Favourite gaming website as a kid?

[Alex4nder001]

I'm almost certain that similar threads exist, but I thought I might ask anyway.
What's your favorite gaming website you used to play on in preschool/elementary school?
I personally have a couple of favourites: Everyone in my school (back in 2010) was playing on Miniclip, so I decided to join them. Turns out it was a lot of fun, we even used to compete with each other in this one battle game, but I forgot what it was called. These were the days before agar.io or slither.io, and miniclip absolutely ruled.
My other favorite was onlinesupermario.com, which had a lot of Mario flash games. Yes, some of them are absurd, but it was still fun nonetheless. Unfortunately, it went down some time ago (I don't know when) but you can actually play using the Wayback Machine.

Now I've had my say I would personally like to hear your favorites. TBH I don't even know if any existed before 2003, but still...

 

[Taffy]

Back in...what...uhm...idk sometime between 2009 - 2012 there was coolmathgames. Loved it as a kid. Now I'm a romhacker who romhacks. I make my own games...or piggyback off existing ones

 

[Old]

My favorite "gaming website" as a kid was our large floor model TV....

 

[Cyan]

internet didn't exist when I was in school ? (well, it did, but not for the end users)

at school, my first computer, in 1984, was this one : MO-5 (or maybe it was TO-7).
I still have the lessons

 

[Old]

internet didn't exist when I was in school ? (well, it did, but not for the end users)

at school, my first computer, in 1984, was this one : MO-5 (or maybe it was TO-7).
I still have the lessons

I vaguely recall the earlier school computers....maybe Commodores & Apple 2s? I remember my buddies playing stuff like 'Hard Hat Mack' and 'Apple Panic', but I just couldn't bring myself to game on a computer, being so accustomed to the 2600 sticks/TV.

 

[Captain_N]

There were no gaming web sites when i was a kid..... No google, no amazon, no youtube, no email, no cell phones, There was Nes, and Snes.....and Sega lol

My favorite "gaming website" as a kid was our large floor model TV....

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That Floor TV has lower input lag time then any modern HDTV..... Analog, its whats up

 

[Deleted User]

Fungungames.I remember everyone in my middle school on that website in computer class.

 

[Hanafuda]

My favorite "gaming website" as a kid was our large floor model TV....

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Same here. Got the Atari 2600 for Christmas the year I was in sixth grade. All Tonka trucks, cap guns, and bike riding before that.

 

[Ryuzaki_MrL]

Dude, I used to love Miniclip too! Acid Factory was my favorite game.
My family was never able to afford a gaming console, my first one was the GBA and I only got it during high school.
We had a PC though, so I used to play a lot of flash games and emulators.

 

[DarthDub]

gamewinners when they removed all their cheats ; -;

 

[Jack Daniels]

i was 15 when when i saw internet at home, and it was too slow to random use it, cost us a lot o pieces o' eight to use too since back then we had to pay per minute use on a 22k modem. i think my first favorite was scummvm.org though.

 

[FAST6191]

Game revolution I guess but I was probably a greasy teenager by this point -- the internet was somewhat available if you paid through the nose for it (AOL and compuserv both having the UK as a bit of an afterthought) but was too late for me to still reasonably be a kid and even then it was still the domain of the nerdiest kids, or those that figured out there was porn in them tubes somewhere.

We did however have teletext (for those not familiar with the concept then the extra space in the TV broadcast spectrum allowed a text + "ASCII art" type thing to be broadcast, it would cycle round pages every so often and allowed a fairly decent amount of text to be broadcast) which in turn meant channel 4 got viewers first thing in the morning before school as many would read
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitiser

Some archives thereof
http://www.teletext.org.uk/index.php?cat=30_Archived-nbsp~Pages&page=41_Digitiser-nbsp~1995-1998

It is hard to know what effect it had on me but suffice it to say if you meet someone that grew up in the UK with games at around that time (so most will be in their late 20s and beyond these days) then between that and gamesmaster you have a good chunk of the reason for the the abundance of cynical, seemingly/supposedly disrespectful and generally pretty aloof approaches to the world of games. I don't know when the shift to reverence happened* but it has caused a few clashes of... outlooks in more recent years.

*I think it was US led (culturally it is the only place it could really spawn from, and is the main place to go with "say something nice and then criticise", as opposed to "what is good is good and needs no further acknowledgement, criticise immediately") but the game revolution site I mentioned at the start would have fit right in with the other things mentioned. Equally the amount of shocked looks the GBAtemp representatives, all very much from the same mould in this regard, got throughout the Nintendo switch event (my most recent chance to spy on gaming types) would appear to suggest it is endemic in the UK as well.

 

[Flame]

but 99.9% of gbatemp members are still kids :^)

 

[Veho]

but 99.9% of gbatemp members are still kids :^)

And they'd better say "GBAtemp" or else

 

[Ryccardo]

Information: TRsRockin and Gamefaqs

Forums: First the official Club Nintendo VIP forums, then Gamefaqs (when Ceejus was still the man)

Flash games: Newsgrounds

 

[BlueFox gui]

http://www.clickjogos.com.br

around 2007 until 2012 2015
this site and it's games, not just this but a lot of other sites i wont remember the name gave me a lot of fun

 

[BORTZ]

I never really used the internet as a kid for gaming. My dad got a Gateway 2000 in 1994 or so and a 56K modem. He would use Netscape to check his stocks. Most days he would visit a website for me that would generate a maze each day. He would print them out and give them to me when he was done. I wasn't really allowed on the internet nor did I really know what do with netscape so... I didn't really have any gaming websites I visited.

Eventually I would find GameFaqs and SuperCheats but again never really spent much time there.

Around the time I found GBAtemp.net the other website i loved to visit for gaming news was that SSBBrawl.dojo site. Man I was so overhyped for Brawl it wasnt even funny... but I was 18 at the time so does that really count for this thread? Probably not.

 

[Jayenkai]

When I was a kid?
Website?!

I'm 37. Websites weren't a thing when I was a kid!!

We switched the computer on and stared at the flashing cursor, until we were bored enough to read the manual, learn how to code, and then wrote our own games...
Bah, humbug!! Kids.. *sigh*

 

[Chary]

There was Pokemon Crater, that fanmade "mmo", and GXP or something, where you clicked Pokemon eggs to hatch them for fun. I liked both of those when I was younger.

CrazyMonkeyGames had some fun flash games too, back then. I'm certain I'm forgetting a lot of other sites but those are the only ones I can really recall.

 

[BlueFox gui]

that Flash Sonic made like Sonic Advance 2 was great too, one of the first games i played