Flash Dies in 4 Months; What Are Your Flash Game Memories?

[Moonface]

I'm sure everyone is aware that Flash will stop being supported by browsers at the end of 2020, and although some sites such as Newgrounds are going to have ways to still access their Flash games and other sites are converting their content to HTML5, there's going to be hundreds if not thousands of Flash games that I assume will be no longer accessible when the time arrives. I spent hours playing Flash games back in the mid-2000's (as did probably many kids, considering schools would always block any website hosting such games), and although I can't remember them all right now, I do remember most of my time was on Miniclip, Cartoon Network, Zylom Games, Popcap, Lego, and Candystand.

Two that I always loved from Cartoon Network are the Cartoon Network Summer Resort and Trick or Treat Beat. The former was this cool episodic game series that featured various Cartoon Cartoons characters and you would do various quests around a resort, and the latter is pretty much what it says, and you play as a random kid who can use pickups to transform into different creatures to traverse the levels and there would be Cartoon Network characters in the levels you could talk to for extra candy. ToTB is still live on the CN website, but from what I can tell CNSR is dead unless you can find a download for it from a third party website. There are videos of it on YT though if you want to check it out that way.

[Karo]

Alas, poor flash! I knew him, Adobe, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hathe borne me on his back a thousand times, and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!

When I was little I remember spending just hours playing random flash games on newgrounds and watching flash animations on there. I am really glad they are finding a way to keep supporting them to be honest.

[Moonface]

I just wish some of the really good games from the time were made into official phone games. Lego had this amazing isometric puzzle game that could easily be a phone game without even changing anything about it. The amount of content in it alone was worth at least $10.

[Kyng]

My favourite Flash game, by a long way, has to be the original Mata Nui Online Game.

If you're not aware: back in 2001, Lego launched their 'Bionicle' range of buildable action figures - each of which corresponded to a specific element, like fire or water. The main heroes were the 'Toa', and these toys were well-designed and fun to play with; however, what really made this theme so great was its back-story. This was told via the Mata Nui Online Game - a point-and-click adventure game set on the island of Mata Nui. This land was once a tropical paradise; however, it had fallen upon dark times, as the villages were facing attacks from the evil Makuta and his minions. Your job, as one of the island's inhabitants, was to explore the land, and aid the Toa as they saved the villages, one by one, and rid the island of the Makuta's influence.

If you want to play the game, then you can do so here (at least, until December 2020, when Flash support disappears):
http://biomediaproject.com/bmp/files/gms...e/matanui/

Or, if you just want to watch some gameplay, here's a video of the first part. I'm getting goosebumps from watching that telescope about a minute and a half in... back in the day, its purpose was to 'predict' and hint at future updates to the game:



I appreciate that, if you didn't grow up with this game, then it probably doesn't look like much. However, I'm fortunate enough that I did, and it left a major impact on my 10-year-old self - to the point where I'm on here gushing about it nearly 20 years later!!!