Some of the computers at my primary school were still running Windows 3.0 and 3.1. This was in the early 2000's. Also, the intranet on the computers at my college looked like it was designed in Windows Me/2000. This was in the early 2010's. Wouldn't surprise me if it still has that look to it today.
The main reason schools use computers that are ancient is because they either can’t afford to upgrade their setups or just think the current computers they have are good enough for what they use them for
@@tvted1351 In my school, the computers were brand new (they just changed all of them in 2019) at the moment and they were running Windows 10. However we were learning how to use retro softwares like Frontpage 2003, PR 2012, Flash etc on them… It’s a completely waste of machines…
FYI: Flashpoint does not usually look like this. It has various skins that can make the application look OLD and nostalgic, so don't be turned off by the looks
Flashpoint allows me to not only replay games I haven't played in a while such as Interactive Buddy Game, Tom's Trap-O-Matic, QWOP and Portal The Flash Game that you've played in the video, but also stuff I never experienced with before and enjoy them like various Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi Flash and Shockwave games, Mario Starcatcher 2 and Shword (yep, that's the name of the game)
Btd5 was my fav by far. It was like Bloons' equivalent to gta5, a game that could be played for years and still feel pretty current. Btd6 disappointed me with its more exaggerated cartoon graphics and more aggressive monetization
I really miss the era of Flash Games. Those were a lot of fun for me as a child! Super Smash Flash gives me the most nostalgia, especially because of my obsession with Super Smash Bros as a kid. I also played a lot of games on cool math games as well, and games that were on Cartoon Network back in the mid-late 2000s and early 2010s. I wish there was a way to still play many of these games!
i remember me and my brother would play flashgames on kizi and other random sites every day after we got home from school and at summer camp this kid showed my brother the game Super Mario 63
I don't want to sound rude Syd............but did you watch the video? Flashpoint every day all day! Literally over a terabyte of flash games and flash animations.
Flash games has a special place in my heart. So many amazing games that predates in genre most popular mobile games in decades. Motherload, age of wars, Electricman, Siege Tank Defence, you name it.
Most flash games ended up being a iOS/Android game at one point or another. Unfortunately most iOS/Android games are also lost to time thanks to zero backwards support.
Theres something so relaxing about watching someone play flash games. Reminds me of spending summer afternoons at a friend's house exploring the internet which had such mystique anda wonder around it at the time
I remember all the times I would get my IT Teacher telling me to stop playing games and get back to my work playing miniclip games and playing badger,badger,mushroom through the speakers. I miss Flash. So many good games and animations were made back then. I do miss the good ol'days. The 90s were a great time to be growing up through. God I am getting old. ;)
I literally grew up on flash games and animations. Mostly Newgrounds, it seriously shaped my humor and inclinations towards art and stuff. It made me want to learn Flash, which I did. But sadly never did anything with that knowledge.
In some ways I really do miss the shockwave flash sites of the late 1990s / early 2000s, playing tons of fun games, even offline. Unfortunately advertisers took advantage of it too in their ad banners, so it was handy to have at least one browser with it enabled (for the games) and at least one other without it (for general browsing.)
So sad miniclip isn't around anymore. I remember they had an animation creator called Sketch Star that was fun to use. I also loved playing Candy and Clyde and those Digital Chocolate games
What makes me sad is all the flash games that are forever lost from the 90s and 2000s. There's so many that are gone forever and were never archived or shown off
There's this old game it felt like mortal combat chess, the best way I could describe it and I'm desperately searching for it. I had a great time playing it when very young and im desperate to see if it still holds up.
Ah I remember the classic Bloons and Bloons TD. I was very surprised when I found out a couple years ago that the TD game was still around as Bloons TD 6. It's a fun game and can get quite challenging (despite how easy players like ISAB make it look!)
I remember flash games so so much. I remembered my childhood and literally cried. My dad one day brought home a CD filled with loads of flash games including the ones shown by you. But sadly. The disc died due to scratches. I would literally spend hours and hours in front of my windows XP pc and my CRT playing those games. Papa's pizzeria, ant Smasher and Miniclip games like the one where i have to kill rats also like rat Terminator job. Flash games truly were so nostalgic. Sadly the current generation will miss out on such classics. Including our future kids.
I downloaded some of these games like bloons and old blockhead and found the .swf files and adobe loaders online and put them on a windows xp laptop for some nostalgia because I couldn’t get flashpoint to run
Thank you so much. I actually tried to play some Miniclip games just for the nostalgia, but I couldn't figure out how to make them work in a modern day browser.
I found this video super relaxing whilst I’m struggling quite a bit emotionally rn and I know the video wasn’t specifically catered to help me but thank you.
RuneScape actually got a lot of players from Miniclip as well! Super Smash Flash's sequel is still being developed and updated a ton, been following it since the beginning in 2007!
Man awesome video especially since it’s a long one! I grew up with these games so it’s very nostalgic I still play some at work when I’m bored especially bloons td 4 but games like these aren’t really made anymore
End of an era. I haven't used miniclip at all since like 2009, but in 2007-8 i would go there every day to game, i just hope someone managed to preserve all or at least most of the games from it.
Nice video to acknowledge the days of Flash. I enjoyed many hours as a kid playing flash games at school and at my grandparents house. Even when I was in university I made a couple flash games in my degree. Adobe really messed up here... I played so many different games but to this day I still play the bloons TD series. Also, does anyone remember playing StickRPG??
Just managed to install this on my MacBook and can now play a game that I have been trying to get to play for ages.. thanks my dude.. " warzone tower defense " 👌
I hadn’t realised just how much these Flash games influenced my taste in music… nor how many game creators clearly used their games to stick their music in, from GarageBand or FruityLoops
For what it's worth, Armor games did not make Portal: The Flash Version. The devs are called We Create Stuff and they've made (and continue to make) many games since! They've made nightmare house 2 and most recently a fantastic game called In Sound Mind!
Early oughts Internet brings so many memories. Many of them strange, a lot of them fun. I had almost forgotten about Miniclip, and I need to start asking my friends if they remember it.
That brings a lot of memories, no disturbing ads, or Internet required all the time, just open the game, play and be happy. That's why I still like classic games.
I got portal 2 for 2 bucks. Man this game is just amazing. Theres also a fan made game called portal reloaded and it features a new portal! (time portal). Super interesting! Also for flash games, I used to love Papa's restaurants, a game where you run from a bull, bloons, final ninja, sushi cat, snail bob and i used to play fireboy and watergirl with my friend... Ahhh so many good memoriess
Man that sucks, I remember back then when I was still a kid, I would actually download a lot of these games straight from mini clip and burn massive compilations to DVD so I could take them on the go without need for internet. A lot of nostalgic games from that site.
Gravity Guy was so much fun. Flashpoint is the only way to play it now since both the android and IOS version are completely broken. Miniclip just left it to die.
I’m currently developing some games. I’m toying with the idea of having some mini games inside them. I’m here for the inspiration and the history lesson. I personally never played many flash games so this will be interesting 🤔
I've played the Wheely games through Flashpoint, and I have to say, it brings me back to when Cool Math Games was able to host the Adobe Flash versions of the game. I do know the games were upgraded under the hood at some point with HTML5 when Adobe announced the end of Flash as a whole.
I've never played a Flash game, I don't think I knew they existed, so this was interesting. I'd like to see another with more games, please. Since I don't use Windows, I'd have to run Flashpoint through Wine, as I understand it's not easy getting it to work otherwise, and/or it doesn't work as well.
Surprised the impossible quiz, impossible game and Pandemic 2.5 weren't here. There was a 2D archer game that was really popular at school. There was of course many more. Our school had the Adobe suite at the time (we were in class learning Dreamweaver) so flash was on the computers. Almost all flash sites were blocked (I think cool math games wasn't) Well we used flash drives for projects so we just saved SWFs and other "portable" applications to use on the school computers when the teacher wasn't looking. We used email clients, Halo CE, CS 1.6, Flash games and I saw some people using emulators. These computers were on WinXP and this was in HS years 2006~2010 for me.
one of the games i used to play a lot was Bubble Tanks (alongside Bubble Tanks II). i remember SSF quite a bit, but for fighting games i always preferred Chaos Faction. some other games i recall playing are Thing-Thing, Age of War, Bowman, This Is The Only Level, the Windows parody games etc. of course this would be an entire text wall if i listed everything i could remember playing from the top of my head. however, there was one game i remember playing, where you played as a small planet, and you ate smaller planets to grow bigger, and then you could eat larger planets and evolve, but you had to avoid planets that were larger than you. i do not remember the name and cannot find it anywhere on flashpoint, so either it had a very unique name or it's currently lost.
The top secret ability in Bloons Tower Defense is Super Monkey Storm. Using it makes a line of Super Monkeys fly across the screen & instantly destroy all bloons, except for the blimps. It unlocks when you buy the upgrade for it on a Monkey Beacon.
Omg I remember using mini clip. I used to play it on my dad's windows Vista pc back in like 2012. I remember all I wanted to do was play online flash games from the web.
woah bro I was just trying to find my teacher a way of playing flash animations again, I saw this software (which doesn't meet my needs but nvm that) and as soon as I was looking into it you posted this like whaaat
didn't have my head in the gutter before you said anything. Now I'm drowning help. :P cool vid. Good throwback 😉. Would definitely have loved to see more portal and less of the first block one. Never played Orb, but sure want to later. 🤪
Not sure if you were big into eZone like I was back in the day, but aside from Miniclip, I absolutely loved their games. Not only the ones that featured their main character Lenny Loosejocks, but I remember really enjoying this one they had called Turkey Flung, where you’d release a turkey from a giant slingshot and just tried to keep it airborne for as long as you could. You should do an eZone focused one maybe!
For playing at least three seconds of the _Super Smash Bros. Melee_ title music, Michael is found dead in his home on November 23 2022, having committed suicide with arms bound and two gunshot wounds to the back of the head. Next to his body was a business card belonging to the attorneys at Nintendo. The circumstances are dismissed as "no foul play" by the judge, who would be seen leaving the courthouse with a large brown burlap sack with a *¥* sign on it.
Flash games are an example of one of those things that only early Gen Z (1995-2001) will remember. It’s also an example of how quickly things can get scrubbed from the internet despite their wild popularity in their day. MySpace being an example for millennials.
Not really, Flash Player was created around 1996 and Flash games have been around since the late 90's. So, if anything, it was the prime era for Gen Y (millenials)
I was just going down memory lane on flashpoint a couple weeks ago! Bloxorz was one of the games i replayed :) i never even got to the point where they had the block split, i was too stupid.
I went on AddictingGames and Miniclip a lot when I was young. I played 8 Ball Pool, Bloons, and Bloons TD a lot. I used to play 8 Ball Pool on my phone a lot but got bored of it. Every December, I used to play the Christmas game on Miniclip called Snowline. Such great times
There's a mappack version of Portal The Flash Version for the actual Portal that was released in 2008 by the same developer months after the Portal mapping tools were released.
kongregate and miniclip were the best sites for flash games and random multiplayer shooting games lmao. It got me into that "open world" 2d image based multiplayer rpg game for a while. Then i found out it was super pay to win.
I remember playing bloons and bloons td a lot in my childhood, I went to check it out after so long and turns out it updated a lot and became a paid game.
If anyone wants to play these games without downloading flashpoint, cool math games has converted a lot of their old flash games so that they still work, including bloxorz! Also as a teaching assistant I can tell you that kids still go on cool math games to this day and try to play games while the teacher isn’t looking :)
