Newgrounds: Flash Forward 2025
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Newgrounds: Flash Forward 2025
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#2Flash is now the retro gaming console of web 1.0
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#3I spent a lot of my childhood on Newgrounds. I’m happy to see it alive and kicking.
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#4Newgrounds taught me about the "fair use" defense when parodying wayyyyy back when their "Teletubby fun land" got them the ire of the BBC's lawyers.
I can't find anything documenting that saga -- in fact, it looks like a lot of the early content from before the "auto portal" an early precursor to video portal like Youtube -- called such because for a spell you had to email Tom your work to be featured in the "portal" -- clicking it took you a random user contribution, and below it was a hand curated list.
People forget how innovative, on a technical level, games like "Pico's School" were in the 90s.
I still remember a computer camp counselor admonishing me "you shouldn't know what that is, you're a kid" when first shown Linux and told to "open pico" and blurted out "I didn't know Tom Fulp made linux too".
Anyways thanks for the blast to the past OP -- I had no idea the site was still thriving, happy to hear it.
(And I hope one day they can resurrect the old school "Assassin" games)
Re: Newgrounds: Flash Forward 2025
#5Flash is now the retro gaming console of web 1.0
This just made me feel really old.
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#7Newgrounds, Flash games, and Mochi ads are how I got my career started. I miss how easy it was to get your game distributed all over.
I wrote a bit about it: https://austinhenley.com/blog/8lessons8games.html
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#8I spent a lot of my childhood on Newgrounds. I’m happy to see it alive and kicking.
Same. That's a name I hadn't seen or even thought about for 25 years. Amazed it's still going.
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#9Newgrounds taught me about the "fair use" defense when parodying wayyyyy back when their "Teletubby fun land" got them the ire of the BBC's lawyers. I can't find anything documenting that saga -- in fact, it looks like a lot of the early content from before the "auto portal" an early precursor to video portal like Youtube -- called such because for a spell you had to email Tom your work to be featured in the "portal"…
I remember reading an article about how Newgrounds was contacted by the BBC around the time the Teletubbies game was published and they thought they were in trouble for the Teletubbies game, but actually the email was about interviewing them about the success of their Club a Baby Seal game.
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#10Perhaps some kind of Mandela effect, but I would have adamantly sworn I remember newgrounds shutting down.
My friends and I spent many hours playing games on NG and screwing around with flash. Feels like a completely different world at this point. Glad they're still around, and I love that they're running events like this to remember the good old days.