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I loved their Dexter's lab Flash game back in the days. CN and Nick lost their charm

To an extent this still exist, but instead of flash games its now html5 games

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.

Itch.io game devs unite! There's still hope. I miss Ebaumsworld, New grounds and Miniclip too but I think there a small part of the Internet that still has this charm.

Here's my game dev contribution:

What's in my sanga?

Did anybody else play Kids Next Door Fusion Fall?

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.

Yeah, I miss it in some ways, too. It was more of the Wild West of internet.

I would argue today's internet is fully optimized for control over people (when desired) & profitability. Unless there's some Earth-shattering backlash where idk people kill all ads & they purchase NOTHING online unless they very specifically search for it....this is the internet, perfected. The internet is free, our attention & wallets are the product. Traded, tracked, bought, and sold.

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.

ugh I remember the Cartoon network resort and despite everything it was amazing

I opened lemmy to procrastinate working on my web game and this is the first post I see.

I can take a hint internet.

The old internet was like the wild west. Who'd have thought it would meet a similar fate to it too?

Frogapult!

Ebaumsworld.com

Newgrounds.com

I miss those days so much, never forget what they took from us.