We used to get video games in the captain crunch box or in exchange for tokens on the crunch boxes or something to that effect… anyway that was essentially just a flash game but equally if not more interested. Got a lot of mileage out of that crunchwrare game in the 90s
Skullkid was the GOAT
Oof my personally specific nostalgia.
The Lego website had a huge collection of games.
You can still find a lot of their games on the various flash game collection websites. I lived on Lego and Cartoon Network games.
I’ll forever miss playing that Galidor Quest one though. Haven’t found a place to replay that, think someone said it needed backend stuff that wasn’t ever made public. 😭
I loved their Dexter’s lab Flash game back in the days. CN and Nick lost their charm
I remember when Chex and Dominoes put out games that were better than they had any right being. Chex even gave it away for free.
Wasn’t Chex Quest just a reskin of Doom? Or did they release an original title that I don’t know about?
There’s a remastered version of Chex Quest that is pretty awesome.
I never had Chex Quest but I did have a Mr. Pibb Doom clone that absolutely sucked I got from a McDonald’s kids meal back in the day. 😌
I never had Chex Quest either due to being British and that promotion happening in the US but I’d check out that remastered version on Steam if you want a free and fun FPS.
Armor Games and Newgrounds are still up.
To an extent this still exist, but instead of flash games its not html5 games
What “not leaving money on the table” does to a mf
Did anybody else play Kids Next Door Fusion Fall?
You can still do that on newgrounds.com
I’ve been inside a few big companies and I’ve seen exactly how it works.
In order to manage huge organisations, they divide them all up into cost centers. And the website is considered marketing so it gets given a budget on the theory that it brings customers. It uses the budget to make games and it does indeed bring customers.
Then a few years later, the shareholders are asking why their stock hasn’t outperformed the market, and they put in a CEO tasked with fixing it, and the CEO asks the head of the department in charge of websites what can he do to address the fact that his department is losing money instead of making it.
While this is a nice theory, even with traditional marketing like print and tv ads, it’s always going to cost the company money.
For sure. But it’s a harder sell internally to say: This game is generating revenue.
With a print ad you might say: This magazine has x monthly readers, so that is the impressions we get and it’s rather obvious how that might give you more sales.
With the game, you might have some visitor numbers as well, but if that is translating to sales is hard to prove. Additionally, they are already on your website.
You might have to do a survey of your clients or during the order process and ask them “how did you find out about us?” or something like that. And only if enough people say “I bought something from you, because of the game on your website”, will you be able to justify the expense of maintaining it.
Friv.com has a simple UI that’s fairly kid safe. Just throw /old at the end of the URL to get the better, older UI. The new one is kinda meh. Friv doesn’t have a lot of games, but enough to keep you entertained for a while every now and then. Its’ biggest strength was always the simple UI. No accounts, comments, ratings, anything. Only games.
I love that Ruffle exists, it makes so many of these good old flash games sites great again!
That was back when every site wanted you to install a toolbar that was spyware.
I mean all those in browser games required shockwave, flash, or java which basically was malware but we didn’t know better then
The Ed Edd and Eddy game where you used machine puzzle pieces to put a jawbraker into a bucket was my game as a kid.
There was also a beavis and butthead game somewhere where you hocked a loogie at people from a rooftop lol
