They seem to be using Ruffle, the Flash emulator written in Rust which runs in WebAssembly.
(Flash was a good product in its day. Perhaps better than HTML/CSS/Javascript.)
firefax · 4h ago
Newgrounds taught me about the "fair use" defense when parodying wayyyyy back when their "Teletubby fun land" got them the ire of the BBC's lawyers.
I can't find anything documenting that saga -- in fact, it looks like a lot of the early content from before the "auto portal" an early precursor to video portal like Youtube -- called such because for a spell you had to email Tom your work to be featured in the "portal" -- clicking it took you a random user contribution, and below it was a hand curated list.
People forget how innovative, on a technical level, games like "Pico's School" were in the 90s.
I still remember a computer camp counselor admonishing me "you shouldn't know what that is, you're a kid" when first shown Linux and told to "open pico" and blurted out "I didn't know Tom Fulp made linux too".
Anyways thanks for the blast to the past OP -- I had no idea the site was still thriving, happy to hear it.
(And I hope one day they can resurrect the old school "Assassin" games)
I remember reading an article about how Newgrounds was contacted by the BBC around the time the Teletubbies game was published and they thought they were in trouble for the Teletubbies game, but actually the email was about interviewing them about the success of their Club a Baby Seal game.
firefax · 45m ago
There was absolutely a brief legal threat paired with a comedic "fuck you we have fair use" page up on their site at one point.
I don't think they'd be talking about fair use if they were just being interviewed about how mean they allegedly were.
Brajeshwar · 1h ago
The last web archive if the site went down for you too.
Perhaps some kind of Mandela effect, but I would have adamantly sworn I remember newgrounds shutting down.
My friends and I spent many hours playing games on NG and screwing around with flash. Feels like a completely different world at this point. Glad they're still around, and I love that they're running events like this to remember the good old days.
cobbzilla · 4h ago
Flash is now the retro gaming console of web 1.0
King-Aaron · 4h ago
This just made me feel really old.
cobbzilla · 4h ago
Yeah that headline made me feel really old and the above thought just popped into my head. Flash games remind me of my Atari 2600 in certain nostalgic ways.
They seem to be using Ruffle, the Flash emulator written in Rust which runs in WebAssembly.
(Flash was a good product in its day. Perhaps better than HTML/CSS/Javascript.)
I can't find anything documenting that saga -- in fact, it looks like a lot of the early content from before the "auto portal" an early precursor to video portal like Youtube -- called such because for a spell you had to email Tom your work to be featured in the "portal" -- clicking it took you a random user contribution, and below it was a hand curated list.
People forget how innovative, on a technical level, games like "Pico's School" were in the 90s.
I still remember a computer camp counselor admonishing me "you shouldn't know what that is, you're a kid" when first shown Linux and told to "open pico" and blurted out "I didn't know Tom Fulp made linux too".
Anyways thanks for the blast to the past OP -- I had no idea the site was still thriving, happy to hear it.
(And I hope one day they can resurrect the old school "Assassin" games)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico%27s_School
I don't think they'd be talking about fair use if they were just being interviewed about how mean they allegedly were.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250818232649/https://www.newgr...
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/977308
I wrote a bit about it: https://austinhenley.com/blog/8lessons8games.html
My friends and I spent many hours playing games on NG and screwing around with flash. Feels like a completely different world at this point. Glad they're still around, and I love that they're running events like this to remember the good old days.