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Old browser games you used to play when the internet was young
- Thread starter SliceSabre
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Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Not while it was young, but I played Criminal Case on Facebook a lot when that game was new.
Lockdown was by far the best game to come from Toonami's total immersion events. It beat the pants off of The Intruder's and Trapped in Hyperspace's games. Every few years I track it down and play as far as it lets you (iirc the final boss is inaccessible now for some reason). Hell, I'll probably do it again when I get home tonight.
Lupin the Third
Member
Tank wars! Or whatever it was called. I will find a picture.
Something like this
Looks a lot like Scorched Earth, which was a DOS game and likely predecessor to Worms...unless it was based on something itself. There's a webpage that has a Java-based version that claims to be an update (SE 2000) but nothing loads for me when I go to the different pages: http://www.scorch2000.com/
Xamtheking
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MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
RuneScape of course. Still has the best quests of any game, MMO or not.
I remember playing a lot of Swords and Sandals, I just used a code that broke the game when you entered your name in funny ways. If you kept rerolling it would just get more broken.
I remember playing a lot of Swords and Sandals, I just used a code that broke the game when you entered your name in funny ways. If you kept rerolling it would just get more broken.
Isn't it more of a standard mmo tho?
Awesome to see AdventureQuest appreciation here!
I found the company behind it, Artix Entertainment, around 2008 or something, and between that and 2012 I dedicated most of my PC gaming time to their games, especially DragonFable. I still have lifetime membership on few of their games, and I was even lucky enough to visit their office once. Super cool guys.
Anyway, I don't recall using internet that much before 2005-ish, so that's pretty old in my book.
I found the company behind it, Artix Entertainment, around 2008 or something, and between that and 2012 I dedicated most of my PC gaming time to their games, especially DragonFable. I still have lifetime membership on few of their games, and I was even lucky enough to visit their office once. Super cool guys.
Anyway, I don't recall using internet that much before 2005-ish, so that's pretty old in my book.
Neopets is one of the oldest games I remember playing. One summer I spent the entire summer holiday playing the games and made about 250k Neopoints. I still know my login details but unfortunately I can't actually log in. It wants me to verify my birthday but I must have put a fake one in when I signed up and I can't remember it because it was over a decade ago. Poor old wolfgang2233i will never get fed again...
Lupin the Third
Member
They just wanted to get away from that "BattleOn" URL and get something that had "AQ" in there somehow. What better excuse than....a complete 3D MMO overhaul of your game?
mcz117chief
Member
Runescape. I turn on old-school Runescape every now and again just to remember how incredibly shallow the game is and always wonder how I could have played it for days on end 
It still is kind of fun.
And this
Who else remembers this legend?
It still is kind of fun.
And this
Who else remembers this legend?
SliceSabre
Banned
Of course because crazy maze was a bullshit map and only the most dedicated of players wouldn't be driven mad by it.
Rocks and Swaps was more my speed.
Portugeezer
Member
Some weird top down dude in Australia, there was Kangaroos and boxing from what I remember.
Don't remember the name though.
Don't remember the name though.
SkullHydra
Member
I never really got into AdventureQuest, but DragonFable was my jam when I was a kid.
DarkConfidant
Member
I didn't have internet until the early 00's, but I remember a game called Pocket Tanks becoming a big fad at my middleschool, along with Sissy Fight.
Even as a kid I thought it looked terrible. I stuck my nose up at the other kids (usually in lower grades) playing it.
An embarrassing a lot of amount of Adventure Quest...
Also, I don't remember it looking so bad, damn, I really didn't care about graphics as a kid.
Even as a kid I thought it looked terrible. I stuck my nose up at the other kids (usually in lower grades) playing it.
These, and an ungodly amount of Legend of the Green Dragon on various servers.
My Jam.
I played so much of this way back when, along with other Cartoon Network-hosted flash games. I remember one that was some sort of DBZ fighting game that I couldn't quite get a grasp on.
Ginger Hail
Member
Cartoon Network was always really good with little browser games.
Exactly the kind of game I was thinking of.
My Jam.
Exactly the kind of game I was thinking of.
These and Archmage were the earliest games that I remember. There was also a 3rd one that was kind of a mix of the systems in Planetarion and Archmage with a bunch of different races, as opposed to the system in Archmage where you picked your wizards color of magic much like in Magic The Gathering, which then determined your spells and troops and such.
long as we agree Appaloosa land sucked
I can't believe this wasn't on the first page, what a game.
I wasted thousands of hours on Runescape.
Of course there's the plethora of flash games from Newgrounds but the one browser game that I keep being reminded of was one where you choose a pet and have it battle other people's pets in a browser turn-based format. You'd get a list of pets to fight every time and you'd choose between a higher level and bigger rewards or a weaker pet with smaller winnings. After they reached level 20 they turned from cute little animals into realistic looking adults. You won exp and money every time you won and used money to level up. People also didn't have to be online, their pets would just fight automatically
The website also had one game that was basically the same thing but with a cars so you raced instead.
To this day, it kills me that I don't know the name of the game or website.
Of course there's the plethora of flash games from Newgrounds but the one browser game that I keep being reminded of was one where you choose a pet and have it battle other people's pets in a browser turn-based format. You'd get a list of pets to fight every time and you'd choose between a higher level and bigger rewards or a weaker pet with smaller winnings. After they reached level 20 they turned from cute little animals into realistic looking adults. You won exp and money every time you won and used money to level up. People also didn't have to be online, their pets would just fight automatically
The website also had one game that was basically the same thing but with a cars so you raced instead.
To this day, it kills me that I don't know the name of the game or website.
Shockwave.com had some awesome games.
I remember this helicopter game where you rescue people at sea, that was fun
There used to be a site for Willy Wonka brand and that had really good games too.
EDIT: Found a video of one of the games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBn_BxD-Eb8
I remember this helicopter game where you rescue people at sea, that was fun
There used to be a site for Willy Wonka brand and that had really good games too.
EDIT: Found a video of one of the games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBn_BxD-Eb8
ComputerBlue
Member
Hapland
Ski Free
Yeti sports, or hit the penguin.
Ski Free
Yeti sports, or hit the penguin.
Xamtheking
Member
Ok so
I remember there was this MMO Car Game on Miniclip where you drove around and you collected parts and there was some platforming involved
Does anyone remember what I am talking about
I remember there was this MMO Car Game on Miniclip where you drove around and you collected parts and there was some platforming involved
Does anyone remember what I am talking about
LordGorchnik
Member
Not a single mention of Vagabond's Quest.
Holy hell all of you can just leave now!
Holy hell all of you can just leave now!
My Jam.
CN had a ton of games back then. And the Bionicle flash game.
Terareflection
Member
I remember liking the old Teens Titans beat em up on the CN website.
Also Flash Flash Revolution.
KillerDark
Member
I played this way too much back in high school/college:
http://www.stickpage.com/defendyourcastleplay.shtml
http://www.stickpage.com/defendyourcastleplay.shtml
http://jun-shrine.com/
well-crafted fighting game character card game from the early 2000s. still there. still ranked #4.........
well-crafted fighting game character card game from the early 2000s. still there. still ranked #4.........
Xamtheking
Member
My handle on EpicDuel (another Artix game) and elsewhere around the Internet Cosmos is Zookfoodle, the name of an NPC from Dragonfable
Slime sports were my jam
That and the little game rooms people would run in Habbo
And Kingdom of Loathing
ChoppedandScrewed
Member
Oh Inklink... It was basically a game of online Pictionary. My friend and I would mess with people by joining the same room while we talked on the phone. When one of us got our word, we'd draw something completely different while the other person guessed correctly. Everyone would get confused and we thought it was the funniest thing ever.