What browser game from your childhood is a core memory?

[Lauren Morton]

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.

 

[steeleman21]

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.

 

[Colif]

Zork - I remember when it used to be a 404 error page on websites in the late 00s

 

[Alm]

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.

 

[Colif]

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.

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

Never played a lot of browser games, but I did play a good amount of the original Bloons TD and Stick Cricket.

 

[Frindis]

The first browser game I can remember playing was Pingu Throw. You hit penguins with a stick and it had some blood in it. The longer you made the penguin fly the more score you got. Very anti-Greenpeace

 

[Lauren Morton]

The first browser game I can remember playing was Pingu Throw. You hit penguins with a stick and it had some blood in it. The longer you made the penguin fly the more score you got. Very anti-Greenpeace

Holy **** this is the one I was trying to describe during the episode! Thanks for unlocking that memory.

 

[Zloth]

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...

 

[Colif]

I had forgotten this one again

EYEZMAZE

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www.eyezmaze.com

 

[red_5ive]

Which browser game will you never forget about?​

I'm thinking about things from childhood:

When I was growing up, the only browser I remember when it came to games was me going up and down the Atari / Intellivision / Colecovision aisle hoping my folks would buy me something.

 

[Colif]

When I was growing up, the only browser I remember when it came to games was me going up and down the Atari / Intellivision / Colecovision aisle hoping my folks would buy me something.

I don't think average age of the forum users equates to playing browser games in childhood. The first browser I saw was Netscape... and I was around 35 at time... not many games on it or Internet Exploder. I mainly encountered them at work...

 

[mjs warlord]

I cant make a contribution to this because when i was a kid the internet and browsers had not been invented , that said i have been a gamer in 1 format or another since 1982

 

[red_5ive]

I don't think average age of the forum users equates to playing browser games in childhood. The first browser I saw was Netscape... and I was around 35 at time... not many games on it or Internet Exploder. I mainly encountered them at work...

I was just trying to be a goofball anyway lol.

While not exactly a browser game, for a while there I did play a lot of classic Asteroids some years ago. Perhaps that can contribute as it was something I played a lot of as a kid (and poured tons of quarters in, thanks gramma) and was translated perfectly on the web.

 

[Zloth]

While not exactly a browser game, for a while there I did play a lot of classic Asteroids some years ago. Perhaps that can contribute as it was something I played a lot of as a kid (and poured tons of quarters in, thanks gramma) and was translated perfectly on the web.

Perfectly?? One of the cool things about the game was just how BRIGHT the shots were! I don't think monitors/TVs can do that level of brightness. You need a vector-based monitor.

 

[red_5ive]

Perfectly?? One of the cool things about the game was just how BRIGHT the shots were! I don't think monitors/TVs can do that level of brightness. You need a vector-based monitor.

Well, gameplay at least. I don't remember how dim it was. But after I mentioned it in my prior post, I decided to play it on my OLED which has Windows HDR enabled, and it was nice and bright! Maybe still not perfectly, but it did the job.

But boy do I no longer have the reflexes.

Edit: Ok, I just loaded it up and played for a bit, and as bright as the shots were in HDR, they didn't quite have that glow that I'd forgotten about until you mentioned the brightness. But still looks great in HDR.

 

[mjs warlord]

reflexes .... lol ..... on the rare occasion i dont use my car if i see the bus coming i dont run for it i just think sod it i will get the next one.