I had nostalgia for them for a while, some were actually really intricate and maybe even good, and some of my friends have white whale flash games lost to time. But yeah, there's no tidal wave of nostalgia products for various reasons

Personally my feeling is there'll be some nostalgia for the better mobile games but if there's any preservation effort it will probably recreate them without the microtransaction bullshit lol

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I do think someone else on the thread may have a point that the only reason we don't see this much nostalgia for flash games is because of the sheer number of them, and the fact that everyone played a different one, before losing interest and getting another one. It's hard to monetize stick matrix 4 when only a bunch of people remember it fondly, unlike the 80s/90s when a game could be THE GAME for years.

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

but if there's any preservation effort it will probably recreate them without the microtransaction bullshit lol

and then you realize that waiting around all day isn't a game lol

[–] Beetle_O_Rourke@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

My flash game lost to time was "Zest", a visual novel about addiction.