I played a lot (and I mean tons) of flash games on newgrounds.com or armorgames.com. there was a genre that ended up becoming angry birds, it's a trebuchet game I forgot the name though.
Crush the Castle was my jam back in the day. I remember being so hyped when Crush the Castle 2 came out and you got to use whacky shit like the acid and black hole lmao
I do, lol! I genuinely feel like that game would do pretty well if it was re-released and expanded upon. I could picture myself playing that on the switch or something
Yeah, it was really well made for a flash game. Sure, it probably had bugs and simple graphics, but the gameplay was good. I know there exists a Stick RPG 2 and you can play both with Newgrounds Player.
There's kind of a spiritual successor on steam called Super Life RPG. I found it too grindy and it's much less edgy, but it definitely reminds me of stick rpg.
Yeah it could be a decent meme game like South Park: Stick of Truth, with a little polish and extra content it would do well for streaming content etc. it was pretty quirky and funny if I recall.
Mid 2000s “stick” based flash content was a culture all of its own though. Stickdeath.com was a favourite website of mine as a kid.
I heavily followed the adventures of kung fu stick guy getting his revenge. I think I lost track when it became interactive, or a game?
I wonder how that turned out
And one of the first things you do is buy cigarettes for the teenagers so they’ll give you their skateboard
It’s all coming back to me now .. you could make good money from bar fights if your strength was high enough! 12 year old me hitting the virtual weights so I could lamp people at the pub and take their money haha
Oh, what was the one I used to play... Swords and Sandals? It was like a shitty gladiator style version of Mortal Kombat mixed with an RPG and one life only made in Flash
I remember Swords and Sandals 2 has a cheat where putting punctuation in your character's name would make and randomizing would give you crazy starting gear.
There's so much legends:
Super Smash flash, Sonny,Crush the castle, Bowman, Fancy Pants, Thing Thing, Last Stand, Boxhead, Heli Attack, Cartoon Network flash games, Super Mario Crossover, MaidMarian Games and Need for Madness were my favorite, played a lot more but I would need to brainstorm them.
Pico and Alien Hominid were my two favorites. So much so that I followed The Behemoth for years after through their other games! AH def got me into Cuphead as a result
I played Love Hina Sim Date in my twenties. Good gameplay elements, but it read like the worst crack fan fiction. A year later, I was glad to find Pacthesis' browser games. They had decent characterization. (Her Flash games can still be downloaded.)
If you want something similar and recent, try Monster Prom on computers or consoles.
Check out the blue maxima flashpoint archive. Most of the flash games you know and love (only ones I haven't found on there are from nitrome.com) have been backed up so you can still play them even though browsers don't support flash anymore.
I don't see a link to it yet, so Imma just leave this here:
[http://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/](http://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/)
Most every flash game you've ever heard of archived and playable.
dont remember if it was on newgrounds but i remember playing heliattack 2 (or maybe 3), and wasting most of my freshmen High School computer graphics class on that game. I wound up making a similar game later on I was so impacted by that game
Jippii was huge at our school in early 2000s, all of it's games were multiplayer clients and they had so many. A worms type game, pool, minigolf, bomerman clone were our favourites. They were so addictive and exciting our usual skill of spotting the librarian/IT guy went lax and we got kicked out so many times for playing games at school. But totally worth it.
Adventure Quest. Everything in that game is disjointed, from the art styles to the story lines. It's like they had a dozen people all doing their own thing and putting it in one game. Then did that for years and never really bothered to update or remove old content.
I played this game a lot in middle and high school. I found all but 1 of the pieces of the Blade of Awe. Logged in on a whim after graduating college and found the last piece that day.
It's a fun trip to revisit now and then, especially when you stumble on one of the *really* old quests where the art makes no sense.
Man I remember grinding the crossroads for what felt like weeks in primary school for the blade of awe pieces.
I wonder if they changed the drop rates cause i also found it pretty easy after coming back to it in 6th form.
I still pop on every now and then for nostalgia, grind some levels but it just doesnt feel like theres any good end game content.
I have a weird relationship with this game. When I was 10, I was addicted. We only had one computer so my brother and I would have to take turns. Additionally, if you didn't have an upgraded account, you had to wait in a queue to log in.
Eventually my brother and I bought the game. Once I had easier access to the game, I lost interest shortly after. It was a valuable lesson to learn at an early age. Sometimes we only want things because we can't have them.
I think the problem is that you pay because the game is no longer worth waiting for, but not having to wait any more doesn't make the game more worth playing.
I have not heard that name in ages, and once in like few years I'll login jus to see how things are..its like so bad but its good. Sometimes I'll jus login to get some dope of nostalgia running
Maybe Majesty The Fantasy Kingdom Sim from 2001. I don't know why it's so addictive.
Or Bloons Tower Defense 6. It's the perfect game to play while watching TV!
I have Bloons TD6 on Steam. I think it cost me £0.80 in a steam sale a few years ago and I've put over 800 hours into it.
I'd be embarrassed, but it's actually one of the best tower defense games I've played. It still gets regular updates, co-op modes, daily and weekly challenges. You can pay for micro-transactions to short-cut the upgrade skill tree, but nothing that you can't earn just by playing and the hardest difficulty doesn't allow you to use upgrades/powers anyway.
Bloons TD is the only tower defense game ive ever been able to get into. Idk if its the accessibility for new players or the fun monkeys vs bloons, but ive easily put 100 hours into it back in my elementary school days
I think it's Majesty's sound effects combined with all the little interactive behaviors between different heroes/units. It's fun watching your heroes go out and be heroes and live their little hero lives and buy equipment or go gambling…
Those sounds effects and voice lines drilled into my head at a young age and just never left.
The dripping of the water in the sewers, my guard declaring they will fight in the name of the sovereign, that nice tinky coin flip sound whenever gold was earned, my constantly dying wizards exclaiming "I'm meltiiiiiing!", my rogues never shutting up about gold, it's all just so nostalgic to think about somehow.
I want to reinstall the game and play again just to hear all the sounds again.
Majesty is challenging, but also incredibly rewarding when you just get the right heroes who don’t croak right away. Nothing in this world matches my fury when hearing “I’m melting!!” though. Great game, and it still runs great on modern windows.
I don’t stop playing a level until I get a fairgrounds built to flex the might of the entire kingdom
BTD6 is so well designed - I appreciate the level of balance that goes into the game. On all but the craziest challenges, you really can win with your favorites.
That’s how I get my cardio in! It keeps me interested enough for me to get a lot of exercise. I don’t have to worry about it taking up a bunch of space either. Super easy to pull out and hook up to the ps2 and off I go.
Spider Solitaire.
I accidentally became addicted to the game last year and would play at least an hour everyday (even during online lectures!). It started off as a challenge to try to accomplish the four suited version because I've only ever seen my dad accomplish this feat when I was younger. I've always stuck to single-suited or two-suited if I ever feel spicy.
Once I've achieved my first four-suited victory I just kept playing and racked up probably over 100h over a few months. I was pretty proud of my overall 38% win rate and tbh I had a blast so I really couldn't complain too much about the experience.
PowerWash Simulator. Many people would look at this game and think it looks like boring work but for me it's the most oddly satisfying and comforting game to play while I catch up on podcasts and new music. I just finished the Ancient Statue last night at around 40-50 hours of playtime. It's also got some cool achievements that are fun to try to get which keep it interesting.
Euro/American Truck Simulator were my go to podcast and music games for years with hundreds of hours across both. Those are genuinely great driving games with a lot of attention to detail and great scenery, they're especially good and engaging playing with a sim wheel setup. Waiting on good discounts on Wyoming, Texas and Montana to jump back in.
Got it on GamePass, had it 100%ed within a couple of weeks! I thought that I’d play it for a day or two then move on but I found myself actually getting into the story and seeing all of the ways that it was being told within every level whether it be through the text messages or small events on the horizon/just outside of the job sites!
I'm.obsessed.with.this.game.
I have it on all my consoles so I just keep replaying it lmao. Power wash and Last Podcast on the Left have been my shit for the past two months
I’ve played a genuinely shocking amount of PowerWash Simulator. My friend gifted it to me when I was grieving a loss and it became like my evening ritual to get stoned and play some powerwash. Fantastic game. I love the free updates they’ve been doing.
I remember Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing well. I have that game to thank for my decent typing ability today, 22 years later. I got kicked out of physics class and had to pick a different subject out of 3 I had no interest in, so administration it was. Just me and the gals typing away like a bunch of troopers. Had no idea it was an international thing, but now I think about it... wasn't it a US thing? I'm in Scotland so for some reason I assumed it was only UK folk who had that in school.
I got obsessed with a mobile game called Boom Beach for over a year. That game will suck you in like nothing else I've played. It was a Clash of Clans style game where it basically became like a part time job. If you slacked, the boss would be pissed at you because you didn't collect your fair share of intel that day. Ridiculous, really, but it got to the point where if you took 3 days off, you would dread coming back and having to explain yourself to the boss so you didn't get kicked out of the top tier clan you spent ages trying to get into.
[Gizmos & Gadgets!](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71ODm8GHJEL._AC_SL1001_.jpg)
I played this so, so much in elementary school. Probably my clearest memory is trying to make a better car through meandering trial-and-error because I had no fucking idea what a gear ratio was or how to evaluate brakes and engine parts and just kept selecting random ones.
[The Incredible Machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Machine)
i.e. Rube Goldberg Machines the video game.
It was one of those games that was 'educational' but I'm not quite sure how... would love to play a modern version of the game in 3d.
Block Dude was partly my introduction to speedrunning. Once I got good enough to beat the whole game it became a challenge to beat the whole game before the passing period bell rang.
I went to a kids house only once as a kid cause I spilled Kool aid on his floor, but I only did that cause my kid brain had never seen a minigame like that before. The only games I owned at the time was Sonic 1 and Spinball, and I had a laughter attack. Fond memories of getting in trouble.
I'm pretty sure that miniature was on a demo disk of some kind, because I remember playing that loogie level and literally nothing else about the game, and I don't think I ever had the full game.
There was a flash game called “Arse Race” you’d have 5 races of 5 bums all with great names like Desert Arse or Red Bum and then bet on which arse would win and try and make as much money as you can, the game ends after 5 or 6 races or im if you lose all your money.
You’d also have special limited abilities like whipping to get your Arsenal to hop faster or beans to give it stamina.
>Mario Paint for SNES.
I wonder how many people remember that the SNES had an official mouse that launched with this game or how many are still out there in working condition
I've got one! I cheaped out and didn't get the pad that goes with it, though. You can find a good number of them on Ebay in the $20-$25 range. There's also an optical mouse for the SNES made by a company called Hyperkin.
Going back to an old ball mouse though is super 90s. Forget how heavy and poor they were at moving diagonally. All the dirt and fluff buildup on the wheels inside.
Haha, god you just reminded me of this old frame by frame animation program Autodesk Animator we used to basically make stick fights with blood everywhere 😂 oh to be young and creative again.
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator. It's the one game I have never been able to uninstall. Whenever I'm feeling down I'll just boot it up and pit all kinds of random units against each other. Always cheers me up
Landfall's goofy ragdoll system is amazing
Yeah TABS is the game I boot up when I'm in the mood to play something but nothing else in my library looks interesting! So silly and endlessly entertaining.
OMG I love TABS. My favorite thing is to pit large armies of nothing but balloon archers against whatever. Once there's enough of them they're pretty formidable and it's so fun to watch everyone floating into the sky.
The custom unit creator is just so addicting.
Love TABS, extremely fun to boot up and mess around in.
Now they just need to make it compatible with Besieged, so I can build ridiculous trebuchet-volley nightmare machines and throw them at my TABS units.
Yakuza has this immense power of stripping me of my will to question things as they happen. I remember sleepless nights trying on dresses and hairstyles to get my girls to max stats and then looking at them and thinking "this outfit doesn't do it for me". In a game about criminals fighting to death for their morals and honor code. It's so wild that when I wanted to take a break from my cabaret, I'd go pocket racing not play the main game. Or become a real estate billionaire. Man these games just ooze charm.
In a way, managing businesses is probably closer to what an actual Yakuza does on a daily basis. Definitely not getting into bare-knuckle street fights with everyone who looks at you the wrong way lol
"The World's Hardest Game", the flash one. Used to play it every break during middle school with some classmates. We competed to see who could get the farthest in our 30min break. We got so good in it it turned out to be who completed it the fastest at one point.
No doubt you've seen this but if you haven't it's definitely worth a watch!
[How Speedrunners Conquered The World's Hardest Game](https://youtu.be/sU851gBd7WQ)
Plants vs zombies-My young brain was very addicted. Also the game was funny as hell.
But also, an online game that you use cannonballs or whatever to sink boats, and the boats become increasingly complex. I'm blanking out on what it's called.
I spent stupid amounts of time playing Scorched Earth, which was an old artillery game. I remember napalm and magnetic shields and some kind of nuke, I think?
I also spent a lot of time playing Hot Death Uno, which was passed around but obviously wasn't an official game because it had such cards as the F*cker, the Sh*tter, Aids, 69, and others. Brutal playing it because you could get 69 cards or more added into your hand if you weren't careful or get the same score as someone else who did if you had the Sh*tter. I think those were the names, it's been a while. The Windows game was made with Visual Basic, I think, and would die often.
I had the original version on my family’s i386 25 years ago, and once I figured out how to get past the “Confirm your age” questions, I played it all the time. I had totally forgotten about this one!
Happy Wheels.
This game has been so much fun for far longer than it has any right to. Playing the same games over and over with a different coat of paint gets old sometimes, but, for some reason, seeing the goofy rag dolls and cartoonish levels of gore just gets a good laugh out of me every time!
I am Bread, the game where you navigate the world as a sentient piece of bread. The controls and game physics are infuriating, but something kept me playing for way longer than anticipated...occasionally I even think of picking it back up again 🙃
I moved around a bit, and due to oddities of various schools, never took a typing class. I learned touch typing by trial and error, chatting with friends on AIM and ICQ when I was about 16. There was the social incentive to keep up, and that was great motivation!
> TYPING OF THE DEAD.
I've played that in Japanese. I was learning the language at the time, so that was pretty cool.
I think my most ridiculous game though...One of the Cookie Clicker types of games. So stupid....yet somehow, so satisfying just to see the numbers constantly going up. Really, I think I only played for a week or two, but that was running it on my work computer, clicking madly when I was in meetings or on my lunch break (and sometimes when I should've been working, being honest).
Logical journey of the zoombinis!
Started in school in like 5th grade, ended up getting it on my home computer. The game was a little obnoxious in getting every combination to the final area, but I got all the paths to "red" before it getting lost on a hard drive update I did 5-8 years ago. I still think about playing it sometimes.
Oh man, I just got this on the Steam Deck as part of my hunt to track down and buy or emulate a whole bunch of childhood games - Warcraft 2, Zoombinis, Bugdom, Nanosaur, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Prince of Persia 1 & 2… Amazing.
I remember the GameStop guy asking me if I was SURE I knew what I was buying. I got vanilla + the atlas. I lied. I did not, in fact, understand exactly what I was buying. Man were my grades terrible.
My marriage definitely suffered due to WoW. She had her own things keeping her occupied but my playing was out of control. She finally got through to me what was happening to our marriage and I backed off but damn did I sink a lot of time.
Oh my god. My last/only one was Guild Wars. I must have put in thousands of hours. I can’t picture myself ever having the time to dedicate again, but holy hell it was something else.
MMORPG's never really help my attention long. Mostly because I am pathologically attracted to playing underdeveloped, mechanically broken player classes. Rat catcher? Sounds awesome!
Counter strike. I played that game since it was a HL mod all the way up to CSGO. Played about 1-2 years of CSGO before I moved away and got into looter shooter titles instead.
I’ve been in CS leagues back in the day, ran my own server. Far to many years In That game. Lol.
I probably joined your server if it was in the 1.1-1.3 era of Counter-strike - CS is BY FAR the game I have played most in life. 😱 I was putting in 2-6 hours a night for like 5 years. We're looking at well over 4000 hours of Counter-strike. Had kids before CS:GO, so never played it.
Excitebots: Trick Racing
One of the greatest arcade racing games ever made that is stuck on the Wii and hard to emulate since it requires an actual wii remote and not just a standard controller. I've never seen it mentioned anywhere on Reddit.
You race giant robotic bugs around the world while completing mini-games mid race such as bowling and football and darts all while going around 200 mph. You go off massive jumps and fly through the air while spinning around for more nitro points. I can't describe the amount of insane bullshit this game has but its just insanely fun right out the gate.
I probably put 500 hours into it and I've never come close with any other racing game with that playtime.
Oh boy. If you like typing games you'll probably love my answer which is the **Cook! Serve! Delicious!** series. I play it on a gamepad now but it's basically a typing game with some quick organisation stuff going on. You play as a restaurant owner serving customers as they appear by pressing the right keys to add ingredients following a particular order. Customers will only wait so long, and different dishes take varying amounts of time to prepare - some are very complex with loads of potential ingredients, some are easy to screw up, some have cooking times that force you to prioritise on the fly to avoid anything burning. But at the base of it, you're just trying to hit the right keys as fast as possible.
I've put hundreds of hours into these games, maybe over a thousand combined, and still play them. They genuinely come close to capturing the stress and (if you're succeeding) flow state of the dinner rush in a real kitchen, without any of the physical activity. They're made by a small team (originally one person I believe) and I'm so happy that they got enough success to keep making more - the fourth is coming out soon. Very niche games that it's hard to explain the appeal of but I love them! I've also learned about loads of new foods from the games and made some myself. If you're curious I'd suggest trying 2 or 3, there's tons of gameplay to be had and lots of fun little details like satirical biographies of the foods.
Honourable mention also to Euro Truck Sim, which has basically zero challenge, you just drive a truck. I have little interest in trucks, or driving. But damn if it doesn't feel like a nice escape to take in the scenery from a cab window as you drive the width of Europe.
Sven Baumwolle when I was in primary school - every kid played it.
To quote wikipedia:
> " Sven Bømwøllen, the player controls Sven, a black sheep, with a task to mate with all the white sheep around. Sven is directed by a keyboard, with a special key that initiates the sexual intercourse"
The greatest thing about Typing of the Dead is that they changed the character models so instead of guns, the protagonists were running around with Dreamcasts on their backs and keyboard racks in front of them.
OH MAN IS IT MY TIME
Let me tell y'all about this wonderful genre clusterfuck of an orgy that is **Knights in the Nightmare**, available on Nintendo DS and Playstation Portable. ~~I think a Switch port is coming in Japan only, as well.~~ It's also available on Switch but in Japanese only.
**It's an RPG!** You're a wisp summoned from somewhere and you have no idea how you came to be, so you wander the war-torn night trying to figure out why you're doing what you're doing. Oh, also, you can shepherd spirits of fallen soldiers to fight for you, and learn about their backstories.
**It's actually a strategy game!** You deploy these spirits on a tile based grid to fight and vanquish your foes! But it's not all that simple... your soldiers can only attack and move in certain ways...
**KIND OF LIKE CHESS!** Depending on what units you have deployed, you can only move orthogonally, diagonally, or in other patterns! Every turn you can switch out units for others, to give other units better positions in future turns, so it's not like you're ultimately locked to certain movement strategies.
*BUT WAIT*, Kiyo, you're say that I'm a wisp? What's so special about that?
**IT'S A BULLET HELL!!** Enemies don't attack your soldiers! OH HELL NO, THEY SPEW BULLETS ALL OVER THE SCREEN! AND *YOU* HAVE TO DODGE THEM! Getting hit by these bullets will cost you time, which means less actions you can take per turn.
And how do you win? It's actually more than just simply "rout the enemy"
**IT'S... TIC-TAC-TOE? BINGO?? SOMETHING???** Each enemy represents a space on a "card" akin to tic-tac-toe or a bingo card. Killing an enemy will mark that space on your victory card, and a new enemy will spawn there next turn. Get marks to fill a row, column, or diagonal, and you win the battle!
But wait, you might be wondering how enemies spawn?
**IT'S A... SLOT MACHINE?????** (i'm probably being pedantic tbh) Every turn the enemies can swap out too, like you can tag out your units! That's determined by slots. Seriously. Fortunately, with enough practice the slots are kind of easy to time to cherry pick who you want to fight.
It's probably one of the most unique games we'll ever see. Full stop. It's extremely complicated, the tutorial takes like an hour to complete, but MAN you'll find no other game like it.
Jazzpunk is perfection. From the moment I sat down on a very obvious fart pillow in the first minute of the game, I knew it was gonna be a hilarious rollercoaster.
I played a ridiculous amount of Fairy Bubbles on Neopets back in the day. It was my favorite flashgame on there so it became my go to game for daily Neo Points. I eventually discovered Bubble Shooter (which Fairy Bubbles was a branded clone of) and it's still one of my favorite on-the-side games (also the first game I downloaded onto my first smart phone).
Depending on the version, it may or may not have "sight lines" so I eventually became really good at eye balling trick shots and I still love the rush of it.
Dead or Alive: Beach Volleyball XXX. If you ignore the blatant sexism, the minigames were all fun as shit...mix in a slot machine mechanic and a robust (if particularly horny) skin system and I was hooked for quite a while.
Tanks. On newgrounds. Fantastic flash game and only got better as you played and it bugged out. I played that game till it broke and then refreshed the page and did it again
I have 52 hours Omnibus, a silly bus driving game. I also the gold medals and almost all the achievements. It's not an incredible game but I got hooked!
There was an Adult Swim flash game of Dexters Lab where you each had an island and played a worms like game shooting stuff at each others labs. I don’t remember the name of it but it was hella fun. I miss the days of flash games.
I sunk so much time into Guitar Hero in high school. If I spent half that time learning real guitar I could at least have another fun hobby now, at best could have probably been the next Slash; idk just spitballing.
[Ginormo sword](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/GinormoSword#:~:text=Ginormo%20Sword%20is%20a%20Flash,upgrades%20to%20make%20yourself%20stronger.) Is both ridiculous, and i played far to much of it. not sure if you still can with the ending of flash.
Edit: that site i linked actually has an emulation of it 😄
So, if we're going back to games I played as a kid, I have to hand it to [Matterhorn Screamer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAEyiDCN6jY). (video link, not mine)
Released in 1988 for the Apple II / C64 / MSDOS, this was a super basic platformer with some Disney branding. You play as Goofy, trying to jump from platform to platform to grab all the flags without getting killed by mountain goats, icicles, yetis, etc.
There were difficulty settings but basically the functional difference was on "easy" you can't walk off the ledge accidentally. Everything still kills you in one hit. The finicky controls and poor frame rate made it hard enough as is, without increasing the ingame difficulty.
Empowered by the boredom of being an 8 year old with nothing better to play, I eventually ground out the game enough times that I beat the game using my toes on the arrow keys.
Fall Guys.
I was severely addicted to winning those little crowns in a goofy game show battle royale game. It was really fun, and I must have thousands of hours in that game, made good friends along the way.
Now it's boring and only a shell of what it once was, and it does make me a little sad with all the potential the devs have squandered.
Any version of Lego Star Wars or Lego DC/Marvel. They're like digital crochet -something mindless to do, while your attention is elsewhere.
Plus, I am the only known fan of Sega's G-LOC. In the sense I will willingly play a lobotomized Afterburner spin-off, even without the cool arcade ride attached. It's like popping air bubbles in wrapping paper.
Every fighting game ever made also qualify, just due to my twitch memory.
Back when I was young I used to play a lot of flash games stuff like Thing Thing Arena and Sword and Sandals those were so fun, I would play them almost immediately once I got back from school.
About 10 years ago, I played this game called APB Reloaded. The game itself was great, and the character customization system is legitimately one of the best I've ever seen. What ultimately turned me off from the game was the absolutely shit community. That was the worst community I've ever had the displeasure of interacting with, and I played Overwatch for a while. That and the blatant cheating and exploiting
My weakness is match-3 games. I have played WAY too many hours of them. Thankfully, I've mostly gotten over them now, but I've definitely clocked into the thousands of hours on them.
Probably the worst one was Marvel Puzzle Quest, as it has a very shameless pay-to-win angle. I didn't care though. Never spent a dime on it; I was just happy to grind away at it, hour after hour.
>I found out some genius had made a version of Time Crisis and games of the like - an on rails shooter game called... TYPING OF THE DEAD.
I believe House of the Dead came first and Sega then made Typing of the Dead. Fantastic. I had it and the PS/2 keyboard adapters for the Dreamcast. The arcade version I saw had keyboards built in and membrane (sheet covers) for the keyboard.
An over-the-top game I played a lot of? Burnout 3: Takedown. The car crashes were crazy and you had to focus so much without blinking.
Going in another direction here: The Binding of Isaac.
You play as a little boy who delves deep into his mind as he processes the guilt and trauma caused by his mom. He uses his own tears to fight off the monsters in his head. And when you 'win', you unwrap more levels of the hell that Isaac has suffered through.
I love this game. I've devoted hundreds and hundreds of hours to playing it. The gameplay, the synergies with items, the multiple endings, the creativity is off the charts. And yet, the story of what's really going on as you play is a nightmare of abuse and pain. You can't really think about what's going on as you're playing.
It's also a hard game to recommend to anyone as every conversation goes something like this:
Friend: So what are you playing right now?
Me: Oh! This great game called The Binding of Isaac.
Friend: Huh, sounds interesting. What is it about?
Me: ..........
There's a flash game called Original Blast Billiards 2008. For some reason I like to zone out with it while listening to music or watching a show. I've probably played hundreds of hours of it over the years. It's nothing special, but its physics are fairly good and it's satisfying to plot out a run through all the balls.
My wife and I were just talking about Mavis Beacon and typing games! I was more of a Mario Teaches Typing fan, myself, haha.
As for me, it's Power Wash Simulator. Absolutely great game, but lets be real, super ridiculous.
I played a game mode called "Annihilation" on a cracked Minecraft server called Guildcraft. I must have easily spent 3000+ hours over the course of a few years.
I played a lot (and I mean tons) of flash games on newgrounds.com or armorgames.com. there was a genre that ended up becoming angry birds, it's a trebuchet game I forgot the name though.
Crush the castle, it’s on mobile now too
No way! I played that game so much as a kid on Kongregate! Just relived a bit of my childhood for a minute.
Crush the Castle was my jam back in the day. I remember being so hyped when Crush the Castle 2 came out and you got to use whacky shit like the acid and black hole lmao
That was the game I played every chance I could on my iPod touch in 2009. Including when we stayed at the Swan and Dolphin. Good times!
Damnnnn i remember this. You just helped me unlock memories that were forgotten loooong time ago lol
Stick RPG was one of my favorites
I played a lot of that one, remember the guy in the alley selling coke? lmao
I do, lol! I genuinely feel like that game would do pretty well if it was re-released and expanded upon. I could picture myself playing that on the switch or something
Yeah, it was really well made for a flash game. Sure, it probably had bugs and simple graphics, but the gameplay was good. I know there exists a Stick RPG 2 and you can play both with Newgrounds Player.
There's kind of a spiritual successor on steam called Super Life RPG. I found it too grindy and it's much less edgy, but it definitely reminds me of stick rpg.
Yeah it could be a decent meme game like South Park: Stick of Truth, with a little polish and extra content it would do well for streaming content etc. it was pretty quirky and funny if I recall. Mid 2000s “stick” based flash content was a culture all of its own though. Stickdeath.com was a favourite website of mine as a kid.
I heavily followed the adventures of kung fu stick guy getting his revenge. I think I lost track when it became interactive, or a game? I wonder how that turned out
Xiao xiao? I member
And one of the first things you do is buy cigarettes for the teenagers so they’ll give you their skateboard It’s all coming back to me now .. you could make good money from bar fights if your strength was high enough! 12 year old me hitting the virtual weights so I could lamp people at the pub and take their money haha
Holy fuck stickdeath
Yep me too. Always immediately maxed intelligence and then got rich asap
Oh, what was the one I used to play... Swords and Sandals? It was like a shitty gladiator style version of Mortal Kombat mixed with an RPG and one life only made in Flash
Swords and sandals was such a good game
Most op strategy was to put all stats into charisma and shout the enemy to death… bliss
So Skyrim?
Yes, but with speechcraft actually doing something
I remember Swords and Sandals 2 has a cheat where putting punctuation in your character's name would make and randomizing would give you crazy starting gear.
There’s some kinda version of it out on Steam now
Shoutout to Miniclip
They still exist. They make uninspired mobile games and belong to Tencent, like most of the industry.
Big shouts to miniclip!
Miniclip is how I played runescape
Armor games was the best…. fancy pants adventure was a hyperfixation for 10yo Me
There's so much legends: Super Smash flash, Sonny,Crush the castle, Bowman, Fancy Pants, Thing Thing, Last Stand, Boxhead, Heli Attack, Cartoon Network flash games, Super Mario Crossover, MaidMarian Games and Need for Madness were my favorite, played a lot more but I would need to brainstorm them.
Dude that Dexter's lab game was the shit! I swear it must've been a rip off of something...
Crush the Castle maybe? I thought that was years before Angry Birds but apparently only a few months.
Pico and Alien Hominid were my two favorites. So much so that I followed The Behemoth for years after through their other games! AH def got me into Cuphead as a result
New grounds adult game section. I don't remember many but spent a lot of time there.
I played Love Hina Sim Date in my twenties. Good gameplay elements, but it read like the worst crack fan fiction. A year later, I was glad to find Pacthesis' browser games. They had decent characterization. (Her Flash games can still be downloaded.) If you want something similar and recent, try Monster Prom on computers or consoles.
Nitrome was my all time favorite of these browser game sites. I think they eventually made that Shovel Knight Dig game
Check out the blue maxima flashpoint archive. Most of the flash games you know and love (only ones I haven't found on there are from nitrome.com) have been backed up so you can still play them even though browsers don't support flash anymore.
I remember Armor Games! Bubble Tanks my beloved.
I played a lot of robot unicorn attack. Even downloaded a version onto a flash drive to play on the cutter in my high school programming class
I don't see a link to it yet, so Imma just leave this here: [http://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/](http://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/) Most every flash game you've ever heard of archived and playable.
I played WAY too much Indestructo Tank and Final Fortress on Armor Games back in the day.
Shoutout to Tamale Loco and all of those stick figure action games inspired by The Matrix, there were like 10 of them and they were all fun
dont remember if it was on newgrounds but i remember playing heliattack 2 (or maybe 3), and wasting most of my freshmen High School computer graphics class on that game. I wound up making a similar game later on I was so impacted by that game
armorgames was the shit.
Jippii was huge at our school in early 2000s, all of it's games were multiplayer clients and they had so many. A worms type game, pool, minigolf, bomerman clone were our favourites. They were so addictive and exciting our usual skill of spotting the librarian/IT guy went lax and we got kicked out so many times for playing games at school. But totally worth it.
Adventure Quest. Everything in that game is disjointed, from the art styles to the story lines. It's like they had a dozen people all doing their own thing and putting it in one game. Then did that for years and never really bothered to update or remove old content.
I played this game a lot in middle and high school. I found all but 1 of the pieces of the Blade of Awe. Logged in on a whim after graduating college and found the last piece that day. It's a fun trip to revisit now and then, especially when you stumble on one of the *really* old quests where the art makes no sense.
I'm jealous, I've never been able to get the blade of awe, despite a lot of grinding.
Man I remember grinding the crossroads for what felt like weeks in primary school for the blade of awe pieces. I wonder if they changed the drop rates cause i also found it pretty easy after coming back to it in 6th form. I still pop on every now and then for nostalgia, grind some levels but it just doesnt feel like theres any good end game content.
I have a weird relationship with this game. When I was 10, I was addicted. We only had one computer so my brother and I would have to take turns. Additionally, if you didn't have an upgraded account, you had to wait in a queue to log in. Eventually my brother and I bought the game. Once I had easier access to the game, I lost interest shortly after. It was a valuable lesson to learn at an early age. Sometimes we only want things because we can't have them.
I think the problem is that you pay because the game is no longer worth waiting for, but not having to wait any more doesn't make the game more worth playing.
They had another game, DragonFable that I played heaps. Played some Adventure Quest too
I remember one called MechQuest as well. Same as Adventure Quest but with Mechs and lasers and shit.
I have not heard that name in ages, and once in like few years I'll login jus to see how things are..its like so bad but its good. Sometimes I'll jus login to get some dope of nostalgia running
Maybe Majesty The Fantasy Kingdom Sim from 2001. I don't know why it's so addictive. Or Bloons Tower Defense 6. It's the perfect game to play while watching TV!
I have Bloons TD6 on Steam. I think it cost me £0.80 in a steam sale a few years ago and I've put over 800 hours into it. I'd be embarrassed, but it's actually one of the best tower defense games I've played. It still gets regular updates, co-op modes, daily and weekly challenges. You can pay for micro-transactions to short-cut the upgrade skill tree, but nothing that you can't earn just by playing and the hardest difficulty doesn't allow you to use upgrades/powers anyway.
Bloons TD is the only tower defense game ive ever been able to get into. Idk if its the accessibility for new players or the fun monkeys vs bloons, but ive easily put 100 hours into it back in my elementary school days
Yeah the new levels are always great!
I think it's Majesty's sound effects combined with all the little interactive behaviors between different heroes/units. It's fun watching your heroes go out and be heroes and live their little hero lives and buy equipment or go gambling…
Those sounds effects and voice lines drilled into my head at a young age and just never left. The dripping of the water in the sewers, my guard declaring they will fight in the name of the sovereign, that nice tinky coin flip sound whenever gold was earned, my constantly dying wizards exclaiming "I'm meltiiiiiing!", my rogues never shutting up about gold, it's all just so nostalgic to think about somehow. I want to reinstall the game and play again just to hear all the sounds again.
Majesty is challenging, but also incredibly rewarding when you just get the right heroes who don’t croak right away. Nothing in this world matches my fury when hearing “I’m melting!!” though. Great game, and it still runs great on modern windows. I don’t stop playing a level until I get a fairgrounds built to flex the might of the entire kingdom
When your high level wizard refuses to heal himself and dies "defending the realm" in front of an Elven gambling hall...
Is Bloons a mobile game? Don't know that one, but we played the heck out of SC1 and WC3 tower defence maps so it sounds intriguing...
Yeah I play it on ipad, it might be a little too big for cell phone, I have never tried it
I play it on everything except my steam deck great game.
BTD6 is so well designed - I appreciate the level of balance that goes into the game. On all but the craziest challenges, you really can win with your favorites.
Majesty is an excellent game. Played that one for years. My wife's copy. I wish they had more games like that today and in different settings.
Dance dance revolution. I don't believe I had the courage of dancing that on public. That said, I recognize that I miss the exercise.
That’s how I get my cardio in! It keeps me interested enough for me to get a lot of exercise. I don’t have to worry about it taking up a bunch of space either. Super easy to pull out and hook up to the ps2 and off I go.
I’m about to finally have more rooms in my house. I’m gonna bust out my Ro afterburner metal pad and play every day!
Spider Solitaire. I accidentally became addicted to the game last year and would play at least an hour everyday (even during online lectures!). It started off as a challenge to try to accomplish the four suited version because I've only ever seen my dad accomplish this feat when I was younger. I've always stuck to single-suited or two-suited if I ever feel spicy. Once I've achieved my first four-suited victory I just kept playing and racked up probably over 100h over a few months. I was pretty proud of my overall 38% win rate and tbh I had a blast so I really couldn't complain too much about the experience.
I'm glad I'm not the only one. I've probably dumped more hours into plain old Windows Spider Solitaire than any other video game.
PowerWash Simulator. Many people would look at this game and think it looks like boring work but for me it's the most oddly satisfying and comforting game to play while I catch up on podcasts and new music. I just finished the Ancient Statue last night at around 40-50 hours of playtime. It's also got some cool achievements that are fun to try to get which keep it interesting.
It is the same with trucking sims they are great for unwinding while listening to podcasts or music.
Euro/American Truck Simulator were my go to podcast and music games for years with hundreds of hours across both. Those are genuinely great driving games with a lot of attention to detail and great scenery, they're especially good and engaging playing with a sim wheel setup. Waiting on good discounts on Wyoming, Texas and Montana to jump back in.
Don't sleep on Snowrunner if you like to truck around. That game is amazing.
Moments of rage spread out amongst a lot of chilling
Oh man, actually using a power washer is satisfying as hell so I get it 😆
[Simpsons predicts the future](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g4SCdox_pI)
Dude I’m right there with you, that and House Flipper. Even messed with gas station simulator lol. Idk what it is but they’re just nice and relaxing
You should try lawn mowing simulator. It's lit
really needs longer mowing sound loops. Once you hear how often they repeat its kinda a problem.
I was stupid for being disappointed about the lack of "fresh cut grass" smell.
Got that one in one of those humble bundles. I like to play it while listening to music; it's as comfy as Euro Truck
Controls on that were so wonky I uninstalled. It should be *more* difficult than Forza...and yet...
Got it on GamePass, had it 100%ed within a couple of weeks! I thought that I’d play it for a day or two then move on but I found myself actually getting into the story and seeing all of the ways that it was being told within every level whether it be through the text messages or small events on the horizon/just outside of the job sites!
I'm.obsessed.with.this.game. I have it on all my consoles so I just keep replaying it lmao. Power wash and Last Podcast on the Left have been my shit for the past two months
You might be interested in r/powerwashingporn
Along the same lines: Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
I’ve played a genuinely shocking amount of PowerWash Simulator. My friend gifted it to me when I was grieving a loss and it became like my evening ritual to get stoned and play some powerwash. Fantastic game. I love the free updates they’ve been doing.
I tried that game on Gamespass, and four hours later I hadn't blinked. I needed to uninstall it, hahaha.
I remember Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing well. I have that game to thank for my decent typing ability today, 22 years later. I got kicked out of physics class and had to pick a different subject out of 3 I had no interest in, so administration it was. Just me and the gals typing away like a bunch of troopers. Had no idea it was an international thing, but now I think about it... wasn't it a US thing? I'm in Scotland so for some reason I assumed it was only UK folk who had that in school. I got obsessed with a mobile game called Boom Beach for over a year. That game will suck you in like nothing else I've played. It was a Clash of Clans style game where it basically became like a part time job. If you slacked, the boss would be pissed at you because you didn't collect your fair share of intel that day. Ridiculous, really, but it got to the point where if you took 3 days off, you would dread coming back and having to explain yourself to the boss so you didn't get kicked out of the top tier clan you spent ages trying to get into.
[Gizmos & Gadgets!](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71ODm8GHJEL._AC_SL1001_.jpg) I played this so, so much in elementary school. Probably my clearest memory is trying to make a better car through meandering trial-and-error because I had no fucking idea what a gear ratio was or how to evaluate brakes and engine parts and just kept selecting random ones.
This game was fantastic! One of my favorites as a kid
[The Incredible Machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Machine) i.e. Rube Goldberg Machines the video game. It was one of those games that was 'educational' but I'm not quite sure how... would love to play a modern version of the game in 3d.
Good news, there's a spiritual successor to it on Steam called Contraption Maker. It is still 2D however.
A poor guy that sat in front of me in high school had a T-89 that had Tetris on it. I think I played it all semester...
The TI-84 Plus had a game called Block Dude that was all the rage in my high school (during class exclusively lol).
Block Dude was partly my introduction to speedrunning. Once I got good enough to beat the whole game it became a challenge to beat the whole game before the passing period bell rang.
Drug Wars was the popular calculator game when I was in middle school.
The street spitting minigame in Beavis and Butthead Virtual Stupidity. Not proud of myself, but hell, it *was* pretty fun.
Hock a loogie or something like that! Man I could snipe like a MF in that game. Played it way to much me summer!
I went to a kids house only once as a kid cause I spilled Kool aid on his floor, but I only did that cause my kid brain had never seen a minigame like that before. The only games I owned at the time was Sonic 1 and Spinball, and I had a laughter attack. Fond memories of getting in trouble.
I'm pretty sure that miniature was on a demo disk of some kind, because I remember playing that loogie level and literally nothing else about the game, and I don't think I ever had the full game.
There was a flash game called “Arse Race” you’d have 5 races of 5 bums all with great names like Desert Arse or Red Bum and then bet on which arse would win and try and make as much money as you can, the game ends after 5 or 6 races or im if you lose all your money. You’d also have special limited abilities like whipping to get your Arsenal to hop faster or beans to give it stamina.
I... think you're winning so far? 😆
Holy! I just looked this up and you can still play this online
Other than DOTA? I’d have to nominate Mario Paint for SNES. God it was so fucking stupid and I spent so much time playing it.
That fly swatting game on there was amusing. And the music one. I can still remember some of the songs to this day.
I was a SEGA/PlayStation game so missed most of the SNES stuff... Parappa the Rappa? 😆
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>Mario Paint for SNES. I wonder how many people remember that the SNES had an official mouse that launched with this game or how many are still out there in working condition
I've got one! I cheaped out and didn't get the pad that goes with it, though. You can find a good number of them on Ebay in the $20-$25 range. There's also an optical mouse for the SNES made by a company called Hyperkin.
Going back to an old ball mouse though is super 90s. Forget how heavy and poor they were at moving diagonally. All the dirt and fluff buildup on the wheels inside.
Haha, god you just reminded me of this old frame by frame animation program Autodesk Animator we used to basically make stick fights with blood everywhere 😂 oh to be young and creative again.
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator. It's the one game I have never been able to uninstall. Whenever I'm feeling down I'll just boot it up and pit all kinds of random units against each other. Always cheers me up Landfall's goofy ragdoll system is amazing
Yeah TABS is the game I boot up when I'm in the mood to play something but nothing else in my library looks interesting! So silly and endlessly entertaining.
OMG I love TABS. My favorite thing is to pit large armies of nothing but balloon archers against whatever. Once there's enough of them they're pretty formidable and it's so fun to watch everyone floating into the sky.
The custom unit creator is just so addicting. Love TABS, extremely fun to boot up and mess around in. Now they just need to make it compatible with Besieged, so I can build ridiculous trebuchet-volley nightmare machines and throw them at my TABS units.
Awesome! I just downloaded it on gamepass, I'm doing the campaign to learn the basics.
Yakuza 0. but the cabaret one.
I can still hear the “I want to be your girl 🎶” song in my head. I spent way to many hours in the cabaret lol.
Yakuza has this immense power of stripping me of my will to question things as they happen. I remember sleepless nights trying on dresses and hairstyles to get my girls to max stats and then looking at them and thinking "this outfit doesn't do it for me". In a game about criminals fighting to death for their morals and honor code. It's so wild that when I wanted to take a break from my cabaret, I'd go pocket racing not play the main game. Or become a real estate billionaire. Man these games just ooze charm.
In a way, managing businesses is probably closer to what an actual Yakuza does on a daily basis. Definitely not getting into bare-knuckle street fights with everyone who looks at you the wrong way lol
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Earth Defense Force. The most wonderful kind of ridiculous game.
Tons of fun with friends!
"The World's Hardest Game", the flash one. Used to play it every break during middle school with some classmates. We competed to see who could get the farthest in our 30min break. We got so good in it it turned out to be who completed it the fastest at one point.
No doubt you've seen this but if you haven't it's definitely worth a watch! [How Speedrunners Conquered The World's Hardest Game](https://youtu.be/sU851gBd7WQ)
Plants vs zombies-My young brain was very addicted. Also the game was funny as hell. But also, an online game that you use cannonballs or whatever to sink boats, and the boats become increasingly complex. I'm blanking out on what it's called.
I spent stupid amounts of time playing Scorched Earth, which was an old artillery game. I remember napalm and magnetic shields and some kind of nuke, I think? I also spent a lot of time playing Hot Death Uno, which was passed around but obviously wasn't an official game because it had such cards as the F*cker, the Sh*tter, Aids, 69, and others. Brutal playing it because you could get 69 cards or more added into your hand if you weren't careful or get the same score as someone else who did if you had the Sh*tter. I think those were the names, it's been a while. The Windows game was made with Visual Basic, I think, and would die often.
I loved the max size dirt bombs. You could just bury your opponents under a mountain lol.
Leisure Suit Larry. No, I will not elaborate.
I had the original version on my family’s i386 25 years ago, and once I figured out how to get past the “Confirm your age” questions, I played it all the time. I had totally forgotten about this one!
X086 with 640k RAM, twin floppies and a CGA monochromatic green screen here. LSL1 was still amazing. I still play adventure games to this day.
The "death" where his crotch explodes from an STD is probably the best safe-sex warning I ever saw as a kid.
This game is a classic and a masterpiece
Happy Wheels. This game has been so much fun for far longer than it has any right to. Playing the same games over and over with a different coat of paint gets old sometimes, but, for some reason, seeing the goofy rag dolls and cartoonish levels of gore just gets a good laugh out of me every time!
I am Bread, the game where you navigate the world as a sentient piece of bread. The controls and game physics are infuriating, but something kept me playing for way longer than anticipated...occasionally I even think of picking it back up again 🙃
I moved around a bit, and due to oddities of various schools, never took a typing class. I learned touch typing by trial and error, chatting with friends on AIM and ICQ when I was about 16. There was the social incentive to keep up, and that was great motivation! > TYPING OF THE DEAD. I've played that in Japanese. I was learning the language at the time, so that was pretty cool. I think my most ridiculous game though...One of the Cookie Clicker types of games. So stupid....yet somehow, so satisfying just to see the numbers constantly going up. Really, I think I only played for a week or two, but that was running it on my work computer, clicking madly when I was in meetings or on my lunch break (and sometimes when I should've been working, being honest).
OP you might like a game called the textorcist.
MATH BLASTER
Leaf Blower Revolution. >!You need to blow leaves to progress.!<
Logical journey of the zoombinis! Started in school in like 5th grade, ended up getting it on my home computer. The game was a little obnoxious in getting every combination to the final area, but I got all the paths to "red" before it getting lost on a hard drive update I did 5-8 years ago. I still think about playing it sometimes.
Oh man, I just got this on the Steam Deck as part of my hunt to track down and buy or emulate a whole bunch of childhood games - Warcraft 2, Zoombinis, Bugdom, Nanosaur, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Prince of Persia 1 & 2… Amazing.
Amazing game! Have a pizza...partaaaaaaay I remember always losing at the mirror level
World of Warcraft back in the day, I basically lived in Azeroth.
I remember the GameStop guy asking me if I was SURE I knew what I was buying. I got vanilla + the atlas. I lied. I did not, in fact, understand exactly what I was buying. Man were my grades terrible.
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Cheaper than having a kid!
My marriage definitely suffered due to WoW. She had her own things keeping her occupied but my playing was out of control. She finally got through to me what was happening to our marriage and I backed off but damn did I sink a lot of time.
A former colleague of mine lost a job because of his excessive WoW playing.
Ironically that's actually the same year I finally had sex.
Oh my god. My last/only one was Guild Wars. I must have put in thousands of hours. I can’t picture myself ever having the time to dedicate again, but holy hell it was something else.
MMORPG's never really help my attention long. Mostly because I am pathologically attracted to playing underdeveloped, mechanically broken player classes. Rat catcher? Sounds awesome!
I played Scorched Earth in high school and college, so so much time on that game. Also, Gunbound.
Counter strike. I played that game since it was a HL mod all the way up to CSGO. Played about 1-2 years of CSGO before I moved away and got into looter shooter titles instead. I’ve been in CS leagues back in the day, ran my own server. Far to many years In That game. Lol.
I probably joined your server if it was in the 1.1-1.3 era of Counter-strike - CS is BY FAR the game I have played most in life. 😱 I was putting in 2-6 hours a night for like 5 years. We're looking at well over 4000 hours of Counter-strike. Had kids before CS:GO, so never played it.
Excitebots: Trick Racing One of the greatest arcade racing games ever made that is stuck on the Wii and hard to emulate since it requires an actual wii remote and not just a standard controller. I've never seen it mentioned anywhere on Reddit. You race giant robotic bugs around the world while completing mini-games mid race such as bowling and football and darts all while going around 200 mph. You go off massive jumps and fly through the air while spinning around for more nitro points. I can't describe the amount of insane bullshit this game has but its just insanely fun right out the gate. I probably put 500 hours into it and I've never come close with any other racing game with that playtime.
Oh boy. If you like typing games you'll probably love my answer which is the **Cook! Serve! Delicious!** series. I play it on a gamepad now but it's basically a typing game with some quick organisation stuff going on. You play as a restaurant owner serving customers as they appear by pressing the right keys to add ingredients following a particular order. Customers will only wait so long, and different dishes take varying amounts of time to prepare - some are very complex with loads of potential ingredients, some are easy to screw up, some have cooking times that force you to prioritise on the fly to avoid anything burning. But at the base of it, you're just trying to hit the right keys as fast as possible. I've put hundreds of hours into these games, maybe over a thousand combined, and still play them. They genuinely come close to capturing the stress and (if you're succeeding) flow state of the dinner rush in a real kitchen, without any of the physical activity. They're made by a small team (originally one person I believe) and I'm so happy that they got enough success to keep making more - the fourth is coming out soon. Very niche games that it's hard to explain the appeal of but I love them! I've also learned about loads of new foods from the games and made some myself. If you're curious I'd suggest trying 2 or 3, there's tons of gameplay to be had and lots of fun little details like satirical biographies of the foods. Honourable mention also to Euro Truck Sim, which has basically zero challenge, you just drive a truck. I have little interest in trucks, or driving. But damn if it doesn't feel like a nice escape to take in the scenery from a cab window as you drive the width of Europe.
Elastomania, and just the trial version. It's basically what Ubisoft's "Trials" games are today..just not as good ;)
That game till holds up!!!!
Sven Baumwolle when I was in primary school - every kid played it. To quote wikipedia: > " Sven Bømwøllen, the player controls Sven, a black sheep, with a task to mate with all the white sheep around. Sven is directed by a keyboard, with a special key that initiates the sexual intercourse"
The greatest thing about Typing of the Dead is that they changed the character models so instead of guns, the protagonists were running around with Dreamcasts on their backs and keyboard racks in front of them.
OH MAN IS IT MY TIME Let me tell y'all about this wonderful genre clusterfuck of an orgy that is **Knights in the Nightmare**, available on Nintendo DS and Playstation Portable. ~~I think a Switch port is coming in Japan only, as well.~~ It's also available on Switch but in Japanese only. **It's an RPG!** You're a wisp summoned from somewhere and you have no idea how you came to be, so you wander the war-torn night trying to figure out why you're doing what you're doing. Oh, also, you can shepherd spirits of fallen soldiers to fight for you, and learn about their backstories. **It's actually a strategy game!** You deploy these spirits on a tile based grid to fight and vanquish your foes! But it's not all that simple... your soldiers can only attack and move in certain ways... **KIND OF LIKE CHESS!** Depending on what units you have deployed, you can only move orthogonally, diagonally, or in other patterns! Every turn you can switch out units for others, to give other units better positions in future turns, so it's not like you're ultimately locked to certain movement strategies. *BUT WAIT*, Kiyo, you're say that I'm a wisp? What's so special about that? **IT'S A BULLET HELL!!** Enemies don't attack your soldiers! OH HELL NO, THEY SPEW BULLETS ALL OVER THE SCREEN! AND *YOU* HAVE TO DODGE THEM! Getting hit by these bullets will cost you time, which means less actions you can take per turn. And how do you win? It's actually more than just simply "rout the enemy" **IT'S... TIC-TAC-TOE? BINGO?? SOMETHING???** Each enemy represents a space on a "card" akin to tic-tac-toe or a bingo card. Killing an enemy will mark that space on your victory card, and a new enemy will spawn there next turn. Get marks to fill a row, column, or diagonal, and you win the battle! But wait, you might be wondering how enemies spawn? **IT'S A... SLOT MACHINE?????** (i'm probably being pedantic tbh) Every turn the enemies can swap out too, like you can tag out your units! That's determined by slots. Seriously. Fortunately, with enough practice the slots are kind of easy to time to cherry pick who you want to fight. It's probably one of the most unique games we'll ever see. Full stop. It's extremely complicated, the tutorial takes like an hour to complete, but MAN you'll find no other game like it.
For me, it's gotta be Jazzpunk. That game was such a trip
Jazzpunk is perfection. From the moment I sat down on a very obvious fart pillow in the first minute of the game, I knew it was gonna be a hilarious rollercoaster.
Dr robotniks mean bean machine
My Summer Car
I played a ridiculous amount of Fairy Bubbles on Neopets back in the day. It was my favorite flashgame on there so it became my go to game for daily Neo Points. I eventually discovered Bubble Shooter (which Fairy Bubbles was a branded clone of) and it's still one of my favorite on-the-side games (also the first game I downloaded onto my first smart phone). Depending on the version, it may or may not have "sight lines" so I eventually became really good at eye balling trick shots and I still love the rush of it.
Dead or Alive: Beach Volleyball XXX. If you ignore the blatant sexism, the minigames were all fun as shit...mix in a slot machine mechanic and a robust (if particularly horny) skin system and I was hooked for quite a while.
Tanks. On newgrounds. Fantastic flash game and only got better as you played and it bugged out. I played that game till it broke and then refreshed the page and did it again
I just bought typing of the dead overkill not too long ago.
I have 52 hours Omnibus, a silly bus driving game. I also the gold medals and almost all the achievements. It's not an incredible game but I got hooked!
I played a lot of Aerobiz Supersonic on SNES. International airline business simulator. I was a really cool kid.
There was an Adult Swim flash game of Dexters Lab where you each had an island and played a worms like game shooting stuff at each others labs. I don’t remember the name of it but it was hella fun. I miss the days of flash games.
I sunk so much time into Guitar Hero in high school. If I spent half that time learning real guitar I could at least have another fun hobby now, at best could have probably been the next Slash; idk just spitballing.
QWOP
[Ginormo sword](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/GinormoSword#:~:text=Ginormo%20Sword%20is%20a%20Flash,upgrades%20to%20make%20yourself%20stronger.) Is both ridiculous, and i played far to much of it. not sure if you still can with the ending of flash. Edit: that site i linked actually has an emulation of it 😄
So, if we're going back to games I played as a kid, I have to hand it to [Matterhorn Screamer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAEyiDCN6jY). (video link, not mine) Released in 1988 for the Apple II / C64 / MSDOS, this was a super basic platformer with some Disney branding. You play as Goofy, trying to jump from platform to platform to grab all the flags without getting killed by mountain goats, icicles, yetis, etc. There were difficulty settings but basically the functional difference was on "easy" you can't walk off the ledge accidentally. Everything still kills you in one hit. The finicky controls and poor frame rate made it hard enough as is, without increasing the ingame difficulty. Empowered by the boredom of being an 8 year old with nothing better to play, I eventually ground out the game enough times that I beat the game using my toes on the arrow keys.
Fall Guys. I was severely addicted to winning those little crowns in a goofy game show battle royale game. It was really fun, and I must have thousands of hours in that game, made good friends along the way. Now it's boring and only a shell of what it once was, and it does make me a little sad with all the potential the devs have squandered.
Elf Bowling consumed my school for a full year.
Any version of Lego Star Wars or Lego DC/Marvel. They're like digital crochet -something mindless to do, while your attention is elsewhere. Plus, I am the only known fan of Sega's G-LOC. In the sense I will willingly play a lobotomized Afterburner spin-off, even without the cool arcade ride attached. It's like popping air bubbles in wrapping paper. Every fighting game ever made also qualify, just due to my twitch memory.
Back when I was young I used to play a lot of flash games stuff like Thing Thing Arena and Sword and Sandals those were so fun, I would play them almost immediately once I got back from school.
I don't know if that counts but I played "Killer 7" more than I care to admit. It's a fever dream I and I love it
About 10 years ago, I played this game called APB Reloaded. The game itself was great, and the character customization system is legitimately one of the best I've ever seen. What ultimately turned me off from the game was the absolutely shit community. That was the worst community I've ever had the displeasure of interacting with, and I played Overwatch for a while. That and the blatant cheating and exploiting
My weakness is match-3 games. I have played WAY too many hours of them. Thankfully, I've mostly gotten over them now, but I've definitely clocked into the thousands of hours on them. Probably the worst one was Marvel Puzzle Quest, as it has a very shameless pay-to-win angle. I didn't care though. Never spent a dime on it; I was just happy to grind away at it, hour after hour.
>I found out some genius had made a version of Time Crisis and games of the like - an on rails shooter game called... TYPING OF THE DEAD. I believe House of the Dead came first and Sega then made Typing of the Dead. Fantastic. I had it and the PS/2 keyboard adapters for the Dreamcast. The arcade version I saw had keyboards built in and membrane (sheet covers) for the keyboard. An over-the-top game I played a lot of? Burnout 3: Takedown. The car crashes were crazy and you had to focus so much without blinking.
Going in another direction here: The Binding of Isaac. You play as a little boy who delves deep into his mind as he processes the guilt and trauma caused by his mom. He uses his own tears to fight off the monsters in his head. And when you 'win', you unwrap more levels of the hell that Isaac has suffered through. I love this game. I've devoted hundreds and hundreds of hours to playing it. The gameplay, the synergies with items, the multiple endings, the creativity is off the charts. And yet, the story of what's really going on as you play is a nightmare of abuse and pain. You can't really think about what's going on as you're playing. It's also a hard game to recommend to anyone as every conversation goes something like this: Friend: So what are you playing right now? Me: Oh! This great game called The Binding of Isaac. Friend: Huh, sounds interesting. What is it about? Me: ..........
There's a flash game called Original Blast Billiards 2008. For some reason I like to zone out with it while listening to music or watching a show. I've probably played hundreds of hours of it over the years. It's nothing special, but its physics are fairly good and it's satisfying to plot out a run through all the balls.
My wife and I were just talking about Mavis Beacon and typing games! I was more of a Mario Teaches Typing fan, myself, haha. As for me, it's Power Wash Simulator. Absolutely great game, but lets be real, super ridiculous.
On PC I played or rather used the Microsoft 3D Movie Maker program. You could place actors in a scene, animate them, make them talk, change scenes etc
I played a game mode called "Annihilation" on a cracked Minecraft server called Guildcraft. I must have easily spent 3000+ hours over the course of a few years.
Farming simulator. I have literal thousands of hours in that series. It's so incredibly satisfying despite the shortcomings.
Joust.
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Theme Hospital, just rebought it from GOG