the Lego website probably back in the same era as Junkbot, Backlot etc and got stuck on world 5, decided to replay it as an adult back in the 2010s, the original game was gone but I found an archived version someone had uploaded somewhere, beat the level I got stuck on as a kid but still got stuck like 2 or 3 battles from the end. If anyone's managed to archive it, maybe I'll get around to finally beating it someday.
It’s just hard to watch Flash player being gone forever now. As a kid who grew up in the 20s, I’ve made a lot of good memories with it. At least I played all my favorite games again one last time. It reminds me of what happened to Club Penguin, all the great things disappear.
There was a game on The-N website before it was TeenNick called "The Hookup" that I remember playing non-stop around 2006/2007, it was sort of like a dating simulator/visual novel but it had a really interesting social system and story. I don't remember when or why they took the game down but I assume it was around the time The-N transitioned to TeenNick. It's actually one of the more popular lost flash games I see people reminisce on. Luckily there are still a few youtube walkthroughs of the game to watch for nostalgia, but I wish it could have been recovered before the end of flash to play just one more time.
I have so many fond memories with flash. I could talk about the numerous animations or small flash games. All those however pale in comparison to the biggest flash game to impact my life which is Club Penguin i played it so much back in the day. I remember all the spy missions the different kinds of Puffle you could get. the debates between modern and classic Club penguin. Then once Island came the divide of fans of the flash version and fans of the Mobile version. multiple private servers to keep the spirit of the flash version came out. Some are probably dead without flash The only friend I was able to keep came from Club Penguin. It's because of that and much more that the game will forever be in my heart
I miss the Bearville mmo they had on the site the most. They removed it in 2015 but I didn’t find out until years later. Sucks that a part of our childhood is gone just like that 🥲
It's strangely sad seeing pieces of digital media disappear considering how easy it is to make a perfectly identical copy of it and spread it around, especially if its something you remember from the days gone! It's also nice to see people bringing awareness to lost media and encouraging archiving!
I'm still grieving the loss of FarmTown, the game that got me into my favorite series(HM/SoS) has just been... lost, and I haven't found anything else quite like it.
I remember the early days of new grounds, albino black sheep, JibJab , Homestar Runner, /f/ and a bunch of smaller sites I can't remember it was like I was finding a new frontier almost everyday and it's also how I got in a Cannibal Corpse and Rammstein and a lot of really weird esoteric electronic music I've had a lot of fun memories of those websites and they will slowly be missed because I still went on albino black sheep up until Christmas
There's this one lost flash game that sometimes I'm worried I made it up all in my head since I can't find, like, any evidence it exists anymore. Because the Hasbro site used to be chalked full of games. And there was this really specific one based on The Game of Life. It used to be my favorite game when I was younger, although I don't have the best memory from back then. I remember that you could upload your face into the game, and you could go through really adventurous life events in it. The main one I remember was going skydiving. If literally anyone else remembers this game, I'd love to hear a reply to it, lol. Eventually I'll find out if I just dreamed the whole thing up or not.
I don't recall Hasbro or a webcam (to upload your face) being involved but I remember playing a game called game of life or once upon a life on Miniclip that kinda fits the description.
I also have an unusual piece of lost media I remember playing a lot in my childhood, but it wasn't that game, it was this weird bird game where you basically played as this bird and would shoot down all these helicopters, planes, owls, everything. there was also this season system where after a distance of most likely 2000 I-don't-knows the background would change to a differently themed one and a cutscene would also play. I also remember there having to be upgrades to your bird and that rarely owls would have an upside down head and if you shot one down for the first time you would get an achievement called "Retarded Owl" or something which was inappropriate but I didn't care about it because it was just one thing, and a glitch also having a chance to happen upon loading the game where the loading screen just said a few random letters. I can't remember the name of this elusive bird game.
OMG I remember playing the Noggin "where's Zee?" game when I was younger! I even made my own story based on it lol I also remember playing this obscure Disney game called i think "Disney blast" or something like that. I was aimed at younger kids and it was like part of an actual paid program of the same name. One part of this game was a point 'n click story about Minnie and mickey making some cookies or something. Never really seen anyone talking about it.
Can't believe you actually missed this. Near the end of his life Chuck Jones had his own website where you could watch animated shorts. I really can't say more than that as when I found the site it was already shutdown. The site hinted at all of Chuck Jones creations were represented, what was lost I really can't say.
There was this 3D racing Flash game called Red Bull Soapbox Racer. It was a game where you could customize your car (soapbox) and create a track to race with other players. Sadly, the game became lost around the very late 2010s when the website of the game would now redirect you to the Red Bull website.
omg! Me and my friends would play the poptart mini-games religiously for like, a year in middle school xD my favourite was the bike one! sad to know it's lost media now.....
this might sound crazy but maybe a few of these games my pop up on a Nintendo switch eShop every now and again Nintendo switch will put a lost game in there e shop such as Scott pilgrim and toulon which is a lost Verizon game from 2005 you never know.
I remember playing the Scribble Vision games on the Noggin website all the time and having an absolute blast. The levels of the Oobi one is especially vivid. From what I can recall from my memories of my gameplays, it basically followed a storyline of Oobi and his grandpa going on a camping trip of some sort. You would be tasked with scribbling in with a variety of colors over a drawing of an animal or object which would then be animated in to a sequence of the storyline. Specific drawings I remember include a rooster and fish. Sad that it is lost. I would love to have a chance to play it for old times sake.
There was a PowerPuff girls game that allowed you to create a music video using sound and animation clips that you placed on a film reel/ storyboard setup that I've searched for for almost two decades. Music included Signal in the Sky-o by Apples in Stereo and Shonen Knife's Buttercup song.
Maybe I’m looking in the wrong places, but I’ve been searching for this Speed Racer candy/push pop game game from the late 2000’s- nobody probably remembers it but I remember loving it.
To all the people saying flash is gone, some people discorvered How to recover those flash games, Just a simple search and you Will find tutorials on yt
Flashpoint is awesome and I definitely recommend downloading if you're a fan of Flash games! Fortunately a lot of my favorites were preserved through it. My favorites were the tower defense games like Warzone Tower Defense and Desktop Tower Defense. I also have a lot of nostalgia for the Neopets and Cartoon Network Flash games.
I'm hoping someone fully finds the lost Smash Bros Melee flash site. I found some kind of archive for it, and even found that it updated frequently, but it wouldn't display anything like the info on each character and stage.
I remember the old Doctor Who flash games on the BBC website from around 2006. They tied into certain episodes, and while being simple strategy and puzzle games, they were still pretty fun. I first discovered them around New Year's 2017-2018, and at some point after that the entire game section was removed from the website when the brand was revamped for the Thirteenth Doctor era. Thankfully, all of the games have been preserved in BlueMaxima Flashpoint.
There's so much lost flash content. Games and animations that may never see the light of day again. A good example are Meteor Games. Basically Meteor Games was a small independent company that made pretty popular flash games and hosted them on Facebook. Their most well known ones are Paradise Island and Ranch Town. Other games like this include Rabbids Invasion as well as most games made by the developers of Galaxy Life. Also Crash Village which was a Crash Bandicoot MMORPG with mini games. And there's countless more flash games like this out there which are completely lost to time.
There was one game on the TVOkids website called Pillars of Freedom. I looked it up and can find nothing online except for the Wiki page, a Facebook post, and the developer site. It was a "television-web hybrid" show about dragons, so you could watch episodes then play the online game to get further background. I never watched the show and I could not find any episode online. I barely remember the plot but I enjoyed it very much. I'm so sad to see that it's gone, with not a single clip I could find other than screenshots on the devs site.
Bro, i remember pillars of freedom too, i came across the site one day and had no idea whats going on because i never watched it, i really wish i recorded it if i had known that info on it was going to be lost, but i think the plot that i ran into was something about Flying school? Also the TVOkids website in general was plain just my childhood, a website i sunk my time into alot especially in my earlier childhood years
@@kirbysuperstaruhh3769 flying school sounds familiar! Yeah I used to play on tvo kids a lot when I was young. I remember i checked up on it a few years back and was so disappointed when it was completely different. A lot of my favorite games were removed 😭
@@skylynnessea2761 Oh yeah, the old tvo kids website was my crap i think two games i remember playing alot that remember enough about to be able to kinda describe them was this peep and the big wide world game about mixing colours to get the right one and another point and click type of game i vaguley remember about these two things (i cant recall if they were actual animals or creatures or something, its blurry in my mind) that live in this kinda den/cave which you could explore.
I remember playing flash games all the time when I was younger, I even remember having fun with Nickelodeon level builder and monkey quest, it’s sad that those two and so many more flash games are lost or unplayable. Also thanks for reminding me of the crazy good ad campaign
I didn’t expect anyone to acknowledge Tamatown. I loved that website so much. The characters, artstyle, mini games and music are so nostalgic to me. Especially the music. It’s so sad that most of it is lost but I’m thankful for what has been recovered
Oh fuck. I literally just played a version of that Scooby Doo game with that cutscene you were talking about, RIGHT before flash died. I had no idea it would be sought after. I played all of the Scooby Doo flash games (in that genre, there’s about 3 of them) right before flash kicked the bucket.
I remember sometime in the late 2000s on the Nick website, there was a Roseanne game where you had to work in the diner and help Roseanne, Jackie and the staff serve customers their food. I have memories of ketchup bottles being present in the game, so maybe the goal was to handle people's condiments in the quickest time possible? I also remember hearing dialogue from the show along with the Roseanne theme song while working. Who else recalls playing this? I used to play this along with the George Lopez lawn gnome bowling game (which I have found footage of on here)
Great video as always! I'm pretty sure the pilot to one of my favorite animated tv show, The Venture Brothers, was done in flash. The animation is really jarring compared to the later season but the episode is so endearing. It's on the season one DVD but I can't remember if it's on HBO MAX or not.
I remember some things like the old Willy Wonka site when they released all those 'wonka' themed candies. Or the Bee Movie game. So many things lost to time.
I remember the flash game on my old PC. A simple minigolf game, minimalistic, open and framed sections, nothing suspicious. You can choose the direction and power. But if you put too much power while on the open places - there is where fun comes out: short cutscenes of people getting hurt by golf ball, being hit in the face, even one with leg being broken by a ball. Still can't find this gem.
