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  iamwil
  I remember playing a crap web game in college, kinda like gunslinger, where you try to shoot people who turn around with a gun (and not those without). When I graduated college, Ian--one of my good friends at work--ended up being one of those guys in the game! Turns out that game I was playing was built by Tom Fulp, and he was using his friends (like Ian) as characters in his games pre-Newgrounds. All that messing around with crap games on the internet paid off. He had started Newgrounds while in college, and had quit to do it.Met Tom once, and he was a cool guy, but he didn't believe in the stuff that they taught in CS. He had a long rant about how learning string diff algorithms were useless. Anyway, it turns out later on, he went back to college to finish his degree. When his classmate(s) found out who he was, this one kid was so excited to sit next to him. "Do you know who he is?!" he would exclaim to his professor, to Tom's embarrassment. I wonder if he had to do string diff algos when he went back to finish college.
• Arkeus
  It's cool to see how far Ruffle has come in making flash games playable without flash. Was able to go check out a flash game I uploaded 15 years ago on here, and it's completely playable now, when I just assumed it was gone forever. There's so much content on Newgrounds and similar sites that isn't lost to time because of it, makes me want to go spend a few hours reliving the olden days.
• halflife
  Ha, it’s still up.Looking up my user, kind of embarrassing to see comments from 22 years ago asking and giving code advice.However, it does raise lots of nostalgia for the BBS era.
• adamiscool8
  Almost brings a tear to my eye to see they still have all the games and stupid Flash animations I submitted as a middle schooler, hacking around with his friends going on 25 years ago, just hoping not to get “blammed”. I’m sure these days kids are doing the same in Roblox or Minecraft or whatever - maybe it’s the same, but it feels so much more commercial than the heyday of Newgrounds. A special time to have been online for sure.
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  al_borland
  I haven't played Fancy Pants Adventures close to 20 years... what a blast from the past.https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/301341
• binsquare
  I'm glad that Newgrounds is one of those sites that has kept it's soul all these years.Even the same old games are still there
• sarreph
  So fun to see my music (created when I was 15 years old) is still sitting there! Sadly though my flash animations (that were 'blammed'[0] almost immediately) aren't there, which I wish I could find somehow.[0] - https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/599831
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  icantevenhold
  I remember watching Salad Fingers on there and playing tons of idle and tower defence games; good times
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  JuniperMesos
  Hell yeah Pico's School is still up https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/310349
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  Willingham
  Don’t know what my childhood would have been like without the dress up Brittany spears game! https://web.archive.org/web/20050120091734/http://www.newgro...
• sans_souse
  Is my old college dorm neighbor Tim P in the chat? Holy flashback from the era of Flash animation and Java everything
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  throwaway2046
  Nice to see Newgrounds is still alive and more or less unchanged since its early days. With so many of the creative spaces online becoming highly censored hellholes, having a more laissez-faire platform is a breath of fresh air.
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  webnanners
  I literally thought of newgrounds today and how different and wild it would be with world models and AI generated games. Then it shows up #1… wild.
• zdc1
  Time to play some Nuclear Eagle. It's a game where you're a momma eagle feeding your chicks. Except you're giant and feed them people. And people don't like being eaten, so it has some GTA-style escalation.
• carefree-bob
  I used to play flash games on this site, one of my favorites was "William and Sly" and also "William and Sly 2".You can still play them now, they ported it away from flash - which still offered experiences that we are just now beginning to match natively in terms of web gaming and video generation.
• ghurtado
  New Mandela effect unlocked: "Remember when newgrounds ceased to exist?"Or maybe I'm just not paying attention...
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  reassess_blind
  Site is loading super slow for me. Anyone else?
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  hodgehog11
  Maybe just nostalgia talking, but the height of Newgrounds really seemed like a golden age for light gaming. The shift to mobile games has just resulted in a large number of gambling simulators, which I'm sure has been a key reason for the popularity of Kalshi, Polymarket, etc.
• nidnogg
  What a treat to see this pop up here. I used to be obsessed with Madness flash shorts back in the day. Got me into Flash and web tooling in general. A testament to the prime 2000s web.
• bobcatsmith
  These are amazing, will there be an AI label? Would be good to give love and support to human game devs and not AI slop
• bhargav
  Heli Attack 3
• jheriko
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