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Don't be mean. I promise to do my best to judge that fairly.
We used to get video games in the captain crunch box or in exchange for tokens on the crunch boxes or something to that effect... anyway that was essentially just a flash game but equally if not more interested. Got a lot of mileage out of that crunchwrare game in the 90s
I see you don't appreciate the "click all traffic lights" minigame on every single website in existence
I actually made a random game you can play without login or tracking or anything. Dunno if it's any fun, though 🤔
And you need a keyboard to play. Otherwise it's just a screensaver.
https://nailbar.io/proj/miniduel3/
Sorry about the plug, but I am kinda proud of it.
I mean, that's a pretty badass screensaver.
THIS is what I'm talking about!
For me, it’s the fact that every god damned program I want to use requires a fucking subscription.
Shout out to fucking Blender and GIMP and InkScape. They’re really keeping shit cool.
So sick of this “pay to play” structure we now have on EVERYTHING.
Am I misremembering or would corporate websites randomly have branded flash games
We got a free, breakfast-themed Doom total conversion .wad in boxes of Chex. Truly a golden age.
Most Aussies of around my age can remember getting (or at least knowing someone else who got) a full copy of Age of Empires on a CD contained in Kellogg's cereal. That was truly a great time.
ChexQuest marked humanity's peak
I remember script based marketting gimmicks like a percy jackson bolt thag would delete elements off a website
wtf happened to all the random fun gimmicks popping up, prob mobile browser support issuss
Generally speaking, giving javascript that much control over your browser was a security hazard.
But also, firms used to have much larger staffs. It wasn't just two marketing guys in a trench coat trying to tell you they were a $10B company.
Ebaumsworld.com
Newgrounds.com
I miss those days so much, never forget what they took from us.
I opened lemmy to procrastinate working on my web game and this is the first post I see.
I can take a hint internet.
I'm sure you get asked this a lot, but why is your username backwards?
For fun I put a RTLO char in my display username and wrote it backwards to see what clients it can break. The answer is a lot.
Yeah, I miss it in some ways, too. It was more of the Wild West of internet.
I would argue today's internet is fully optimized for control over people (when desired) & profitability. Unless there's some Earth-shattering backlash where idk people kill all ads & they purchase NOTHING online unless they very specifically search for it....this is the internet, perfected. The internet is free, our attention & wallets are the product. Traded, tracked, bought, and sold.
I grew up in the wild west of the internet and I do miss it. Things were so much more interesting, but that was probably becuase I was a kid and the internet was new, so having all this content was not usual.
Itch.io game devs unite! There's still hope. I miss Ebaumsworld, New grounds and Miniclip too but I think there a small part of the Internet that still has this charm.
Here's my game dev contribution:
I'm on a Macromedia kick this morning but the internet really died when adobe bought flash, turning point for me personally lol
Robot Unicorn Attack was my shit.
What "not leaving money on the table" does to a mf
The old internet was like the wild west. Who'd have thought it would meet a similar fate to it too?
We referred to it as the wild west even back then, and we knew eventually civilization would catch up.
I remember playing King of the Hill paintball Shockwave plugin game.
How can we call ourselves a modern society without King of the Hill paintball?
You kaynt man, tell you hwhat man, that dang ol march o time them hands never be turnin back yaknow? Slow march to the grave man, dang ol, tragedy of universal human condition ah tell you hwhat.
I miss the era where most pages didn't have ads.
Like 1986?
Because in the 90s population ads were REALLY bad. You'd open a page and 30 new windows would open up with ads, and closing each one caused 3 more to open, and you eventually just had to turn off the fucking computer.
And this was on dial-up, so they also destroyed your bandwidth.
I was browsing a manufacturers product website the other day, for a billion dollar company that makes industrial products.
Every page had fucking pop Up ads. Wtf!
I've been inside a few big companies and I've seen exactly how it works.
In order to manage huge organisations, they divide them all up into cost centers. And the website is considered marketing so it gets given a budget on the theory that it brings customers. It uses the budget to make games and it does indeed bring customers.
Then a few years later, the shareholders are asking why their stock hasn't outperformed the market, and they put in a CEO tasked with fixing it, and the CEO asks the head of the department in charge of websites what can he do to address the fact that his department is losing money instead of making it.
I loved their Dexter's lab Flash game back in the days. CN and Nick lost their charm
itch.io, sort by free browser games
I remember when Chex and Dominoes put out games that were better than they had any right being. Chex even gave it away for free.
That was back when every site wanted you to install a toolbar that was spyware.
I'm sympathetic to the "Why does everything have to require a fucking login?"
But come on. So many of those games were just inferior reskins of classics. If you want to play Pac-Man, then play Pac-Man. You don't need to go to Lays.com and play Cheeto Crunchers, where a giant Chester Cheetah floating head chases snack foods through a maze.
You can still do that on newgrounds.com
I miss Kitten Cannon so much lmao, and Madness Interactive, and addictinggames . com (which iirc died so probably don't visit and yes the website was mispelled).