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Subject: Re: Random retro thoughts Thu 31 Dec 2020 - 13:17
Adobe are officially ending support for Flash Player at the end of today. That's not such a big deal, but this news made me feel nostalgic for all those NES games I was introduced to on online Flash emulators. I remember playing through a bit of Little Nemo on Bebo via a Flash Player widget and using my keypad to control the game.
Buskalilly Brush God
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Subject: Re: Random retro thoughts Thu 31 Dec 2020 - 13:57
For me Flash was all about watching stupid animations on Newgrounds. Youth really is wasted on the young . . .
gjones Disciple of Maddrell
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Subject: Re: Random retro thoughts Thu 31 Dec 2020 - 14:14
I remember Newgrounds! With "games" that just let you dress up sports cars. That era was all about slime football though, anyone remember that?
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Buskalilly Brush God
Posts : 12572 Points : 12720 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 30 Location : Nagano
Subject: Re: Random retro thoughts Thu 31 Dec 2020 - 14:18
YESSSS! We played it on the computers at school!
And sure, it was cars that I used to dress up . . .
Balladeer The Next Aonuma
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Subject: Re: Random retro thoughts Thu 31 Dec 2020 - 15:26
For me Flash was all about watching stupid animations on Newgrounds. Youth really is wasted on the young . . .
This was me too! Anything that had a 4* rating was getting watched. It had the odd absolute cracker though. Salad Fingers anyone? What about the game starring the elephant, Achievement Unlocked? Good times. Tears in rain etc.
Muss Koopaling
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Subject: Re: Random retro thoughts Thu 31 Dec 2020 - 16:47
Haven't thought about him in a while! Had him as a Mii on my Wii.
Treesmurf Ice Climber
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Subject: Re: Random retro thoughts Sun 3 Jan 2021 - 21:58
Salad Fingers pops in to my head far too often, Burnt Face Man as well. Did anyone ever watch XiaoXiao? I feel that was a flash animation and for a while it was my absolute favourite thing to the point I spent any free time I had at school drawing Stickman Ninja comics.
Buskalilly Brush God
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Subject: Re: Random retro thoughts Mon 4 Jan 2021 - 1:07
YES MATE! I loved Xiaoxiao, I actually went back and watched them all a couple of months back after reminiscing with a pal.
I also used to watch BFM, though I'm hesitant to revisit that . . .