CommunityNews

CommunityNews

Flash Back: An “oral” history of Flash

I don’t know what the first video game I ever played was. I would have been too young to remember. It very likely could have been a Flash game running in a web browser, patiently downloaded over a dialup connection.

I got interested in computers at an early age,

Read in full here:

Most Liked

peterchancc

peterchancc

I never learned to create Flash games, but I remembered playing a lot of those. Good times. :smiley:

Eiji

Eiji

Agree, also not much people know that there were ways to download flash games. Sometimes of course it was not possible, but in many cases you only lost network features that was not needed anyway (like top worldwide scores).

They are a perfect fit for people who did not have a good network connection. They are also a great addition to the personal game library right next NES games. What’s best I don’t remember if they were ever crashing - maybe sometimes a single button may not work, but they were much less problematic comparing to current games.

Just for fun:

When I was young people care about quality! :old_man:

that’s said … do you remember problems with flash or NES games? To write NES games you need something like an Assembler knowledge and they still worked without any problems …

What’s surprising if you know were to search you can still find a lot of actively maintained sites that still embeds some flash games and I’m not talking about archives, but a real sites. I visit them to read some news and sometime also play their games using Ruffle.

Where Next?

Popular Frontend topics Top

New
First poster: OvermindDL1
**Run any code on any client.**With WebAssembly and Wasmer. It’s been almost 6-months since we released Wasmer 1.0, and the community ...
New
First poster: bot
At Vouch.io, ClojureScript accelerates and radically simplifies the development of a new kind of digital key for one the largest automoti...
New
First poster: bot
3 TypeScript Tricks I wish I knew when I learned TypeScript. TypeScript is a big Superset of JavaScript which has many features which mi...
New
CommunityNews
Abstract This document describes version 2.0 of the core WebAssembly standard, a safe, portable, low-level code format designed for effic...
New
First poster: bot
The importance of designing accessibility in software from the ground up has only been emphasized by the pandemic, and as a consequence F...
New
First poster: bot
Enarx 0.6.0: Fushimi Castle. This release is a developer-only, preview release. It is not production ready. We hope that you will experi...
New
First poster: bot
Why React Re-Renders. In React, we don’t update the DOM directly, we tell React what we want the DOM to look like, and React tackles the...
New
First poster: bot
NASA’s DART Deploys Camera Probe Ahead of Asteroid Impact. Called LICIACube, the Italian-built probe will take images of DART’s impact w...
New
First poster: bot
Introducing Ezno. Introducing Ezno and the current state of the project.
New

Other popular topics Top

New
AstonJ
We have a thread about the keyboards we have, but what about nice keyboards we come across that we want? If you have seen any that look n...
New
PragmaticBookshelf
Rust is an exciting new programming language combining the power of C with memory safety, fearless concurrency, and productivity boosters...
New
New
Margaret
Hello content creators! Happy new year. What tech topics do you think will be the focus of 2021? My vote for one topic is ethics in tech...
New
Rainer
Not sure if following fits exactly this thread, or if we should have a hobby thread… For many years I’m designing and building model air...
New
PragmaticBookshelf
Learn different ways of writing concurrent code in Elixir and increase your application's performance, without sacrificing scalability or...
New
AstonJ
Seems like a lot of people caught it - just wondered whether any of you did? As far as I know I didn’t, but it wouldn’t surprise me if I...
New
PragmaticBookshelf
Author Spotlight Rebecca Skinner @RebeccaSkinner Welcome to our latest author spotlight, where we sit down with Rebecca Skinner, auth...
New
DevotionGeo
I have always used antique keyboards like Cherry MX 1800 or Cherry MX 8100 and almost always have modified the switches in some way, like...
New