Random retro thoughts

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.

For me Flash was all about watching stupid animations on Newgrounds. Youth really is wasted on the young . . .

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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YESSSS! We played it on the computers at school!

And sure, it was cars that I used to dress up . . .

@Buskalilly wrote:

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.

@gjones wrote:

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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I remember Slime Football. Great game. Hex Empire was quite big in our school as well

@Balladeer wrote:

 Salad Fingers anyone?

Haven't thought about him in a while! Had him as a Mii on my Wii.

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.

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 . . .