What browser game from your childhood is a core memory?

Lauren Morton

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Hey PC gamers, welcome back to the Chat Log! This week Mollie and I called up Kara Phillips to talk about browser games. Between the three of us we cover a few different eras of browser gaming from the early 2000s and on into the past four years. Browser games have changed a lot in that time, from the Flash era into things like Miniclip and other sites and now we get the occasional viral hit browser game that lives on its own website.

Which browser game will you never forget about?​

I'm thinking about things from childhood: Mollie's memories of the Impossible Quiz and QWOP, Kara's time with Club Penguin, or my era with weird Flash physics games. Which browser game is a core memory for you? Or, maybe you didn't play that many and something more modern like Geoguesser is what finally took over your life.
 
A lot of this week's chat gave me flashbacks 😅 I wasted way too many hours playing a lot of the games mentioned. I never did any of the social games, but had a few friends who went into Habbo Hotel.

A few other games I recall playing a lot:
  • The Last Stand - a 2D zombie horde game, short but felt really replayable. Pretty challenging too.
  • Motherload - a mining game where you play as a ship, mine resources, sell them, upgrade. But don't run out of fuel or take too much damage. Quite addictive back in the day.
  • So many different minigolf games
  • The Helicopter game - a true classic in school, all taking turns to see who could get furthest.
 
I was a bit of a browser game snob. I was playing Quake 2 etc and thinking of browser games as I do mobile games now. I don't know if there are any I should check out.
Youtube homepage keeps offering them to me and I am the same, they feel too... basic... I have been ignoring them.

Zork isn't really a browser game, its just the file size of the entire game was small enough to fit into almost no space, and was used as a 404 Easter Egg.
 
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Zloth

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I'm thinking about things from childhood: Mollie's memories of the Impossible Quiz and QWOP, Kara's time with Club Penguin, or my era with weird Flash physics games. Which browser game is a core memory for you? Or, maybe you didn't play that many and something more modern like Geoguesser is what finally took over your life.
The internet didn't start to become A Thing until I had my degree already!

Now, if you want to talk Atari 2600 games... ;)
 

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