Video Game Websites in the early 00s

Re:Video Game Websites in the early 00s by tombert on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @07:02PM (#46520721)

I remember spending hours and hours on FreeArcade.com, playing a lot of Java Applet games. I seem to remember my favorites being "Wiz3" and "Tailgunner", but there tons on there.

Once I was fourteen or so, I discovered Newgrounds and (along with SomethingAwful) that ended up being where I spent most of my time online. Even though a lot of the games were kind of crap, I still thought it was cool that people made these games. Not big, heartless corporations, but just regular people who thought it would be cool to make a game.

Newgrounds is still around, and there's no reason I couldn't go on there, I guess I've grown old and curmudgeonly enough to not even think about it anymore.

Maybe I should change that.

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Re:Video Game Websites in the early 00s by phillsav on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @12:56AM (#46523090)

Never played FreeArcade, but me and quite a few of my University friends used to go the the Uni Library with every intention of doing a full days work and end up spending half the time on mousebreaker. Those were the days!

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