Random: Bask in the Nostalgia of Nintendo's Old Flash Games and Websites

Pretty interesting project actually.

What are the noughties?

I knew flash would die out even in those early 2k days.

That's why I would save as many flash-based websites from that era. I still have CD's filled with the original content from Gamecube games like P.N.03, Resident Evil Remake and Zero, Resident Evil 4, Viewtiful Joe, Tales of Phantasia, etc.

I also have saved up websites of Wii games like the shooting game that came out when Umbrella Chronicles was released.

In many cases you can still run those old flash games on a browser. Guess I wasn't the only one saving them for posterity.

I remember playing plenty of the Flash games. One I can never find anymore is the playable portion of the Wario Ware Inc GCN website.i wonder if it is or will be archived?

Ooh, that flash Wind Waker game brought back memories of the Wind Waker live screen saver... that was the best screen saver ever

Aw snap, I loved the warioland 4 website, those games were THE BOMB!

@Darkwario1 Wario World's site also had a little point & click thingy going on. Not as cool, but I remember it well.

Back then, Flash was the go-to way of having some interactivity on a website that you know will look the same on any browser that supports Flash. Right now it's completely surpassed by HTML5 and related stuff such as Javascript. Those technologies are open-source and way faster than Flash, and above all else they work efficient on mobile while Flash doesn't.

They sadly don't have the awesome America Metroid Prime website, or sadly the Melee website, which was awesome for its time.

@GC-161 Flash games didn't die. They just became mobile games.

I miss Nintendo.com from the mid to late 90s. There was so much awesome stuff. I remember when they posted downloadable clips of every line in Starfox 64. And I would go into the computer settings and assign various quotes to play when clicking start, minimizing or maximizing a window, shutting down the computer ("I'm monkey food if I don't leave") etc. It was pretty annoying but as a 14 year old, I loved it.

@NEStalgia I said flash based websites, dewd. Like the ones that were popular at the beginning of this century.

Some were dying out even back then. So I saved up the ones I liked.

I wish somebody did the same thing with the old cartoonnetwork.com stuff. Who else remembers gToons? I miss that

@VehicularVehicle The noughties was the 2000 decade (2000-2010) labelled by the British (not sure if US coined the same term?).

In other words there were the sixties, seventies, eighties, nineties and the noughties. Called so because of the noughts in the numerical year. Calling it the "zeroes" didn't sound right or go with the continued "ies" suffix. Also it's a play on words and is a little bit cheeky as it sounds the same as "naughty"...

I remember playing a lot of the Donkey Konga site's included mini-game, although the one I played was not the one linked in this article, this ones seems like it was for Donkey Konga 2, since it has more "modern" music. But in any event, that mini game sold me on the game, and I ended up buying Donkey Konga 1 and 2, as well as 2 sets of bongos. I still have them and still play them

YEEEES! I miss the old 'Nintendo®Gamecube' Flash Page, though! It was one of the best Nintendo ever made. PLEASE make it happen!

This guy's got my respect.

On that note, anyone remember the Nintendo DS 2004 site? That music was incredible.

PLEASE revive the Kirby 64 one! Dancing Kirby and dat screensaver...

Oh man I remember these haha. My favourite was the Donkey Kong Jungle Climber one.

@VehicularVehicle They don't sound very nice.

Anyone remember Camp Hyrule? Those were the days...

@sketchturner: I totally miss Nintendo having websites, with media like that. I remember downloading SF64 sounds in my Netscape browser, which eventually morphed in to becoming Firefox, which I am using now.

@Everyone_Else: This is gonna sound nuts, but... I actually have done internet searches for screengrabs(PrtScn/SysRq) of the Nintendo website, from the N64 era, black background, & everything. Also the page listing every N64 game, even ones not released yet.

@Ervex_109: I probably will sometime soon.

Edit: I couldn't find much. I do have some old images, I think, of the Nintendo website. I'll have to check my archives.

@Ervex_109: That's the website design I meant was looking for screens of. I remember emailing, & asking an NoA employee about the item @ 6:23 in the second link. I must have long ago been mistaken how I read the item, cause I remember telling the NoA employee that the pamphlet I had with my N64 said that item came on a Zip disk. But, at least I know the item did exist.Thanks for the video links.

They made official game websites better back then, before they were under the Nintendo.co.uk umbrella.

The internet was so much more fun back then...

Oh man. Are online flash game websites still a thing? I remember back in middle school and high school there was a subtle race between which sites the school knew about and could block on school computers, and which sites kids could find and still play the games. Often leading to viruses and other problems with school computers. Man, that both feels like yesterday and so long ago.

Don't see what that thumbnail has to do with anything, guess it's just clickbait.

I want the link for some of these to see what it is now and maybe find wayback machines of them it'd be pretty cool.

I remember the Metroid one!