An elephant by no means forgets

Armor Video games Studios has introduced that they’re bringing a set of John Cooney’s Flash video games again in The Elephant Assortment.

Do you bear in mind Flash video games? I don’t, however a lifetime of self-inflicted concussions will do this to you. For these like myself who solely home an enormous clean house, Flash was an animation platform that some web denizens would twist to make video games. It was forward of its time, placing highly effective (however flawed) instruments within the palms of everybody.
Maintain on. Quite a few repressed reminiscences are returning to hang-out me….

Newgrounds was the nexus for these experiments, and The Elephant Assortment compiles numerous high-profile video games from these days. Every of those video games stars a blue elephant, and lots of of them are a refined (or not-so-subtle) commentary on the video games business on the time. These embody the mind-bending That is the Solely Stage and the extra on-the-nose Achievement Unlocked.

With Flash getting sucked down the Adobe tube and changed with a disparate choice of different platforms that don’t have fairly the identical safety points, lots of people have been left attempting to protect what’s vulnerable to being misplaced. In that regard, The Elephant Assortment is a vital glimpse of part of the previous that would in any other case be forgotten.
To be clear, Newgrounds does nonetheless exist, and these video games can nonetheless be run utilizing the Newgrounds Participant. That will be the location’s personal (efficient) try at preserving its content material. The gathering, nonetheless, will improve the standard of those video games, somewhat than simply current them as-is. I’d simply warn warning in re-visiting Newgrounds, as its reminder of higher days might suck you down reminiscence lane. I’m critically getting type of misty-eyed right here.

The Elephant Assortment is coming to PC someday in 2023.